The Center For the Study of the Public Domain @DukeCSPD
Today we’d like to highlight the Duke Law School site, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. There’s a lot to look at and enjoy here. The “About Us” page at the...
Legal Education
New From Hart Publishing: Lawyers In 21st Century Societies, Vol. 1 @hartpublishing
New from Hart Publishing: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies. Vol. 1: National Reports (Richard L. Abel, Ole Hammerslev, Hilary Sommerlad, and Ulrike Schultz, eds., Hart Publishing, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description...
Legal Landmark films: Featuring Important UK Case Law @DavidYuratich
Learn about important UK cases and visit the locations in which they originated in the series of Legal Landmark films, produced by Royal Holloway, University of London, available through this link.
Millemann, Rauh, and Bowie, Teaching Professional Responsibility Through Theater @MikeMillemann @robertbowiejr
Michael A. Millemann, University of Maryland School of Law, Elliott Rauh, and Robert Bowie, Jr., are publishing Teaching Professional Responsibility Through Theater in the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2020). Here is the...
Lloyd on How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education @LloydEsq
Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, has published How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education. Here is the abstract. Discussing federal statutes, Justice Scalia tells us...
ICYMI: From the Journal of Legal Education: A Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education @TheAALS
ICYMI: Michael Asimow and Ticien Marie Sassoubre, both of the Stanford Law School, have published Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education, at 68 Journal of Legal Education...
A Quick Look at Vinny Gambini in the Legal System
Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit started a recently issued opinion with a citation to the popular film My Cousin Vinny. “In 1992, Vincent Gambini taught a...
A Poetic Brief @CecereCarl
Take a look at this brief (link here), filed in the Rentmeester v. Nike case (Supreme Court, Docket No. 18-728). In particular, the first paragraph, reproduced below, is just lovely. It lays out analysis...
Marc L. Roark, Law, Literature, and Identity
Law, Literature, and Identity Marc L. Roark* My first exposure to Law and Literature was as a grad student at Duke where Jamie Boyle taught the course. It was, for lack of a...
Cassandra Sharp and Karina Murray, It’s All Academic
It’s All Academic: Reflections on Teaching Method in the Development of Intelligent Lawyers. Cassandra Sharp* and Karina Murray** When students commence legal education, they have not yet adopted all the norms that underpin the...