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Enlivening Election Law, Joshua A. Douglas

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Election law cases are often lengthy and include complex discussion of constitutional doctrines. Moreover, there is rarely a clear-cut answer to a tricky election law question. The field is full of balancing tests, competing interests to weigh, and ever-shifting standards. A challenge for Election Law teachers, then, is to ensure that the long judicial opinions and difficult constitutional doctrines undergirding the field of election law do not bury the vibrancy of the topic. One way to keep an Election Law course student-friendly is to make frequent use of electronic media. Election law is well-suited to the adoption of images, videos, …

Education & Practice (Newsletter Of The Section On Education Of Lawyer, Virginia State Bar) - V. 20, No. 2 (Spring 2012), Dale Margolin Cecka

Law Faculty Publications

Contents

Ethical Practice within Interdisciplinary Collaborations: The Law School Clinic as an Example, by Portia Cole, Asst. Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth School of Social Work

Chair’s Column, by Professor A. Benjamin Spencer of Washington and Lee School of Law

Beyond the Blame Game, by Jayne W. Barnard, Cutler Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School

William R. Rakes Leadership in Education Award

Law Faculty News

News and Events Around the Commonwealth

Section’s Website Update

2011-2012 Board of Governors

Of Counsel, Volume 14 | Spring 2012, North Carolina Central University School Of Law

Of Counsel

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Where To Begin? Training New Teachers In The Art Of Clinical Pedagogy, Wallace J. Mlyniec

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Legal educators and the legal academy have long made the mistaken assumption that new teachers have an intuitive grasp of teaching methodology based on their experiences as students, and that therefore they can begin and continue teaching throughout their careers without any understanding of teaching methodology. Clinical teachers in particular face unique pedagogical challenges relating to class goals, supervisory methods, feedback, and grading. These challenges are magnified by the existence of clients and by the need to engage with students regarding the ethics of legal practice and cultural difference.

This article attempts to set forth some of the critical questions …

Using Blogs In Teaching Negotiation: A Technical And Intercultural Postscript, Ian Macduff

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article reexamines an earlier experiment in the use of blogs in teaching negotiation when undertaken in a different cultural environment. I briefly examine two core factors — technical competence and cultural preferences in communication — as well as a student preference to reserve the use of social media for purely social and informal communications. Parallels are also drawn with the technical and cultural contexts of developments in online dispute resolution.

Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Systematically Including Community Legal Education In Law School Clinics, Margaret Martin Barry, A. Rachel Camp, Margaret E. Johnson, Catherine F. Klein, Lisa V. Martin

All Faculty Scholarship

There is a body of literature on clinical legal theory that urges a focus in clinics beyond the single client to an explicit teaching of social justice lawyering. This Article adds to this emerging body of work by discussing the valuable role community legal education plays as a vehicle for teaching skills and values essential to single client representation and social justice lawyering. The Article examines the theoretical underpinnings of clinical legal education, community organizing and community education and how they influenced the authors’ design and implementation of community legal education within their clinics. It then discusses two projects designed …

A Man In Full (A Tribute Remembering Professor David Bederman), Robert B. Ahdieh

Faculty Scholarship

Robert B. Ahdieh provides a tribute remembering Professor David Bederman as a colleague and friend.

"Just Trying To Be Human In This Place," Too: From Inside The Law School Classroom To Filmandlaw.Com, Kate Nace Day, Russell G. Murphy

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

Five years ago, the latest in a long line of studies and research projects that critically examined American legal education were published. The Carnegie Foundation Report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, and the empirical research findings of linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Mertz, The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer," identified many shortcomings and negative consequences that result from the traditional pedagogy of the American law school classroom. In this Article, Professors Kate Nace Day and Russell G. Murphy explore some of the findings of these studies in the context of their experimentation with …

Vol. 42, No. 10 (March 26, 2012)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 62, No. 6, March 22, 2012, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•CopyFights •Zach Letter Law •The Beer Gal •SFF Auction Photos •LC Renovation •Sudoku •Facial Hair Photos •Grade Curves •Crossword

Vol. 42, No. 09 (March 19, 2012)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

The Attorney-Client Privilege As An Obstacle To The Professional And Ethical Development Of Law Students, Ursula H. Weigold

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Diversity As A Dead-End , Kenneth B. Nunn

Pepperdine Law Review

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Retaining Diversity In The Classroom: Strategies For Maximizing The Benefits That Flow From A Diverse Student Body, Chris Chambers Goodman

Pepperdine Law Review

In Grutter v. Bollinger, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether diversity is a sufficiently compelling government interest to justify an affirmative action program that considered race and ethnicity in allocating law school admission offers. The Court determined that diversity was a compelling interest, resolving the conflict in the federal circuits on that issue. In this article, Goodman argues that the courts must examine the tightness of the fit between the goal of either achieving diversity or of realizing the benefits that flow from a diverse student body, and the means used to try to accomplish either …

How Strictly Scrutinized?: Examining The Educational Benefits The Court Relied Upon In Grutter, Patrick M. Garry

Pepperdine Law Review

In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Court recognized student body diversity as a compelling state interest that justified the use of racial preferences in selecting applicants for admission to public university law schools. Normally, any state action reviewed under a strict scrutiny approach is destined for invalidation. But in Grutter, the Court bucked the trend and upheld the race-based admissions policy against a racial discrimination challenge brought under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Given the rarity of a state action surviving strict scrutiny review, it is instructive to examine the nature of the diversity interest recognized by the Court in …

Plessy's Ghost: Grutter, Seattle And The Quiet Reversal Of Brown, D. Marvin Jones

Pepperdine Law Review

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Democracy And Diversity, John Payton

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 42, No. 08 (March 5, 2012)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Women In Legal Education Section, Elizabeth Defeis

UMKC Law Review

Elizabeth Defeis shares the history and her own experiences with The Women in Legal Education (WLE) Section of the AALS.

A Section Memoir, Patricia Cain

UMKC Law Review

Patricia Cain discusses her experiences as a member and as Chair of the Women in Legel Education Section of the AALS.