Sooner Lawyer, Fall 2014,
2014
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Legal Education Opens Door To International Careers,
2014
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Legal Education Opens Door To International Careers, Jonella Frank
Sooner Lawyer Archive
No abstract provided.
Sandra Day O'Connor Spends The Day At Ou,
2014
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Sandra Day O'Connor Spends The Day At Ou, Jonella Frank
Sooner Lawyer Archive
No abstract provided.
Class Notes,
2014
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Competitions Program Receives National Recognition,
2014
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Competitions Program Receives National Recognition, Jonella Frank
Sooner Lawyer Archive
No abstract provided.
Giving Highlights,
2014
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Five Steps To Successfully Developing A Law Practice Technology Course,
2014
Cornell Law Library
Five Steps To Successfully Developing A Law Practice Technology Course, Femi Cadmus
Cornell Law Librarians' Publications
No abstract provided.
Reasonable Accommodations On The Bar Exam: Leveling The Playing Field Or Providing An Unfair Advantage?,
2014
Nova Southeastern University - Shepard Broad College of Law
Reasonable Accommodations On The Bar Exam: Leveling The Playing Field Or Providing An Unfair Advantage?, Amanda M. Foster
Faculty Scholarship
If you ask law students what they think about examination accommodations provided to students with disabilities, including learning disabilities, most students will tell you that it is unfair that some students get more time to take an examination. The misconception that accommodations provide an unfair advantage may stem from the fact that not all students understand the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), its purpose, and the reasons why individuals receive such accommodations. In fact, the ADA has applications beyond the employment context. Specifically, the ADA ensures that students with disabilities who graduate "from medical school, law school, and other professional …
"Practice Ready Graduates": A Millennialist Fantasy,
2014
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
"Practice Ready Graduates": A Millennialist Fantasy, Robert J. Condlin
Faculty Scholarship
The sky is falling on legal education say the pundits, and preparing “practice ready” graduates is one of the best strategies for surviving the fallout. This is a millennialist version of the argument for clinical legal education that dominated discussion in the law schools in the 1960s and 1970s. The circumstances are different now, as are the people calling for reform, but the two movements are alike in one respect: both view skills training as legal education’s primary purpose. Everything else is a frolic and detour, and a fatal frolic and detour in hard times such as the present.
No …
Contemporary Trusts And Estates - An Experiential Approach,
2014
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Contemporary Trusts And Estates - An Experiential Approach, Jerome Borison, Naomi R. Cahn, Susan N. Gary, Paula A. Monopoli
Faculty Scholarship
In this essay in a special issue dedicated to teaching trusts and estates, the co-authors of Contemporary Trusts & Estates: An Experiential Approach (2d. ed. Aspen 2014) reflect on how the teaching of trusts and estates can integrate policy, practice, doctrine, and centuries of tradition. They describe the genesis of their problem-based casebook and the influence of the Carnegie Report on their choice of pedagogic framework. Each of the co-authors embraced the fundamental principles advocated by the Carnegie Report, which counsels that legal education should integrate “theoretical and practical legal knowledge and professional identity.” This essay goes on to outline …
The Status Gap: Female Faculty In The Legal Academy,
2014
University of Maryland School of Law
The Status Gap: Female Faculty In The Legal Academy, Paula A. Monopoli
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Lights! Camera! Law School?: Using Video Interviews To Enhance First Semester Writing Assignments,
2014
Syracuse University College of Law
Lights! Camera! Law School?: Using Video Interviews To Enhance First Semester Writing Assignments, Ian Gallacher
College of Law - Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Curricular Limitations, Cost Pressures, And Stratification In Legal Education: Are Bold Reforms In Short Supply?,
2014
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Curricular Limitations, Cost Pressures, And Stratification In Legal Education: Are Bold Reforms In Short Supply?, Nora V. Demleitner
Scholarly Articles
Many critics of legal education and reformers alike demand "bold reforms," though so far most change seems restricted to haphazard modifications of the curriculum, the hope for quick fixes, and a focus on shedding staff and faculty to balance budgets with a smaller student body. Whether those changes alone amount to bold action, defined as "not afraid of danger or difficult situations; showing or needing confidence or lack of fear; very confident in a way that may seem rude or foolish," is questionable. Curricular changes may merely camouflage or even detract from the crucial need to strategically rethink cost structures, …
Surgeons Or Scribes? The Role Of United States Court Of Appeals Law Clerks In "Appellate Triage",
2014
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Surgeons Or Scribes? The Role Of United States Court Of Appeals Law Clerks In "Appellate Triage", Todd C. Peppers, Micheal W. Giles, Bridget Tainer-Parkins
Scholarly Articles
Using original survey data, we explore how federal courts of appeals judges select and use their law clerks—a question that we answered in an earlier article about federal district court clerks. As with that first article, we do not intend to tackle such normative issues as whether courts of appeals law clerks possess too much influence over the judicial process or whether the selection criteria used by these judges is appropriate. What we will present, however, is descriptive data on the criteria that courts of appeals judges use to pick their law clerks as well as the tasks assigned to …
Judicial Assistants Or Junior Judges: The Hiring, Utilization, And Influence Of Law Clerks,
2014
Marquette University
Judicial Assistants Or Junior Judges: The Hiring, Utilization, And Influence Of Law Clerks, Chad Oldfather, Todd C. Peppers
Scholarly Articles
Law clerks have been part of the American judicial system since 1882, when Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray hired a young Harvard Law School graduate named Thomas Russell to serve as his assistant. Justice Gray paid for his law clerks out of his own pocket until Congress authorized funds for the hiring of “stenographic clerks” in 1886. The Gray law clerks, however, were not mere stenographers. Justice Gray assigned them a host of legal and non-legal job duties. His clerks discussed the record and debated the attendant legal issues with Justice Gray prior to oral argument, conducted legal research, and …
New Maurer Dean To Creat Buzz About School,
2014
Indiana Lawyer
New Maurer Dean To Creat Buzz About School, Marilyn Odendahl
Austen Parrish (2014-2022)
No abstract provided.
Meeting The Challenges Of Instructing International Law Graduate Students In Legal Research,
2014
Cornell Law Library
Meeting The Challenges Of Instructing International Law Graduate Students In Legal Research, Nina E. Scholtz, Femi Cadmus
Cornell Law Librarians' Publications
Teaching international LL.M. students legal research offers its own peculiar challenges. The brevity of the LL.M. program and the limited time available for thoroughly introducing basic research concepts have made it particularly difficult, but the innovative and creative methods of instruction highlighted in this article have provided good solutions.
One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum,
2014
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum, Sherri Lee Keene
Faculty Scholarship
Legal writing is more than an isolated practical skill or a law school course; it is a valuable tool for broadening and deepening law students’ and new attorneys’ knowledge and understanding of the law. If experienced legal professionals, both professors and practitioners alike, take a hard look back at their careers, many will no doubt remember how their work on significant legal writing projects advanced their own knowledge of the law and enhanced their professional competence. Legal writing practice helps the writer to gain expertise in a number of ways: first, the act of writing itself promotes learning; second, close …
The Ol’ Perfesser’S Guide For The First-Year Law Student,
2014
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
The Ol’ Perfesser’S Guide For The First-Year Law Student, Douglas Heidenreich
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Like Mark Twain: The Death Of Academic Law Libraries Is An Exaggeration,
2014
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Like Mark Twain: The Death Of Academic Law Libraries Is An Exaggeration, Kenneth J. Hirsh
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
At the 2013 CALI Conference on Law School Computing, Professor James Milles, professor and former library director of the SUNY Buffalo Law School, presented his draft paper positing that academic law libraries are doomed. The author presented his contrasting viewpoints in the same session. This paper is based on his presentation and has been updated to account for adoption of the revised law school accreditation standards approved by the ABA Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar in 2014. While the author agrees with the underlying observations set out by Professor Milles, he envisions a scenario where law …
