Student Evaluations of teaching

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Implications of Recent Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching, Montana Law Professor (2006)

This article discusses recent research about student evaluations of professors (sometimes called "student ratings.") Recent...

 

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How to Improve Student Ratings: Views from the Trenches, University of Baltimore Law Review (2004)

This article reports a study about student ratings of professors (sometimes called “student evaluations of...

 

Legal Writing

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Dismiss Those Sixth-Grade Hobgoblins, Kentucky Bench & Bar (2007)

Legal writers may have internalized false rules about writing. For example, they may believe the...

 

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Texts, Lies, and Changed Positions, Perspectives: Teaching Legal research and Writing (2007)

This review of Judge Richard Posner's Little Book of Plagiarism concludes that the book adds...

 

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Why George Orwell’s Ideas about Language Still Matter for Lawyers, Montana Law Review (2007)

This article examines George Orwell’s theories about language and applies them to contemporary legal discourse...

 

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Avoiding Plagiarism in Legal Documents, Kentucky Bench & Bar (2006)

Lawyers may believe they know what constitutes plagiarism in student papers, but the rules about...

 

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Implications of Recent Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching, Montana Law Professor (2006)

This article discusses recent research about student evaluations of professors (sometimes called "student ratings.") Recent...

 

Pleasing the Court: Writing Ethical and Effective Briefs (2005)

This book examines professionalism in legal writing by analyzing more than two hundred examples of...

 

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Streamline Your Writing, Kentucky Bench & Bar (2005)

This article presents examples of lawyers who were fined or rebuked for filing wordy documents...

 

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Bareheaded and Barefaced Counsel: Courts React to Unprofessionalism in Lawyers' Papers, Suffolk University Law Review (1997)

This article analyzes hundreds of cases involving unprofessionalism in legal writing. Lawyers’ errors included poor...

 

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Foul Is Fair: What Shakespeare Really Thought about Lawyers, Scribes Journal of Legal Writing (1995)

This is a discussion of the meaning and background behind some of Shakespeare's references to...

 

First Amendment, Establishment Clause

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God and Caesar in the Twenty-First Century: What Recent Cases Say about Church-State Relations in England and the United States (with Chloe J. Wallace), Florida International Law Journal (2006)

This article analyzes current jurisprudence concerning the relationship of church and state in the U.S....

 

Women's Reproductive Issues

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Misappropriation of Human Eggs and Embryos and the Tort of Conversion: A Relational View, Loyola of Los Angeles Law review (1999)

Based on an analysis of the Irvine fertility scandal and other fertility cases, this article...

 

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Walling Claims In or Out: Misappropriation of Human Gametic Material and the Tort of Conversion, Texas Journal of Women & Law (1999)

This article discusses fraudulent consent to sexual intercourse as a defense to paying child support....

 

Women in Law School

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Portia Unbound: The Effects of a Supportive Law School Environment on Women and Minority Students, UCLA Women's Law Journal (1996)

This article compares students at a new law school in the spring of 1996 with...

 

Age Discrimination in Employment

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Public Policy and the Tyranny of the Bottom Line in the Termination of Older Workers, South Carolina Law Review (2002)

This article discusses whether termination of an older worker in order to hire a younger...