Cultural diversity in legal education is a worthy goal when it actively helps all students to reexamine their limited perceptions of justice through a new, negotiable matrix. The full promise of a law school's affirmative action efforts is realized when all students understand and experience for...

Act 1, Scene 1: (A first-year law student enters the law professor’s office, fuming.) First-Year Law Student: Hey, Prof, am I right that you’re behind the new public interest law course? Law Professor: Well, yes. I, among others, actively lobbied to find a place for it in the law school...

“Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Sharing one's own ideas and responding to others' reactions improves...

I have found over the years that law students instinctively sense that something fundamental is missing in legal education and law practice. They seem to ask: "Where is the rest of my attorney role? Where is the part where I show others how to shore up the ‘front-end' of day-to-day social...

Our society often overlooks one of the most powerful roles of a lawyer: that of teaching and empowering others. When we talk about using law to achieve social justice, we typically envision a public-interest lawyer filing a lawsuit – an individual, in court, fighting faceless institutions on...

This article tells the story of Community Lawyering in action at the Boulders Apartments located in Provo, Utah. Community Lawyering at Brigham Young University Law School provides law students with a clinical opportunity to practice collaborative justice among low-income residents. We do this...

Sparse-code networks have retrieval abilities which are strongly dependent on the firing threshold for the neurons. If the connections are spatially uniform, the macroscopic properties of the network can be measured by the overlap between neurons and learned patterns, and by the global activity....