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John And June Mary Makdisi: An Intellectual And Moral Journey, Siegfried Wiessner, Roza Pati

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

John and June Mary Makdisi have been our friends and treasured colleagues for many a year. It is with exceptional delight that we present these lines and this volume of intellectual contributions of friends, in the global university tradition of an hommage, a Festschrift celebrating their professional and personal contributions to our St. Thomas Law family on the occasion of their retirement. This Festschrift is also a vessel of admiration, respect, gratitude, warm wishes and prayers for God's grace and blessings for the magic of their new journey.

Foundations: Curriculum & Faculty, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Michigan Law Faculty are the best of the best. As you look through these pages, you will see some of their accomplishments: They serve as senior advisers to policymakers and governments around the world, they argue important cases in courts of every level, and they produce superb research that addresses society's greatest problems.

Our faculty also take teaching very seriously. They are dedicated to using their research and experience to help create a curriculum that will challenge and transform you. Michigan Law's rich curriculum features foundational courses that evolve with the needs of the profession, a wide array of upper-level …

Office Hours Are Not Obsolete: Fostering Learning Through One-On-One Student Meetings, Deshun Harris

Duquesne Law Review

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Case Western University Law School Library: 125 Years, Joseph A. Custer

Faculty Publications

Professor Custer describes the first 125 years of the Case Western Law School Library’s history, including its collections, facilities, renovations, staff, budget, evolving research and automation technologies, contributions to legal instruction, and involvement with technological advances in the legal information community.

Law School In A Different Voice: Legal Education As A Work Of Mercy, Pamela A. Wilkins

Articles

What might it mean for a law school to share this Mercy charism? More broadly, what would it mean for a law school to share the spiritual DNA of a female order, seeing the world from historically female perspectives and motivated by historically female concerns? More broadly still, in this #metoo era, in which women make up the majority of American law students, should it simply be business as usual at religiously affiliated law schools, or should we seize the opportunity to consider seriously, and in the light of faith, women’s perspectives on legal education, law, and justice?

This article …

Conquering The Elephant, Wanda Temm

Book Chapters

This chapter in Beyond One L: Stories About Finding Meaning and Making a Difference in Law discusses the bar exam, the challenges and endurance required to pass, the role professors play in preparing their students, and personal stories of attorneys and their myriad journeys conquering this beast.

Beyond One L features stories that explore first, second, and third year experiences as well as stories beyond law school on subjects including taking the bar, searching for judicial clerkships, practicing law, and leaving law practice to become a teacher or judge.

Uniting The Head, Hands, And Heart: How Specialty Externships Can Combat Public Interest Drift, Alexi Freeman, Katherine Steefel

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Many students come to law school because they want to use their law degrees “for good,” to help people, have an impact on society, or create social change. As has been extensively documented, these plans often dissipate at some point during their three years. Public interest drift, as this phenomenon is commonly referred, is a crisis caused by numerous factors. It requires a full-fledged, multi-faceted effort to push back against it. In this article, we propose the development of public interest specialty externship programs as one tool to combat drift. These programs offer students the ability to extern at a …

Can Accessibility Liberate The "Lost Ark" Of Scholarly Work?: University Library Institutional Repositories Are "Places Of Public Accommodation”, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 327 (2019), Raizel Liebler, Gregory Cunningham

UIC Law Review

For any body of knowledge – an ark of power or a corpus of scholarship – to be studied and used by people, it needs to be accessible to those seeking information. Universities, through their libraries, now aim to make more of the scholarship produced available for free to all through institutional repositories. However, the goal of being truly open for an institutional repository is more than the traditional definition of open access. It also means openness in a more general sense. Creating a scholarship-based online space also needs to take into consideration potential barriers for people with disabilities. This …

Expanding And Strengthening Legal Clinical Education In Ukraine, Leah Wortham

Scholarly Articles

On June 21, 2017, I submitted a report to USAID Nove Pravosuddya Justice Sector Reform Program (New Justice) titled A Role for Regulations, Standards, Best Practices, and Monitoring in Building Strong Clinical Legal Education Programs. That report centered on an analysis of three documents: (1) the Draft Model Regulation on Legal Clinic of a Higher Educational Institution as posted by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science (MOE) on April 19, 2017; (2) the Standards for Legal Clinics Functioning in Ukraine developed by the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine (ALCU) (hereafter Standards); (3) a draft instrument to monitor …

Tenure Matters: The Anatomy Of Tenure And Academic Survival In American Legal Education, Stephen J. Leacock

Faculty Scholarship

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If International Law Is Not International, What Comes Next? On Anthea Roberts’ Is International Law International?, Rebecca Ingber

Faculty Scholarship

I am thrilled that the editors of the Boston University Law Review have chosen to review Anthea Roberts’ recent book, Is International Law International?, for their annual symposium. In order to answer the title’s question, Roberts develops a research project to scrutinize a world she knows well: the field of teaching international law, her colleagues, and their students. The result is a rigorous disaggregation of the multifarious ways that international law is taught across the globe, thus demonstrating the lack of universality in the study of international law.

Exploring The Role Of Emotions In Clinical Legal Education: Inquiry And Results From An International Workshop For Legal Educators, Catherine F. Klein, Kate Seear, Lisa Bliss, Paul Galowitz

Scholarly Articles

Clinical legal education provides a unique opportunity to engage with emotions. This article describes and reflects on an interactive workshop that examined the nature, meaning and significance of emotions in clinical legal education. Through a variety of incorporated staged activities, employing the teaching methods of scaffolding as well as backward design, participants explored aspects of the emotional dimensions of the relationships between clinical teachers/supervisors and their students, along with the relationship between students and their clients. Participants extracted ideas for how educators should approach emotions when they surface in legal clinics. This article provides a detailed overview regarding the rationale …

The Future Of Clinical Legal Scholarship, Michele E. Gilman

All Faculty Scholarship

The legal academy is questioning the future of legal scholarship given its costs and perceived disconnect from law practice. However, the future of clinical legal scholarship is typically left out of these debates, although it offers a powerful rejoinder to these recurring critiques – it is deeply engaged with real-world problems, and it has demonstrable impacts. In addition, clinical scholars are an overlooked conduit for disseminating scholarship outside the ivory tower. Doctrinal faculty are unaware how much clinical faculty can ensure their work has an impact beyond SSRN citation counts. As law schools consider how to implement the new accreditation …

Tribute To Judy Lipton, Ayesha B. Hardaway

Faculty Publications

Tribute to Judy Lipton

Can Mindfulness Help Law Students With Stress, Focus, And Well-Being: An Empirical Study Of 1ls At A Midwestern Law School, Richard C. Reuben, Kennon M. Sheldon

Faculty Publications

Recent calls for law students, lawyers, judges, and others in the legal profession to try mindfulness training to reduce stress and enhance wellbeing beg the question of whether mindfulness will "work" for those in the uniquely rigorous environment of law. There is no empirical research on mindfulness effects for lawyers - unlike the medical field, where research has found beneficial effects of mindfulness training for doctors, nurses, and other health care providers. To fill this gap in the literature, we conducted an empirical study of forty-seven first year, first semester law students at the University of Missouri School of Law …

Defusing Bullies, Heidi K. Brown

Faculty Scholarship

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The Three Ages Of Modern American Lawyering And The Current Crisis In The Legal Profession And Legal Education, Rachel F. Moran

Faculty Scholarship

During the first months of 2018, two short pieces on legal education were published. One reported on the results of a survey of college graduates, law school graduates, and holders of other advanced degrees. The study found that today’s law graduates were less likely than pre-recession counterparts to report that the J.D. degree was worth the cost and more likely to have second thoughts about the decision to go to law school. The findings prompted Aaron Taylor, executive director of the Access Lex Center for Legal Education Excellence, to conclude that there are “two distinct worlds of law graduates” made …

Growth And Mindset For A Generation As A Profession, Latisha Nixon-Jones

Scholarly Works

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Drawing Connections Between Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, And Legal Skills, Drew Simshaw

Scholarly Works

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Ringing Changes: Systems Thinking About Legal Licensing, Joan W. Howarth, Judith Welch Wegner

Scholarly Works

Part I examines core assumptions associated with licensing systems as well as associated ambiguities. In particular, it acknowledges multiple understandings about what “competence” is and differing assumptions about how to evaluate or measure it. Part I thus sets forth important predicates for our argument that only a multi-faceted licensing system can do what is needed in assuring minimal competence, and that not all forms of competence are best measured by traditional licensing examinations.

Part II raises the possibility of creating a post-first-year examination designed to assess critical thinking in the context of the first-year curriculum. It also considers ways in …