{"id":137,"date":"2009-09-03T08:43:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-09-15T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T22:11:11","slug":"diversity-benefits-of-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/09\/03\/diversity-benefits-of-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Benefits of Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Educating Lawyers:\u00a0 Preparation for the Profession<\/em>(Sullivan, et. al. 2007) and <em>Best Pratices for Legal Education:\u00a0 A Vision and a Road Map <\/em>(Stuckey, et. al. 2007) both advocate major reforms of legal education.\u00a0 In a new article, <em>Leading Change in Legal Education &#8211; Educating Lawyers and Best Practices: Good News for Diversity,<\/em> 31 Seattle L. Rev. 775 (2009) (<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1444083\" target=\"_blank\">SSRN<\/a>),\u00a0Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (New Mexico) argues that the reforms would particularly benefit minority students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The books both contemplate a move from the current model of large classes taught through modified Socratic dialogue to a sequenced set of course and experiences that build on basic analytical skill and provide opportunities for real life and simulated practice experience.\u00a0 Assessment would become more outcome-based with genuine opportunities for students to receive constructive feedback on their skill development as it evolves.\u00a0 * * *\u00a0 &#8230;[W]hile those changes would benefit all future lawyers &#8230;, the changes would be particularly welcome for students of color and members of groups which are under-represented in law school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Id.<\/em> at 776 (footnotes omitted).<\/p>\n<p>Gary Rosin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educating Lawyers:\u00a0 Preparation for the Profession(Sullivan, et. al. 2007) and Best Pratices for Legal Education:\u00a0 A Vision and a Road Map (Stuckey, et. al. 2007) both advocate major reforms of legal education.\u00a0 In a new article, Leading Change in Legal Education &#8211; Educating Lawyers and Best Practices: Good News for Diversity, 31 Seattle L. Rev. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-law-schools","category-student-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}