They Do Teach That In Law School: Incorporating Best Practices Into Land Use Law,
2011
Touro Law Center
They Do Teach That In Law School: Incorporating Best Practices Into Land Use Law, Patricia E. Salkin
Scholarly Works
This article, prepared as a follow-up to Salkin & Nolon, Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Pedagogy and Best Practice, 60 J.Legal Education 519 (2011), describes how practice-based assignments can supplement the traditional casebook method of instruction to meet goals and measure outcome assessments for students in the course. The article is based on my own course goals and explains how each assignment relates to individual outcome assessments.
Simulations In Clinics, Contract Drafting, And Upper-Level Courses,
2011
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
Simulations In Clinics, Contract Drafting, And Upper-Level Courses, Carole O. Heyward, David M. Epstein, Helen S. Scott, Daniel B. Bogart
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
I teach in a transactional clinic called the Urban Development Law Clinic. In my Clinic, we represent non-profit tax-exempt organizations that engage in real estate, economic, and community development. Some of our clients include Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and Karamu House, which is a theater and community arts center. We serve as general counsel for some clients and provide legal advice on an as needed basis for others. The Clinic provides legal advice on real estate matters, corporate governance, transactions, and tax issues. The complexity of matters that we handle ranges from drafting a code of regulations to representing …
Negotiating Social Mobility And Critical Citizenship: Institutions At A Crossroads,
2011
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Negotiating Social Mobility And Critical Citizenship: Institutions At A Crossroads, Michelle D. Deardorff, Angela Mae Kupenda
Journal Articles
A Black law professor who teaches at a predominantly White law school and a White public law professor who teaches at a historically Black university in the same southern, urban community are co-authors of this Article. Here, in this piece, we explore the tension between the goals of our institutions and many other institutions to improve the socioeconomic status of our students with our personal goals of preparing students to challenge societal injustice and to be critical citizens who are willing to challenge a government that engages in abusive actions or is exploitative of its citizenry.
Academic War Strategies For Nonviolent Armies Of One,
2011
Mississippi College School of Law
Academic War Strategies For Nonviolent Armies Of One, Angela Mae Kupenda
Journal Articles
To engage the legal system in necessary critical action, critical actors are required. The law cannot be uprooted, re-sowed, and re-cultivated, unless future legal professionals engage in such action. And for future legal professionals to engage in such action, generally, they must first be engaged in critical thought during their legal educations. Moreover, for such thought to occur, the legal academy must include a diverse group of voices, minds, and experiences to engage with those seeking such a critical education. These critical voices may be in short supply in the academy for multiple reasons. One specific reason, though, is that …
Beyond Chalk And Talk: The Law Classroom Of The Future,
2011
University of Tulsa College of Law
Beyond Chalk And Talk: The Law Classroom Of The Future, Oren R. Griffin, Karen J. Sneddon
Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works
Law schools are rethinking the traditional Langdellian classroom as they construct the law classroom of the future. Although the reform of legal education has long been heralded, law schools are now on the cusp of actual change. Carnegie's Educating Lawyers and the Clinical Legal Education Association's Best Practices for Legal Education are promoting a rethinking of the law classroom. Also encouraging the examination of legal education are changes in the incoming student population, such as the influx of students from the Millennial Generation; technological innovations; and shifting realities and economics of law practice, such as the increased focus on efficiency …
A Transformational Melancholy: One Law Professor's Journey Through Depression,
2011
Touro Law Center
A Transformational Melancholy: One Law Professor's Journey Through Depression, Marjorie A. Silver
Scholarly Works
In the fall 2007 issue of the Journal of Legal Education, Professor James Jones shared his deeply personal, remarkable, ongoing, story of living, struggling and succeeding as a law professor with bipolar disorder (James T.R. Jones, Walking the Tightrope of Bipolar Disorder: The Secret Life of a Law Professor, 57 J. LEGAL ED. 349 (2007). His essay ended with an invitation to other members of the legal academy to contact him or Professor Elyn Saks, author of an extraordinary memoir about her life with schizophrenia, (ELYN R. SAKS, THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD (2007)) if interested in forming a confidential support …
Ethical Issues In Business And The Lawyer's Role,
2011
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Ethical Issues In Business And The Lawyer's Role, Robert J. Rhee, Carol Morgan, Tamar Frankel, Mark Fagan
UF Law Faculty Publications
The remarks by Professor Rhee "The Stand Alone Course Approach to Teaching Business Ethics," Professor Morgan "Teaching Business Ethics in Transactional Skills Courses: An Integrated Approach," and Professors Tamar Frankel and Mark Fagan "Teaching Business Ethics: A Collaborative Approach" were made at the conference on "Transactional Education: What's Next?" held at Emory University School of Law, June 4, 2010.
On Legal Education And Reform: One View Formed From Diverse Perspectives,
2011
University of Florida Levin College of Law
On Legal Education And Reform: One View Formed From Diverse Perspectives, Robert J. Rhee
UF Law Faculty Publications
This article identifies two interconnected problems in legal education. First, legal education and practice are more disconnected than they should be, a reality which distinguishes law schools from other professional schools. The major flaw of legal education as the failure to produce more market-ready lawyers who have a mix of skills and knowledge to add value in a complex and challenging practice environment. Second, law school imposes large direct and opportunity costs on its students. These costs combine with the problem of a deficiency in academic training and post-graduation financing of additional training in the workplace to impose a growing …
Helping Haiti In The Wake Of Disaster: Law Students As First Responders,
2011
University of Miami School of Law
Helping Haiti In The Wake Of Disaster: Law Students As First Responders, Melissa Gibson Swain, Jonel Newman
Articles
No abstract provided.
Redefining Human Rights Lawyering Through The Lens Of Critical Theory: Lessons For Pedagogy And Practice,
2011
University of Miami School of Law
Redefining Human Rights Lawyering Through The Lens Of Critical Theory: Lessons For Pedagogy And Practice, Caroline Bettinger-López, Davida Finger, Meetali Jain, Jonel Newman, Sarah Paoletti, Deborah M. Weissman
Articles
No abstract provided.
Demands Of The Marketplace Require Practical Skills: A Necessity For Emerging Practicioners, And Its Clinical Impact On Society--A Paradigm For Change,
2011
Florida A&M University College of Law
Demands Of The Marketplace Require Practical Skills: A Necessity For Emerging Practicioners, And Its Clinical Impact On Society--A Paradigm For Change, Ann Marie Cavazos
Journal Publications
Many articles have been written focusing on the benefits that the law students receive from participating in a rigorous program of clinical study early on in their careers. However, little focus has been given to the clients who participate in law school clinics. Most of the time these clients are poor and minorities with few, if any, options for legal representation. In general, law student clinical work has been confined to local clients with local issues. Even law schools that handle national issues have clients that are local and the issues that give rise to the national representation occur locally. …
The Tenure Of A Law School Dean: It's Not How Long You Make It - It's How You Make It Long,
2011
Mississippi College School of Law
The Tenure Of A Law School Dean: It's Not How Long You Make It - It's How You Make It Long, Jim Rosenblatt
Journal Articles
In May 2003, I attended the New Deans Course in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This event took place several months before I assumed my responsibilities as the Dean of Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, Mississippi (“MC Law”). Although some “repeat deans” attended this course, the great majority were serving as deans for the first time. A topic of discussion amongst those deans was the question of how long they planned to serve. Even at this early juncture, some knew that in the not too distant future they would be returning to the faculty to resume teaching. Others took the …
Does It Matter What We Say About Legal Interpretation?,
2011
Saint Louis University School of Law
Does It Matter What We Say About Legal Interpretation?, Karen Petroski
All Faculty Scholarship
Despite a common interest in justifying their scholarly output, legal academics have resisted seeing how their work is molded by the institutional environment in which it is produced, and not just by legal doctrine, ideology, or individual perspectives. This paper presents a case study from this neglected perspective, considering the shape of scholarship on legal interpretation in light of the social conditions of its production. After a brief discussion of the debates over whether scholarship (and which scholarship) matters, the paper explores how such concerns are addressed in various academic accounts of scholars’ textual practices. It then offers some initial …
Teaching Transactional Skills And Law In An International Context,
2011
Unviersity of Michigan Law School
Teaching Transactional Skills And Law In An International Context, Deborah Burand, Kojo Yelpaala, Peter Linzer
Other Publications
Today, we are going to be discussing how we think about transactional skills in an international context. It doesn't surprise me that this is a smaller group. This is a subspecialty, but let me just do a very quick survey of you. How many of you now in this room are teaching an international course? And what are you doing?
The Road Not Taken: Catholic Legal Education At The Middle Of The Twentieth Century.,
2011
Loyola University Chicago
The Road Not Taken: Catholic Legal Education At The Middle Of The Twentieth Century., John M. Breen
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Two Men And Twenty Years Of Meetings: Norman Amaker, Derrick Bell, And The Midwestern People Of Color Legal Scholarship Conference From 1990-2010.,
2011
Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
Two Men And Twenty Years Of Meetings: Norman Amaker, Derrick Bell, And The Midwestern People Of Color Legal Scholarship Conference From 1990-2010., Neil G. Williams
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Experiential Learning In The First Year Curriculum: The Public Interest Partnership,
2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Experiential Learning In The First Year Curriculum: The Public Interest Partnership, Nantiya Ruan
Scholarly Works
The newest learning initiatives in legal education focus much attention on the necessity for teachers to support students' development of professional identity, including "civic professionalism,"which" link[s] the interests of educators with the needs of practitioners and with the public the profession is pledged to serve." See William M. Sullivan et al., Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007). With that movement in mind, for the past five years in my legal research and writing (LRW) class, my students have partnered with non-profit organizations to provide them with legal research and advocacy documents to further the organization's public interest …
Social Reconstruction Of Race & Ethnicity Of The Nation's Law Students: A Request To The Aba, Aals, And Lsac For Changes In Reporting Requirements,
2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Social Reconstruction Of Race & Ethnicity Of The Nation's Law Students: A Request To The Aba, Aals, And Lsac For Changes In Reporting Requirements, Kevin Brown, Tom I. Romero Ii
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Law School Gifts Keep Giving - Clinical Programs Train Students While Serving The Legal Needs Of Ordinary Nevadans,
2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Law School Gifts Keep Giving - Clinical Programs Train Students While Serving The Legal Needs Of Ordinary Nevadans, Mary Berkheiser
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Legal Education Comes To Nevada: The Creation Of The William S. Boyd School Of Law,
2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Legal Education Comes To Nevada: The Creation Of The William S. Boyd School Of Law, Mary Berkheiser
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
