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The Incredible Shrinking Law School, Phillip J. Closius

All Faculty Scholarship

The University of Toledo College of Law faculty and administration performed a task that may be unprecedented in modern American legal education. During a series of luncheon meetings we focused on the topic of enrollment--what size student body should we have given the realities of our market and the pedagogical goals we wish to achieve. We analyzed this issue without either an extensive reliance on our revenue stream or the risk of losing resources if we admitted fewer students. Since we administer both a full- and part-time (mainly evening) program, we also discussed our obligation to serve our metropolitan community …

Publish Or Perish: The Paradox, Philip F. Postlewaite

Journal of Legal Education

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Borrowing Experience: Using Reflective Lawyer Narratives In Teaching, Jamison Wilcox

Journal of Legal Education

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German Mdps: Lessons To Learn, Laurel Terry

Faculty Scholarly Works

This article is the third of four major articles or book chapters that I have written about MDPs. This article focuses on German multidisciplinary partnerships (MDPs) between lawyers and accountants. The German MDP experience is important because Germany is one of the few jurisdictions that expressly permits MDPs and because conferences about World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (the GATS) have cited to Germany when suggesting that other countries' MDP bans may be unnecessarily restrictive. After introducing common MDP regulatory issues, this article focuses on Germany. The article explains Germany's current regulation of MDPs and provides a …

Seize The Future, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Reprinted by permission from Law Practice Quarterly, Volume 1, No. 2, Feb. 2000.

Ready Or Not, Here They Come: Why The Aba Should Amend The Model Rules To Accommodate Multidisciplinary Practices, Bradley G. Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Aba And Mdps: Context, History, And Process, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Foreword: The Question Of Process, J. Harvie Wilkinson Iii

Michigan Law Review

Many in the legal profession have abandoned the great questions of legal process. This is too bad. How a decision is reached can be as important as what the decision is. In an increasingly diverse country with many competing visions of the good, it is critical for law to aspire to agreement on process - a task both more achievable than agreement on substance and more suited to our profession than waving the banners of ideological truth. By process, I mean the institutional routes by which we in America reach our most crucial decisions. In other words, process is our …

Thirty-Day Restrictions On Attorney Direct-Mail Solicitation: The United States Supreme Court Went For It, Steven M. Field

Cardozo Law Review

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How To Cross-Train For Peak Lawyering, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

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Zen And The Art Of Jursiprudence, Matthew K. Roskoski

Michigan Law Review

Lawyer bashing is by no means a remarkable phenomenon. It was not remarkable when Shakespeare wrote, "[t]he first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," and it's not remarkable today. Paul Campos, however, has written a particularly readable example, blending venerable Western lawyer-bashing and pop psychology with unsystematic invocations of Eastern religion. Jurismania is named after Campos's theory that the American legal system has a lot in common with a person suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, an addiction to law that does neither the patient nor those around him much good. In Jurismania, Campos criticizes our insistence on regulating …

Volume 23, Issue 1 (Spring 2000)

Transcript

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Neutral Assignment Of Judges At The Court Of Appeals, J. Robert Brown Jr., Allison Herren Lee

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Judges on panels at the US Court of Appeals are not intended to represent a mosaic of society. They bring an assortment of biases and predispositions to the decision making process. Judicial integrity is ostensibly protected, however, through the use of neutral assignment. Judges are assigned to panels randomly, without consideration of the particular cases to be decided.

In fact, this is not necessarily the case. In 1963, a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit alleged that membership on panels had been deliberately skewed to ensure a pro-civil rights majority. An analysis of the historical …

Clark Memorandum: Spring 2000, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Just Lawyers (Ralph R. Mabey)
• Morality and Professional Ethics (Elder Dallin H. Oaks)
• Paradise Found (Joyce Janetski)
• Is it Possible to be a Lawyer and a Christian? (Brett Scharffs)

Who Should Control The Decision To Call A Witness: Respecting A Criminal Defendant's Tactical Choices, Rodney J. Uphoff

Faculty Publications

A law student approached me not long ago to discuss a problem he had encountered while helping to prepare a criminal case for retrial. The defendant's first trial ended with a hung jury. The defendant, Steven Brown, now faced a second trial on the same misdemeanor charge of assaulting a police officer. Although the defendant still wanted to go to trial, Brown told defense counsel that he did not want his elderly father to have to testify again. From defense counsel's standpoint, the father's testimony was critical because he was the only witness corroborating the defendant's version of the event. …

The "Darden Dilemma": Should African Americans Prosecute Crimes?, Kenneth B. Nunn

UF Law Faculty Publications

Christopher Darden (prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial) has come to epitomize the burdens that African American prosecutors face as they perform their professional tasks. Moreover, the "Darden Dilemma" has become a generic term for the anguish that these prosecutors endure as they negotiate between competing allegiances to the African American community and the State. Much has been written about the sense of isolation that African American prosecutors feel when confronting the conflict between their roles as prosecutors and their obligations to the African American community. This article argues that African Americans should not prosecute crimes in the current criminal …

Michael Maurer, Val Nolan And Lauren Robel (Photograph)

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

Michael S. (Mickey) Maurer, a 1967 graduate of the School of Law, established the Val Nolan Chair of Law with his wife, Janie, as a way of honoring Mickey Maurer’s favorite professor, Val Nolan. Lauren Robel was named the Val Nolan Professor of Law on March 31, 2000. This photograph was taken on the day of the ceremony.

In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Cami Green

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Inter-America Bar Association: Resolutions Of The Xxxv Conference

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Richard A. Hausler

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Carl E.B. Mckenry Jr.

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Keith S. Rosenn

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Burton A. Landy

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Million Dollar Advocates Forum Letter Approving Mona Asberom For Membership, Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Other Special Events Materials

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Bringing Down The Bar: Accountants Challenge Meaning Of Unauthorized Practice, Susan B. Schwab

Cardozo Law Review

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Electronic Media Discovery: The Economic Benefit Of Pay-Per-View, Marnie H. Pulver

Cardozo Law Review

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The Price Of Law: How The Market For Lawyers Distorts The Justice System, Gillian K. Hadfield

Michigan Law Review

Bill Clinton's legal bills in connection with the Lewinsky scandal topped $10 million; the bill for Ken Starr's investigation of the President exceeded $50 million. The cost to the eight families portrayed in the bestseller A Civil Action for their tort suit against a manufacturing company accused of dumping hazardous chemicals into the water supply was $4.8 million (paid from a settlement of about $8 million); the cost for the defense exceeded $7 million. Lawyers who represented the three states in the nationwide suit by state attorneys general against tobacco companies to recoup smoking-related health care costs were awarded $8.2 …

Dedication To Professor Nora Jane Lauerman - In Memoriam, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Tribute to legal scholar, Nora Jane Lauerman.

Volume 67

Tennessee Law Review

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The "Persuasion Route" Of The Law: Advertising And Legal Persuasion, Sarah C. Haan

Scholarly Articles

Persuasive commercial messages--advertisements--dominate our experience of persuasion in contemporary American life. In the past quarter century, the commercial landscape has witnessed significant change in the volume, styles, and strategies of advertising. In particular, this Note argues that modern advertising contains little information about products and services, and that rational processing of information has become less important to consumer decisionmaking. At the same time, advertising research shows that consumers do not seek out or use product information contained in advertisements, and that less-informative advertising may actually be more persuasive than advertising containing a lot of information. This Note argues that changes …