Can Havruta Style Learning Be a Best Practice in Law School?

Havruta is a traditional Jewish method that seems compatible with legal education because of its focus on process, and so adaptable to law school training in legal reasoning, and because it is based upon dispute and resolution, another aspect that corresponds with the study of law. A unique form of collaborative student centered learning involving pairs of students, this article considers the application of Havruta to the law school setting and whether it should be incorporated into the law school curriculum

Conventions and Modern Poetry: A Study in the Development of Period Mannerisms

Any review of the conclusions reached in this study must be made in the light of the limited selection of the material and the proposed scope of the investigation as set forth in Chapter I. These conclusions about Modern Poetry are based on an examination of approximately 1500 poems contained in Volumes I, II, XXX, and XXXI of Poetry magazine and in the three anthologies referred to throughout the text: Chief Modern Poets of England and America; A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry; and New Poems, 1942. Such a selection is wide enough and extends over a sufficient period of time to be representative of Modern Poetry when it is defined a s poetry written after 19121 a date selected because o f its significance as the year in which Poetry magazine was first pub­lished. This selection of poems has been examined to determine whether Modern Poetry, a s here represented, contains conventional elements , either retained from earlier traditions or originated by a Modern Poet and crystallized into conventions by others. No attempt has been made to seek out the originator of a given convention or to distinguish imitators or leading poets from followers or a convention already established; widespread use or a similar image by a variety of poets throughout the period has been considered sufficient evidence for the assumption that the practice goes beyond mere imitation. For the purpose or this study, then, examples from the poems of major and minor poets are considered to be of equal significance in determining the existence of conventions. Although material is selected that assures representation from four decades within the first half of the twentieth century, the primary emphasis throughout the study has been on the period as a whole rather than its parts. For instance, no attempt is made to determine the relative frequency of certain images or practices in earlier and later volumes of Poetry magazine. In the course of the study, however, implications about frequency of usage, originality, and individuality suggest themselves

Constitutional Law: Freedom of the Press and A Reporter\u27s Ability to Gather News

The author notes the Supreme Court should re-evaluate statements regarding a newsperson\u27s right to gather news. By according great weight to a reporter\u27s necessary task of gathering information, the press will have the tools necessary to make publishing meaningful and support the first amendment freedom of the press

Workers\u27 Compensation Insurance Carrier as Third Party Tortfeasor

At the time workers\u27 compensation was conceived, the theory of liability without fault was a new concept. The original acts were, therefore, drafted cautiously. The statutes had either a limited application or were noncompulsory in nature.20 Although a common law action against an employer was eliminated, the statutes generally preserved some form of action against a third party tortfeasor under the common law. This case note asks the legislature to revise the Michigan Workers\u27 Compensation Act so to explicitly define the insurer\u27s relationship to the employer insofar as immunity is concerned

Teaching, Thinking, and the Legal Creative Process

The author asks how we can teach student how to think as she reflects on how many students with excellent basic writing skills were not fully developing the reasoning before writing their paper. Part One of this essay formulates the creative process necessary for developing good legal analysis, arguments, and documents, and suggests its encouragement by non-result oriented teaching. Part Two explains a class the author designed, which succeeds, at least in part, in bringing thinking to the surface for study and discussion

The economic structure of the Cape Midlands and Karroo Region : a sectoral and spatial survey

[The] region, as defined, excludes not only these metropolitan areas themselves but also the inner peripheries of their hinterlands. Thus, virtually all areas within regular (i. e. daily) commuting distance of the metropolitan centres, and all areas into which urban development in the latter might 'spill over' in the foreseeable future are excluded. In the case of Metropolitan Port Elizabeth, these exclusions are reflected in the roughly 'crescent-shaped' southern boundary of the region. The situation of the region can further be described in terms of its major physiographic features which reveal a number of factors which are also of importance for understanding and analysing the economy of the area. Intro., p. 1

Non-linear conformally invariant generalization of the Poisson equation to D>2 dimensions

I propound a non-linear generalization of the Poisson equation describing a "medium" in D dimensions with a "dielectric constant" proportional to the field strength to the power D-2. It is the only conformally invariant scalar theory that is second order, and in which the scalar $phi$ couples to the sources $\rho$ via a $\phi\rho$ contact term. The symmetry is used to generate solutions for the field for some non-trivial configurations (e.g. for two oppositely charged points). Systems comprising N point charges afford further application of the symmetry. For these I derive e.g. exact expressions for the following quantities: the general two-point-charge force; the energy function and the forces in any three-body configuration with zero total charge; the few-body force for some special configurations; the virial theorem for an arbitrary, bound, many-particle system relating the time-average kinetic energy to the particle charges. Possible connections with an underlying conformal quantum field theory are mentioned.Comment: Revtex, 16 pages. To be published in Phys. Rev.

The economic structure of the Cape Midlands and Karroo Region : a sectoral and spatial survey

[The] region, as defined, excludes not only these metropolitan areas themselves but also the inner peripheries of their hinterlands. Thus, virtually all areas within regular (i. e. daily) commuting distance of the metropolitan centres, and all areas into which urban development in the latter might 'spill over' in the foreseeable future are excluded. In the case of Metropolitan Port Elizabeth, these exclusions are reflected in the roughly 'crescent-shaped' southern boundary of the region. The situation of the region can further be described in terms of its major physiographic features which reveal a number of factors which are also of importance for understanding and analysing the economy of the area. Intro., p. 1

Stresses in isostatic granular systems and emergence of force chains

Progress is reported on several questions that bedevil understanding of granular systems: (i) are the stress equations elliptic, parabolic or hyperbolic? (ii) how can the often-observed force chains be predicted from a first-principles continuous theory? (iii) How to relate insight from isostatic systems to general packings? Explicit equations are derived for the stress components in two dimensions including the dependence on the local structure. The equations are shown to be hyperbolic and their general solutions, as well as the Green function, are found. It is shown that the solutions give rise to force chains and the explicit dependence of the force chains trajectories and magnitudes on the local geometry is predicted. Direct experimental tests of the predictions are proposed. Finally, a framework is proposed to relate the analysis to non-isostatic and more realistic granular assemblies.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Corrected typos and clkearer text, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let