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Vol. 61, No. 01 (August 23, 2021)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Calls To Eliminate Bar Exams Are Premature, A. Benjamin Spencer

Popular Media

Calls for eliminating bar exams to improve fairness and diversity in the legal profession are increasing, but A. Benjamin Spencer, dean of William & Mary Law School, argues that eliminating them is not the answer. They should be transformed into a more effective gauge of professional readiness, which, he contends, can be achieved if more states adopt the Uniform Bar Exam.

August 2021 Newsletter

Ergo

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Advice, Sean H. Williams

Utah Law Review

This Article seeks to resurrect an ancient technology for enhancing the welfare of others: peer advice. For decisions as variable as whether to eat a marshmallow or which dialysis treatment to undergo, advice-giving is a powerful and as-yet-unrecognized debiasing tool. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive and effective debiasing tools ever studied. People who succumb to motivated reasoning, hyperbolic discounting, and a host of other biases offer advice that is untainted by them. When advising others, we are more creative, process information and probability more rationally, and see the forest rather than the trees. Far from the …

The Intersectional Race And Gender Effects Of The Pandemic In Legal Academia, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Faculty Scholarship

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic helped to expose the inequities that already existed between students at every level of education based on race and socioeconomic class status, it has exposed existing inequities among faculty based on gender and the intersection of gender and race. The legal academy has been no exception to this reality. The widespread loss of childcare and the closing of both public and private primary and secondary schools have disproportionately harmed women law faculty, who are more likely than their male peers to work a “second shift” in terms of childcare and household responsibilities. Similarly, women law …

Exploring The Interpretation And Application Of Procedural Rules: The Problem Of Implicit And Institutional Racial Bias, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Articles & Chapters

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Law Library Usage For Legal Information Seeking Among The Law Students In Public Sector Universities: An Empirical Study, Jibran Jamshed, Muhammad Kashan Jamshaid, Iram Saleemi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objectives: The primary purpose of this study was to determine the Law Library usage patterns of law students in the public sector universities of Punjab, Pakistan. It analyzed the legal information needs of law students along with the purpose of their visits, availability of services, and major problems faced by law students in the law libraries.

Methodology: This empirical study was conducted while using a survey design. A structured questionnaire was distributed among the participants of the study using a convenience sampling technique. Collected data was analyzed and interpreted through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS V23). …

23rd Annual Open Government Summit: Attorney General State Of Rhode Island : Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act July 30, 2021, Office Of The Attorney General State Of Rhode Island

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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23rd Annual Open Government Summit: Access To Public Records Act, Open Meetings Act Powerpoint Presentation 07-30-2021, Office Of Attorney General State Of Rhode Island, Peter F. Neronha

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Law Schools, Law Firms Must Share Responsibility For Diversity, A. Benjamin Spencer

Popular Media

Law schools and law firms must partner to ensure that a pipeline of underrepresented students apply to law school and receive the professional development support they need to remain and advance at firms, William & Mary Law School Dean A. Benjamin Spencer says. Those who make, interpret, and apply the law must reflect the full range of human experiences, thought, and insight into the human condition, he says.

Law School News: Rwu Law Acquires Top Marine Law Journal 08-19-2021, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Law School News: Logan Article Central To Scotus Dissent, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Sweet Are The Uses Of Adversity, Nicholas Allard

Faculty Scholarship

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July 2021 Magazine

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Approaching The Bar: An Analysis Of Post-Graduation Bar Exam Study Habits, Joshua L. Jackson, Tiffane Cochran

AccessLex Institute Research

For most law graduates, passing the bar exam is the culmination and most critical outcome of their legal education. The typical two months spent preparing after law school graduation are essential to success. However, empirical understanding of post-graduation bar preparation is limited; only a few studies in the legal academy have examined this period. Generally, law graduates are advised to treat bar preparation like a full-time job. But we lack research and data on the specific time management strategies and tactics that are correlated with bar passage. Given impending changes to the bar exam, such inquiries are critical to determining …

Legal Education's Curricular Tipping Point Toward Inclusive Socratic Teaching, Jamie Abrams

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Two seismic curricular disruptions create a tipping point for legal education to reform and transform. COVID-19 abruptly disrupted the delivery of legal education. It aligned with a tectonic racial justice reckoning, as more professors and institutions reconsidered their content and classroom cultures, allying with faculty of color who had long confronted these issues actively. The frenzy of these dual disruptions starkly contrasts with the steady drumbeat of critical legal scholars advocating for decades to reduce hierarchies and inequalities in legal education pedagogy.

This context presents a tipping point supporting two pedagogical reforms that leverage this unique moment. First, it is …

The Clerkship-Academia Continuum, Merritt E. Mcalister, Katherine Mims Crocker

Popular Media

In the spring 2021 edition of Judicature (Vol. 105 No. 1), Florida International University Law Professor Howard Wasserman published data analyzing the number of current law professors who have served in clerkships and for which judges those professors clerked. His study offered a compelling picture of “academic feeder judges,” or those on the bench whose clerks tended to matriculate professionally in large numbers within the halls of the academy.

We asked two law professors, Merritt McAlister at the University of Florida, and Katherine Mims Crocker of William & Mary Law School, to reflect on Wasserman’s findings and to offer a …

The Paradox Of Criminal History, Eric S. Fish

Cardozo Law Review

Criminal history is all-important in the criminal and immigration systems. But these systems have little substantive information about past crimes. This creates a paradox. A person’s past convictions dictate whether they will face new criminal charges, make bond, suffer a lengthy sentence, or be targeted for deportation, among many other consequences. Yet, despite the vital role that criminal history plays in these decisions, judges and prosecutors know very little about the prior crimes of the people they process. Factually rich accounts of a person’s convictions are rarely available. The system instead relies on rap sheets that record only basic facts—the …

Peran Notaris Dan Keabsahan Akta Rups Yang Dilaksanakan Secara Elektronik (Dilihat Dari Peraturan Otoritas Jasa Keuangan Nomor 16/Pojk.04/2020 Dan Undang-Undang Nomor 2 Tahun 2014 Tentang Perubahan Undang-Undang Nomor 30 Tahun 2004 Tentang Jabatan Notaris), Agita Chici Rosdiana

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai Peran Notaris dalam menjalankan jabatannya dalam pembuatan suatu akta “relaas” mengenai E-RUPS haruslah dilakukan berdasarkan ketentuan baik yang diatur dalam Undang-Undang No. 2 Tahun 2014 tentang Perubahan Undang-Undang Nomor 30 Tahun 2004 tentang Jabatan Notaris dan Peraturan Otoritas Jasa Keuangan yang terkait. Hal ini guna mencegah terjadinya pelanggaran saat Notaris menjalankan jabatannya tersebut serta memberikan suatu kepastian hukum bagi kliennya. Adapun permasalahan yang diangkat dalam penelitian ini adalah peran notaris dalam suatu Elektronik Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham (E-RUPS) di Indonesia menurut Undang-Undang Jabatan Notaris dan Peraturan Otoritas Jasa Keuangan dan Keabsahan Akta Relaas dalam bentuk …

Pembatalan Akta Pengikatan Hibah Notaris/Ppat Yang Masih Dijadikan Jaminan Pinjaman Bank (Studi Kasus Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 2569 K/Pdt/2019), Amanda Feby Fitrayani

Indonesian Notary

Jurnal ini membahas mengenai pembatalan akta pengikatan hibah Notaris/PPAT yang masih dijadikan jaminan pinjaman Bank. Dalam Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 2569 K/Pdt/2019, akta tersebut dinyatakan batal demi hukum oleh Hakim Mahkamah Agung. Objeknya berupa Sertipikat Hak Guna Bangunan (HGB) Nomor 5086/Penjaringan yang masih dijadikan jaminan pinjaman Bank dan baru akan dihibahkan setelah dilakukan roya oleh Tn. ZAN. Adapun permasalahan yang diangkat dalam Jurnal ini yaitu mengenai pengaturan hibah bersyarat, pertimbangan dari Hakim Mahkamah Agung mengenai pembatalan hibah dalam putusan ini, dan, bentuk tanggung jawab dari Notaris/PPAT Tn. HYAA, S.H yang sudah pensiun terhadap akta yang telah ia buat …