Most Recent Issue:
Clinical Theory Workshop 25th Anniversary

What We Are Learning, Stephen Ellmann

The papers you are about to read in this issue of the New York Law School Law Review are part of a birthday celebration. All of these papers—and many more—were presented at a conference in the fall of 2010 that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Clinical Theory Workshops. Read More…

Law Schools and the Changing Face of Practice, Peter Toll Hoffman

Upon graduating from law school in 1971, and having received what I thought was an excellent education from a top law school, I found that I had no idea how to handle my first task as a lawyer.  Read More…

Clinicians, Practitioners, and Scribes: Drafting Client Work Product in a Small Business Clinic, Robert R. Statchen

The recent and rapid growth of transactional clinics, and more specifically small business clinics (SBCs), mandates that time and attention be given to pedagogical methods within this specialized clinical structure.  Read More…

Bargaining Without Law, Robert J. Condlin

The last three decades have been fertile ones for legal dispute bargaining theory. Several new and interesting variations have emerged, each grounded in a different intellectual tradition and each supported by a different body of research data, and there is the promise of more to come. Read More…

Epistemology and Ethics in Relationship-Centered Legal Education and Practice, Susan L. Brooks and Robert G. Madden

Epistemology involves views about knowledge and how it is developed. It is the study of how individuals come to know the truth about given phenomena as it relates to the knowledge generation process: How is knowledge acquired, internalized, and applied to situations? Read More…

New Roles to Solve Old Problems: Lawyering for Ordinary People in Today’s Context, Marsha Mansfield and Louise G. Trubek

The lawyering landscape is unsettled. Changes such as extreme American economic downturn, the ever-widening justice gap, and the reshaping of legal work by technology contribute to a sense of unease. Read More…

Collaborative as Client: Lawyering for Effective Change, Robin S. Golden

Tikkun olam ( תיקןו עולם ) is a Hebrew phrase that has come to be understood as “repairing the world” or “perfecting the world.” Read More…

Navigating Culture in the Field: Cultural Competency Training Lessons from the International Human Rights Clinic, Kathleen Kelly Janus and Dee Smythe

In an increasingly globalized and multicultural world, now more than ever, leading legal education centers are obliged to develop culturally sensitive leaders, able to transcend political boundaries and address issues of social injustice both domestically and abroad. Read More…

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