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What Is The Value Of Associations, Or Is It Safe To Row Alone, Darcy Kirk 2012 University of Connecticut School of Law

What Is The Value Of Associations, Or Is It Safe To Row Alone, Darcy Kirk

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Editor's Note, Alfred C. Aman, Micah J. Nichols 2012 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Editor's Note, Alfred C. Aman, Micah J. Nichols

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization and Migration Symposium, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, April 7-8, 2011


The New Legal Writing: The Importance Of Teaching Law Students How To Use E-Mail Professionally, Kendra Huard Fershee 2012 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

The New Legal Writing: The Importance Of Teaching Law Students How To Use E-Mail Professionally, Kendra Huard Fershee

Maryland Law Review Online

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Resource-Based Learning And Course Design: A Brief Theoretical Overview And Practical Suggestions, Meg Butler 2012 Georgia State University College of Law

Resource-Based Learning And Course Design: A Brief Theoretical Overview And Practical Suggestions, Meg Butler

Faculty Publications By Year

Law librarians teaching legal research should follow resource based learning pedagogical strategies. This paper provides a background in constructivist educational theory and resource based learning before identifying useful instructional strategies regarding course design decisions related to goal-setting, assignments, rubrics, and assessment.


Law School Of The Future: Centre Of Cutting-Edge Practice?, Clark Cunningham 2012 Georgia State University College of Law

Law School Of The Future: Centre Of Cutting-Edge Practice?, Clark Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

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Empirical Evidence That Formative Assessments Improve Final Exams, Carol Springer Sargent, Andrea A. Curcio 2012 Macon State College School of Business

Empirical Evidence That Formative Assessments Improve Final Exams, Carol Springer Sargent, Andrea A. Curcio

Faculty Publications By Year

Despite the recent widespread call for law professors to incorporate more feedback during the semester, there is a relative dearth of empirical evidence about the impact of practice materials and feedback on law student performance. This study begins to fill that gap. Using five ungraded quizzes, a graded midterm, and reflection exercises, this study shows that feedback improved student performance on a cumulative final exam up to a full letter grade compared to a cohort with only a traditional end-of-semester final exam. The study confirms an earlier study showing that learning gains from formative assessments concentrate among those with stronger …


On The Occasion Of Leon Lazer’S 90th Birthday, Jeffrey B. Morris 2012 Touro Law Center

On The Occasion Of Leon Lazer’S 90th Birthday, Jeffrey B. Morris

Touro Law Review

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Open Access To Legal Scholarship: Dropping The Barriers To Discourse And Dialogue, Richard A. Danner 2012 Duke Law School

Open Access To Legal Scholarship: Dropping The Barriers To Discourse And Dialogue, Richard A. Danner

Faculty Scholarship

This article focuses on the importance of free and open access to legal scholarship and commentary on the law. It argues that full understanding of authoritative legal texts requires access to informed commentary as well as to the texts of the law themselves, and that free and open access to legal commentary will facilitate cross-border dialogue and foster international discourse in law. The paper discusses the obligations of scholars and publishers of legal commentary to make their work as widely accessible as possible. Examples of institutional and disciplinary repositories for legal scholarship are presented, as are the possible impacts of …


Symposium Introduction: Humanism Goes To Law School, Marjorie A. Silver 2012 Touro Law Center

Symposium Introduction: Humanism Goes To Law School, Marjorie A. Silver

Touro Law Review

By now, the knowledge that law students experience more than their fair share of distress is old news. The studies about law student (and lawyer) unhappiness have been widely discussed in both academic literature and trade publications. Less well known, however, are the increasing number of programs that law schools, and individuals within those schools, have implemented to counter that distress,and to help students develop a positive professional identity,both as students and as the lawyers they are about to become.


Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus 2012 Touro Law Center

Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

Touro Law Review

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How Are Law Schools Addressing Major Changes In The Practice Of Law And In Accrediting Standards For Legal Education?, Margaret Ivey Bacigal 2012 University of Richmond - School of Law

How Are Law Schools Addressing Major Changes In The Practice Of Law And In Accrediting Standards For Legal Education?, Margaret Ivey Bacigal

Law Faculty Publications

There was a consensus at the first panel discussion on how law schools are addressing major changes in legal practice and accrediting standards for legal education, that law schools are doing a good job teaching critical thinking and legal analysis. A recurring theme was that more experiential legal education is needed to help students become "practice ready." Deficits in legal writing, problem solving, and understanding the various contexts within which legal problems arise were concerns. A major issue is how do schools enhance legal education given the unsustainable costs and changes in the legal profession?


Foreword: 2012 Clinical Legal Education Symposium, Leigh Goodmark 2012 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Foreword: 2012 Clinical Legal Education Symposium, Leigh Goodmark

University of Baltimore Law Review

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A Critique Of Best Practices In Legal Education: Five Things All Law Professors Should Know, Michael T. Gibson 2012 Oklahoma City University School of Law

A Critique Of Best Practices In Legal Education: Five Things All Law Professors Should Know, Michael T. Gibson

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Gender And The Crisis In Legal Education: Remaking The Academy In Our Image, Paula A. Monopoli 2012 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Gender And The Crisis In Legal Education: Remaking The Academy In Our Image, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

American legal education is in the grip of what some have called an “existential crisis.” The New York Times proclaims the death of the current system of legal education. This is attributed, in part, to the incentivizing of faculty to produce increasingly abstract scholarship and the costs this imposes on pedagogy and the mentoring of students. At the same time, despite women graduating from law schools in significant numbers since the 1980s, they continue to lag behind in the most prestigious positions in academia—tenured, full professorships: From academic year 1998-99 to academic year 2007-08, the percentage of women full professors …


Two And A Half Ethical Theories: Re-Examining The Foundations Of The Carnegie Report, Mark F. Kightlinger 2012 University of Kentucky College of Law

Two And A Half Ethical Theories: Re-Examining The Foundations Of The Carnegie Report, Mark F. Kightlinger

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In the past three years, the American Bar Association, several major state bar associations, the Association of American Law Schools, the New York Times, law students, and many legal educators have called for fundamental changes in the way we educate new lawyers. Some critics have suggested that legal education faces a crisis that will be exacerbated by rising tuitions, declining enrollments, and a precipitous drop in the demand for new lawyers. Most of those calling for change have relied on the critical analysis of modem legal education presented in a 2007 report by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement …


The Benefits To Be Derived From Post-Negotiation Assessments, Charles B. Craver 2012 The George Washington University Law School

The Benefits To Be Derived From Post-Negotiation Assessments, Charles B. Craver

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Lawyers negotiate regularly, even when they do not appreciate the fact they are engaged in such activities. They negotiate with their own partners, associates, and legal assistants, as well as with prospective clients and current clients. They also negotiate with outside parties on behalf of their clients. Most legal practitioners have had minimal formal training with respect to this critical lawyering skill, and few spend much time thinking about what they are doing when they engage in bargaining interactions with others.


Gaining From The System: Lessons From The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement About Student Development In Law School, Carole Silver, Louis Rocconi, Heather Haeger, Lindsay Watkins 2012 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Gaining From The System: Lessons From The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement About Student Development In Law School, Carole Silver, Louis Rocconi, Heather Haeger, Lindsay Watkins

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This paper considers the factors that influence law students' assessment of their professional and academic development during law school. It uses responses of 5,612 third- and fourth-year law students to the Law School Survey of Student Engagement to identify student activities and behaviors that relate to professional and academic gains; individual and law school characteristics also are examined. Four aspects of the law school experience emerge as integral parts of students' professional and academic development.


Deconstructing Crac: Teaching Proposed Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law In A Legal-Writing Program, Larry Howell 2012 Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana

Deconstructing Crac: Teaching Proposed Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law In A Legal-Writing Program, Larry Howell

Faculty Law Review Articles

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Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs Of An Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education And Parenting, Peter H. Huang 2012 University of Colorado Law School

Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs Of An Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education And Parenting, Peter H. Huang

Publications

I am a Chinese American who at 14 enrolled at Princeton and at 17 began my applied mathematics Ph.D. at Harvard. I was a first-year law student at the University of Chicago before transferring to Stanford, preferring the latter's pedagogical culture. This Article offers a complementary account to Amy Chua's parenting memoir. The Article discusses how mainstream legal education and tiger parenting are similar and how they can be improved by fostering life-long learning about character strengths, emotions, and ethics. I also recount how a senior professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school claimed to have gamed the U.S. …


From Tiger Mom To Panda Parent, Peter H. Huang 2012 University of Colorado Law School

From Tiger Mom To Panda Parent, Peter H. Huang

Publications

This response to Yale Law Professor Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, complements a much longer and related article that is also in part a response to Chua’s book: Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs of an Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education and Parenting, 1 British Journal of American Legal Studies 297 (2012). This brief essay discusses the cultural differences between Chinese and Western views about education, learning, and parenting. This editorial draws on research in social psychology to analyze the stereotype of Asians and Asian Americans as being competent yet unsociable. Finally, this reflection draws …


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