Legal Education in the United StatesDIANE Publishing, 1983 - 46 pages |
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... law professors ; legal - services lawyers who serve the poor ; and " public - interest " lawyers who fight for causes . Law is also the favored career for entry into politics . As diverse as American lawyers are in their specialties ...
... law professors ; legal - services lawyers who serve the poor ; and " public - interest " lawyers who fight for causes . Law is also the favored career for entry into politics . As diverse as American lawyers are in their specialties ...
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... law school the crucial and most difficult step in admission to the profession. There are now 185 ABA-approved law schools, with about 2,000 full-time professors teaching in them. The schools are supported by student tuition fees, gifts ...
... law school the crucial and most difficult step in admission to the profession. There are now 185 ABA-approved law schools, with about 2,000 full-time professors teaching in them. The schools are supported by student tuition fees, gifts ...
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... legal education—the post- graduate three-year program, staffed by full-time faculty, teaching a mostly standardized curricu- lum, using the case method—came into being only gradually. Until the 20th century it hardly existed. In their ...
... legal education—the post- graduate three-year program, staffed by full-time faculty, teaching a mostly standardized curricu- lum, using the case method—came into being only gradually. Until the 20th century it hardly existed. In their ...
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... law professors' scholarship and also law students' notes and com- ments on cases and development in the law. Law review membership became a credential for the jobs as clerks to high court judges, associates in big-city law firms and law ...
... law professors' scholarship and also law students' notes and com- ments on cases and development in the law. Law review membership became a credential for the jobs as clerks to high court judges, associates in big-city law firms and law ...
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... law with social sci- ences, to conduct empirical studies of courts and legal ... law professors into government ser- vice as drafters of legislation and ... teachers, where students could learn not just to think like lawyers, but to ...
... law with social sci- ences, to conduct empirical studies of courts and legal ... law professors into government ser- vice as drafters of legislation and ... teachers, where students could learn not just to think like lawyers, but to ...
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ABA Center Accreditation Committee agencies American Bar Association Annette Cook attorneys audio audiotape bar examination Center for Continuing CLE providers Clinical conducted Continuing Legal Education Council court administrators court management court system courtroom David Pitts director Dressel Education and Admissions education and training established estate law evaluation faculty Federal Judicial Center fession full approval Gorin and David graduates grams IIP Electronic Journals important individual courts Issues of Democracy judicial education judicial system law firms law teachers lawyers McGee MCLE ment National Judicial College NCSC Office organizations participants personnel profes profession Professional Certificate professional court professor provisional approval reporting period role Sebert Section of Legal self-study seminars skills and values staff standards Stuart Gorin teaching teleconference tion tional trial court U.S. Department U.S. jurisdictions U.S. law schools U.S. Supreme Court United Warren Burger webcasting Yale Law School
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Page 5 - Values —provide statements of US policy together with analysis, commentary, and background information in their thematic areas. All issues appear in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish language versions, and selected issues also appear in Arabic and Russian.
Page 5 - The opinions expressed in the journals do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the US government. The US Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and continued accessibility of Internet sites linked to herein; such responsibility resides solely with the publishers of those sites. Articles may be reproduced and translated outside the United States unless the articles carry explicit copyright restrictions on such use.
Page 5 - The Office of International Information Programs of the US Department of State provides products and services that explain US policies, society, and values to foreign audiences. The Office publishes five electronic journals that examine major issues facing the United States and the international community. The journals — Economic Perspectives...
Page 13 - Provisional" to the right of their name were provisionally approved as of October 1, 2000. Note: In February 2001, Appalachian School of Law was granted provisional approval by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Page 5 - Embassy or at the editorial offices: Editor, Issues of Democracy, Democracy and Human Rights—IIP/T/DHR, US Department of State, 301 4th Street, SWWashington, DC. 20547, United States of America. email: ejdemos@pd.state.gov...
Page 15 - Association upon recommendations of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The approval granted is of two types: provisional approval and full approval.
Page 20 - The skills and values of the competent lawyer are developed along a continuum that starts before law school, reaches its most formative and intensive stage during the law school experience, and continues throughout a lawyer's professional career. Legal educators and practicing lawyers should stop viewing themselves as separated by a "gap...
Page 23 - Chairman of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar...
Page 39 - Annual review of legal education. American Bar Association. Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Page 2 - We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.