Foreword; Forward!

Volume 87, No. 4, Summer 2015

By Jonathan C. Lipson, Harold E. Kohn Professor of Law, Temple University—Beasley School of Law [PDF]

The rather odd title of this brief Essay is meant to convey its three goals: (1) to provide a foreword to this Symposium issue of the Temple Law Review, The (Un)Quiet Realist: Reflecting and Building on the Work of Bill Whitford, sketching very briefly Whitford’s career1; (2) to summarize a few highlights from the many stellar contributions in this issue, with an emphasis on their use of Whitford’s work and the larger “Wisconsin” tradition of which it is a part (the state’s motto is “Forward!”); and (3) to touch on what proved to be Whitford’s forward-thinking methodological contributions to empirical legal scholarship.

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Randy Kominsky is a member of Temple Law’s Class of 1979. Mr. Kominsky was a staff editor for Volume 51 and an associate research editor for Volume 52 of Temple Law Review. His case note, Housing Discrimination – The Appropriate Evidentiary Standard for Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, was published in 1978.[1] After graduating, he moved […]

Disrupting Hierarchies In Legal Education: Increasing Access By Supporting First Gen Success Katharine Traylor Schaffzin, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law The first-generation college students of Generation Z will challenge all of higher education, including legal education, to reconsider the delivery of education. Fortunately, undergraduate institutions have been […]