Enduring Hierarchies In American Legal Education, 2014 University of California - Irvine
Enduring Hierarchies In American Legal Education, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Andrew P. Morriss, William D. Henderson
Indiana Law Journal
Although much attention has been paid to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of U.S. law schools, the hierarchy it describes is a long-standing one rather than a recent innovation. In this Article, we show the presence of a consistent hierarchy of U.S. law schools from the 1930s to the present, provide a categorization of law schools for use in research on trends in legal education, and examine the impact of U.S. News’s introduction of a national, ordinal ranking on this established hierarchy. The Article examines the impact of such hierarchies for a range of decision making in law school …
Of Gangs And Gaggles: Can A Corporation Be Part Of An Association-In-Fact Rico Enterprise? Linguistic, Historical, And Rhetorical Perspectives, 2014 Texas A&M University School of Law
Of Gangs And Gaggles: Can A Corporation Be Part Of An Association-In-Fact Rico Enterprise? Linguistic, Historical, And Rhetorical Perspectives, Randy D. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
Over 30 years ago, courts of appeals began to hold that the RICO statute’s definition of association-in-fact enterprise is broad enough to include corporations as constituent members, even though that definition states that such an association is limited to a “group of individuals.” This Article demonstrates why these cases were wrongly decided from a variety of perspectives: linguistic, systemic and consequentialist. It also suggests a strategy for correcting this widespread interpretive error and provides evidence that the Supreme Court may be disposed to agree that the lower courts have uniformly erred.
Stereotype Threat And Law Librarianship, 2014 Boston University School of Law
Stereotype Threat And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Mr. Wheeler looks at the concept of stereotype threat and discusses ways to confront and combat it in a diverse society. He proposes some simple solutions within the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the law librarianship profession to help diminish the effects of this psychological barrier.
Institutional Actors And Protecting Clients In A Post-Monopoly World, 2014 University of Oklahoma College of Law
Institutional Actors And Protecting Clients In A Post-Monopoly World, Melissa Mortazavi
Melissa Mortazavi
No abstract provided.
Bullshit And The Tribal Client, 2014 Michigan State University College of Law
Bullshit And The Tribal Client, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Matthew L.M. Fletcher
No abstract provided.
Dignity And The Legal Profession, 2014 Boston College Law School
Dignity And The Legal Profession, Evangeline Sarda
Evangeline Sarda
No abstract provided.
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), 2014 Western Kentucky University
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2850. Resolution of sympathy of a committee of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of James P. Bates on 30 November 1877. Includes a sketch of Bates’s life.
Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), 2014 Western Kentucky University
Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2849. Resolution of sympathy, 5 January 1881, by officers and members of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of Hiram J. Beauchamp on 1 January 1881. Includes a sketch of Beauchamp’s life.
A Proposal To The Aba: Integrating Legal Writing And Experiential Learning Into A Required, Six-Semester Curriculum That Trains Students In Core Competencies, 'Soft Skills,' And Real-World Judgment, 2014 Indiana Tech Law School
A Proposal To The Aba: Integrating Legal Writing And Experiential Learning Into A Required, Six-Semester Curriculum That Trains Students In Core Competencies, 'Soft Skills,' And Real-World Judgment, Adam Lamparello, Charles E. Maclean
Adam Lamparello
Experiential learning is not the answer to the problems facing legal education. Simulations, externships, and clinics are vital aspects of a real-world legal education, but they cannot alone produce competent graduates. The better approach is to create a required, six-semester experiential legal writing curriculum where students draft and re-draft the most common litigation documents and engage in simulations, including client interviews, mediation, depositions, settlement negotiations, and oral arguments in the order that they would in actual practice. In so doing, law schools can provide the time and context within which students can truly learn to think like lawyers, do what …
Maurer School Of Law Bloomington, 2014 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University
Maurer School Of Law Bloomington
Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)
No abstract provided.
Engaging Work, Working While Engaged, 2014 Golden Gate University School of Law
Engaging Work, Working While Engaged, Rachel A. Van Cleave
Publications
Several recent items have led me to reflect on the meaning of work. Law students often ask my advice about their careers, and I typically ask them what they enjoy. “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day” is one of my favorite quotes. Therefore, Gordon Marino’s piece in the New York Times, Sunday Review, A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’ (May 18, 2014), gave me pause. Marino questions whether the advice of do what you love is really sound advice, as well as whether it is advice only for the elite who might have the luxury …
Shades Of Enron: The Legal Ethics Implications Of The General Motors Scandal, 2014 Golden Gate University School of Law
Shades Of Enron: The Legal Ethics Implications Of The General Motors Scandal, Michele Benedetto Neitz
Publications
Here we go again. "Where were the Lawyers?" is becoming a predicable refrain in response to any wide-ranging corporate scandal. General Motors is battling a rising deluge of lawsuits, investigations, and government fines in the wake of its February 2014 recall of millions of cars for a safety defect. The defect, a faulty ignition switch, is allegedly responsible for 13 fatalities and hundreds of injuries.
The sorrow of the tragic loss of life in this case is now joined by growing public anger about a cover-up at the company to avoid liability for the defect. GM's engineers and managers may …
Alfred Aman Jr. (Photograph), 2014 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University
Alfred Aman Jr. (Photograph)
Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)
Alfred Aman Jr. holding a copy of his book Administrative Law in a Global Era.
53rd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series, 2014 The Supreme Court of the United States
53rd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series, The Hon. Justice John Paul Stevens
Georgia State University Law Review
Remarks by the Honorable John Paul Stevens, Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, at the 53rd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series.
Fraud And Abuse In Mesothelioma Litigation, 2014 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Fraud And Abuse In Mesothelioma Litigation, Lester Brickman
Articles
No abstract provided.
Intermediaries Revisited: Is Efficient Certification Consistent With Profit Maximization?, 2014 University of Southern California
Intermediaries Revisited: Is Efficient Certification Consistent With Profit Maximization?, Jonathan M. Barnett
Jonathan M Barnett
Private certification mechanisms are a key component of the regulatory infrastructure in the financial sector and other commercial settings. It is generally assumed that certification intermediaries have profit-based incentives to deliver accurate information to the certified market. But this view does not account for repeated failures in certification markets. Those failures can be explained by an inherent defect in the incentive structure of certification intermediaries: entry barriers both support and undermine the consistent supply of accurate information to the certified market. Certification markets tend to converge on a handful of providers protected by switching costs, product opacity and reputational noise. …
Certification Drag: The Opinion Puzzle And Other Transactional Curiosities, 2014 University of Southern California
Certification Drag: The Opinion Puzzle And Other Transactional Curiosities, Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan M Barnett
The law-and-economics literature typically depicts certification intermediaries, such as law firms, auditors, underwriters, investment banks and rating agencies, as socially valuable market participants who ameliorate informational asymmetries that would otherwise distort pricing or transaction structures. This standard view is incomplete. Using the example of the “closing opinion”, a third-party legal opinion commonly delivered at the consummation of a variety of business transactions, I argue that intermediaries, even when operating under substantially competitive conditions and in sophisticated market settings, may supply widely consumed certification products that fail to mitigate informational asymmetries while increasing transaction costs. Based on the highly qualified language …
Bryant Garth (Photograph), 2014 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University
Bryant Garth (Photograph)
Bryant Garth (1986-1987 Acting; 1987-1990)
Bryant Garth in his office (color photograph).
Headshot Of Dean Garth (Photograph), 2014 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University
Headshot Of Dean Garth (Photograph)
Bryant Garth (1986-1987 Acting; 1987-1990)
Photograph of Dean Garth in his office.
Nigger Manifesto: Ideological And Intellectual Discrimination Inside The Academy, 2014 National Paralegal College
Nigger Manifesto: Ideological And Intellectual Discrimination Inside The Academy, Ellis Washington
Ellis Washington
Draft – 22 March 2014
Nigger Manifesto
Ideological Racism inside the American Academy
By Ellis Washington, J.D.
Abstract
I was born for War. For over 30 years I have worked indefatigably, I have labored assiduously to build a relevant resume; a unique curriculum vitae as an iconoclastic law scholar zealous for natural law, natural rights, and the original intent of the constitutional Framers—a Black conservative intellectual born in the ghettos of Detroit, abandoned by his father at 18 months, who came of age during the Detroit Race Riots of 1967… an American original. My task, to expressly transcend the ubiquitous …