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Making Effective Use Of Practitioners' Briefs In The Law School Curriculum, Anna P. Hemingway

St. Thomas Law Review

This article argues that practitioners' briefs do have a place in the law school classroom. Part II of this article discusses the pedagogy behind using practitioners' briefs in the legal writing classroom. It demonstrates how using practitioners' briefs enriches lesson plans, heightens interest in the classroom, and helps students gain a richer appreciation for lawyers' goals when they write as advocates. Part III presents some different ways of using practitioners' briefs to teach persuasive writing. It examines how the author has used practitioners' briefs to teach persuasive writing of the statement of facts, point headings and summary of the argument. …

On-Line Legal Research Workshops, Frederick B. Jonassen

St. Thomas Law Review

Like riding a bicycle, playing tennis, or driving a car, legal research is a skill, and like any other skill, it is learned by doing, and not by listening to a lecture. However, lectures are indispensable for introducing the skill. The mental processes applied in electronic legal research may differ from those applied to book legal research. But because both electronic and book research are skills, a guided workshop in electronic legal research may be based on similar principles to those underlying a workshop in book legal research, with appropriate modifications. The aspects of the electronic legal workshop proposed here …

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes the Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter 2010.

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Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead, advisors, and Table of Contents for the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review Volume 5 (2010).

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes the Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 21, Issue 2, Winter 2009.

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes the Table of Contents and Letter from the Editor for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 21, Issue 3, Spring 2009.

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes the Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 22, Issue 1, Fall 2009.

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Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead, advisors, and Table of Contents for the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review Volume 4 (2009).

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead, and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 20, Issue 3, Spring 2008.

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes the Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 21, Issue 1, Fall 2008.

The National Conference Of Law Reviews Symposium Issue, Alfredo Garcia

St. Thomas Law Review

The articles in this issue contain a common thread: the importance of the enduring values embedded in our Constitution, especially during times when our country confronts challenges that threaten the security of its citizens. In a thoughtful retrospective, one author reminds us of the continuing struggle of the civil rights movement to bring to life the concepts of equality and due process, which form the core of our collective and individual freedoms. It is my honor to distill, in this introduction, the lessons embodied in the penetrating and thought-provoking pieces that comprise this volume.

Tyranny Of The Available: Under-Represented Topics, Approaches, And Viewpoints, Katherine Topulos, Marci Hoffman

Faculty Scholarship

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The Case For "Thinking Like A Filmaker": Using Lars Von Trier's Dogville As A Model For Writing A Statement Of Facts, Elyse Pepper

Faculty Publications

Part I of this Article introduces movies as a persuasive medium. Part II examines the value of movies as teaching tools in the law school context. Part III breaks down the movie Dogville and demonstrates how it might be used to create two Statements of Facts in a fictionalized criminal case. Part IV recaps the lessons learned from using a film as a model for fact writing.

Have You Seen The New Library Bar?: Designing A Legal Research Toolbar, Jennifer L. Wondracek

UF Law Faculty Publications

It seems like more and more people today are selecting their legal research results based on ease of access rather than the completeness of the results. After hearing one too many third-year law students say "I researched my entire paper on Google," I set off to create a tool that would satisfy both the desire for speed and the need for complete and authoritative research results. The tool is a legal research toolbar that integrates into a web browser and provides constant and quick access to library-sanctioned websites and databases. This paper walks readers through the design process of the …

Letter From The Editor, Michael Delgado

St. Thomas Law Review

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 20, Issue 1, Fall 2007.

Empiricism And International Law: Insights For Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution, Susan Franck

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

While scholars in the United States increasingly focus on the empirical dimension of legal scholarship, there have been challenges in using empiricism to explore international legal issues. Rather than relying on logic or instinct alone, empirical methodologies can provide scholars with tools to gain new facts, see existing ideas through a different lens, and engage in a more nuanced analysis of international law phenomena. There appears to be a natural synergy between empiricism and international investment treaty dispute resolution. With calls for trade time outs by U.S. presidential candidates, there is interest in how investment treaties function, whether they achieve …

2006 Animal-Law Related Articles, Brett Cattani

Animal Law Review

Animal Law is pleased to introduce as a new annual feature a bibliography of animal law-related articles published in law reviews and law journals during the previous year. For ease of reference, each article has been placed into a relevant category and each category provides a non-exhaustive list of potential topic examples. Some articles may appear in more than one category. Although we have made every effort to be as comprehensive as possible and present a complete listing of 2006 articles, this list may not be all-inclusive. We hope this compilation will serve as a useful resource in exploring contemporary …

Law And Technology Podcasts, Roger V. Skalbeck

Law Faculty Publications

This article lists a select handful of useful podcasts covering topics such as technology policy, law, and web development.

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 18, Issue 3, Spring 2006.

Legal Writing Programs And Professionalism: Legal Writing Professors Can Join The Academic Club, James M. Boland

St. Thomas Law Review

Sociological jurisprudence has been a major factor in legal interpretive schemes for over a century, but this has not been reflected in most legal writing programs. These programs must produce legal writers who not only are competent writers, but are also competent legal theorists who know the difference between classical rule-based reasoning and modem interpretive methods. Concomitantly, legal writing professors must produce scholarship that reflects the diversity of these more complex schemes, rather than just writing about writing. This article will first describe the current condition of legal writing programs, and then suggest changes that more thoroughly introduce students to …

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 19, Issue 2, Winter 2006.

North Carolina Colonial Legal Materials, Scott Childs, Melanie J. Dunshee

Book Chapters

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North Carolina Colonial Legal Materials, Scott Childs, Melanie J. Dunshee

Law Library Faculty Scholarship

Published as a chapter in Prestatehood legal materials: a fifty-state research guide, including New York City and the District of Columbia, edited by Michael G. Chiorazzi and Marguerite Most.

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 18, Issue 1, Fall 2005.

English As A Second Language - Or Why Lawyers Can't Write, H P. Southerland

St. Thomas Law Review

For more than thirty years I've spent a lot of time reading bad writing. By bad writing, I mean writing that fails of its essential purpose-so flawed in concept or execution that it can hardly inform, much less persuade. The writing is the sort that lawyers are routinely expected to produce: briefs, judicial opinions, essays dealing with law-related subjects, and the like. What I see, for the most part, is the writing of second- and third-year law students, the vast majority of whom graduate and enter upon a lifetime career as lawyers.' They take with them for tomorrow the writing …

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 18, Issue 2, Winter 2005.

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St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 17, Issue 3, Spring 2005.

The Rise And Fall Of American Legal Education, Richard A. Matasar

NYLS Law Review

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Introduction: A Good Idea, Mark L. Movsesian

Faculty Publications

With this volume, the editors of the Hofstra Law Review introduce a new section: "Ideas." "Ideas" will serve as the vehicle for short pieces—from three to ten pages in length and having a minimal number of footnotes—on topics of interest to scholars and practitioners. There will be no subject-matter restrictions and no requirement that the pieces relate to one another. "Ideas" will not be a symposium, but a collection of brief observations on important legal questions. The editors hope to attract submissions from the academy and from prominent members of the bench and bar as well.

The inauguration of this …