Law Schools And Professional Education

Author : Bruce A. Kimball
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807889962
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inception of Modern Professional Education written by Bruce A. Kimball and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence. Langdell founded his model on the idea of academic meritocracy. According to this principle, scholastic achievement should determine one's merit in professional life. Despite fierce opposition from students, faculty, alumni, and legal professionals, he designed and instituted a formal system of innovative policies based on meritocracy. This system's components included the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the sequenced curriculum and its extension to three years, the hurdle of annual examinations for continuation and graduation, the independent career track for professional faculty, the transformation of the professional library into a scholarly resource, the inductive pedagogy of teaching from cases, the organization of alumni to support the school, and a new, highly successful financial strategy. Langdell's model was subsequently adopted by leading law schools, medical schools, business schools, and the schools of other professions. By the time of his retirement as dean at Harvard, Langdell's reforms had shaped the future model for professional education throughout the United States.

Author : Emily Grant
Publisher : Carolina Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611636901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum written by Emily Grant and published by Carolina Academic Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mandate for more experiential education raises a fundamental question for law teachers: how do we design and provide these learning opportunities for our students? This book offers answers to that question. Organized into four sections, it discusses specific techniques for incorporating various forms of experiential education into the law school curriculum, ranging from discrete modules of experiential instruction to complete curriculum reform. Section I provides the foundation for making curricular changes, with chapters providing guidance on building both institutional and student support for experiential education. Section II explores the spectrum of experiential education, starting with chapters that explain experiential modules and classroom exercises that can be included in first-year and upper-level courses before moving to chapters that describe and explain immersive learning experiences such as course-long simulations and semester-in-practice programs, culminating in chapters focusing on complete curriculum reform. Section III describes programs that offer experiential learning opportunities outside of the regular curriculum. Section IV concludes the book, offering online resources for experiential education and guidance on how to provide experiential education in an online format.

Author : Laura Rothstein
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483322238
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Education Law written by Laura Rothstein and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Education Law, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive, and student-friendly overview of the major federal laws—and judicial interpretations of those laws—that apply to the education of children with special needs. Laura Rothstein and Scott F. Johnson thoroughly present the most up-to-date information on special education statutes, regulations, and judicial interpretations, including substantial changes in the interpretation of the legistlation. The text helps students understand what the law requires so that they can develop policies and make decisions that comply with these laws.

Author : James Russell Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Education written by James Russell Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479801623
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Law School written by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers one hundred rules that every first year law student should live by “Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering. What most first-year students don’t realize is that law school has a code, an unwritten rulebook of decisions and traditions that must be understood in order to succeed. The Law of Law School endeavors to distill this common wisdom into one hundred easily digestible rules. From self-care tips such as “Remove the Drama,” to studying tricks like “Prepare for Class like an Appellate Argument,” topics on exams, classroom expectations, outlining, case briefing, professors, and mental health are all broken down into the rules that form the hidden law of law school. If you don’t have a network of lawyers in your family and are unsure of what to expect, Ferguson and Newton offer a forthright guide to navigating the expectations, challenges, and secrets to first-year success. Jonathan Newton was himself such a non-traditional student and now shares his story as a pathway to a meaningful and positive law school experience. This book is perfect for the soon-to-be law school student or the current 1L and speaks to the growing number of first-generation law students in America.

Author : William M. Sullivan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 078798261X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educating Lawyers written by William M. Sullivan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Educating Lawyers "This volume, under the presidency of Lee Shulman, is intended primarily to foster appreciation for what legal education does at its best. We want to encourage more informed scholarship and imaginative dialogue about teaching and learning for the law at all organizational levels: in individual law schools, in the academic associations, in the profession itself. We also believe our findings will be of interest within the academy beyond the professional schools, as well as among that public concerned with higher education and the promotion of professional excellence." --From the Introduction "Educating Lawyers is no doubt the best work on the analysis and reform of legal education that I have ever read. There is a call for deep changes in the way law is taught, and I believe that it will be a landmark in the history of legal education." --Bryant G. Garth, dean and professor of law, Southwestern Law School and former director of the American Bar Foundation "Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems to me exactly what is needed to make legal education more 'professional,' to prepare law students better for the practice of law, and to address societal expectations of lawyers." --Stephen Wizner, dean of faculty, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Author : American Bar Association. Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Education and Professional Development written by American Bar Association. Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Bocking Stevens
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584771992
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law School written by Robert Bocking Stevens and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive history of American legal education. Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s examines legal education and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens' distinguished career in education and law includes his eight years as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, seventeen-year term as professor of law at Yale University and nine-year term as president of Haverford College. Well-annotated and indexed, with a thorough bibliography. "the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." --LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN A History of American Law, Third Edition (2005) 589

Author : Alfred Zantzinger Reed
Publisher : New York : Published for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching by Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Training for the Public Profession of the Law written by Alfred Zantzinger Reed and published by New York : Published for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1921 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kimberly E. O'Leary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781531019365
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Student Learning in the Doctrinal Law School Classroom written by Kimberly E. O'Leary and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Legal education has created silos where certain professors teach "skills" courses and others teach "doctrine." This book challenges that division by building on learning theories that establish students cannot truly learn doctrine without explicit instruction in skills. Moreover, it provides suggestions to demonstrate how law professors can seamlessly weave skills-based assessments into a course to spotlight for students what they have learned and for professors what students haven't learned (as required by ABA Standard 314)"--