This Essay explores the values, limits, and adverse effects of our system of law school examinations. Law school examinations encourage or require students to acquire certain …
American legal education is now enjoying unparalleled success. Each year many of the brightest college graduates choose to study law, and virtually all law schools are swamped …
[A] teacher of law should be a person who accompanies his pupils on a road which is new to them, but with which he is well acquainted from having often traveled it before. What …
RM Pipkin - American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1979 - cambridge.org
Legal ethics has recently become the focus of professional and public concern. One aspect of that concern has to do with the education and socialization of law students in professional …
This Article analyzes and draws lessons from the intersections of four complex institutions: the American law school, the American research university, the legal profession, and the …
The case method/final examination system of law schools remains the predominant method of legal education despite dramatic changes in modern legal practices, powerful criticisms of …
RM Pipkin - American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1976 - cambridge.org
This paper is the first in a series on data collected for the Law Student Activity Patterns Project. The project is one of several discrete studies in the research program in legal …
LM Romero, R Delgado, C Reynoso - NML Rev., 1974 - HeinOnline
* Associate Professor of Law, University of New Mexico.** Assistant Professor of Law; Program in Law, Science and Medicine, Yale Law School.*** Professoi of Law, University of …
RM Pipkin - American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1982 - cambridge.org
The part-time employment of full-time law students is a significant aspect of contemporary legal education. Successful socialization and training in law are presumed to require the …