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Breaking Down Siloes And Building Up Students: The Transformational Possibilities Of Professional Identity Formation, Lindsey P. Gustafson, Aric K. Short, Robin Thorner

Faculty Scholarship

Under the ABA’s sequenced approach to implementation of Standard 303(b)(3), schools should now have developed plans for providing opportunities for professional identity formation and should be implementing them. These plans must provide students with an “intentional exploration of the values, guiding principles, and well-being practices considered foundational to successful legal practice.” In addition, these plans should provide for frequent opportunities for development, “during each year of law school and in a variety of courses and co-curricular and professional development activities.”

Because Standard 303(b)(3) is necessarily tied to the unique character, existing
structures, and available resources of a law school, each …

Law, Critique And The Believer's Experience, Jean D'Aspremont

Dalhousie Law Journal

I have come to think that, most of the time, radical critics of a given discursive practice were once believers in that practice’s necessities and realities. In particular, I am of the opinion that one comes to appreciate the power of a discourse only when one has genuinely and personally experienced the necessitarian pull as well as the realities such discourse creates. To put it in phenomenological terms, I think that radical scepticism is often the expression of some self-revulsion at one’s earlier beliefs. The phenomenological causality described here is thus not simply about the devastating rage that one can …

Boyd Law School Working To Address Rural Legal Services Provider Shortage In Nevada, Rachel J. Anderson

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

What About Us? How Law Schools Can Help Historically Underrepresented Law Students Develop Their Professional Identities, David A. Grenardo

Mercer Law Review

Talking about race, gender, and sexual orientation can be painful, messy, and difficult. This country’s history of discrimination and violence against historically underrepresented, marginalized, excluded individuals—racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQIA+, those living with disabilities, the socioeconomically disadvantaged/lower class—makes these topics fraught with controversy and risk. We can easily offend someone accidentally when we try to address these topics even with the best of intentions. For example, some people may get nervous trying to figure out whether to use the words African-American, Black, BIPOC, person of color, or all of the above when discussing these topics and referring to someone …

Risk-Taking And Reform: Innovation For A Better Education, Megan M. Carpenter

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bridging The Paradigmatic Crevasse Between Lawyers And Scientists: The Need For New Institutional Models, Stanley P. Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The professions of science and law have traditionally been siloed paradigms, operating often in tandem with each other but rarely intersecting in the interdisciplinary pasture which separates them, a pasture from which an abundance of synergistic collaboration and ensuing creative concepts might sprout. However, the erstwhile never the twain shall meet situation is neither realistic nor even tenable in the current century, a century increasingly dominated by science, technology, invention, innovation, and intellectual property. Simply put, whereas lawyers are risk averse and build constructed realities to argue points and serve clients, scientists seek an objective assessment of truth and accept …

New And Useful Improvements: The Role Of Institutional Culture, Leadership, Incentives, And Regulation In 30 Years Of Legal Education Since The Maccrate Report, Greg Brandes

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

New and useful improvements – in the words of the patent statute – have emerged from legal education’s pursuit of seamlessly developing contributing members of the legal profession, as the 1992 MacCrate Report advocated. These include the widespread adoption of distance learning techniques for better teaching and assessment, course pedagogy that is more inclusive for students with diverse learning needs, and a new subset of the academy schooled and interested in the science of teaching and learning. But it has not been easy.

Efforts to improve legal education have sometimes foundered and other times flourished because of varying faculty and …

Feedback Loops: Upward Appreciation., Patrick Barry

Articles

When was the last time you tried to make your boss feel welcome? Last week? Last month? Never?

How about the last time you tried to make one of your mentors feel welcome? Your mom? Your dad? A particularly helpful pastor, rabbi, imam, or other religious leader?

Dean Melanie Leslie Announces Six New Faculty Appointments, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

We welcome these six new members to the Cardozo faculty with great joy. Below are brief biographic sketches of each with links to full details of their academic and career achievements, which are too numerous to list here.

Cardozo Celebrates Public Service At 32nd Annual Inspire! Awards, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

Cardozo’s Center for Public Service Law celebrated the Inspire! Awards on May 28, a yearly event that honors students, alumni and community leaders who have made strides in public service over the past year.

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 31, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Alexander Reinert
• Saurabh Vishnubhakat
• Lindsay Nash
• Michel Rosenfeld

Campus News:

• Dean Melanie Leslie Announces 6 New Faculty Appointments
• Cardozo Welcomes Over 200 Alumni Back to Campus For Homecoming & Reunion
• Cardozo Celebrates Public Service at 32nd Annual Inspire! Awards

Cardozo Welcomes More Than 200 Alumni For Homecoming & Reunion, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

More than 200 Cardozo alumni, from the first graduating class of 1979 to the class of 2024, were welcomed back to to the school for this year’s Homecoming & Reunion celebration, held on May 23.

While Administrators Fret, Prospective Law Students Are Losing Interest In U.S. News Rankings, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Prospective law students across the United States are paying less attention and giving less credence to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of American law schools, according to new research from scholars at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law.

“The Decline and Fall of the U.S. News Rankings” was published this week on the Social Science Research Network by Indiana Law Professor CJ Ryan and Brian Frye, Kentucky’s Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law.

Contrary to what many in the legal education community believe, a rise in the U.S. News rankings …

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 24, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Matthew Wansley
• Young Ran (Christine) Kim
• Jacob Noti-Victor

Clark Memorandum: Spring 2024, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum

• Facing Fear with Faith
• The Great Law(s) of Peace
• Grace in the Law School

Class Of 2024 Commencement, Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves

Graduation Addresses

Commencement took place on May 18, 2024 to recognize Juris Doctor, Master of Laws and Master in the Study of Law graduates in the University of Georgia School of Law ceremony. The School of Law will held its commencement for the Class of 2024 in the Classic Center Grand Hall. The Honorable Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, class of 2006, delivered the keynote address.

A longer set of biographical information related to the speaker was shared alongside other Commencement 2024 details via email, and is duplicated below:

"The Honorable Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves was sworn in as a Judge of the United States …

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 17, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Kathryn Miller
• Kate Levine
• Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
• Young Ran (Christine) Kim
• Michel Rosenfeld
• Edward Zelinsky

Events:

• 2024 Homecoming and Reunion

Law School News: Rwu Graduates Encouraged To 'Be Fearless' And To Always 'Seek Knowledge', Mel Thibeault

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

School Of Law Commencement Exercises : Class Of 2024 : May 17, 2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Commencement (1996- )

No abstract provided.

Roger Williams University Commencement Exercises : Class Of 2024 : May 17, 2024, Roger Williams University

School of Law Commencement (1996- )

No abstract provided.

Bad Therapy: Conceptualizing The Teaching Of “Thinking Like A Lawyer” As Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Chelsea Baldwin

St. Mary's Law Journal

Law students and lawyers experience mental illness and substance abuse at higher rates than the general population and other learned professions. This is bad for an individual’s wellbeing as well as their clients and society because mental illness and substance abuse increases stress which in turn decreases effective decision-making and judgment, and in worst case scenarios leads to attrition as individuals choose death by suicide which has cascading social and economic impacts. This Article identifies practices in legal education that likely combine in a causal mechanism, although not a sole cause, to the higher rates of mental illness and substance …

Law School News: Elisabeth D'Amelio Chosen As Class Of 2024 Graduate Student Commencement Speaker 5-14-24, Jordan J. Phelan

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 10, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Samuel Weinstein
• Saurabh Vishnubhakat
• Alexander Reinert
• Jessica Roth
• Edward Zelinsky
• Kate Levine
• Michel Rosenfeld
• Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
• Young Ran (Christine) Kim
• Jacob Noti-Victor
• Gabor Rona
• Edward Zelinsky

Generative Artificial Intelligence And The Practice Of Law: Impact, Opportunities, And Risks, John Villasenor

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Resurrection, Bassim Al Shaker

Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés

No abstract provided.

A Legal Scholarship Jubilee, Brian L. Frye

Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés

No abstract provided.

An Old-Fashioned Bluebook Burning, Paul Gowder

Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés

No abstract provided.

Foreword, Caroline Faye Radell, Udhanth Mallasani

Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés

No abstract provided.

2l Rob Cook Awarded Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

Congratulations to Cardozo Law 2L Rob Cook on being awarded a Peggy Browning Fund fellowship in workplace justice advocacy. Securing a Peggy Browning Fellowship is challenging, with over 3,950 applications for the 2024 program.

Law School News: Rwu Law Students Go Above And Beyond With Pro Bono 5-3-2024, Suzi Morales

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.