Word: teachers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death row, the Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia that the haphazard enforcement of capital punishment was unconstitutional. Now that the court has upheld some death-penalty laws, he says his strategy is to fight "to keep as few people from getting killed as possible." As a teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally stressing legal theory, law schools fail to offer students a sense of everyday practice. To remedy this, he instituted an advanced criminal law seminar that required the twelve students to take an actual prosecution and build their own defense cases from pre-trial procedure to courtroom...
...kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society. And if somewhere, some time, something a law professor does hasn't a practical effect, he hasn't been a good law scholar or teacher." In 1970 Calabresi stamped his own mark on the law with the publication of The Costs of Accidents, a major contribution to the growth of no-fault insurance laws...
...parents had suggested a career as a high school teacher-good security for a woman-but Ruth Ginsburg believes that sex barriers are to be toppled. As one of four unpaid general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg argued-and last week won-her fourth major Supreme Court women's rights case, promising equal benefits for widows and widowers under Social Security. Her successful strategy: "To attack the most pervasive stereotype in the law-that men are independent and women are men's dependents." Ginsburg encourages her students to join in preparing her cases. Such experience...
...sixth-grader back in Orangeburg, S.C., Kay was the only student willing to debate in favor of the resolution that the South should have lost the Civil War. She argued for that heresy so well that the teacher advised her to become a lawyer. She was the driving force behind California's Family Law Act of 1969, which first established the principle of no-fault divorce. She teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination (she and Ruth Ginsburg collaborated on a widely used casebook on the subject), and joins with Berkeley Anthropologist Laura Nader in a seminar on anthropology...
...Commission but then counted him out, perhaps, says a colleague, because of his "professorial air." Though undeniably a professor-he teaches antitrust and consumer law-Pitofsky is certainly no stranger to the FTC, having served from 1970 to 1972 as chief of its Bureau of Consumer Protection. As a teacher, Pitofsky favors the adversary system. Assigning a pair of students to each side of a lawsuit, Pitofsky gives them 30 days to prepare their arguments and then grills them on the law. Law students, says Pitofsky, who has a cool, unruffled pedagogical style, "must learn to be precise in speech...