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Vol. 47, No. 9, March 18, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Professor Rosenbaum Speaks on California's Proposition 209 •Indian Gaming: Law, Economics, and Sovereignty •Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD! •Update: Female Enrollment Drop a National Trend? •US News Rankings •Letters to the Editor •Journal Ed Boards Announced •1996 Fall Grade Curve •B&B Offer Last Minute Job Hunt Advice

Vol. 47, No. 8, February 24, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Killer Curve!!! •BLSA Sponsors Lecture on Affirmative Action •Legal Practice Retooled for the Millennium •RG Rescues Jobless 1Ls •Sager-Toothed Tiger Attacks •Traffic 1, Pedestrians 0 •Josh Barron Goes to the Video Store •Hey, 1st Year Summer Starter •B&B Vent Spleen

Vol. 47, No.7, February 10, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

parks Controversy •Enter the Bizarro World of Larry Sager •Mr. Ford Goes to Washington •Take the RG Career Survey •On Location in Florida •B&B Highlight Summer Starter Bliss

Vol. 47, No. 6, January 28, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Students Lament Syvereud's Departure •Law School Panel on Affirmative Action for MLK Day Celebration •Exam Ticket Frustration •Blanks Pans Hip New Music •Michigan Students Explore Cambodia •Whitman Takes the Reins •The Two Sides of Larry Flynt •B&B Reveal Resolutions

Moving Ground, Breaking Traditions: Tasha's Chronicle, Angela I. Onwuachi-Willig

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Note uses a fictional dialogue to analyze and engage issues concerning stereotypes, stigmas, and affirmative action. It also highlights the importance of role models for students of color and the disparate hiring practices of law firms and legal employers through the conversations and thoughts of its main character, Tasha Crenshaw.

Who Is Black Enough For You? An Analysis Of Northwestern University Law School's Struggle Over Minority Faculty Hiring, Leonard M. Baynes

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article considers the factors that should be used in hiring a person of color to a faculty position and raises the following questions: Apart from potential teaching ability and scholarly productivity, should faculty appointments committees look to other criteria for candidates of color? Provided that we can still consider the race and ethnicity of prospective candidates of color at private institutions, should faculty appointments committees be concerned about how closely identified a candidate is to an essentialized conception, for instance, of Black persons? Should a faculty hiring committee focus its efforts to hire African Americans on a Black person …

Selecting And Designing Effective Legal Writing Problems, Grace C. Tonner, Diana Pratt

Articles

Legal research and writing courses are unlike most substantive first year law school classes in that they teach using the problem method. The success of a legal writing course depends on the quality of the problems. The purpose of this article is to provide some guidance for legal writing professors in designing legal writing problems. The article addresses (1) general considerations in problem design, (2) designing expository problems, (3) designing persuasive problems, and (4) sources of problems. In the first section, we discuss problem design as it relates to the overall goals for teaching the basic forms of legal analysis, …

Response To Haskell: "Academic Freedom, Tenure, And Student Evaluation Of Faculty", Jeffrey E. Stake

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Haskell (1997) argued that the administrative practice of student evaluation of faculty is a threat to academic freedom. However, before that claim can be substantiated, several prior questions must be addressed: To whom does academic freedom belong? Individual faculty? The academy? Whose actions can violate the right? Can any lines be drawn based on whether the substance or form of classroom behavior is influenced? And still another crucial point is whether a body can violate academic freedom without any intent to interfere with or control the substance of what is said to students.

Vol. 47, No. 5, November 25, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•He's Back! •Kozinski Pleads: Don't Drop the Torah •Kamisar Pens Suicide "Note" •Post-Election Round-Up •RG Lineman of Fine Culture Jason Blankenship Tackles Teenage Wondercrooner Fiona Apple •B&B's Fun Page: B&B Explore the Miracles of Birth •How to Become President of a Large Midwestern University

Vol. 47, No. 3, October 7, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Federalist Society Sponsors Affirmative Action Debate •Journal Moratorium Ends •Jesse Jackson Gets Down With the Vote •Prof. Reed Begins 51st Year of Teaching •Computerization May End Enrollment Woes •Commentary: The Alcohol Policy •Blanks' Culture Corner •Hey, Third Year •B&B's BS Write Your Own Ding Letter

Vol. 47, No. 2, September 23, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Decline in Percentage of Women in the Class of 1999 •Law School Again (and Again) Welcomes Visiting, Adjunct Faculty •International Law Workshop Begins •Course Evaluations in a Nutshell •Incompatible Hiring Criteria •Letters to the Editor •Commentary: Faculty Hiring •Blanks' Culture Corner •Four Years Out: Are We Having Fun Yet? •B&B's BS 1st Year Quiz

Vol. 47, No. 1, September 9, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Campbell Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Wins International Awards •The New Career Services •An Insider's Guide to NYC •FYI Program •The Nature of Diversity •Reviewing the Selection Process •Blanks' Culture Corner •Hey, Third Year

The Chaotic Pseudotext, Paul F. Campos

Michigan Law Review

This article tries to get away from the traditionally epistemological (and instrumental, and normative) focus of the case method. In what follows, I will introduce two interrelated ideas designed to elucidate the problematic nature of contemporary legal interpretation: the concept of law as a chaotic discourse, and the problem of the legal pseudotext. These ideas will be presented and explored while we undertake a close reading of an appellate court opinion; however, the purpose of this reading is not the traditional one of attempting to determine if the case · is "correctly decided." Rather we will consider various questions that …

The Impact Of The Americans With Disabilities Act On Legal Education And Academic Modifications For Disabled Law Students: An Empirical Study, Donald H. Stone

All Faculty Scholarship

Law schools face the challenge of providing disabled students with reasonable accommodations in their academic setting in a fair and equitable manner. Disabled law students continue to demand academic modifications in course examinations by claiming to be persons with mental or physical disabilities. Law schools are also beginning to see requests for extension of time for degree completion, priority in course registration, and authorization to tape record classes, all by virtue of an entitlement under the mandates of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Persons with a wide range of disabilities are seeking academic modifications from their law schools. What …

Vol. 46, No. 10, April 1, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Faculty Respond to Ad Hoc Proposals •An Interview with the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt •How to Get an Offer •Jason Frank •Dr. G's Tearful Farewell

Vol. 46, No. 9, March 18, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Community Reacts to Racial Vandalism •Michigan No. 7 in "U.S. News" Ranking •Jessup Team Heads to Internationals •Value Centered Management to Rein in More Dollars for the Law School •Fall Grade Curves •Commentary: Center for the Legal Equality of Women •Jason Frank Returns

Vol. 46, No. 8, February 19, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Headnotes Spread a Little Love •Want a Job? Forget Seattle. Try New York •RG Arts Page •Full Survey Detail •IM Sports: Matt Wilk Returns •Commentary: Debt Management

Vol. 46, No. 7, February 5, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Krieger to Head New Alumni Programs Office •Is This the Best Way to Run a Law School? •Jobhunting Tips •Hey, Third Year •Opinion: Women & the Law •Jason Frank: On Equality

Vol. 46, No. 6, January 22, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Captivation and Disgust •Grade Punks Injure 1L •Women's Rights Symposium Indeed International •Hey, Third Year •Jobhunting Survey •Jason Frank Pays Off His Loans

A Response To Mathias Reimann: More, More, More But Real Comparative Law, Nora V. Demleitner

Scholarly Articles

None available.

Succeeding In Law School: A Comparison Of Women's Experiences At Brooklyn Law School And The University Of Pennsylvania, Marsha Garrison, Brian Tomko, Ivan Yip

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article reports our findings from a replication of the Penn research conducted at Brooklyn Law School in order to test the experience-performance link reported by the Penn researchers. Brooklyn Law School offers an ideal setting for a test of the Penn research because it already has adopted most of the reforms that the Penn researchers believe would reduce women's alienation from the learning environment and thus improve their academic performance. First, Brooklyn Law School, as compared to other American law schools, has a large proportion of women faculty. During the 1994-95 academic year, thirty-seven percent of its tenured and …

Silent Beneficiaries: Affirmative Action And Gender In Law School Academic Support Programs, Darlene C. Goring

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Aba Accreditation Of Law Schools: An Antitrust Analysis, Andy Portinga

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The accreditation activities of the American Bar Association are under attack. From within legal academia, professors and deans complain that the ABA accreditation process is overly formalistic and intrusive. In addition, the Massachusetts School of Law has sued the ABA, alleging that the ABA's accreditation standards violate the Sherman Act. From outside legal academia, the Department of Justice has investigated the ABA's accreditation activities and initiated an antitrust suit against the ABA. The Department of Justice and the ABA immediately settled this suit, and, as a result of this settlement, the ABA has agreed not to enforce certain standards and …

Why Hard Cases Make Good (Clinical) Law, Paul D. Reingold

Articles

In 1992, when the University of California's Hastings College of Law decided to offer a live-client clinic for the first time, its newly hired director had to make several decisions about what form the program should take.1 The first question for the director was whether the clinic should be a single-issue specialty clinic or a general clinic that would represent clients across several areas of the law. The second question, and the one that will be the focus of this essay, was whether the program should restrict its caseload to "easy" routine cases or also accept non-routine, less controllable litigation. …

On Becoming A Law Professor, Terrance Sandalow

Articles

Thirty-five years ago, when I first joined a law faculty, only one job description existed for law professors, that for the conventional classroom teacher. In the years since, the opportunities available to lawyers interested in teaching have become a bit more varied. In addition to conventional classroom teachers, a growing number of law teachers are employed by law schools to provide what I shall somewhat misleadingly call clinical instruction.1 Although these comments are addressed mainly to men and women interested in classroom teaching, a few lines about clinical teaching may be in order because the initial question for anyone considering …

Vol. 46, No. 5, November 6, 1995, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Dicta Accepting Submissions •$5 Billion in Punitive Damages •Workshops Offer Job Search Strategies for 1L's •So You Want to be a Politician? •Commercial Outlines Strike a Nerve •Everyone Out by Midnight •Here's This Week's Sports Update •The Essential Beers •Dr. G Enjoys a Good Cry •News of the Weird

Vol. 46, No. 4, October 23, 1995, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Minority Leader Gephardt Addresses Law School •Civil Rights Symposium •Doo Doo Dooo Doo Doo, You Say It's Your Birthday… •An Open Letter to Richard Gephardt •Letters to the Editor •Marc & Mindy's Fun Page •Side Bar •Ménage A Trois •The Metaphysical Dr. G

Vol. 46, No. 3, October 9, 1995, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Affirmative Action Debated Before Standing Room Only Crowd •Not Guilty: Law School Reacts to the O.J. Verdict •QLSA Changes Its Name •IM Teams Battle On •Israel to Head South •The RG Survey •Letters to the Editor •Marc & Mindy's Fun Page •Dr. G Undercover •Ménage A Trois

Vol. 46, No. 2, September 25, 1995, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•IM Sports •Prime Minister Teaches the Transformation •"Race and Law" Off to a Bold Start •Alcohol Policy Needs Work •Side-Bar •Why the NRA Needs Our Support •Mad Libs •Dr. G Finds Religion

Vol. 46, No. 1, September 11, 1995, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Computer Lab Moves •The End of Con Law as We Knew It? •Welcome Back to Ann Arbor •Caught at the Sidebar •Power Corrupts…