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Full-Text Articles in Legal Writing and Research
Building A Culture Of Scholarship With New Clinical Teachers By Writing About Social Justice Lawyering, Susan Bennett, Binny Miller, Michelle Assad, Maria Dooner, Mariam Hinds, Jessica Millward, Citlalli Ochoa, Charles Ross, Anne Schaufele, Caroline Wick
Building A Culture Of Scholarship With New Clinical Teachers By Writing About Social Justice Lawyering, Susan Bennett, Binny Miller, Michelle Assad, Maria Dooner, Mariam Hinds, Jessica Millward, Citlalli Ochoa, Charles Ross, Anne Schaufele, Caroline Wick
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
This Article is a collection of essays about teaching social justice lawyering, as seen through the eyes of eight practitioners-in-residence in the clinical program at American University’s Washington College of Law (“WCL”). They include: Michelle Assad, Maria Dooner, Mariam Hinds, Jessica Millward, Citlalli Ochoa, Charles Ross, Anne Schaufele, and Caroline Wick. They teach in seven clinics, including the Civil Advocacy Clinic, the Criminal Justice Clinic, the Community Economic and Equity Development Clinic, the Disability Rights Law Clinic, the Immigrant Justice Clinic, the International Human Rights Law Clinic, and the Janet R. Spragens Federal Income Tax Clinic. We use the terms …
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part V, David Spratt
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part V, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
After five installments, we can end our discussion of contract boilerplate. We have slashed the outdated language and emerged as a clear and contemporary legal writer. Be willing to adapt what has worked well in the past because change is the foundation of human ingenuity.
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part Iv, David Spratt
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part Iv, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
We have belabored the archaic and prohibited use of "said" as a synonym for "the." But this paragraph needs more work. First, the phrase "irrespective of the fact that" is wordy and could be replaced with the plain language alternative of "even though." Second, "one or more of the parties now is, or may become, a resident of a different state" also could be streamlined. The phrase is easy enough to understand but cut to the chase. Replacing this phrase with "either party now or later resides in a different state" does the trick.
Liberty And Justice For All?: A Pathfinder On The Use Of Lyrics As Evidence In Civil And Criminal Trial, Stephanie Washington
Liberty And Justice For All?: A Pathfinder On The Use Of Lyrics As Evidence In Civil And Criminal Trial, Stephanie Washington
Upper Level Writing Requirement Research Papers
No abstract provided.
What Inclusive Instructors Do Book Review, Jamie Abrams
What Inclusive Instructors Do Book Review, Jamie Abrams
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Inclusive teaching is not just an aspirational goal. It is our ethical obligation to students. Our students can spend years dreaming of attending law school and working to achieve that goal. They can spend decades paying off the costs of attendance. Law faculty owe every student of all backgrounds, races, religions, genders, learning abilities, ages, socioeconomic statuses, immigration statuses, and military statuses an environment in which they feel like they belong and can thrive. WHAT INCLUSIVE INSTRUCTORS Do powerfully reminds us that inclusive teaching is not identified by obscenity law's "I know it when I see it" murkiness. Rather, it …
The Dream Of Property Professors, Ezra Rosser
The Dream Of Property Professors, Ezra Rosser
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Michael Heller and James Salzman's new book, Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, is a dream come true for property professors.
I suspect that many of us have moments when we think to ourselves, "wow, this stuff is really interesting," imagining that property law could somehow be of general interest. Too often that dream is killed when the eyes of non-lawyers, including family members, start to glaze over when they hear words like rule against perpetuities or trademark. Heller and Salzman have succeeded in making the stories property professors tell the stuff of a bestseller. They …
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part Iii, David Spratt
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part Iii, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
There are several things wrong with this paragraph. First, the heading "Knowledge of Residence" is underinclusive, as the paragraph concerns more than where each party lives. A more inclusive and effective heading would be "Knowledge of Contact Information." Second, the introductory phrase is ambiguous, as one could read "for so long as the minor children are less than eighteen years of age" as requiring the parties to exchange information only until one of the parties' children turns 18. Moreover, "eighteen years of age" is archaic and clunky legalese. Keep it simple, solicitors: "eighteen" or "age eighteen" would suffice. Applying these …
Feminism’S Transformation Of Legal Education And Unfinished Agenda, Jamie Abrams
Feminism’S Transformation Of Legal Education And Unfinished Agenda, Jamie Abrams
Contributions to Books
Feminism has had a broad influence in legal education. Feminist critiques have challenged the substance of legal rules, the methods of law teaching, and the culture of legal education. Following decades of advocacy, feminist pedagogical reforms have generated new fields, new courses, new laws, new leaders, and new feminist spaces. There are many reasons to celebrate the accomplishments of our feminist pioneers and champions. Yet, COVID-19 has also exposed all the vulnerabilities and tenuousness of feminist gains too. Critical work remains for faculty, administrators, and students to carry the work forward with a vigilant purpose and determination.
Improve Recitals And Consideration Clauses With Plain Language, David Spratt
Improve Recitals And Consideration Clauses With Plain Language, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
As used in a "WHEREAS" clause, the term "whereas" simply means "considering that" or "that being the case." There is no legal effect to the word "whereas." It, like many other words used in standard contract boilerplate, is left over from some long-forgotten era of legal writing when lawyers used big words and legalese to impress clients with their intelligence and to justify their bills. These times have (or at least should have) passed. Today, documents must be accessible to those who use them: in most cases the clients for whom such documents are drafted.
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part I, David Spratt
Debunking The Efficacy Of Standard Contract Boilerplate: Part I, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Many contracts start with an introductory paragraph like this one: THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into said 5th day of June, 2020, by and between JOHN JONES (hereinafter referred to as "Jones") and MARY SMITH (hereafter referred to as "Smith"), hereinafter referred to together as "the parties." Where do I find my red pen? There are so many problems with this introduction, I might run out of ink.
Predictability Of Arbitrators' Reliance On External Authority?, Ariana R. Levinson, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Paige Marta Skiba
Predictability Of Arbitrators' Reliance On External Authority?, Ariana R. Levinson, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Paige Marta Skiba
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Justice Breyer And The Rise Of Globalization: An Analysis Of The Jurisprudence Of Justice Breyer As A Pragmatic Visionary, Timothy Sajal Klee
Justice Breyer And The Rise Of Globalization: An Analysis Of The Jurisprudence Of Justice Breyer As A Pragmatic Visionary, Timothy Sajal Klee
Upper Level Writing Requirement Research Papers
No abstract provided.
The Deconstructed Issue-Spotting Exam, Jamie Abrams
The Deconstructed Issue-Spotting Exam, Jamie Abrams
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article proposes a teaching technique for use in large, Socratic-style law school classes to embed exam preparation, formative assessment, and lawyering simulations in the course without overburdening the professor or students. This technique is sustainable, yet highly efficacious for students.
Law schools nationwide are implementing new reforms pushing law schools toward stronger assessment techniques and client-based simulations better preparing students for the practice of law. Many law schools have implemented these reforms around the margins or outside of the traditional doctrinal course. Law schools have generally added new classes with experiential learning components or with simulations integrated into the …
Take Inventory Each Year, David Spratt
Take Inventory Each Year, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Narrative Understanding: Revisiting The Stories Of Lay Lawyering, Ann Shalleck
Narrative Understanding: Revisiting The Stories Of Lay Lawyering, Ann Shalleck
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article examines the tentative beginnings of Gerald Lopez's decades-long project of using storytelling as a method to describe, understand, and analyze the work of lawyers. It evaluates his 1984 article, Lay Lawyering, for its contributions to the development of narrative as a descriptive, explanatory, and critical device for comprehending the complex and fraught work of lawyers. It begins with a detailed critique of the four parts of Lay Lawyering. In the article, Lopez first identifies problem solving and stock stories as the key concepts defining the work of the lawyer and then tells three stories from three perspectives about …
Best Practices For Teaching Advanced Legal Research Asynchronously Online, Khelani Clay, Shannon M. Roddy
Best Practices For Teaching Advanced Legal Research Asynchronously Online, Khelani Clay, Shannon M. Roddy
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Practice And Fitness Making Writing Perfection More Nearly Attainable, Heather Ridenour, David Spratt
Practice And Fitness Making Writing Perfection More Nearly Attainable, Heather Ridenour, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
"And/Or" And The Proper Use Of Legal Language, Ira P. Robbins
"And/Or" And The Proper Use Of Legal Language, Ira P. Robbins
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The use of the term and/or is pervasive in legal language. Lawyers use it in all types of legal contexts—including statutes, contracts, and pleadings. Beginning in the 1930s, however, many judges decided that the term and/or should never be used in legal drafting. Ardent attacks on the term included charges that it was vague, if not meaningless, with some authorities declaring it to be a “Janus-faced verbal monstrosity,” an “inexcusable barbarism,” a “mongrel expression,” an “abominable invention,” a “crutch of sloppy thinkers,” and “senseless jargon.” Still today, critics maintain that the construct and/or is inherently ambiguous and should be avoided …
Jezebels And Jungle Bunnies: How The Stereotypes Of Black Women Shape Legislation, The Legal Profession, And Feminist Jurisprudence, Kersti Myles
The Modern American
No abstract provided.
You Get The Law - And You Get The Law - And You Get The Law, Shannon M. Roddy
You Get The Law - And You Get The Law - And You Get The Law, Shannon M. Roddy
Newsletters & Other Publications
No abstract provided.
That's A Wrap, Shannon M. Roddy
That's A Wrap, Shannon M. Roddy
Newsletters & Other Publications
Law Library Lights, vol. 60, issue 4
Experiential Learning And Assessment In The Era Of Donald Trump, Jamie Abrams
Experiential Learning And Assessment In The Era Of Donald Trump, Jamie Abrams
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Law teaching is turning a critical corner with the implementation of new ABA accreditation standards requiring greater skills development, experiential learning, and student assessment. Years of debate and discourse preceded the adoption of these ABA Standards, followed by a surge in programming, conferencing, and list-serv activity to prepare to implement these standards effectively. Missing from the dialogue about effective implementation of standards has been thoughtful consideration of how implementing these requirements will intersect with the challenges, realities, opportunities, and complexities of political divisiveness and polarization so prevalent in society and university campuses today.
Law schools are notably implementing these pedagogical …
Freeing The Law, Khelani Clay
Freeing The Law, Khelani Clay
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Can't Get There From Here: Recalculate Into Better Legal Writing, Heather Ridenour
Can't Get There From Here: Recalculate Into Better Legal Writing, Heather Ridenour
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Dear Student Editors, We Need Your Help, Jessica Lynn Wherry
Dear Student Editors, We Need Your Help, Jessica Lynn Wherry
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Reading, Riting, And Rithmetic, Shannon M. Roddy
Reading, Riting, And Rithmetic, Shannon M. Roddy
Newsletters & Other Publications
Law Library Lights, vol. 60, issue 1
The Fact Of The Matter, David Spratt
The Fact Of The Matter, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Reframing The Socratic Method, Jamie Abrams
Reframing The Socratic Method, Jamie Abrams
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
While innovations in law teaching are everywhere, these innovations are being constructed upon and limited by the ancient architecture of the case-based Socratic method, which still endures and persists throughout first-year and upper-level courses. This article highlights how the Socratic method limits the depth and breadth of innovations in law teaching and can be reframed to better catalyze other teaching innovations, create more practice-ready lawyers, and cultivate more inclusive and inviting law classrooms. Within the existing framework of law teaching – the same casebooks, class sizes, and teaching style – the case-based Socratic method can be reframed in three straight-forward …
Speaking With Conviction: The Importance Of Effective And Precise Communications, David Spratt
Speaking With Conviction: The Importance Of Effective And Precise Communications, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.