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19 Syllabus 1 (1988)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus19 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Volume XIX, Number 1 Health Editor's Note: Studies in law and health are being offered at law schools in growing numbers. Medical malpractice, cost containment and other concerns combine to open new areas of inquiry. Syllabus presents a brief report otn some of these programs. Boston U.iversity The American Journal of Law and Medicine is published at Boston University School of Law, and Boston University's Center for Law and Health Sciences is located in the law school. The school participates with other university colleges in offering two joint degrees: the J.D, and M.P.H. (master's in public health) and the J.D, and M.B.A. (master's of business in health administration). The Health Policy Institute, a think tank which deals primarily with matters of business and health, also is located at the university. Case Western Reserve The oldest of the programs is the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, which began in 1953. Its focus is on in-depth training of the J.D. students and on producing and stimulating outstanding legal scholarship. Its director, Maxwell Mehlman, noted that legal scholars in this area have tended to speak to nonlawyers. This is important and worthwhile, but we have not had enough in- depth legal scholarship to form the foundation for legal solutions to some of the health care problems. He emphasized the need for legal scholars to talk to other legal scholars. The school offers a substantial number of courses and annually brings a scholar from another law school to give seminars and major public speeches on an aspect of health law. A successful symposium on cost containment in 1986 resulted when the law school commissioned eight major articles by legal scholars and shared the articles in draft form with nonlegal scholars who responded both orally and in writing. There was substantial response in this exciting three-day conference, Mehlman said. The key was not only to bring people together to raise questions but to provide potential answers for a critique by the group. The school will hold another conference on High Technology Care in the Home to be jointly sponsored this year with the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the Case Western Reserve medical school. One-third of the program will deal with legal and regulatory issues. Catholic University Catholic University of America School of Law has put out four issues of its annual publication, Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. George Smith, faculty editor, said that the eight faculty pieces in the current issue are on such subjects as abortion, surrogate mothering, and pedophilia and the Rotcrt MacCrate, left, ABA president, and his wife, Connie MacCrate, talked with Victor G. Rosenlom, president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) at a reception given ti the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on January 7 in Miami. More than 400 attended the reception honoring new and continuing Section members. (Other photos on page 1 priesthood. Subjects of the ten student pieces range from radon in the environment to hospice problems and rights of the elderly. The board of editors includes Chief justice R.S. Pathak of India and Michael Kirby, president of the court of appeals of the State of New South Wales, Australia. The student board changes each year. DePaul Chicago's DePaul University College of Law offers an LL.M. program providing a curriculum of law courses in the College of Law, elective courses in health care finance and administration in the DePaul Department of Management of Public Services and special Continued on page 3 Community Service Required at Tulane ulane Law School has become the first ABA- approved law school in the country to require its students to perform community service. A faculty vote last fall determined that, beginning with the current first- year students, every graduate must have completed a minimum of 20 hours of legal service to indigents. Students are to be assigned during their second and third years in law school to work with a volunteer lawyer on cases assigned to that lawyer through the New Orleans Pro Bono Project. The Pro Bono Project provides civil legal services free of charge to indigent residents of New Orleans. Each student will have to register with the Pro Bono Project before receiving an assignment. The student's role will include both traditional legal research and such skill-related activities as interviewing witnesses and government officials. They will not engage directly in the practice of law or offer advice to any client. The mandate will be enforced by certification by the practicing lawyers who oversee the work. The practitioners' active participation is a special feature of the Tulane community service program, because it gives students an opportunity to associate with and expose their abilities to lawyers, who serve both as role models and potential employers. The purpose of this nonacademic requirement is to make the students more aware of the legal problems, living conditions, and points of view of the tens of millions of Americans who cannot afford lawyers, according to a statement issued by the school. To require law students to recognize their responsibility to help others is undeniably novel, given the fact that lawyers themselves have yet to impose any public service mandate upon themselves. Utah Creates New Program of Curricular Reform By Krisfine Strachan niversity of Utah College of Law has been engaged in creating and implementing an innovative program of curricular reform. It is called Capstone- Cornerstone and is directed primarily at the second and third years of legal education. Two years ago the college received a Department of Education (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) grant of $120,000 to promote the program and disseminate information about its content and results, This year and next, the college will complete its implementation of the new curricular structure and course offerings. Broadly described, the program is designed to provide each year of legal education with a distinctive purpose and character, a logical progression of knowledge and skills, diverse teaching and evaluation methods, and different levels of exposure to subjects (from overview to specialization). The most significant impact of the Capstone-Comerstone Program is its reformation of the last two years of legal education in order to minimize repetition, increase integration, and impart structure and coherence. The program retains the traditional first- year curriculum, with its emphasis on teaching basic legal doctrines and the essential skills of case analysis, legal reasoning, and legal research and writing. The second year is primarily composed of Cornerstone courses which offer compressed coverage of related courses or fields and are designed to impart all foundational doctrine and skills necessary for Continued on page 7 March 1988 S ________________ -~ _________________________________

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