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The Myth Of Meritocracy, And The Silencing Of Minority Voices: The Need For Diversity On America's Law Reviews, Mark A. Godsey

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This Article is aimed primarily at guiding current law review members through a process that explores the real purposes of law reviews. Part II discusses the two primary responsibilities of law reviews and the effect that a lack of minority participation has on a review's ability to meet these responsibilities. Specifically, section IIA explores a law review's responsibility to serve as an advanced legal writing course for students. This section questions whether it is legitimate for law reviews to use selection procedure that consistently exclude certain races from this part of the curriculum. Section IIB discusses a law journal's responsibility …

1994 John Marshall National Moot Court Competition In Information And Privacy Law: Brief For The Petitioner, 13 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 505 (1995), Jeffrey Gold, Anne Gurnsey, Joseph Horzepa

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

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1994 John Marshall National Moot Court Competition In Information And Privacy Law: Brief For The Respondent, 13 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 537 (1995), Candyce Beneke, Ursual Hall, Pam Rea

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

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Teach-In Reflections: Past, Present And Future, Gail Partin

Faculty Scholarly Works

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The Top Fives: An Internet Pathfinder For Law Librarians, Yolanda Patrice Jones

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Many law librarians are currently beginning to explore the Internet as a source of legal information. One of the most frequently asked questions after one gets an Internet connection is "Where do I go from here?" The following pathfinder is a list of what I consider to be the most important resources which will lead the legal researcher to the widest possible amount of legal information on the Internet.

This list is purely subjective, and certainly not complete. I tried to stick to the 'top five' format as much as possible, but every so often I couldn't help myself from …

Law And Linguistics: Is There Common Ground?, William D. Popkin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Hiv/Aids Health Care Industry Liability: An Annotated Bibliography, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 513 (1994), John R. Austin

UIC Law Review

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Patents And The Jeffersonian Mythology, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 269 (1995), Edward C. Walterscheid

UIC Law Review

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Designing And Teaching Advanced Legal Research And Writing Courses, Lucia A. Silecchia

Scholarly Articles

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Our Perspective On Irac, Christina L. Kunz, Deborah A. Schmedemann

Faculty Scholarship

In this brief article, the authors present their view of IRAC, an acronym for Issue, Relevant law, Application to facts, and Conclusion. The authors conclude that IRAC can be taught so that students understand not only why it is useful as a thinking and writing tool, but also that proper use of it requires judgment and creativity. When IRAC is presented this way, the authors assert, it can serve first-year students well as they study legal writing. And they will operate accordingly, even without being aware of its influence, during their years as practicing lawyers.

Feature: Learning The Practical Side Of Scholarship

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

For generations, law students have enhanced their education by working on a law journal. In addition to honing their writing, research, and analytical skills, they learn valuable life lessons about working with all kinds of people, motivating others, meeting deadlines,and handling the details involved with printing and mailing a tangible product. Of course, as a sign of good grades, hard work, and strong writing ability, hournal experience gives students a leg up in the job market, and it's a critical first step to a scholarly career.

Learning By Doing - Preparing Law Students For The Practice Of Law: The Legal Practicum, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock

Faculty Scholarship

The MacCrate Report outlined ten skills that are essential for every practicing attorney and should ideally be taught in every law school. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) concluded that these ten skills cannot be effectively obtained through every law school curriculum because of each school's individual, economic limitations. This article demonstrates how one law school—William Mitchell College of Law, in St. Paul, Minnesota—has , since 1984, incorporated a cost effective Legal Practicum course into its curriculum to help meet the MacCrate Report goal of providing the law student with the opportunity to learn and apply fundamental lawyering skills. …

Empirical Legal Scholarship: Reestablishing A Dialogue Between The Academy And Profession, Craig Allen Nard

Faculty Publications

Should legal academics begin to engage in a greater degree of empirical scholarship, I believe that the gap between law schools and the profession will not only cease to distend, but actually will begin to contract. If what I assert is true, or even partially true, the question remains: Why is there such a paucity of empirical legal scholarship?

Part I of this article discusses the importance and value of the empirical method and empirical scholarship by briefly exploring the philosophy of Pragmatism and its influence on the law. Thereafter, part II explores why legal academics do not engage in …

Books Received, Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law

List of books received by the Journal.

Manuscript Selection Anti-Manifesto, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Joining a conversation begun by James Lindgren, An Author's Manifesto, 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 527 (1994), Prof. Tobias discusses the process of submission, review, and editorial work on articles published in student-edited law reviews.

An Author's Manifesto (Manifesto) constructively criticizes the amazingly arcane process of law review publication and affords salient suggestions for its improvement. The essay treats two aspects of this process-the selection of manuscripts and the editing of articles which sustain that venerable institution: student-edited law journals. Manifesto regales readers with many terrible tales of travesties which involve article editing but recounts comparatively few sordid stories that …

Writing To Learn Business Law, Robert B. Bennett, William K. Templeton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

Robert Bennett and William Templeton's contribution to Journal of Legal Studies Education, vol. 13, 2.

The Reports Of The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, Joel Fishman

Law Faculty Publications

The history of court reporting in Pennsylvania dates from the early days of the Republic and the establishment of Pennsylvania as a Commonwealth. Mr. Fishman helps to document that history by reviewing the publication of the reports of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from the early nominative reports of the mid-eighteenth century to the present. A bibliography is appended.

Reflections Of Irac, Chris Iijima, Beth Cohen

Faculty Scholarship

The Authors discuss IRAC as a tool to help students provide structure to legal analysis. Students use this tool not only in writing objective and persuasive memos and briefs, but also in writing answers to examination questions. The Authors give their comments, highlighted by the “Point/Counterpoint,” which present a wide range of views on the efficacy of this tool.

The Top Fives: An Internet Pathfinder For Law Librarians, Yolanda Patrice Jones

Journal Publications

Many law librarians are currently beginning to explore the Internet as a source of legal information. One of the most frequently asked questions after one gets an Interet connection is "Where do I go from here?" The following pathfinder is a list of what I consider to be the most important resources which will lead the legal researcher to the widest possible amount of legal information on the Internet. This list is purely subjective, and certainly not complete. I tried to stick to the 'top five' format as much as possible, but every so often I couldn't help myself from …

Migration: A Natural Growth Process For Libraries (Part Two Of Two), Georgia Briscoe

Publications

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Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, And The Fight For Women's Rights, Melvin I. Urofsky

University of Richmond Law Review

One of the more interesting, and at times more strident, debates in recent years is between a faction of the feminist coalition, proposing new and harsher methods of eliminating pornography and of punishing those who produce and purvey it, and civil libertarians, including many other feminists, who oppose such measures primarily on First Amendment grounds. The debate extends well beyond the cloistered halls of academe, and is far from arcane or hypothetical.

Reflections Of Irac, Beth Cohen, Chris Iijima

Media Presence

The authors agree that IRAC provides a good starting point to explain the components of legal argument. It requires students to present a good, clear statement of law, a clear and affirmative statement of the issue, an articulation of applicable rules, an analysis and an application of facts to rules of law, and a statement of the ultimate conclusion or prediction. These elements are essential components of good legal writing that should be contained in all good and thorough legal writing from inter-office memoranda and persuasive court briefs to law school exams.

Profiling Minority Law Librarians: A Report On The 1992-93 Survey, Dwight B. King, Rhea A-L Ballard, Helena Lai, Grace M. Mills

Journal Articles

The authors present a demographic and professional profile of AALL minority law librarian members based upon responses to a detailed survey that elicited information about work experience and skills, professional activities and participation, and career aspirations. The results lead the authors to suggest some recruitment strategies to increase diversity in law librarianship and the level of minority participation in AALL.

Instilling An Appreciation Of Legal Ethics And Professional Responsibility In First-Year Legal Research And Writing Courses, Beth Cohen

Faculty Scholarship

The Author suggests that the First-year legal research and writing classes provide the logical forum to remind students of the importance of honesty and integrity both to their work and to the profession and to society as a whole. The Author believes that teachers would do well to take advantage of this unique opportunity to provide such lessons early and often and more importantly, as part of the regular legal research and writing curriculum.

What's An Opinion For? (Special Issue: Judicial Opinion Writing), James Boyd White

Articles

The question the papers in this Special Issue address is whether it matters how judicial opinions are written, and if so why. My hope here is to suggest a way of elaborating the ques­tion that may provide the reader with a useful point of departure for reading the more extensive papers that follow.

Migration: A Natural Growth Process For Libraries (Part One Of Two), Georgia Briscoe

Publications

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Why Not A Shared Database For Legal Serial Patterns?, Georgia K. Briscoe

Publications

Just as bibliographic records are shared by law libraries through a national database, serial publication pattern data could also be shared. The author presents a history of the movement toward such a database and offers a specific proposal for its creation.

Politically Incorrect, Jeffrey S. Kinsler

Law Faculty Scholarship

Review of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company. 1994. 79 pp. $8.95.

Requests For Admission In Wisconsin Procedure: Civil Litigation's Double-Edged Sword, Jeffrey S. Kinsler

Law Faculty Scholarship

Requests for admission are the most effective, but least utilized, form of discovery. Interrogatories, document production requests and depositions are routinely used in civil litigation, but as few as ten percent of attorneys use requests for admission. Admissions have the potential to simplify legal and factual issues, expedite civil litigation, and reduce costs for clients, lawyers and taxpayers. Requests for admission have proven to be an effective discovery device in many types of civil actions,and nothing expedites discovery and brings the litigation to a head faster than requests for admission. Despite such enormous potential, Wisconsin trial lawyers have been extremely …

Babies, Bathwater, And Law Reviews, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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