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Matheson, Alan A. – Arizona State Law Journal, 1979
Outlined are the establishment of the law school in 1967, development of an administrative staff, design of the curriculum, clinical experience program, growth of the faculty, composition of the student body and prospects for the future. Available from William S. Hein and Co., Inc., 1285 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14209. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Curriculum, Educational History, Graduate School Faculty

Cramton, Roger C. – Journal of Legal Education, 1982
What is wrong with the law curriculum, how to improve it, and obstacles to be overcome are discussed. The law curriculum is seen as: deficient in structure, not sufficiently diverse, neither sufficiently theoretical nor sufficiently practical, and not always sufficiently demanding. (MLW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation

Michelman, Frank I. – Journal of Legal Education, 1982
The law school curriculum is excessively committed to doctrinal learning as differentiated from (1) theoretical and (2) practical learning. Law schools have an educational responsibility to offer their students a modicum of instruction in the applied skills of legal representation. (MLW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Experiential Learning

Brink, David R. – Journal of Legal Education, 1982
A lawyer discusses legal education: the law's purpose to deliver competent legal services to the public; the widening gap in the preparedness of new lawyers; whose responsibility it is to prepare lawyers for competent practice--law schools, the bar, the government; responsibilities of practicing lawyers, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: Competence, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality

Pye, A. Kenneth – Journal of Legal Education, 1982
The quality of a school is measured by the quality of the lawyering provided to the public by its graduates and the contributions to scholarship by its faculty. Essential steps are the formulation of objectives, a plan to implement them, and the reallocation of resources for the plan to function. (MLW)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Futures (of Society)

Veitch, Edward – University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 1981
The means required to establish a small, but quality, local law school are discussed. Facts about the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick and arguments in favor of the enhancement in quality of the smaller law schools are presented. (MLW)
Descriptors: Budgets, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance, Educational Policy