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The Serpent Strikes: Simulation In A Large First-Year Course, Philip G. Schrag

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Simulation in legal education has come of age. Once confined to moot court exercises and trial practice offerings, simulation is now accepted, in principle, as a legitimate method of instruction in many types of courses. Every recent volume of the Journal of Legal Education has included at least one article on simulation, and in the past few years published works have offered the community of law teachers advice on using simulation to teach administrative law, contracts, constitutional law, bankruptcy, civil procedure, pretrial litigation, legislation, the "lawyering" process, and, of course, negotiation. These writings have helped to make simulation an accessible …

Teaching Professional Responsibility In Law School, Alvin Esau

Dalhousie Law Journal

After eight years of teaching a three-credit course on The Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility to second- and third-year law students, I am left with a sense of great dissatisfaction with the whole enterprise. So deep is my dissatisfaction that I am questioning whether to continue or move into a different course instead. This paper is an opportunity to take stock of my experience and attempt to map out the causes of my dissatisfaction, and to seek some vision, if possible, of what the course should be about, how to teach it, and why I should bother. To give the …

Pretrial Discovery In The Law School Curriculum: An Analysis And A Suggested Approach, Edward D. Cavanagh

Faculty Publications

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The topics of pretrial discovery and professional responsibility in the conduct of discovery are given short shrift in many law school classrooms. This is not to say that these topics are ignored by law schools; first-year students are typically acquainted with the concept of broad pretrial discovery in the federal system and the various disclosure tools provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Nevertheless, the intricacies of discovery practice and ethics are learned on the job or through continuing legal education programs. Although law schools, in response to criticism by the bench and bar of the general level …

The Catholic Tradition, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

If you stand in the road near one of the on-campus Roman Catholic university law schools in the United States, you can probably see a church spire. You can squint past whatever fire wall or battlement or gothic tower there is on the law building and see the campus church. You can do this at Notre Dame, St. Louis, Creighton, San Francisco, Boston College, and San Diego. If you go inside one of these law buildings, you may find crucifixes, chapels, holy-water fonts, or a statute of Thomas More. But none of these things will tell you what those law …

Book Review: Law School: Legal Education In America From The 1850s To The 1980s By Robert Stevens, Eric A. Chiappinelli

Seattle University Law Review

This Book Review examines Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s, by Robert Stevens. The Review explains that the book is a history of American legal education from 1850 through 1945, with a foreshortened treatment of events to 1870 and a prolonged view of the period between 1870 and 1945. Stevens’s work is chronological and details three developments: the hegemony of Harvard and later the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools over educational standards; the role of Harvard in establishing the primacy of the case method of instruction; and the …

Dealing With The Limits Of Vision: The Planning Process And The Education Of Lawyers, Lawrence Lederman, Jay Levenson

Articles & Chapters

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Professional Education In Medicine And Law: Structural Differences, Common Failings, Possible Opportunities, Roger C. Cramton

Cleveland State Law Review

Medicine and law emerged in the early decades of the twentieth century as strong, highly organized professions with high status, increasing rewards, and growing autonomy. Professional claims of esoteric knowledge, collegial solidarity, and disinterestedness were accepted by members of the profession and the general public. Professional schools in both disciplines forged university connections and achieved dominant positions in the preparation of new professionals. Patterns of medical and legal education established during this formative period, extending roughly from 1890 to 1920, have been highly persistent. Despite these similarities, educators in the two professions have proceeded in isolation from one another. There …

Judicial Clerkships And Elite Professional Culture, William H. Simon

Faculty Scholarship

Clerkships have become increasingly prominent in the culture of elite law schools in recent years. More students are seeking clerkships; the application process starts earlier and lasts longer; and the quest seems to generate more anxiety and absorb more energy than in the past.

Law Schools: Where The Elite Meet To Teach (Transforming Legal Education: A Symposium Of Provocative Thought), Howard Glickstein

Scholarly Works

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Virtues And Vices In Practical Legal Education: Address Given On The Occasion Of The 1985 Commencement Of The Dickinson School Of Law, Charles A. Morrison Q.C.

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

This Article is the Commencement Address given to the Class of 1985 at Dickinson Law School.

Equal Access To Law (School), Bill Piatt

Faculty Articles

One of the most rewarding aspects of serving on the law faculty at Washburn University School of Law has been the opportunity to recruit women and minority students and to serve as the faculty advisor to the Hispanic American Law Student Association. Following are some of my thoughts regarding the reasons for attracting more women and minorities to the legal profession. The comments relate to a legal education because that is my background; the principles I discuss should be equally applicable to other graduate programs as well.

A Comment On Style: The Elevator As Metaphor, James Brook

Articles & Chapters

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Query: Should Users Of The Legal System Pay For Legal Education, J. Thomas Sullivan

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Four Issues In The Accreditation Of Law Schools, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Four issues that have become prominent in law school accreditation as the profession adjusts to changes in itself, education, and the flow of consumers of legal education are discussed: the demand for new buildings, student faculty ratios, restricting law school admission to "A" and "B" level students, and faculty tenure.

Lawyer Competence And The Law Schools, Roger C. Cramton

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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One L By Scott Turow, Kenneth E. Gray

Kentucky Law Journal

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Paul J. Hartman And The Vanderbilt Law Alumni, Wilson Sims

Vanderbilt Law Review

One of the greatest assets of the Vanderbilt Law School is Professor Hartman's obvious love and appreciation for the School. When the Dutchman gets serious, this comes across in a powerful way. His unending effort on behalf of the Law School in working with the alumni over these many years has resulted in numerous tangible benefits for the Law School, but even more importantly, in many intangible ways, including the great sense of loyalty held by many of these alumni, all of them the Dutchman's former students. The School has no better salesman. He and his wife Dorothy command the …

Now That You're In It, What Will You Get Out Of It?: Advice On Law School From Those Who Have Been There And Beyond, Reed Dickerson, Robert W. Meserve, Ronald A. May

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Changing Directions At Columbia, Michael I. Sovern

Faculty Scholarship

Each period in history handles reform in its own way. In the earlier days we placed a heavy emphasis on legal realism. We stressed the need to adapt the learning of other disciplines to legal education and to bring the learning of other disciplines into the law school instructional program. As you know, that is an incomplete revolution. It remains a part of our present concern, but our focus today is different.

2-1-1: The 4th Revolution In Legal Education, Michael I. Sovern

Faculty Scholarship

If we were to count the great changes in legal education from Charles Evans Hughes' day to this, we would find ourselves with a short list. The shift from apprenticeship to school was already well begun by the time Mr. Hughes was graduated from the Columbia School of Law in 1884. The case method was a new idea, but it would become the orthodox methodology in a startlingly short time. By the turn of the century, a number of law schools had moved from two- to three-year programs, but two years was still enough for admission to the bar in …

Rip-Off Professionalism, Marilyn C. Zilli

IUSTITIA

In the February 1972 issue of PRO SE (National Law Women's Newsletter) an article entitled "Professional Rip-off" criticized the Women's Liberation Movement for producing what the authors call "grasping opportunists," "pleasant, reasonable, charming, and eternally submissive sell-out[s] " (page 4). They are referring to professional women and posit that because, in a capitalist society, professional status is a privilege enjoyed by few, the claim that all women will benefit from an improvement in the status of professional women could not be farther from the truth (page 4): "Instead of making women more 'equal,' the new female professionals make themselves more …

Lawyer Supply And Demand In Kentucky Over The Next Decade, Alvin L. Goldman

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Projecting future needs is a painstaking and hazardous affair. Avoiding such pain, however, is even more hazardous. There is good reason to attempt to project the next decade's need for, and potential supply of, new lawyers in Kentucky. Adequate legal services are an important ingredient in orderly economic growth and an essential element in preserving a free society. On the other hand, an over-abundance of lawyers can depress the economics of the profession to the point at which its ability to sustain desired standards of ethical conduct and to attract a high caliber of new talent are both threatened. Moreover, …

Legal Education: Confronting Reality And Too Many Siblings, Ralph Slovenko

Cleveland State Law Review

What do we-all of us-want out of legal education? Why is there so much concern and dissatisfaction with regard to the third, and to some extent, the second year of the curriculum? Questions most often raised are: What does one want or expect of legal education?; why is there so much dissatisfaction?; what really is the problem, and what can be done about it?

Professional Responsibility Of The Civil Practitioner: Teaching Legal Ethics In The Contracts Course, Monroe H. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In two earlier papers I have written about the professional responsibility of the attorney in criminal practice. Surprisingly, a number of intelligent and experienced lawyers have suggested that problems of the same kind and complexity do not arise, at least with the same frequency, in the work of the civil practitioner. This is a serious misconception, although there are certainly important differences in the civil practitioner's role. For example, unlike the criminal defense lawyer, the civil practitioner does not have the same problems relating to the presumption of innocence, the constitutional right to counsel, and the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.? …

Science And The Law Symposium: Introduction, David F. Cavers

Michigan Law Review

This symposium reflects a growing concern that, in a period when our society is being rapidly transformed by science and technology, increasing attention be directed to the bearing of this development on law as our society's primary control system. Moreover, since law can exert some influence on the rate and direction of scientific and technological change, the examination must extend as well to the bearing of law on the processes of that change.

Part-Time And First-Rate Legal Education: Some Random Observations, Stanley E. Harper Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

This article goes through a comparison of a full-time versus a part-time law school experience. Further, the article examines the quality of student or the planning of a curriculum and surveys the statistical significance of part-time legal education from 1947 to 1962.

Part-Time And First-Rate Legal Education: Some Random Observations, Stanley E. Harper Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

This article goes through a comparison of a full-time versus a part-time law school experience. Further, the article examines the quality of student or the planning of a curriculum and surveys the statistical significance of part-time legal education from 1947 to 1962.

Smith: Lawyer, William M. Beaney

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lawyer. By Talbot Smith.

Cooper: Living The Law, John P. Dawson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of LIVING THE LAW. By Frank E. Cooper

Boredom In Legal Education, Ralph Slovenko

Cleveland State Law Review

The law school should strive to educate the lawyer and nonlawyer not only on law but also on society. In this enterprise, there will be no boredom. Law, viewed as an interplay of history, logic, and sociology, is second to none as an exciting and liberal subject.