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The First:How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
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Symposia
No full textFIU Law Review hosts biannual symposia covering a variety of legal topics and issues. Each symposium is the basis for FIU Law Review\u27s issues. Symposia participants are invited to attend based on their legal knowledge and expertise. The scholarship produced as a result of symposium participation is provided open-access through FIU Law Review.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/homepage_slideshow/1006/thumbnail.jp
Léon Duguit and the Social Function of Property in Argentina
No full textDespite its early introduction to Argentina in 1911, the doctrine of the social function of property was not quickly appropriated into the Argentine legal system. Only after a period of more than thirty-five years did this concept of property find expression in this country through the Constitution of 1949, the Peronist constitution drafted under the guidance of Arturo Enrique Sampay. Duguit\u27s writings formed part of a broader understanding of the social function of property that was informed by various scholars and sources, and particularly by works on Christian humanism and the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic church. Although mentioned in the debates of the Argentine Constitution of 1949, Duguit was only one of a variety of sources employed by advocates of the doctrine, and his direct influence in the area was significantly less than one might expect considering the historical link between his lectures in Buenos Aires and the creation of the doctrine.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1270/thumbnail.jp
Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School\u27s Successful Efforts to Raise Its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline
Get PDFWhat measures can law schools take to improve student performance and bar passage? The answer is not what you think.Recent developments in the science of learning show that most law students learn wrong. In fact, ineffective methods of learning pervade all levels of education. We now know that widely accepted learning and study strategies that were once considered gospel are actually deeply flawed. Yet we still embrace and propagate those myths.Meanwhile, bar passage rates and law student performance are plummeting. Everyone in legal education is asking “what can we do?” But, “what can we do?” is the wrong question. The right question is to ask how students can capitalize on the science of learning to be more effective learners.In this essay, I discuss principles from the science of learning that law schools and students should embrace. In the context of the methods we have implemented at Florida International University College of Law, which had the highest bar passage rate in Florida for three consecutive exams, I detail the project of transforming the learning of law away from the ineffective methods of yore and towards effective strategies that can make a difference on student performance and bar passage.And it all has to do with science, not lore