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Vol. 45, No. 08 (October 28, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Community College Consortium Promotes Open Educational Practices Through Outreach And Collaboration, Una T. Daly, Lisa Storm, Barbara Illowsky

SJSU Open Access Conference

The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a community of practice focused on awareness and promoting best practices for OER discovery and adoption including open textbooks, open MOOCs, and open repositories to enhance learning and teaching. Through monthly outreach webinars with OER leaders and online advisory meetings, the community shares their projects and expertise encouraging collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and higher education sectors. Hear from the consortium director and two leaders of the community college OER movement.

• Una Daly, Director of Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium. Building a community to promote awareness and shared knowledge of …

Vol. 45, No. 07 (October 21, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

An Essay On Rebuilding And Renewal In American Legal Education, Jack Graves

Touro Law Review

The American model of legal education is broken as a value proposition. Like a building with an undermined foundation, it must be rebuilt rather than refurbished. And, like any rebuilding project, it will be costly and disruptive to many of its occupants. However, it will also present unique opportunities for innovation and renewal. This essay suggests a few of the contours for such a rebuilding project and describes a few of the benefits that might result.

Dean's Desk: Third Year Offers Students Opportunity To Define, Hone Skills, Hannah L. Buxbaum

Hannah Buxbaum (2011-2013 Interim)

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Vol. 45, No. 06 (October 7, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Volume 37, Issue 2 (Fall 2013)

Transcript

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In Practice, V. 14, No. 1, Fall 2013

In Practice

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Pro Bono Newsletter, University Of Michigan Law School

Newsletters

Fall 2013 issue of the University of Michigan Law School Pro Bono Program's newsletter.

Lessons From Teaching Students To Negotiate Like A Lawyer, John M. Lande

Faculty Publications

This article reports my observations from teaching those courses and offers suggestions for future efforts to improve legal education. My experience supports the (1) focus on negotiation in a wide range of situations in addition to the final resolution of disputes and transactions, (2) addition of "ordinary legal negotiation" to the two traditional theories of negotiation, and (3) use of multi-stage simulations in addition to traditional single-stage simulations. These approaches were critical in providing students with a more realistic understanding of negotiation. This article also describes experiments with other teaching techniques in my courses.

A Third Semester Of Lrw: Why Teaching Transactional Skills And Problems Is Now Essential To The Legal Writing Curriculum, Karin Mika

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The article advocates including drafting and transactional courses in Legal Writing programs to better prepare students for practice. The article also advocates teaching various upper level skills courses so that students learn "soft skills," such as dealing with clients and understanding their personal legal needs.

Specialization In Law And Business: A Proposal For A J.D./'Mbl' Curriculum, Robert J. Rhee

UF Law Faculty Publications

This paper provides the specific details of how an interdisciplinary program of law and business can be structured in a three-year J.D. program. The program envisioned is a J.D./”M.B.L.”, which is distinguished from the better known J.D./M.B.A. The “M.B.L.” stands for “masters of business law,” which is simply an idea tag. The moniker can represent a program conferring a supplemental degree in law and business, or simply a specialized course of study to complete a J.D. Either way, the program is an interdisciplinary program of concentrated study in core transaction-oriented law courses and core business courses. The most effective education …

Whittling: Drafting Concise And Effective Appellate Briefs, Brian K. Keller

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

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Justifying Academic Freedom, Brian L. Frye

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

While academic freedom can only be described in relation to academic norms, its justification can and should depend on its contribution to the common good. Academics contribute to the common good by producing scholarship. But scholarship is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Academic freedom is justified not only because enables academics to produce more and better scholarship, but also because it enables academics to challenge academic norms that diminish the quantity or quality of scholarship they produce.

Not So Glamorous: Unveiling The Misrepresentation Of Fashion Models' Rights As Workers In New York City, Alexandra R. Simmerson

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The note examines the misclassification of fashion models as independent contractors in New York City, arguing that this status denies them essential legal protections and perpetuates exploitation. It highlights the disparity between the treatment of models in New York and Paris, where models are classified as employees with access to benefits like unemployment insurance and regulated working hours. The analysis underscores the control modeling agencies exert over models' careers, handling bookings, billing, and payments, which suggests an employer-employee relationship. The note advocates for reclassifying models as employees to ensure fair labor practices and access to protections such as unemployment benefits …

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2013, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum

• Looking Beyond the Stacks (David L. Armond and Shawn G. Nevers)
• A Lesson in Flying (RonNell Anderson Jones)
• Faith, Family, and Religious Freedom (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland)
• Instruments in His Hand (Elder Larry Echo Hawk)

Learning The 'How' Of The Law: Teaching Procedure And Legal Education, David Bamford, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Michael Karayanni, Erik S. Knutsen

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines the approaches to teaching civil procedure in five common law jurisdictions (Canada, Australia, United States, Israel, and England). The paper demonstrates the important transition of civil procedure from a vocational oriented subject to a rigorous intellectual study of policies, processes, and values underpinning our civil justice system, and analysis of how that system operates. The advantages and disadvantages of where civil procedure fits within the curriculum are discussed and the significant opportunities for ‘active’ learning are highlighted. The inclusion of England where civil procedure is not taught to any significant degree in the law degree provides a …

Case Global: News From The International Law Centers & Institutes, Case Western Reserve University School Of Law, The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center

Case Global Newsletter

Vol. 6 [sic] [5], #1 (2013)

• Special Report: Professors help establish accountability mechanisms for Syrian atrocities
• A Message from Dean Scharf
• Worth Reading--Recent Faculty Publications/Activities
• Case launches New Online LLM
• Case Professor’s New Book Explores Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law
• Case law grad appointed UN/Africa Union Chief Mediator for Darfur
• Case launches new exchange and concurrent degree programs with 21 foreign partners
• Case offers world’s first free online international law course
• International Law Talk Radio from Case celebrates its first year
• Case International Law Moot Court teams excel again in 2013
• Record number of foreign lawyers received LLM degrees …

From Awkward Law Student To Articulate Attorney: Teaching The Oral Research Report, Sarah J. Morath

Akron Law Faculty Publications

Busy attorneys want results quickly and in a clear and organized manner. Many prefer associates to report their research results orally in a face-to-face conversation rather than a written memo. In the first year of law school, however, there are not many opportunities for students to practice having conversations about the law in a thoughtful and professional manner. While the Socratic dialogue common in most first year courses challenges students to think on their feet, this method does not teach students how to describe their research path, explain their analysis of a client’s legal issue, or make a recommendation on …

A Community Of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure And The Legal Academy, Beth Thornburg, Erik S. Knutsen, Carla Crifò, Camille Cameron

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article asks whether the way in which procedure is taught has an impact on the extent and accomplishments of a scholarly community of proceduralists. Not surprisingly, we find a strong correlation between the placement of procedure as a required course in an academic context and the resulting body of scholars and scholarship. Those countries in which more civil procedure is taught as part of a university degree—and in which procedure is recognized as a legitimate academic subject—have larger scholarly communities, a larger and broader corpus of works analyzing procedural issues, and a richer web of institutional support systems that …