A Survey of Law School Curricula, 2002-2010
Title | A Survey of Law School Curricula, 2002-2010 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine L. Carpenter |
Publisher | Amer Bar Assn |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781614386384 |
"The 2010 Survey is the result of over two years of effort by the Curriculum Committee and the Consultant's Office staff"--P. [1].
A Survey of Law School Curricula
Title | A Survey of Law School Curricula PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Law schools |
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This report is the result of a three-year project conducted by the Curriculum Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the the Bar.
Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism
Title | Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Shauhin Talesh |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2021-03-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1788117778 |
This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. It explores an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with and examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR.
Legal Drafting by Design
Title | Legal Drafting by Design PDF eBook |
Author | Richard K. Neumann Jr. |
Publisher | Aspen Publishing |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 2018-02-20 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1454897775 |
Designed for upper-level survey legal drafting courses, this groundbreaking text explains drafting using a common vocabulary that applies to any legal document based on a fundamental rule structure, including statutes and other forms of public drafting as well as contracts and other forms of private drafting. This unified drafting approach gives students a common denominator approach to drafting all kinds of legal documents. In addition, students can use the techniques they’ve learned to deconstruct, interpret, and revise any kind of legal document composed of rules. This common-sense approach of teaching/learning a single vocabulary and set of skills to use in drafting any rules-based legal document is an innovative model for U.S. legal drafting courses, though it has been used in other countries for decades. Key Features: A unified approach that teaches students the general skills of drafting rules of law—duties, discretionary authority, and declarations, including their conditions in legal tests. Practice applying those skills to drafting a range of documents, including contracts, statutes, regulations, and other. Coverage of how courts interpret the rules and how to draft anticipating what the courts will do. An understanding of how law governs human behavior through the rules that students learn to draft. A wide range of classroom exercises on the detail of drafting. Additional drafting assignments, for use in and out of class, that help students learn how to use the rules and to accomplish clients’ goals.
Divorced from Reality
Title | Divorced from Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Jane C. Murphy |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0814708935 |
"Over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way the legal system approaches family disputes. Traditionally, family disputes were resolved through an 'adversary' system: opposing parties appealed to a judge who determined which party was at fault and how the marital assets - including the children - should be divided. Now, many family courts are opting for a 'problem-solving' model in which courts attempt to restructure families by resolving both legal and nonlegal issues. At the same time, American families have changed dramatically. Divorce rates have slowed, while the number of children born and raised outside of marriage has increased sharply. Grandparents and same-sex partners care for children, and more fathers seek an active role in their children's lives. As a result, families in today's court system have become more diverse and their legal situations more complex. In Divorced from Reality, Jane C. Murphy and Jana B. Singer argue that the current 'problem-solving' model fails to address the realities of today's families. While today's dispute resolution regime may represent an improvement over its more adversary predecessor, it is built largely around the model of a divorcing nuclear family with lawyers representing all parties - a model that fits poorly with the realities of today's disputing families. And courts may no longer be the best place for families in conflict. To serve the families it is meant to help, the legal system must adapt and reshape itself"--Unedited summary from book jacket.
Legal Culture in the United States: An Introduction
Title | Legal Culture in the United States: An Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Junker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2016-02-22 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317245547 |
For law students and lawyers to successfully understand and practice law in the U.S., recognition of the wider context and culture which informs the law is essential. Simply learning the legal rules and procedures in isolation is not enough without an appreciation of the culture that produced them. This book provides the reader with an understandable introduction to the ways in which U.S. law reflects its culture and each chapter begins with questions to guide the reader, and concludes with questions for review, challenge and further understanding. Kirk W. Junker explores cultural differences, employing history, social theory, philosophy, and language as "reference frames," which are then applied to the rules and procedures of the U.S. legal system in the book’s final chapter. Through these cultural reference frames readers are provided with a set of interpretive tools to inform their understanding of the substance and institutions of the law. With a deeper understanding of this cultural context, international students will be empowered to more quickly adapt to their studies; more comprehensively understand the role of the attorney in the U.S. system; draw comparisons with their own domestic legal systems, and ultimately become more successful in their legal careers both in the U.S. and abroad.
Making Climate Lawyers
Title | Making Climate Lawyers PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly K. Smith |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2024-04-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0700636390 |
Why did it take so long for American law schools to start teaching about climate change? Although most environmental law professors were aware of climate change by 1990, it took nearly fifteen years for them to incorporate the topic into their curriculum. In her innovative new work, Kimberly K. Smith explores how American environmental law professors have addressed climate change, identifying the barriers they faced, how they overcame them, and how they created “climate law” as a domain of legal specialization. Making Climate Lawyers explores the history of why American law schools were resistant to teaching about climate change and how that changed over the course of a forty-year period, resulting in law schools across the country incorporating climate change into their curricula, with many even establishing centers on the environment. Smith challenges dominant explanations of why the United States was slow to develop climate policy: it wasn’t just political opposition or short-sightedness. Creating climate legal professionals required changing the fundamentals of legal education. Based on dozens of interviews with faculty and students, Making Climate Lawyers fills a gap in the literature on the intellectual history of climate change, most of which focuses on the history of climate science. Smith focuses instead on how the climate problem fits (or doesn’t fit) into the structure of American law. She uses this story as a lens through which to understand both the transformation of legal education since the 1980s and the nature of climate change as a policy problem.