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Expanding Visions of Scholarship*: Making It Happen

May 9–12, 2001

Law Clinic Directors' Workshop

May 8–9, 2001

Montreal, Quebec, Canada


* scholarship n. teaching materials, videotapes, briefs, websites, legislation, stories, and even law review articles.

  Clinical Scholarship: What is it and What is its Place at the Academy’s Table?

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP AND CLINICAL SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES

The following bibliography includes articles on legal scholarship and clinical scholarship. This bibliography does not attempt to cite the numerous examples of clinical scholarship, though the last section of this bibliography does reference a bibliography, an anthology, and some of the leading journals devoted to clinical scholarship This bibliography is designed to provide a brief survey of many of the works defining clinical scholarship, discussing different types of scholarship, and exploring the evaluation of scholarship. There are other articles concerning these subjects, and the articles cited in this bibliography reference many of those works.

Scholarship about Legal Scholarship with a Focus on Insider and Outsider Scholarship and Evaluation of Legal Scholarship:

Mary Beth Beazley & Linda H. Edwards, The Process and the Product: A Bibliography of Scholarship About Legal Scholarship, 49 Mercer L. Rev. 741 (1998).1

Cynthia Grant Bowman & Elizabeth M. Schneider, Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, and the Legal Profession, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 249 (1998).

Nancy L. Cook, Legal Fictions: Clinical Experiences, Lace Collars and Boundless Stories, 1 Clin. L. Rev. 41 (1994).

Nancy L. Cook, Outside the Tradition: Literature as Legal Scholarship, 63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 95 (1994).

Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr., Toward a Black Legal Scholarship: Race and Original Understandings, 1991 Duke L.J. 39 (1991).

Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr., Autobiography and Legal Scholarship and Teaching: Finding the Me in the Legal Academy, 77 Va. L. Rev. 539 (1991).

Richard Delgado, The Colonial Scholar: Do Outsider Authors Replicate the Citation Practices of the Insiders, But in Reverse?, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 969 (1996).

Richard Delgado, The Imperial Scholar Revisited: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing, Ten Years Later, 140 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1349 (1992).

Richard Delgado, Legal Scholarship: Insiders, Outsiders, Editors, 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 717 (1992).

John S. Elson, The Case Against Legal Scholarship: Or, If the Professor Must Publish, Must the Profession Perish?, 39 J. Legal Educ. 343 (1989).

William N. Eskridge, Jr., Outsider-Insiders: The Academy of the Closet, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 977 (1996).

Anthony J. Fejfar, Legal Education and Legal Scholarship: From Rationalist Discourse to Dialogical Encounter, 20 Cap. U. L. Rev. 97 (1991). David Feldman, The Nature of Legal Scholarship, 52 Mod. L. Rev. 498 (1989).

Martha L. Fineman, Challenging Law, Establishing Differences: The Future of Feminist Legal Scholarship (Women and the Law: Goals for the 1990's), 42 Fla. L. Rev. 25 (1990).

Natsu Saito Jenga, Finding Our Voices, Teaching Our Truth: Reflections on Legal Pedagogy and Asian American Identity, 3 Asian Pac. Am. L.J. 81 (1995).

Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Defending the Use of Narrative and Giving Content to the Voice of Color: Rejecting the Imposition of Process Theory in Legal Scholarship, 79 Iowa L. Rev. 803 (1994).

Judith S. Kaye, One Judge's View of Academic Law Review Writing, 39 J. Legal Educ. 313 (1989).

Philp C. Kissam, The Evaluation of Legal Scholarship, 63 Wash. L. Rev. 221 (1998).

Nancy Levit, Defining Cutting Edge Scholarship: Feminism and Criteria of Rationality, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 947 (1996).

Margaret E. Montoya, Comment: Voicing Differences, 4 Clin. L. Rev. 147 (1997).

Edward L. Rubin, On Beyond Truth: A Theory for Evaluating Legal Scholarship, 80 Cal. L. Rev. 889 (1992).

Michael J. Saks, Howard Larsen, & Carol J. Hodne, Is There a Growing Gap Among Law, Law Practice, and Legal Scholarship?, 28 Suffolk U.L. Rev. 1163 (1994).

Nina W. Tarr, Clients’ and Students’ Stories: Avoiding Exploitation and Complying with the Law to Produce Scholarship with Integrity, 5 Clin. L. Rev. 271 (1998).

Scholarship About Clinical Scholarship:

Anthony Alfieri, The Power of Clinical Knowledge, 35 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 7 (1990).

Gary L. Blasi, What’s a Theory For?: Notes on Reconstructing Poverty Law Scholarship, 48 U. Miami L. Rev. 1063 (1994).

Richard A. Boswell, Keeping the Practice in Clinical Education and Scholarship, 43 Hastings L.J. 1187 (1992).

Robert J. Condlin, Learning from Colleagues: A Case Study in the Relationship Between “Academic” and “Ecological” Clinical Legal Education, 3 Clin. L. Rev. 337 (1997).

Clark D. Cunningham, Hearing Voices: Why the Academy Needs Clinical Scholarship, 76 Wash. U. L. Q. 85 (1998).

Robert D. Dinerstein, Clinical Scholarship and the Justice Mission, 40 Clev. St. L.Rev. 469 (1992).

Herbert A. Eastman, Speaking Truth to Power: The Language of Civil Rights Litigators, 104 Yale L.J. 763 (1995).

Stephen Ellmann, Isabelle R. Gunning & Randy Hertz, Why Not a Clinical Lawyer-Journal?, 1 Clin. L. Rev. 1 (1994).

Lawrence M. Grosberg, Introduction: Defining Clinical Scholarship, 35 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 1 (1990).

Peter Toll Hoffman, Clinical Scholarship and Skills Training, 1 Clin. L. Rev. 93 (1994)

Peter A. Joy, Clinical Scholarship: Improving the Practice of Law, 2 Clin. L Rev. 385 (1996).

Minna J. Kotkin, Creating True Believers: Putting Macro Theory into Practice, 5 Clin. L. Rev. 95 (1998).

Marla L. Mitchell, Beyond a Book Review: Using Clinical Scholarship in Our Teaching, 2 Clin. L. Rev. 251 (1995).

Gary H. Palm, Reconceptualizing Clinical Scholarship as Clinical Instruction, 1 Clin. L. Rev. 127 (1994).

Jane M. Spinak, Reflections on a Case (Of Motherhood), 95 Colum. L. Rev. 1990 (1995).

Examples of Clinical Scholarship:

J. P. Ogilvy, Donna Cappello & D. Kirk Morgan II, Clinical Education: An Annotated Bibliography, Revised Edition: The Czapanskiy Bibliography (visited Mar. 10, 2001) .2

Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (Alex J. Hurder, Frank S. Bloch, Susan L. Brooks & Susan L. Kay eds., 1997).

Articles and essays in the Clinical Law Review, the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, and the Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practice and Clinical Law.

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