Journal of Legal Education (Association of American Law Schools)

Brodsky, Alexandra

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A Rising Tide:  Learning About Fair Disciplinary Process from Title IX

O\u27Neill, Kate

1From the Editors
We are pleased to present a rich collection of articles and book reviews as 
this new academic year begins. Although at fi rst glance the titles may suggest 
disparate themes, in fact the articles and reviews are linked by the authors’ 
attention to fairness, equity, and humanism. These diverse authors have each, 
in their own ways, written about how legal educators can do a better job 
by carefully and fully respecting one another, our diverse students, and the 
diverse clients they will serve.
Before highlighting some of the contents, I note that this will be the last 
issue that faculty and staff  at the University of Washington School of Law 
will edit. It has been an honor to provide this service to the AALS and to our 
colleagues in the academy. We have learned a great deal from all the authors 
we have published over the past few years, and we have particularly enjoyed 
collaborating with our wise, witty, and helpful colleagues at Northeastern 
University School of Law. I am especially grateful to the expert support I have 
received from Cynthia Fester, Alena Wolotira, and Cheryl Nyberg here at UW.
For our regular feature, At the Lectern, Professor Laura Webb off ers pithy, 
practical advice on how to help law students and lawyers write betterby 
teaching them to think of themselves as teachers. If you ever read student work 
unhappily, please read Webb’s advice.
Our book reviews concern important and diverse works. Professor Lisa 
Radtke Bliss gives a very positive review of the third edition of Learning from 
Practice: A Text for Experiential Legal Education. Externship seminar teachers and 
supervisors of student externships—and others interested in fostering student 
professional identity—will want to read the review. Professor Zinaida Miller 
off ers a political scientist’s perspective on David Kennedy’s World of Struggle; 
Professor Lea Vaughn off ers a thought-provoking review of legal historian 
Susanna Blumenthal’s scholarly account of the interaction of scientifi c and 
legal theory in the development of U.S. conceptions of personal capacity and 
responsibility—Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American 
Legal Culture.
In the Articles section we have grouped pieces that we think might usefully 
be read together. The fi rst four articles concern the cost of legal education, 
particularly for students with fi nancial need. Professor William Whitford’s 
article off ers a short course in how law schools have recently diverted their 
fi nancial aid resources from need-based grants to merit scholarships as they 
compete for U.S. News & World Report ranking. The article is a must for readers 
who may not yet be aware of this trend, and it may inspire more faculty and bar 
associations to consider the eff ects of declining fi nancial aid on their schools’ 
missions and on the future demographics of the profession. Whitford suggests 
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some ways law schools could mitigate the trend, but he is not optimistic that it 
will be reversed any time soon. Nonetheless, this article is a call to arms for all 
those who care about social justice to fi gure out a better way to fi nance legal 
education for needy students.
In partial response to Whitford’s piece, Professor Deborah Merritt and 
Andrew Merritt take on one of the alleged obstacles to reformfederal 
antitrust law. The authors dispute the common assumption that antitrust law 
bars law schools from agreeing to fi nancial aid practices designed to mitigate 
the eff ects of the rankings race. They describe three ways in which law schools 
and the ABA might facilitate such agreements.
Professor Jerome Organ off ers an empirical analysis of net law school 
tuition costs at all accredited schools in the U.S. His analysis shows that stated 
tuition rates vary signifi cantly depending on a school’s geographic location 
(from over $60,000 to less than $20,000) and that net tuition costs vary as a 
function of a student’s LSAT score. His data show s that in recent years net 
tuition costs have risen for admitted students with the highest and lowest 
LSATs, while they have declined somewhat for students with scores in the 
middle tiers. The article confi rms the view that, on average, students with the 
poorest post-degree earning prospects are subsidizing the tuitions of students 
with somewhat better earning prospects. The article should interest those 
concerned with the policy issues in the Whitford and Merritt articles. It will 
also be useful to prelaw advisors in advising students on how to maximize 
their return on investing in a legal education.
Finally, in this group, Professor Joni Hersch off ers a diff erent idea for 
mitigating the cost of law school. She suggests that law schools off er a terminal 
master’s degree at the end of the fi rst year of law school for those students who 
cannot aff ord to or choose not to pursue a J.D. She argues that this lessens the 
risk for a student who is interested in law but unsure about her future career 
or uncertain how well she will succeed in law school or in practice. A master’s 
degree reduces the risk that a student might pay tuition for a year and have 
nothing to show for it. Hersch also argues that law schools could increase 
tuition revenues and diversify their student bodies by off ering this degree.
We grouped the next four articles because they each concern how to create a 
humane, constructive, and professional learning environment for all students. 
Professors Ian Ayres, Joe Bankman, Barbara Fried, and Kristine Luce describe 
their experiences designing and teaching innovative, collaborative programs 
at Stanford and Yale to help fi rst-year law students adopt cognitive behavioral 
techniques for managing anxiety. The authors provide interested readers with 
materials readers can adapt. The article also suggests paths for further research.
Professor Daniel Schwarz and his student Dion Farganis (2017 J.D.) off er 
another idea for how faculty can affi  rmatively increase students’ capacity to 
learn more eff ectively in law school. They present an argument, supported 
by empirical data drawn from several years of experience at their school, for 
3providing every student with individualized feedback in at least one fi rst-year 
course (in addition to the feedback usual in legal writing courses).
Professor Palma Joy Strand narrates some of her own professional 
development in an article that explains why and how a law teacher can 
facilitate a truly inclusive classroom experience. Her article provides specifi c 
ideas for content and teaching techniques for a range of subjects. She shows 
how a teacher can expressly acknowledge, and then try to mitigate, the fact 
that much of legal doctrine, as well as some teaching techniques and student 
demographics and expectations, leave some students feeling that they must 
simply endure an environment antagonistic to them, their background, or 
perspectives.
On a related theme, Professor Bonny L. Tavares’ article off ers specifi c 
techniques faculty can use to help law students build eff ective cross-cultural 
communication skills. Tavares argues that faculty must attend to these 
skills, fi rst, to ensure that students have the capacity to meet professional 
responsibility standards and, second, to enhance their eff ectiveness and 
satisfaction as practicing lawyers.
If you want a little break from thinking about teaching and want to learn 
how to manage the workload on that committee your dean just assigned you 
to, turn to the article by Professors Andrea A. Curcio and Mary A. Lynch on 
“social loafi ng” by faculty colleagues. You know who they are—or who you are!
To complete the issue we return to teaching, grouping two articles that off er 
creative approaches for specifi c subjects. Professors Laura Dooley, Brigham 
Fordham, and Ann Woodley describe how they collaborated on a course that 
integrated fi rst-year torts with civil procedure. They provide their theoretical 
and doctrinal reasons for the integration and evaluation data suggesting that 
students liked the course and gained a deeper understanding of both subject 
areas and of legal practice. The professors also learned more about their topics 
and obviously enjoyed their collaboration. The article is a must-read for any 
faculty interested in collaborating across doctrinal categories.
Finally, and so refreshingly in these noisy times, practitioner and adjunct 
professor Bret Rappaport off ers an entertaining and erudite argument for 
teaching law students and practitioners the rhetorical power of silence—the 
rare art of prevailing by choosing not to write or say another word.
Kate O’Neill
From the Editors


From the Editors

Godwin, Andrew

Wu, Richard Wai-sang

Legal Education, Practice Skills, and Pathways to Admission: A Comparative Analysis of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia

Efron, Yael

Munin, Nellie

Role-Playing Brings Theory to Life in a Multicultural Learning Environment

Robson, Ruthann

Educating the Next Generations of LGBTQ Attorneys

Monopoli, Paula A.

Book Review of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law by Tracy A. Thomas

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Volume 66
2016–2017
© 2016 & 2017 by the Association of American Law Schools
Journal of Legal Education
 
Published by the Association of American Law Schools. Edited for the 
Association at Northeastern University School of Law and University of 
Washington School of Law. Printed as a public service for law teachers by 
West Academic Publishing and Foundation Press. 
 
Editors 
Margaret Y.K. Woo 
Jeremy R. Paul  
Kate O’Neill  
Kellye Y. Testy 
 
Associate Editors Guest Editors Editorial Assistants
Ronald K. L. Collins 
Mary D. Fan  
Hemanth Gundavaram
Catherine Biondo
Stephen Evans 
Cindy Fester  
Julie Lipkin 
Cheryl Nyberg 
Alena Wolotira
 
A d v i s o ry  C o m m i t t e e 
Term Expires 2017 Term Expires 2018 Term Expires 2019
Hannah Arterian Juscelino F. Colares Michele Gilman
Frank Pasquale Eric T. Freyfogle Victoria Shannon Sahani
Marc Spindelman Osamudia James Stephen Ware
Robin West (chair)
 
O fficers o f  the  Asso c ia t ion 
Paul Marcus, President 
Kellye Y. Testy, Immediate Past President 
Wendy Collins Purdue, President-Elect 
Judith Areen, Executive Director 
Hosted by Northeastern University School of Law and University of 
Washington School of Law 
Acknowledgements
The editors are grateful for assistance in evaluating manuscripts and 
production by members of the Journal of Legal Education Editorial Board. 
At Washington University School of Law, we were ably assisted by Laurie 
Carlsson, Cindy Fester, Julie Lipkin, Cheryl Nyberg, and Alena Wolotira. At 
Northeastern University School of Law, we were assisted by Scott Akehurst-
Moore, Catherine Biondo, Stephen Evans, and Julie Lipkin. 
Index of Contributors
Richard Abel.............................................................................................961
Robert B. Ahdieh........................................................................................64
Alexis Anderson........................................................................................372
Elvia Rosales Arriola.................................................................................484
Katharine K. Baker.....................................................................................777
Katherine M. Bender..................................................................................116
Linda L. Berger..........................................................................................553
Matthew Bibbens......................................................................................702
Alexandra Brodsky....................................................................................822 
Patricia A. Cain........................................................................................460
Nancy Chi Cantalupo...............................................................................850
Hiram E. Chodosh....................................................................................702
Barbara J. Cox...........................................................................................531
Michelle Madden Dempsey.........................................................................29
Michael C. Dorf........................................................................................186
Yael Efron.................................................................................................309
Andrew Godwin........................................................................................212
Kate Galloway...........................................................................................332
Carol Goforth...........................................................................................904
Dianna Graves..........................................................................................702
Nyree Gray................................................................................................702
James Grimmelmann.................................................................................930
Hemanth C. Gundavaram.........................................................................439
Mary Heath...............................................................................................332
Anne Hewitt..............................................................................................332
Shon Hopwood.........................................................................................445
Joan W. Howarth.......................................................................................717
Mark Israel................................................................................................332
David B. Jaffe.............................................................................................116
Erik M. Jensen..........................................................................................409
Peter A. Joy...............................................................................................606
Andrew Jensen Kerr....................................................................................111
William C. Kidder.....................................................................................850
Francesca Laguardia.................................................................................882
Arthur S. Leonard......................................................................................473
Xueyao Li..................................................................................................237
Sida Liu....................................................................................................237
Jean C. Love.............................................................................................460
Dmitry Maleshin.......................................................................................289
Ann C. McGinley.......................................................................................585
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb..........................................................................575
Venezia Michalsen....................................................................................882
Paula A. Monopoli....................................................................................979
Alan B. Morrison................................................................................357, 653
Nellie Munin............................................................................................309 
Richard K. Neumann, Jr...........................................................................595
Jerome M. Organ.......................................................................................116
Wendy E. Parmet.......................................................................................100
Donald J. Polden......................................................................................634
Nancy D. Polikoff......................................................................................493
Richard A. Posner......................................................................................203
Jennifer W. Reynolds.................................................................................956
Holly Rider-Milkovich..............................................................................882
Ruthann Robson.......................................................................................502
Dan Rosen................................................................................................267
Catherine J. Ross.......................................................................................739
Natalie Skead............................................................................................332
William R. Slomanson...............................................................................696
Kathryn Stanchi........................................................................................558
Alex Steel..................................................................................................332
Peter L. Strauss...........................................................................................157
S.I. Strong.................................................................................................421
Deborah Tuerkheimer.................................................................................24
Kristen Konrad Tiscione...........................................................................566
Joseph P. Tomain.......................................................................................634
Francisco Valdes........................................................................................510
Zhizhou Wang..........................................................................................237
Richard Weisberg........................................................................................37
Melissa H. Weresh.....................................................................................538
Robin West...........................................................................................6, 804
Adrien K. Wing..........................................................................................44
Frank H. Wu...............................................................................................18
Richard Wai-sang Wu...............................................................................212
Kathryn Zeiler.............................................................................................78
David J.S. Ziff..........................................................................................668
Benjamin C. Zipursky..................................................................................55
Index of Articles 
A Conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer...............................................357
A Rising Tide: Learning About Fair Disciplinary Process from Title IX....822
ABA Standard 405(c): 
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back for Legal Education....................606 
Academic Freedom, Job Security, and Costs..............................................595
Amor Y Esperanza: 
A Latina Lesbian Becomes a Law Professor...............................................484
Assaultive Words and Constitutional Norms.............................................739
“Best Practices”: A Giant Step Toward Ensuring Compliance with ABA 
Standard 405(c), a Small Yet Important Step Toward Addressing Gender 
Discrimination in the Legal Academy........................................................566
Best Practices for Protecting Security of Position for 405(c) Faculty...........538
Campus Misconduct, Sexual Harm and Appropriate Process: 
The Essential Sexuality of It All.................................................................777
Christopher Columbus Langdell and the Public Law Curriculum..............157
Cincinnati: Before and After (A Love Story).............................................460
Classroom Taping Under Legal Scrutiny— 
A Road Map for a Law School Policy.........................................................372
Consensual Sexual Dysphoria: A Challenge for Campus Life...................804
Criminal Justice for All...............................................................................24
E.B. White Could Nod Too:  
Thoughts Occasioned by Reading “Death of a Pig”.................................409
Educating the Next Generations of LGBTQ Attorneys.............................502
Employment Law Considerations for Law Schools Hiring  
Legal Writing Professors............................................................................585
Fortuitously Present at the Creation...........................................................473
Fostering “Quiet Inclusion”:  
Interaction and Diversity in the Australian Law Classroom........................332
How Does a Radical Lesbian Feminist Who Just Knows How to Holler 
Somehow Become a Noted Legal Scholar?................................................493
Internationalizing Chinese Legal Education  
in the Early Twenty-First Century...............................................................237
Is There a Future for Critical Race Theory?.................................................44
Japan’s Law School System: The Sorrow and the Pity...............................267
Mapping the Title IX Iceberg:  
Sexual Harassement (Mostly) in Graduate School by College Faculty.......850
Notes from the Border: 
Writing Across the Administrative Law/Financial Regulation Divide.........64
Legal Education, Practice Skills, and Pathways to Admission: A Comparative 
Analysis of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia.....................................212
On Writing Wrongs:  
Legal Writing Professors of Color and the Curious Case of 405(c).............575
Population-Based Legal Analysis:  
Bridging the Interdisciplinary Chasm Through Public Health Law...........100
Real + Imaginary = Complex: Toward a Better Property Course................930
Response to Michael C. Dorf’s Review of Divergent Paths............................203
Rhetoric and Reality in the ABA Standards...............................................553
Role-Playing Brings Theory to Life  
in a Multicultural Learning Environment..................................................309
Safety and Freedom: Let’s Get It Together................................................699
Sexual Minorities in the Legal Academia: A Retrospection on Community, 
Action, Remembrance, and Liberation.......................................................510
Shame Agent..............................................................................................717
Standard 405 and Terms and Conditions  of Employment: 
More Chaos, Conflict and Confusion Ahead?...........................................634
Suffering in Silence:  
The Survey of Law Student Well-Being and the Reluctance of Law Students 
to Seek Help for Substance Use and Mental Health Concerns...................116
The Contested Value of Normative Legal Scholarship..................................6
The Crisis of Russian Legal Education in Comparative Perspective..........289
The End(s) of Legal Education....................................................................18
The Future of Empirical Legal Scholarship:  
Where Might We Go from Here?................................................................78
The Problem with ABA Standard 405(c)...................................................558
Thinking in the Box in Legal Scholarship:  
The Good Samaritan and Internet Libel......................................................55
Time for a Change: 
20 Years after the “Working Group” Principals...........................................531
Transactional Skills Training Across the Curriculum.................................904
Trigger Warnings: From Panic to Data......................................................882
What Remains “Real” About the Law and Literature Movement?:  
A Global Appraisal......................................................................................37
Why We Are All Jurisprudes (or, at Least, Should Be)................................29
Writing the Short Paper...............................................................................111
Index of Books Reviewed 
Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, Practical Citation System...........696
Columbia Law Review Ass’n et al. eds., The Bluebook: 
 A Uniform System of Citation...........................................................................668
Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder, Engines of Anxiety:  
Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability.................................................961
Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman, The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well...439
Marie Gottschalk, Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics...445
Michael Graetz and Linda Greenhouse, The Burger Court and  
the Rise of the Judicial Right.............................................................................653
Richard A. Posner, Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary.......................186
Tracy A. Thomas, Elizaberth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations  
of Family Law...............................................................................................979
Laura Underkuffler, Captured by Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law...................956


Volume 66 Index

Vaughn, Lea

Book Review of Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture by Susanna L. Blumenthal

Strong, S.I.

Book Review of Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary, by Richard Posner

Gundavaram, Hemanth C.

Book Review of The Lawyer\u27s Guide to Writing Well, by Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman

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