Should Justices Be Historians? Justice Scalia’S Opinion In District Of Columbia V. Heller,
2021
Michigan State University College of Law
Should Justices Be Historians? Justice Scalia’S Opinion In District Of Columbia V. Heller, Todd B. Adams
University of San Francisco Law Review
No abstract provided.
From Academic Freedom To Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women In The Legal Academy,
2021
St. John's University School of Law
From Academic Freedom To Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women In The Legal Academy, Renee Nicole Allen
Faculty Publications
In 1988, Black women law professors formed the Northeast Corridor Collective of Black Women Law Professors, a network of Black women in the legal academy. They supported one another’s scholarship, shared personal experiences of systemic gendered racism, and helped one another navigate the law school white space. A few years later, their stories were transformed into articles that appeared in a symposium edition of the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal. Since then, Black women and women of color have published articles and books about their experiences with presumed incompetence, outsider status, and silence. The story of Black women in the legal …
Our Collective Work, Our Collective Strength,
2021
St. John's University School of Law
Our Collective Work, Our Collective Strength, Renee Nicole Allen
Faculty Publications
This essay considers the collective strength of women of color in two contexts: when we are well represented on law school faculties and when we contribute to accomplishing stated institutional diversity goals. Critical mass is broadly defined as a sufficient number of people of color. Though the concept has been socially appropriated, its origins are scientific. While much of the academic literature encourages diversity initiatives designed to reach a critical mass, social change is not a science. Diversity in numbers may positively benefit individual experiences for women of color, however, diversity alone will not change social norms at the root …
Biglaw: Money And Meaning In The Modern Law Firm,
2021
Georgetown University Law Center
Biglaw: Money And Meaning In The Modern Law Firm, Milton C. Regan, Lisa H. Rohrer
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Great Recession intensified large law firms’ emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms, Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more complex. It is true that large firm hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by business considerations than ever before and that firms actively recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners continue to …
No, The Firing Squad Is Not Better Than Lethal Injection: A Response To Stephanie Moran’S A Modest Proposal,
2021
Seattle University School of Law
No, The Firing Squad Is Not Better Than Lethal Injection: A Response To Stephanie Moran’S A Modest Proposal, Michael Conklin
Seattle University Law Review
In the article A Modest Proposal: The Federal Government Should Use Firing Squads to Execute Federal Death Row Inmates, Stephanie Moran argues that the firing squad is the only execution method that meets the requirements of the Eighth Amendment. In order to make her case, Moran unjustifiably overstates the negative aspects of lethal injection while understating the negative aspects of firing squads. The entire piece is predicated upon assumptions that are not only unsupported by the evidence but often directly refuted by the evidence. This Essay critically analyzes Moran’s claims regarding the alleged advantages of the firing squad over …
Table Of Contents,
2021
Seattle University School of Law
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
The Effect Of The Uniform Bar Examination On Admissions, Diversity, Affordability, And Employment Across Law Schools In The United States,
2021
University of Pennsylvania
The Effect Of The Uniform Bar Examination On Admissions, Diversity, Affordability, And Employment Across Law Schools In The United States, Manuel S. González Canché, Taylor K. Odle, Ji Yeon Bae
Grantee Research
The Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), first implemented in February 2011 in Missouri and North Dakota, is a multijurisdictional or cross-state test designed to assess a minimum shared core of legal knowledge and lawyering skills. Since its implementation, UBE has now reached 37 states and territories, including the District of Columbia. Despite this prevalence, no empirical evidence exists regarding its effects on law schools’ admissions, diversity, affordability, and employment mobility of law students and graduates or of its effects on law schools’ application volumes or average bar passage rates. This study addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the …
Focus On The Future: An Interview With Monsurat Ottun, Esq.,
2021
Roger Williams University School of LAw
Focus On The Future: An Interview With Monsurat Ottun, Esq., Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Meghan L. Hopkins
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Focus On The Future: An Interview With Kaylin Pelletier-Koening, Esq.,
2021
Roger Williams University School of LAw
Focus On The Future: An Interview With Kaylin Pelletier-Koening, Esq., Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Meghan L. Hopkins
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Focus On The Future: An Interview With Emily Heisler, Esq.,
2021
Roger Williams University School of LAw
Focus On The Future: An Interview With Emily Heisler, Esq., Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Meghan L. Hopkins
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Changemakers: Coming Full Circle,
2021
Roger Williams University
Changemakers: Coming Full Circle, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law Library Blog (January 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive,
2021
Roger Williams University
Law Library Blog (January 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
The Deborah Jones Merritt Center For The Advancement Of Justice,
2021
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
The Deborah Jones Merritt Center For The Advancement Of Justice, Claudia Angelos, Mary Lu Bilek, Joan W. Howarth
Scholarly Works
When invited to write an essay on clinical legal education honoring our friend, we were struck by the importance of a focus on clinical legal education in any collection of work paying tribute to Professor Deborah Jones Merritt. Legal education has benefited from a fifty-year movement for clinical education. This movement necessarily interrogates and seeks to overcome the anachronistic, inherited Langdellian paradigm that dominates and continues to define the curricula and policies of our law schools. But the movement for clinical education has been exponentially confounded by contemporary legal education’s shape as a pyramid of statuses and privileges accumulated over …
The Long Shortlist: Women Considered For The Supreme Court,
2021
Angelo State University
The Long Shortlist: Women Considered For The Supreme Court, Michael Conklin
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
No abstract provided.
Choice Of Law And The Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example Of Successor Corporation Products Liability,
2021
Penn State Dickinson Law
Choice Of Law And The Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example Of Successor Corporation Products Liability, Diana Sclar
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
Most state rules of substantive law, whether legislative or judicial, ordinarily adjust rights and obligations among local parties with respect to local events. Conventional choice of law methodologies for adjudicating disputes with multistate connections all start from an explicit or implicit assumption of a choice between such locally oriented substantive rules. This article reveals, for the first time, that some state rules of substantive law ordinarily adjust rights and obligations with respect to parties and events connected to more than one state and only occasionally apply to wholly local matters. For these rules I use the term “nominally domestic rules …
Don't Change The Subject: How State Election Laws Can Nullify Ballot Questions,
2021
Penn State Dickinson Law
Don't Change The Subject: How State Election Laws Can Nullify Ballot Questions, Cole Gordner
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
Procedural election laws regulate the conduct of state elections and provide for greater transparency and fairness in statewide ballots. These laws ensure that the public votes separately on incongruous bills and protects the electorate from uncertainties contained in omnibus packages. As demonstrated by a slew of recent court cases, however, interest groups that are opposed to the objective of a ballot question are utilizing these election laws with greater frequency either to prevent a state electorate from voting on an initiative or to overturn a ballot question that was already decided in the initiative’s favor. This practice is subverting the …
Litigation Analytics: A Framework For Understanding, Using & Teaching,
2021
Notre Dame Law School
Litigation Analytics: A Framework For Understanding, Using & Teaching, Peter A. Hook
Journal Articles
This article, appearing in the American Association of Law Libraries bimonthly member magazine, provides a brief introduction (under 2000 words) to litigation analytics. It contains a definition, common uses of litigation analytics, a brief history, as well as why litigation analytics should be taught in law school. The author provides his framework for teaching and understanding litigation analytics which includes types of analytics, pivot points (perspectives from which the analytics may be understood), and contextualizes the various analytics offerings by insight-needs categories: (1) categorizing and clustering; (2) ordering, ranking, and sorting; (3) distribution; (4) comparison; (5) trends; (6) geospatial location; …
“Portability Of The Ube: Where Is It When You Need It And Do You Need It At All?”,
2021
Touro Law Center
“Portability Of The Ube: Where Is It When You Need It And Do You Need It At All?”, Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
If You Build It, Will They Come? An Empirical Study Of The Voluntary Use Of Mediation And Its Implications,
2021
Suffolk University
If You Build It, Will They Come? An Empirical Study Of The Voluntary Use Of Mediation And Its Implications, Dwight Golann
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
A generation ago, American litigants did not often go to mediation voluntarily. Advocates of the process predicted, however, that as lawyers and parties became more familiar with mediation, they would opt to use it more often. But, is this true? Virtually no data exists about how often litigants voluntarily choose to mediate legal disputes, whether use varies in different kinds of cases, and what motivates litigants' decisions whether to mediate or not. This Article presents data about each of these issues and analyzes its meaning.
Client-Centered Communication: How Effective Lawyering Requires Emotional Intelligence, Active Listening, And Client Choice,
2021
University of Saskatchewan College of Law
Client-Centered Communication: How Effective Lawyering Requires Emotional Intelligence, Active Listening, And Client Choice, Heather Heavin, Michaela Keet
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
For the lawyer-client relationship to work effectively, lawyers need to provide clients with competent, understandable, and relevant legal advice. This proposition is so central to the lawyer's role that it is difficult to challenge. Yet, we suggest, this proposition belies the complexity of the responsibility, given the decision-making process that clients are going through (or should be going through) when deciding to litigate or to settle through negotiation or mediation. The educational literature contains much advice for lawyers on the benefits of dispute resolution processes, how to select and navigate through them, but much less on how lawyers should guide …
