Law & Lawyering In The Work Place: Building Better Lawyers By Teaching Students To Exercise Critical Judgment As Creative Problem Solver,
2015
The University of Akron
Law & Lawyering In The Work Place: Building Better Lawyers By Teaching Students To Exercise Critical Judgment As Creative Problem Solver, Alan M. Lerner
Akron Law Review
This article is about the evolution of that course from the earliest planning through its presentation. Hopefully, having the two of us involved in the day-to-day teaching of the course would send the message to our students that collaboration was a positive aspect of the learning and lawyering processes. Additionally, we hoped that the students would see that “academic” and “clinical” faculty are partners in their legal education.
Disabilities, Law Schools, And Law Students: A Proactive And Holistic Approach,
2015
The University of Akron
Disabilities, Law Schools, And Law Students: A Proactive And Holistic Approach, Kevin H. Smith
Akron Law Review
The understandable and laudable desire of law schools to comply with federal laws and regulations forbidding discrimination against, and requiring the provision of reasonable accommodations to, qualified disabled law students has diverted attention from the range of disabilities possessed by law students and the spectrum of issues raised by disabled students in law school. This article is intended to serve as a starting point and a means to stimulate the needed examination and discussion.
The Zen Of Grading,
2015
The University of Akron
The Zen Of Grading, Ruthann Robson
Akron Law Review
As law professors, we spend a substantial amount of time engaged in the activity of reviewing exams, papers, and other “evaluative devices” with the purpose of assigning our students grades. Personally, I estimate that I have spent over four thousand hours (almost six months of days and nights, or a year of long summer days) hunched over student work during my teaching career. It can be difficult not to consider student exams as a mere obstacle, a chore of the most unpleasant type to endure, and the worst part of our otherwise usually rewarding work as professors. Grading law school …
The Zombie Lawyer Apocalypse,
2015
Pepperdine University
The Zombie Lawyer Apocalypse, Peter H. Huang, Corie Rosen Felder
Pepperdine Law Review
This article uses a popular cultural framework to address the near-epidemic levels of depression, decision-making errors, and professional dissatisfaction that studies document are prevalent among many law students and lawyers today. Zombies present an apt metaphor for understanding and contextualizing the ills now common in the American legal and legal education systems. To explore that metaphor and its import, this article will first establish the contours of the zombie literature and will apply that literature to the existing state of legal education and legal practice — ultimately describing a state that we believe can only be termed “the Zombie Lawyer …
The Modern University And Its Law School: Hierarchical, Bureaucratic Structures Replace Coarchical, Collegial Ones; Women Disappear From Tenure Track And Reemerge As Caregivers: Tenure Disappears Or Becomes Unrecognizable,
2015
The University of Akron
The Modern University And Its Law School: Hierarchical, Bureaucratic Structures Replace Coarchical, Collegial Ones; Women Disappear From Tenure Track And Reemerge As Caregivers: Tenure Disappears Or Becomes Unrecognizable, Marina Angel
Akron Law Review
Recent changes in the organizational structure of law schools and universities have not been positive from the perspective of all women and men of color, the last hired. Tenured positions are disappearing rapidly and the nature of those that remain is changing drastically. Organizational structures are becoming more hierarchical, with women at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Tenure: Endangered Or Evolutionary Species,
2015
The University of Akron
Tenure: Endangered Or Evolutionary Species, James J. Fishman
Akron Law Review
This article will review some of the challenges to the system of academic tenure: the efforts to reform, curtail, or eliminate it. It will discuss exogenous factors undermining the institution and then suggest some areas where tenure should evolve, particularly focusing upon academic tenure in legal education. The author argues that the hierarchical structure of traditionally tenured faculty and other faculty, clinicians, and legal writing professors, employed on short or long-term contracts, has undermined academic freedom and tenure.
The Corporatization Of Academic Research: Whose Interests Are Served?,
2015
The University of Akron
The Corporatization Of Academic Research: Whose Interests Are Served?, Risa L. Lieberwitz
Akron Law Review
The following article is the text of a speech given at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in January 2005, which has been edited and footnoted for publication in the Akron Law Review.
Forty-Two: The Hitchiker's Guide To Teaching Legal Research To The Google Generation,
2015
The University of Akron
Forty-Two: The Hitchiker's Guide To Teaching Legal Research To The Google Generation, Ian Gallacher
Akron Law Review
This article is a meditation on contemporary legal research and possible changes in the way the subject should be taught. Absent from this article is any mention of the importance of teaching students about the mechanical workings of the various tools lawyers use to conduct legal research. It seems so resoundingly obvious that law schools should be doing this that any discussion of the issue would appear contrived and sterile. The much more interesting, and more difficult, questions to answer are what else law students should learn, who should teach it to them, and why they should learn it. These …
The Dubitante Opinion,
2015
The University of Akron
The Dubitante Opinion, Jason J. Czarnezki
Akron Law Review
This short Essay endeavors to shed some light on the use of the term dubitante in judicial opinions and spark discussion as to the merits of the dubitante opinion—What is a dubitante opinion? When was the term first used, and how often is the term used? Who uses it and how? What are the consequences of its use?
Festschrift For Michelle Simon,
2015
Pace University
Festschrift For Michelle Simon, Harriet R. Feldman
Pace Law Review
While Interim Provost, one of the outstanding ideas Michelle came to me with was to establish the Pace Community Law Practice. The practice would have a dual mission, to employ and continue to build the skills of a select group of graduates and to provide quality, affordable legal services to individuals in need. In view of the employment situation overall and specifically as it affected those new to the profession of law, I thought this was a great idea. I quickly gave my endorsement to move forward. This has become a respectable operation and one that has great merit for …
Festschrift For Dean Simon,
2015
Pace University School of Law
Festschrift For Dean Simon, Leslie Garfield, Audrey Rogers
Pace Law Review
We write together about our dear friend Michelle Simon because of her enormous contribution to our professional and personal lives. Working with someone who becomes more than a colleague, but a friend as well, is a special gift. Michelle not only paved our path, she became a trail blazer in legal education. The professional trajectory of Michelle Simon speaks volumes to her talent, tenacity, and consensus building skills.
A Triumphant Day In Pace Law School’S History: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’S November 12, 2012 Visit To Our Campus,
2015
Pace University School of Law
A Triumphant Day In Pace Law School’S History: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’S November 12, 2012 Visit To Our Campus, Emily Gold Waldman
Pace Law Review
“Read through and then we can discuss. Don’t forward to anyone,” stated a March 2012 e-mail from Dean Emeritus Michelle Simon to me. The e-mail’s subject line was unremarkable – “FW: Your Pace Visit” – but its actual subject was anything but: Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had officially agreed to visit Pace Law School. It was time for intensive planning to begin. The fruition of that planning – Justice Sotomayor’s full-day visit to our campus on November 12, 2012, the first-ever visit of a Supreme Court Justice to Pace Law School – was a wonderful highlight of Michelle’s …
A Dean For All Seasons,
2015
Pace University School of Law
A Dean For All Seasons, Steven H. Goldberg
Pace Law Review
The average tenure of a law school dean in the United States is three years, in large part because the task is both eclectic and difficult. Michelle Simon, the longest tenured Dean at our law school, was able to surpass that average because she was a dean for all seasons: Leadership and care of faculty; attention to student concerns; financial acumen; curricular relevance; keeping the day-to-day operation of a multi-faceted institution on track; maintaining a close but arms-length relationship with the university; and managing external relations on all fronts.
Festschrift For Dean Simon,
2015
Pace University School of Law
Festschrift For Dean Simon, Jay C. Carlisle
Pace Law Review
Others in the Festschrift will list Dean Simon’s many decanal accomplishments and initiatives, and I join them in their praise. I understand and accept the principle that law school faculty should be primarily engaged in teaching and scholarship, but I will always remember Dean Simon’s commitment to encouraging and supporting faculty involvement in outreach activities that benefit legal reform, the bench and bar, and the citizens of our community and state. I hope her successors will continue her outreach work and wish my old friend and valued colleague Dean Michelle Simon many more years of professional success and personal happiness.
Facing The Klieg Lights: Understanding The "Good Moral Character" Examiniaton For Bar Applicants,
2015
The University of Akron
Facing The Klieg Lights: Understanding The "Good Moral Character" Examiniaton For Bar Applicants, Aaron M. Clemens
Akron Law Review
This Article aims to help secure compliance with each bar’s standards by revealing the typical reasoning behind these rules, as well as how to comply with them. Part II of this Article describes the inception and evolution of the character requirement. Part III outlines the issues that the bar examines to discern character. Part IV proposes methods for applicants to deal with problems areas. Part V contains closing remarks. The best advice for any applicant with concern regarding admission is to contact an attorney familiar with the bar admission process in the targeted jurisdiction. Because “[c]haracter is much easier kept …
Competing With Delaware: Recent Amendments To Ohio's Corporate Statutes,
2015
The University of Akron
Competing With Delaware: Recent Amendments To Ohio's Corporate Statutes, David Porter
Akron Law Review
House Bill 301 is evolutionary, not revolutionary, in its content, but its changes are nonetheless significant for Ohio corporations and their lawyers. To place these changes in context, this article summarizes corporate statutory developments since 1997 that highlight Ohio’s previous initiatives to keep up with Delaware, America’s dominant state of incorporation, and then discusses at greater length the recent amendments contained in House Bill 301, concluding with a look ahead at some additional changes that may occur as early as this year.
Do Law Schools Mistreat Women Faculty? Or, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?,
2015
The University of Akron
Do Law Schools Mistreat Women Faculty? Or, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Dan Subotnik
Akron Law Review
How much fire, if any, is there to charges, first leveled more than fifteen years ago and continuing today, that a harsh law school culture oppresses women faculty? As Martha Chamallas, a well-known feminist law critic, writes,—and perhaps professes in class as well—“[f]or both new and senior women law professors, gender bias is still a major fact of life.”... After evaluating the complaints against law schools, which I spell out below—and renouncing any presumption in my favor—I conclude, unindignantly, that the charges are almost entirely unproven...The principal charges leveled against the male establishment in terms of hiring, retention and promotion …
In Memoriam Professor Malina Coleman (1954-2009),
2015
The University of Akron
In Memoriam Professor Malina Coleman (1954-2009)
Akron Law Review
Article about and written in memory of Professor Malina Coleman.
Can Law Students Disrupt The Market For High-Priced Textbooks?,
2015
University of Washington School of Law
Can Law Students Disrupt The Market For High-Priced Textbooks?, Jane K. Winn
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance legal education through technological innovation and collaboration. With its eLangdell Press project, CALI publishes American law school textbooks in open access, royalty-free form, offering faculty authors compensation equivalent to what most law school textbook authors would earn in royalties from a traditional full-price publisher. I am writing a new sales textbook and “agreements supplement” based on contemporary business practice that I will publish in open access form with CALI’s eLangdell Press. Relatively few other American legal academics publish in open access form, however, suggesting …
Creac In The Real World,
2015
University of Kentucky College of Law
Creac In The Real World, Diane B. Kraft
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article will examine the extent to which common legal writing paradigms such as CREAC are used by attorneys in the "real world" of practice when writing on the kinds of issues law students may encounter in the first-year legal writing classroom. To that end, it will focus on the analysis of two factor-based criminal law issues: whether a defendant was in custody and whether a defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy. In focusing on "first-year" issues, the article seeks not to examine whether organizational paradigms are used at all in legal analysis, but to discover whether and how …
