Posted on October 27, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
My colleague Alfred Mathewson always makes me think. He came back from the American Bar Association Bar Exam Passage conference last week. He had attended the Crossroads conference at the University of Washington too. He had some interesting observations. He said there were several schools that were creating “tracks” for students in the lower end [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by dmaranville
As I noted in my last post, one of the fun aspects of getting a few gray hairs is that we sometimes are around long enough to see a few of our ideas come to fruition. (more…)
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Posted on August 31, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
In Ireland recently, my family and I went on a tour with Denis Ryan, a Celtic folk musician, historian and tour guide. He took us on an anthropological tour of the Dingle Peninsula. We showed us the Ogham stones, Dun Beag, a fort built in 500 B.C., beehive huts in Faran, the Reasc Stone, the [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by karenalash
In October 1999, the AALS Commission on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities issued its report Learning to Serve. The Commission strongly emphasized the importance of faculty pro bono:
“…active faculty participation in pro bono work is highly important for the sake of their students. Law teachers teach as much about professional responsibility by what they [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by dmaranville
Here at the University of Washington Law School, we’re just entering our third year of the Gates Public Service Program. In addition to providing five full-ride scholarships with funding for summer jobs and a range of other support, the program provides public service programming for the entire student body. http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesScholar/ (more…)
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Posted on July 6, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
I have been gratified about the positive reaction I have received to my posts on cultural issues. I have received several lovely emails and requests about my article coming out in the Wash. U. Journal of Law and Social Policy. It should be out this fall. Meanwhile, here is an excerpt about the power of clinical legal [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Over the last 18 years I have come to the beautiful, Spanish colonial town of Guanajuato, Mexico to teach in the Guanajuato Summer Law Institute fairly regularly. For the last three years, I have directed the program. Each time I come, I make more Mexican friends and I learn more about the Mexican culture (both in [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Several of the sessions at the recent AALS clinical conference in Tucson raised issues that involve what many call cultural competence. (EXCELLENT CONFERENCE, by the way). All agreed that these issues are very difficult to address. I have an article coming out in the Wash. U. Journal of Law and Policy this fall that grows [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2008 by Peter Joy
The International Conference on the Future of Legal Education was held recently, Feb. 20-23, and it was the most comprehensive look to date concerning new initiatives in legal education around the world. The materials from the conference are available at http://law.gsu.edu/FutureOfLegalEducationConference/index.php, and this post will briefly mention just a few of the highlights. (more…)
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Posted on January 18, 2008 by michaelhunterschwartz
The University of Washington School of Law has agreed to host a Conference addressing efforts to implement the insights from Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Legal Education at the Crossroads: Ideas to Accomplishments to be held September 5-7, 2008.
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Posted on January 13, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
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Posted on January 5, 2008 by joanhowarth
The current misguided efforts by the Department of Education to pressure the ABA to create accreditation standards that more firmly establish bar exam pass rates as the measure of the quality of a law school (by changing Standard 301-6) inspire me to suggest a study. Let’s take a sample set of people who scored very well [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by joanhowarth
The Bar Exam Committee of SALT (Society of American Law Teachers) is working to address many of the problems with current licensing practices that are described and decried in Chapter One of Best Practices (“The Licensing Process is Not Protecting the Public” at pp. 11-15). SALT’s perspective is that access to the profession has been [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2007 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Paul Holland and I were the luncheon speakers on Leading Change in Legal Education: The Carnegie Study, Educating Lawyers and the book by Roy Stuckey, Best Practices in Legal Education at the Seattle University / SALT Deanship workshop, “ Promoting Diversity in Deanships”, September 28, 2007. (EXCELLENT conference, by the way) Since the conference was [...]
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