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Kramer believes that firms hire too far in advance. They don’t know what they’re getting, and students get locked into their legal specialties prematurely.
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As dean of Stanford Law, Kramer is trying to reconceptualize the three-year law program, emphasizing more practical skills lawyers will need.
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The Stanford Law dean says the legal education system needs to do more to prepare students to actually practice. There are a wide set of intellectual skills that are essential […]
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The expansion of the legal market around the world has benefited massive corporate law firms at the expense of small community firms, says Kramer.
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A conversation with the dean of Stanford Law School.
Jayne Merkel, architectural historian and critic, locates the moment in American architectural history when less ceased to be more and inspiration was found in yesterday's buildings.
Steve Chapman attends a National Organization for Marriage speech and sees how defenders of traditional marriage hope to use their raucous critics to their own advantage.
"Chevy Volt will sell for $41,000 before a federal tax credit, while the Nissan Leaf will go for $32,780 before the credit. The two cars are trying to jump-start the US electric-car industry."
"I'm sure that Julian Assange is now regarded as one of the very most dangerous men and he should be quite proud of that," says Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
"Why learn about the glass ceiling in a sociology class if you are going to hit it anyway a decade after graduation?" A liberal arts professor meditates on the the liberal arts conundrum.
"People who fake symptoms of mental illness can convince themselves that they genuinely have those symptoms, a new study suggests." Scientific American on the power of the mind.
"It is the poor, not the rich, who are inclined to charity." The Economist reports on a study that finds the less affluent are quicker to compassion and more willing to give to the needy.
"Ocean life is being wiped out from the bottom up," reports the New Scientist. Recall from your high school food chain diagram that the smallest critters are the most important.
"The truth lies somewhere between 'men oppress women with their uncontrollable needs' and 'women oppress men with their socially constructed monogamous love.'”
Being the bottom rung on the social ladder causes enough stress to shorten your life, according to a study of British social servants. Lack of control was the main cause of despair.
Silence speaks volume. In the unmitigated disaster that is the Gulf of Mexico, two silent partners watch as BP endures a hurricane of criticism, Transocean and Haliburton, who it has […]
No code is unbreakable. Mathematicians may be able design codes that can't be cracked by all the computational power available on earth, but that won't guarantee the security of the […]
There will be more. Julian Assange has assured us this: there will be more. Do we want more? Will the release of more classified material place more lives at risk? […]
Whatever you want to call it, a half-zebra, half-donkey hybrid was born last week in a wildlife preserve in Georgia. The offspring of a zebra father and a donkey mother, […]
Until James Currier had four sons in 36 months, he was just a regular Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Having sold a start-up called Tickle to Monster in 2004, he took some […]