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The Law Review Review! Law students discuss legal topics, using law review articles as a lens in a panel format. Each episode a law review article is selected by a panel member and distributed to the group. Episodes are released every other Monday. Follow us on twitter at: @SquaredLaw Mailbag at: [email protected]
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Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
43 min
Law school grades are curved. Why? What are they trying to measure? Do curved grades serve students? Employers? Are curved grades moral? The panel discusses these topics and more, after reading an article which presented a case study of a law school which changed its curve.
The article discussed was: Deborah Waire Post, "Power and Morality of Grading - A Case Study and a Few Critical Thoughts on Grade Normalization", 65 UMKC L. Rev. 777 (1997).
Host: Seth Trott
Panel: Schenley Kent, Tony Fernando, Jo Ann Fernando
Audio: Mohammed Saleem
Producer: Tony Fernando
Jan 4, 2021
Jan 4, 2021
41 min
What is the object of having an honor code or conduct code? Should law school honor codes have a "toleration clause", which requires a student who becomes aware of an honor code violation to report it? Should school codes be different than professional codes? Do the honor codes at the top law schools differ from the rest? The panel discusses this after having read:
Host: Tony Fernando
Panel: Seth Trott, Jo Ann Fernando
Audio: Mohammed Saleem
Producer: Tony Fernando