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Issues Players Face with the Collective Bargaining Process
No full textThis presentation was originally delivered at the DePaul Journal of Sports Law & Contemporary Problems 2012 Symposium
Thinking in a Deweyan Perspective: The Law School Exam as a Case Study for Thinking in Lawyering
No full textAs creatures of thought, we are thinking all the time, but that does not necessarily mean that we are thinking well. Answering the law school exam, like solving any problem, requires that the student exercise thinking in an effective and productive manner. This Article provides some guidance in that pursuit. Using John Dewey’s suspended conclusion concept for effective thinking as an organizing theme, this Article presents one basic set of lessons for thinking through issues that arise regarding the approach to a law school exam. This means that the lessons contained here help exercise thought while taking the exam — to think through the exam approach. The second more subtle purpose is to demonstrate that the law school exam can serve as a case study in the effectiveness of certain thinking tools that have much broader application. For that reason, this Article is not your typical “how-to” guide, but instead provides guidance critically and generally applicable to the thinking enterprise itself
Resistance and Transformation: Re-Reading Mari Matsuda in the Postracial Era
No full textThis symposium essay examines the impact of Mari Matsuda\u27s seminal 1987 article, Looking to the Bottom: Critical Legal Studies and Reparations, and argues that her work continues to resonate in current debates about postracialism. In particular, Matsuda\u27s insights on the importance of narratives from the bottom, developing an inclusive and complex dialogue about race, and embracing ambiguity are helpful correctives against the negative effects of postracial discourse
