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Volume 20, No. 4

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Power And The Morality Of Grading - A Case Study And A Few Critical Thoughts On Grade Normalization, Deborah Waire Post

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Volume 20, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Volume 20, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Rules, Story And Commitment In The Teaching Of Legal Ethics, Roger C. Cramton, Susan P. Koniak

Faculty Scholarship

The ABA requires each "approved" law school to provide each student "instruction in the duties and responsibilities of the legal profession." First adopted in August, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate disclosures, this requirement has never been interpreted and is infrequently referred to or enforced in the accreditation process. The professional responsibility requirement is the only substantive teaching requirement imposed by the ABA.

Should the ethics teaching requirement be scrapped? We consider that question in Part I. Although we ultimately conclude the rule should be maintained, we believe this fundamental question must be asked. Given the disdain many legal …

Volume 20, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

The Revolving Door Part I: A Federal Prosecutor Returns To School, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Faculty Publications

Law teaching is hard work. To my trial lawyer friends who expressed envy at the easy life I must be enjoying, I often said they should imagine having to prepare and present five or six oral arguments a week, every week, for months on end. To the novice teacher presenting several courses for the first time, the task often feels just that daunting. As practicing lawyers, we flatter ourselves that we are "experts" in our fields, and thus that it would be a simple matter to step over to the local law school and, with minimal preparation, unburden ourselves of …

Volume 19, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

How We Teach: A Survey Of Teaching Techniques In American Law Schools, Steven I. Friedland

Seattle University Law Review

A person's law school teaching is predicated on or supported by one or more learning theories, therefore, Part II of this Article discusses cognitive and developmental learning theories and how they relate to law school teaching methods. Part III explains the teaching survey that was sent to the law schools, including the questionnaire used and the type of respondents who answered. Part IV of the Article reproduces the questionnaire results. Part V analyzes those results. This Article concludes that teaching methods should be consciously related to the learning process. Only by focusing on how students learn can a teacher truly …

“Some Kind Of Lawyer”: Two Journeys From Classroom To Courtroom And Beyond, Terry Birdwhistell

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In January 1996 a panel of the American Bar Association released a report concluding that "discrimination continues to permeate the structures, practices and attitudes of the legal profession." It has been a long journey in women's efforts to obtain equity in both law schools and in the legal profession generally. This article is composed of two interviews with University of Kentucky College of Law graduates: Norma Boster Adams (’52) and Annette McGee Cunningham (’80). Twenty-eight years separated Norma Adams and Annette Cunningham at the College of Law. They faced different obstacles and chose varied paths to success. While each can …

Law Teachers And The Educational Continuum, Michael K. Jordan

Faculty Scholarship

There are many difficulties in teaching the law. These problems are often referred to generically as the difficulty in training students to "think like lawyers." The primary focus of the literature discussing these concerns has, therefore, been on how law schools should assist students in developing this ability. Underlying much of this literature is the assumption that what is needed is some tinkering with the law school curriculum. Students are believed to enter law with a set of abilities and potentialities that are honed by the law school curriculum to produce something called a lawyer or the skill denominated as …

Little Brown Spots On The Notebook Paper: Women As Law School Students, Beth L. Goldstein

Kentucky Law Journal

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A Decade Of Developments In Performance-Based Legal Education, Deborah A. Schmedemann, Christina L. Kunz

Faculty Scholarship

This tribute summarizes some of the accomplishments of William Mitchell college of Law in performance-based learning in legal education between 1986 and 1996. It first chronicles developments in the first-and second-year performance-based courses and then turns to upper-level curricular developments. At each point, it touches on course development and scholarship--the parallel tracks pursued by faculty focusing on performance-based legal education. As a result of these developments, the college is well positioned to contribute to the growth of performance-based learning in legal education nationally.

The Chaotic Pseudotext, Paul F. Campos

Publications

No abstract provided.

Hiding The Ball, Pierre Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.

Volume 19, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 19, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 19, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

John W. Wade, John P. Frank

Vanderbilt Law Review

John Wade's most distinguishing quality was his capacity for friendship. He was a great scholar; his bibliography runs for pages. He was a great teacher and law school administrator; he took over the Vanderbilt Law School when it had a hundred students and no physical home of its own and built it into a great regional institution with an admirable building. He was a great reporter for the American Law Institute. He was a war hero.

But memory dwells especially on that capacity for friendship. I have read some of the memorial letters: Our colleague, Lawrence Walsh, in a handwritten …

Volume 18, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Idaho's Law School Plans For The Approaching Millennium, John A. Miller

Articles

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Why Does The Church Have Law Schools?, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Why does the church have law schools?

The title I was given for this talk during the Marquette Conference of March, 1994, was "the mission of the religiously affiliated law school." The title raises the possibility that the church has a law school in order to carry out a mission. The church does not get its mission from the state or the civil community. The only workable meaning of the title I was given is that each of our law schools has a mission from God.

If the assignment of mission comes from the civil community or the state, the …

Volume 18, No. 4

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin

Faculty Scholarship

This Symposium marks an important milestone in legal scholarship and education: The spotlight falls on business lawyers for a change. Ten years ago, when one of us first wrote about what business lawyers really do, no one had devoted much attention to this part of the profession. In his broadside against lawyers, Derek Bok, then President of Harvard University and formerly dean of its law school, reserved his invective for litigators and the litigation process. Business lawyers captured the attention of very few critics; even on the unusual occasion when we were noticed, the criticism was at least funny. If …

Volume 18, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Editorial Assistant: Matt Bernier

Volume 18, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Editorial Assistant: Matt Bernier

The Criminal Defense Lawyer's Reliance On Bias And Prejudice, Eva Nilsen

Faculty Scholarship

This Article is divided into three parts. Part I examines both the many contexts in which criminal defense lawyers and clinical students encounter bias and prejudice,¹² and the commonly-raised objections to its exploitation. Part II looks at the way the tactical use of bias relates to a lawyer's duty of zealous advocacy. Here, the Article focuses on whether existing ethics rules provide guidance for a lawyer's use of bias and whether proposed rules aimed at eliminating such advocacy would improve or diminish justice. This article argues against such efforts because they impinge on legitimate lawyering, and they may distract …

Volume 18, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen; Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Editorial Assistant: Matt Bernier

Volume 17, No. 6

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Jolaine Antonio, Mike Christie, Chris Spiteri

Volume 17, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Jolaine Antonio, Mike Christie, Chris Spiteri