Legal Education Commons^™

Challenging The Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy: A Discussion With Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director Of The Aclu's Immigrants' Rights Project, Cardozo Public Service Scholars Program, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy, Cardozo Center For Rights And Justice

2018 Event Invitations

No abstract provided.

Law School News: Appeals Court Hears Labor Arguments At Roger Williams University School Of Law 10-2-2018, Katie Mulvaney, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Cooperation And Turnover In Law Faculties: A Game-Theoretic Model And An Empirical Study, Shi-Ling Hsu

Scholarly Publications

A standard account of group cooperation would predict that group stability would bring about greater cooperation because repeat-play games would allow for sanctions and rewards. In an academic unit such as a department or a law faculty, one might thus expect that faculty stability would bring about greater cooperation. However, academic units are not like most other groups. Tenured professors face only limited sanctions for failing to cooperate, for engaging in unproductive conflict, or for shirking. This article argues counter-intuitively that within limits, some level of faculty turnover may enhance cooperation. Certainly, excessive and persistent loss of faculty is demoralizing, …

Priming The Pump: How Pipeline Programs Seek To Enhance Legal Education Diversity, Accesslex Institute

AccessLex Institute Research

AccessLex Institute has developed this research brief to provide an overview of legal education pipeline programs in the U.S. – the channel by which we, as stakeholders in legal education, can improve access to law school. The prevalence of these programs and their components are discussed in detail. The brief also takes preliminary steps towards assessing their impact and effectiveness. The immediate goal is to provide useful information to aspiring students, their advisors, and others concerned about legal education diversity. The ultimate goals for future research are to identify components shared by the most effective and impactful pipeline programs, and …

Kukin Program Newsletter – Fall 2018, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution

Kukin Program Newsletters

The Kukin Program Newsletter – Fall 2018 celebrates the achievements and recent activities of the Kukin Program, including faculty updates and notable events. Highlights include Professor Lela Porter Love’s recognition as a top global thought leader in mediation, an in-depth program on the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" featuring insights from Colonel Linell A. Letendre, and Leymah Gbowee’s International Advocate for Peace Award. Professor Donna Erez-Navot shares her expertise in mediation for estate disputes, and there’s a spotlight on impactful alumni and faculty contributions, including recent publications and student successes.

William & Mary Law School Clinic News (Fall), William & Mary Law School

William & Mary Law School Clinical Program Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Law 'Reviews'? The Changing Roles Of Law Schools And The Publications They Sponsor, Leslie Francis

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

The current structure of law reviews is deeply problematic. It does not serve students, law faculty, or legal scholarship very well. There is much to learn from the early development and changes in law reviews over the years to inform law schools as they reevaluate the role of their journals in the education they provide their students and in the lives of their faculty.

Scènes À Faire As Identity Trait Stereotyping, Jasmine C. Abdel-Khalik

Faculty Works

Judge Learned Hand's decision in Nichols v. Universal Pictures is unquestionably seminal in the development of copyright law. For the first time, a court articulated that stock characters, a form of scènes à faire, are so fundamental that all should have access. Therefore, a stock character, like one defined simply as a butcher with a cleaver and in a white coat, is not copyright protectable material.

However, the specific stock characters identified by Judge Hand raise some previously unexplored questions. The decision identifies two stock characters: "the low comedy Jew and Irishman." What exactly is “the low comedy Jew and …

Externship Assessment Project: An Empirical Study Of Supervisor Evaluations Of Extern Work Performance, Jodi S. Balsam, Margaret Reuter

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Holy Grail? Designing And Teaching An Integrated Doctrine And Drafting Course, Claire C. Robinson May

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

I’ve long considered teaching doctrine and skills together in a single course to be the holy grail of legal education. If we could do so successfully, we might make significant strides in providing a legal education that better prepares our students to be practicing lawyers. In spring 2016, my colleague Professor April Cherry and I took the plunge and collaboratively offered a course titled Estates and Trusts: Doctrine and Drafting at our institution, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. This essay describes our experience and lessons learned pursuing the holy grail.

October 2018 Newsletter

Ergo

No abstract provided.

Fall 2018 Magazine

Ergo

No abstract provided.

The Indelible Mark Of Plagiarism: Why Is It So Difficult To Make It Stop?, Brenda D. Gibson

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Generation Z Goes To Law School: Teaching And Reaching Law Students In The Post-Millennial Generation, Laura P. Graham

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 55, No. 07 (October 1, 2018)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Collaboration With Doctrinal Faculty To Introduce Creac, Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky

Articles

When legal writing professors introduce CREAC (or IRAC, TREAT, etc.), our examples necessarily use some area of substantive law to demonstrate how the pieces of legal analysis fit together. And when we ask students to try drafting a CREAC analysis, they also have to learn the relevant substantive law first. Students might be asked to analyze whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor or whether the elements of a tort claim are satisfied. But that means that students need to learn the relevant substantive doctrine while they are also grappling with the basics of CREAC. In the language …

A Structural Approach To Case Synthesis, Fact Application, And Persuasive Framing Of The Law, Lara Gelbwasser Freed, Joel Atlas

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Lawyering-skills courses, although typically writing-focused, address a wide array of topics. Indeed, to prepare an effective legal document, students must not only write well but analyze well. And, although teaching the pure-writing aspects of the course is certainly a challenge, teaching the analysis-related skills is often the most difficult.

Among the thorniest of these skills are synthesizing cases, applying facts, and persuasively framing the law. Professors struggle to teach these skills, and students consistently struggle to understand and implement them. To lighten the burden for both professors and students, we have approached these skills structurally and, in doing so, have …

The Need To Revisit Legal Education In An Era Of Increased Diagnoses Of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity And Autism Spectrum Disorders, Heidi E. Ramos-Zimmerman

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

The ever-fluctuating rhetoric from experts, in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders, has led to outdated notions and perplexity surrounding attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This Article tries to clarify some of the confusion. Better understanding of these disorders is imperative for today’s law professor, since law schools are likely admitting more students diagnosed with ADHD and ASD. This Article discusses the need for change in legal instruction and explores the link between the two disorders. An examination of recent history illuminates some of the commonly held misunderstandings and highlights the disparity in the diagnoses of ADHD …

The Byu Advocate, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The BYU Advocate (& Annual Reports)

"What impresses me is that BYU Law is putting significant effort into thinking about innovation, not just for innovation's sake, but to better prepare its students for an increasingly complex and unpredictable world." – Robert Ambrogi

Are Universities Schools? The Case For Continuity In The Regulation Of Student Speech, Chad Flanders

All Faculty Scholarship

Are universities schools? The question seems almost silly to ask: o f course universities are schools. They have teachers and students, like schools. They have grades, like schools. There are classes and extracurricular activities, also like schools. But recent writings on the issue of ₀₄ free speech on campus" have raised the improbable specter that universities are less educational institutions than they are public forums like parks and sidewalks, where a free-wheeling exchange o f ideas and opinions takes place, unrestricted by any sense of academic mission or school disciplinc.¹ Some of this rhetoric is of course exaggerated, and …