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American Lawyers And International Competence, Charlotte Ku, Christopher J. Borgen

Faculty Publications

Just over ten years ago, Germans tore down a wall that divided their country and the whole of Europe. Stepping through the hole in the Berlin Wall, they took the first steps towards the reunification of West and East Germany and the end of the Cold War. Today another wall is being torn down—that between purely domestic law and international law. Companies are engaged in international trade at ever increasing rates. Environmental degradation has proved to be a global problem that cannot be solved with uncoordinated local measures. Individuals worldwide are pressing their governments for the recognition of a common …

Legal Education, Professionalism, And The Public Interest, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Do They Practice What We Teach?: A Survey Of Practitioners And Estate Planning Professors, Wayne M. Gazur

Publications

This article presents the results of a 1998 mail survey sent to members of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section and to law professors teaching estate planning. The principal goal of the survey was to compare the opinions of practitioners and law professors concerning the importance of 31 estate planning issues and techniques. The survey also included an open-ended solicitation of issues deemed significant by the participant.

The survey found consistency between practitioner and professor responses with respect to techniques such as Crummey planning. Legal education appears to be effective in dealing with core principles. …

What We're Not Telling Law Students - And Lawyers - That They Really Need To Know: Some Thoughts-In-Action Toward Revitalizing The Profession From Its Roots, Lawrence S. Krieger

Journal of Law and Health

Part I of this article sets forth a generally encouraging set of propositions about student and attorney life that I have found to be true. If they are, law students and lawyers need to hear them repeatedly. They collectively represent an approach to life and law which, to the extent it is internalized, can increase life satisfaction, raise standards of professional behavior, and relieve many of the kinds of distress that law students and lawyers are prone to experience. Some students seem to bring much of this information with them to law school years and after, do not lose sight …

The Art Of The Fact: An Afternoon Colloquy In A Tentative Key, Jethro K. Lieberman

Books

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Teaching In The Shadow Of The Bar, Joan W. Howarth

Scholarly Works

This Essay is a memorial tribute to Professor Trina Grillo. Trina took seriously what many of us know but find too hard to remember: the student who is academically disqualified or who fails the bar examination might be the most brilliant in the class or the most needed within the profession. When we conceive of the bar exam as a particularly grueling and potentially unfair rite of passage between law school and the practice of law, we collude in hiding the pervasive and often negative power of the bar exam. The bar examination permeates and controls fundamental aspects of legal …

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Through Civil Litigation: A Symposium, Eric Easton

All Faculty Scholarship

On September 30, 1996, nineteen lawyers, law professors and judges from the People's Republic of China began a six-week program of classroom study, practical experience, and scholarly exchange that focused on the American system of protecting intellectual property rights through civil litigation. The program was funded by a $107,000 grant from the United States Information Agency's Office of Citizen Exchange Programs to the University of Baltimore's Center for International and Comparative Law, in cooperation with the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.

The initial, two-week phase of the program included field trips to the U.S. Copyright Office, the Patent …

Ethical Commitments, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

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“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 …

Development Of Law Firm Training Programs: Coping With A Turbulent Environment, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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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 …

A Holistic Approach To Criminal Justice Scholarship, William T. Pizzi

Publications

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Thinking Like A Lawyer, Emily Calhoun

Publications

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Values, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Clerks In The Maze, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Lawyer Competence: Perceptual Prisms, Self-Scrutiny, And The Looking Glass, Jonathan K. Stubbs

Law Faculty Publications

In recent years legal academia has begun to reimbrace in its scholarship an old and effective teaching device: narrative. This Essay respectfully tips its analytical mortar board in the direction of this venerable tradition passed down through countless generations of teachers and learners, inside the academy and out, and acknowledges a literary "debt" to Lewis Carroll as we consider a classic exchange between Alice and Humpty Dumpty. ...

The Legal Profession, Legal Education, And Change, Robert H. Jerry Ii

Faculty Publications

The accounts of how the legal profession has changed in recent years are as abundant as the changes themselves. The common message is clear: the magnitude of change is immense, and the pace is unprecedented.

Coping With A Turbulent Environment: Development Of Law Firm Training Programs, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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What We Don't Teach In Trial Advocacy: A Proposed Course In Trial Law, J. Alexander Tanford

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Personal Agenda In Clinical Work, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review, William T. Pizzi

Publications

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Legal Education In Australia: An American Perspective, Craig M. Bradley

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Finding Yourself In Law School, Joel Jay Finer

Cleveland State Law Review

Congratulations on your acceptance and your decision to enter law school. Some might say after reading this commentary that it was more appropriate for a commencement address. But stop to think. Commencement means beginning. This is your commencement, the beginning of your legal career. And if the values to which I refer are not somewhere in your thoughts during your law school education, when you can begin to see how your technical skills can be put to use in service of whatever justice goals you personally find most meaningful, it may be more difficult to make the connections later on. …

Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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How Professionals (Including Legal Educators) "Treat" Their Clients, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Quebec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes And Traditional Ambiguities, J Ec Brierley

Dalhousie Law Journal

Some remarkable things have occurred in Quebec legal education over the last forty years. All phases of the educational process have been the object of an official government enquiry (as a consequence of widespread student discontent that led to street demonstrations); a major sociological and futuristic study of the profession and of university studies has attempted to stimulate a major shift in the intellectual orientations of legal education to ready us for the year 2000; the loss by the Quebec legal professions of lawyers and notaries of substantial power to the profit of a government agency regulating all professions in …

Law-The Last Of The Universal Disciplines, Soia Mentschikoff, Irwin P. Stotzky

Articles

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Patricia Roberts Harris, John T. Baker

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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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.

Legal Education For Non-Litigators: The Role Of The Law Schools And The Practicing Bar, Gerald Korngold

Articles & Chapters

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