All Articles tagged social justice

• Essays
  February 15, 2024 EDT
  The Stories We (Don’t) Tell: Using Case Briefing to Explore Bias and Oppression in the Law
  Ashley Binetti Armstrong

  Case briefing should go beyond reporting the text on the page to investigate bias and oppression in the law.

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• Essays
  March 01, 2023 EDT
  Teaching in the Midst of Trauma
  Brenda D. Gibson

  Law faculty and students are not fine, and law schools must respond.

• Articles
  March 15, 2022 EDT
  Problematic Problems
  Alison M. Mikkor

  Using a trauma-informed framework can aid professors in developing course problems of all kinds, from quick classroom exercises to semester-long simulations and writing projects.

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• Essays
  March 01, 2021 EDT
  Disruptive Lawyering 101
  Sonya BonneauSusan McMahon

  Legal reasoning, as it's traditionally taught in legal writing classes, can paint a false veneer of neutrality and demand that injustices be replicated over and over again.

• Essays
  March 01, 2021 EDT
  Teaching Social Justice in the Legal Writing Classroom Through Personal Narrative
  Emily A. Kline

  It has become a moral imperative and a curricular obligation for law schools to provide students with at least an awareness of the intersection of societal injustice and law.

• Essays
  March 01, 2021 EDT
  Making Room for Ignored Citizen Narratives of Police Encounters
  Sherri Lee Keene

  In the face of inconceivable loss, people are crying out for justice. They are seeking a meaningful response to their stories.

• Essays
  March 01, 2021 EDT
  Teaching in the Time of Disruption: A Case for Empathy and Honoring Diversity
  Sha-Shana Crichton

  As a legal writing teacher, the recent protests have caused me to rethink my approach to teaching legal writing, the foundation of legal practice.

• Articles
  March 01, 2009 EDT
  Introducing Persuasive Legal Argument via The Letter From a Birmingham City Jail
  Mark DeForrest

  Martin Luther King’s letter is well-worth reading closely when beginning the study of the art of legal persuasion.

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• Articles
  March 01, 2001 EDT
  Teaching Social Justice Through Legal Writing
  Pamela EdwardsSheilah Vance

  How professors can incorporate social justice issues into the legal writing classroom.

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