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What Law Schools Are Doing To Accommodate Students With Learning Disabilities, Donald H. Stone

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The year 2000 marks the tenth anniversary of the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). It also marks a quarter century since the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (“EAHCA”). The EAHCA opened the doors for disabled children to receive a free and appropriate education. As a result of this special education law, many disabled young people were able to succeed and are now knocking at law schools' doors seeking admission.

On July 26, 1990, Congress enacted the ADA, a landmark civil rights bill designed to open up all aspects of American life to …

Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams

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This paper reports the results of a 1997-98 survey designed to explore the careers of the University of Michigan Law School's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's white alumni who graduated during the same years. It is to date the most detailed quantitative exploration of how minority students fare after they graduate from law school and enter law practice or related careers. The results reveal that almost all of Michigan Law School's minority graduates pass a bar exam and go on to have careers that appear successful by …

Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: Answers To Methodological Queries, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams

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Before making a few remarks in response to those who commented on our article (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000), we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for securing these commentaries and to the people who wrote them. The comments both highlight the potential uses to which our research and similar studies may be put and give us the opportunity to address methodological concerns and questions that other readers of our article may share with those who commented on it. The responses to our work are of two types. Professors Nelson, Payne, and …

Bye-Bye Bluebook?, Pamela Lysaght, Grace C. Tonner

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In March 2000, Aspen Law & Business published a new citation manual, the ALWD Citation Manual-A Professional System of Citation.' Developed mostly as a "restatement of citation," the ALWD Citation Manual not only provides the legal academy with a text that simplifies teaching legal citation, but also provides judges and lawyers with a helpful desktop reference book. This article explains why a new citation manual was created and highlights some of its significant features?

Learning And Serving: Pro Bono Legal Services By Law Students, David L. Chambers, Cynthia F. Adcock

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All lawyers' codes of professional ethics in the United States expect members of the bar to perform legal services for low-income persons. In practice, as we all know, many lawyers perform a great deal of such service while others do little or none. By much the same token, the accreditation rules of the American Bar Association urge all law schools to provide students with opportunities to do pro bono legal work; by much the same token, some schools in the United States have extensive programs for their students but many do not. In 1998, the Association of American Law Schools …

Corporate Finance, Corporate Law And Finance Theory, Peter H. Huang, Michael S. Knoll

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Teaching Corporate Law From An Option Perspective, Peter H. Huang

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Avoiding Common Problems In Using Teaching Assistants: Hard Lessons Learned From Peer Teaching Theory And Experience, Edward R. Becker, Rachel Croskery-Roberts

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A majority of American law schools rely on teaching assistants to help administer first-year legal writing, research, and analysis (LWRA) courses. Specifically, surveys jointly conducted by the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) consistently detail the extensive use many LWRA professors make of teaching assistants. Likewise, Julie Cheslik recognized in her article about her 1994 survey on the use of TAs in the typical LWRA course that "[o]ne of the most prevalent uses of peer teachers in the law school setting is the employment of upper-level law students as teaching assistants in the first-year …

Vol. 50, No. 6, December 1, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Prospective Faculty to Speak Within Next Week •Yingtao, Justified •Persian Pride •More Top 10 Lists •Shopping Guide •Tumble Freely •Dogma Trashed

Vol. 50, No. 5, November 9, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•LSSS Recognizes Bill Bradley Student Group •Yingtao on Guns •New Winter Courses •The J Arch Project •Movie Reviews •Interview of the Year •Music Reviews

Vol. 50, No. 4, October 19, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Curriculum Committee Debates Changes to Interview Season •Winter Grade Curve •Email Abuse •Get Musical! •Hornbook Workout •Larry Returns! •TBIYTC

Vol. 50, No. 3, October 5, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Election Results are In •Affirmative Action •A2: Ripoff City •3 Second Memory •Fashion for Profs •More on Trolleys •Movie Reviews

Vol. 50, No.2, September 21, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Student Senate Elections Next Wednesday & Thursday •The Economist •1L Reflections •What Law Review? •3 Second Memory •Movie Reviews •Gotta Go

Vol. 50, No. 1, September 7, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Vol. 1, No. 1 •The Growing Quad •Issues Still With Us •Cartoons •Asking for Trouble •Interview Tips

Vol. 49, No. 10, April 14, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•SFF Auction Hauls in Over $29,000 •Campbell Finalists Defeat Vouchers •Letter to the Editor •Faculty Hiring Exposed •Alumni Update •Final Tale from Cambodia •Tenure Illustrated •Madness in DC •Interview: Yale Kamisar

Vol. 49, No. 9.5, April 1, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Final Plans for "New" Building Announced •US News Admits Ranking Error: UM Law #1 •ABA Accreditation in Jeopardy Due to Faculty Teaching Practices •The News as We See It •Interview with the Dean •Are You a BPOC? •3Ls Donate Integrity

Vol. 49, No. 9, March 29, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Liberian Book Drive Overwhelming Success •SFF Gears Up for Annual Fundraising Auction •$25,000 Directed by YOU •Fall 1998 Grade Curve •Bruce is Psychic •Going Once, Going Twice

Vol. 49, No. 8, March 17, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•WLSA & Federalists Sponsor Debate •Debt Management Program Banishes 'Firm Future' Nightmares •Juan Tienda Lives On •The RG Finally Gets a Letter •Message from the President •Sure to Become a Classic •Tales from Cambodia •Lawyer Flick of the Year •Eggiweg McMuffin •CDs You've Never Heard Of

Vol. 49, No. 7, February 24, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Terrorism Symposium Sparks Debate •Success for Jessup Team •Think Like a Lawyer •SUV's and Nifty Loopholes •Desensitization •Droit de Seigneur •A Modest Proposal •Sage Advice •Guest Columnist Emeritus

Vol. 49, No. 6, February 15, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Stalking, Robbery, & Embezzlement •Saints Be Praised •Tales From Cambodia •Political Pronouns •Five Gavel Rating •Just Say No •Just Getting' By •Back to Nature

Vol. 49, No. 5, January 28, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•On-Campus Interviews, Part Two •Winter Ball February 4 •Under New Management •Fly the Friendly Skies •For Your Creative Side •Everyone's a Critic •What IS His Problem? •Personal Politics •Ricta Returns

Expert Report Of Thomas J. Sugrue, Thomas J. Sugrue

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

At the end of the twentieth century, the United States is a remarkably diverse society. It grows more diverse by the day, transformed by an enormous influx of immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. In an increasingly global economy, Americans are coming into contact with others of different cultures to an extent seen only in times of world war. Yet amidst this diversity remains great division. When the young black academic W.E.B. DuBois looked out onto America in 1903, he memorably proclaimed that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Over …

Some Observations On Teaching From The "Pioneer" Generation, James E. Jones Jr.

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

A paper from the perspective of the "pioneer" generation.

Expert Report Of Albert M. Camarillo, Albert M. Camarillo

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

At the request of attorneys with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, the author has prepared this report which outlines the historical patterns and legacies of racial isolation and separation of Hispanics in American society. The research is based on archival collections, syntheses of secondary literature, and other primary sources such as U.S. government reports including Bureau of the Census population reports. Based on the author’s knowledge and research, this report outlines the historical developments that resulted in patterns of racial exclusion and isolation of Hispanics in the states and cities where they have settled since 1900. In particular, this report will …

Expert Report Of Claude M. Steele, Claude M. Steele

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Report based on 25-year period of research in the areas of social psychology, the social psychology of race and race relations, and the effects of race on standardized test performance.

Introduction, Michigan Journal Of Race & Law

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

The last Supreme Court decision addressing the use of race in admissions to institutions of higher education, Bakke v. Regents of the University of California, affirmed that the role of diversity in colleges and universities is both essential and compelling. Since Bakke, opponents and proponents have wrestled with ideology and theory, but have never had the benefit of a comprehensive theoretical framework that has been tested by reliable empirical data. The University of Michigan has drawn on several of the nation's leading, and most respected, researchers and scholars, to develop such a framework and verify its legitimacy with …

Expert Report Of Eric Foner, Eric Foner

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Race has been a crucial line of division in American society since the settlement of the American colonies in the beginning of the 17th century. It remains so today. While the American understanding of the concept of "race" has changed over time, the history of African-Americans provides a useful template for understanding the history of race relations. The black experience has affected how other racial minorities have been treated in our history, and illuminates the ways in which America's white majority has viewed racial difference.

The Compelling Need For Diversity In Higher Education, Michigan Journal Of Race & Law

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

The University of Michigan has brought together a team of leading scholars to serve as its experts in these cases to establish the basis for the University's argument that there is a compelling need for diversity in higher education. Their research is evidence that the use of race in higher education admissions is not only constitutional, but of vital importance to education and to our society.

Expert Report Of William G. Bowen, William G. Bowen

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Higher education plays a unique role in our society. The obligation of a university is to the society at large over the long run, and, even more generally, to the pursuit of learning. Although this may seem amorphous, there is no escaping a university's obligation to try to serve the long-term interests of society defined in the broadest and least parochial terms, and to do so through two principal activities: advancing knowledge and educating students who will in turn serve others, within this nation and beyond it, both through their specific vocations and as citizens. Universities therefore are responsible for …

Expert Report Of Patricia Gurin, Patricia Gurin

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

A racially and ethnically diverse university student body has far-ranging and significant benefits for all students, non-minorities and minorities alike. Students learn better in a diverse educational environment, and they are better prepared to become active participants in our pluralistic, democratic society once they leave such a setting. In fact, patterns of racial segregation and separation historically rooted in our national life can be broken by diversity experiences in higher education. This Report describes the strong evidence supporting these conclusions derived from three parallel empirical analyses of university students, as well as from existing social science theory and research.