Legal Scruples: Helping lawyers cultivate a professional identity: Legal Education Articles

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Faith-Based Schools and an Apprenticeship in Professional Identity - By Jeffrey A. Brauch

Improving Legal Education by Improving Casebooks: Fourteen Things Casebooks Can Do To Produce Better and More Learning - By Michael Hunter Schwartz

Professional Responsibility and the Christian Attorney: Comparing the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and Biblical Virtues - By Larry O. Natt Gantt, II, Charles H. Oates, and Samuel Pyeatt Menefee

The Elephant In Law School Classrooms: Overuse of The Socratic Method as an Obstacle to Teaching Modern Law Students - By Benjamin V. Madison, III

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The Law Teacher - Spring 2011 Issue

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