Sentences with phrase «faculty teaching doctrinal»

In addition, the program supports inter-curricular faculty work by having traditional «doctrinal» faculty teach LA&W while at the same time traditional «legal writing» faculty teach a doctrinal course, with members of both groups working together in regularly scheduled teaching meetings and in less formal settings.

Not exact matches

Instead, the LAWR I faculty members would have the option of teaching analysis and writing within a chosen doctrinal area.

Not only do the lines between different types of faculty members become blurred, the lines between the subjects of writing and the connected doctrinal course become blurred as well, both in terms of program design and the various ways in which the connected courses are taught together.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

In the past two decades, the field of legal writing has made great strides within the academy.51 The course is now a required part of the law school curriculum, pursuant to the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools.52 It is taught, most often, by full - time faculty who specialize in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.53

Now in 2010, I work as a tenured professor with colleagues on the tenure track; teach 30 students in the legal writing courses and others in doctrinal classes and seminars; have a «chair» attached to my job title; and am paid on an equal scale with other faculty.4

Immediately before joining the School of Law's faculty, she was a Visiting Clinical Professor of Law at Florida International University's College of Law, where she taught in - house clinics in the areas of immigration and human rights and a doctrinal course on immigration law.

Legal Analysis and Writing (formerly titled LAWR I), taught by full - time faculty members in the doctrinal area of the professor's choice, introduces students to the structure of the American legal system and the sources of legal authority.

[2] ABA data suggest that 90 % of law faculty who primarily teach doctrinal courses (i.e., all 2013 full - time «teaching resources» minus clinical, legal writing, and skills teachers) are tenured or on tenure track.

Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching pedagogy, exam writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal faculty, curricular reform, law school rankings, and the very identity and purpose of a law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role of the LRW course.