1998 NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF PARENT EDUCATION

This article reports the findings of a legislative survey conducted to determine the legal status of parent education in the United States. Specifically, this survey reveals that since 1994. the number of states that enacted legislation authorizing or mandating attendance at parent education programs has more than quadrupled. The article features a state-by-state analysis of the various legal models currently in effect, including the source of authority, attendence model, and legal circumstances giving rise to participation. A capsule summary describing specific characteristics of the governing law of each state is also provided for reference.     

THE EFFECT ON EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE OF REQUIRING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN A LEGAL STUDIES CLASS

The activities of teaching, learning and examining in higher education have received reinarkably little attention from experimentalists. The suggestion that belief, however hallowed, stands in need of empirical support is often met with incredulous opposition, and men whose academic work is based upon a rigorous testing of accepted ideas, tend to think it somehow indecent to apply the same standard of inquiry to their own teaching and examining practices. Few university teachers are even aware that many of their instructional problems have already heen investisated experimentally, and only a tiny minority take the trouble to acquaint Irhemselves with the results     

法学的本相 兼论法科教育转型

<正>本文重点想要论述法学原本具有的品相,旨在归还法学的本来面目。本文从法学的起源时期的方法、法学研究对象的"三度"、法学的特点等方面人手来分析法学的本相。我们不妨先从法学襁褓时期的法学方法特征来发现一些规律性的问题。一、规范注释法学的源起法学在最初产生的时候,首先登上历史舞台的就是注释法学。我们今天所谓的规范实证法学,或称"教义式法律学",就源于此。它几乎是当代法典法系的主流法学的代名词,德国法学家几乎都是规范实证的法学家,他们的著作也基本上踏着教义式的脚步遵循规范的法律学方法进行法律分析。甚至英美法系的法学也离不开规范实证法学,还有日本甚至我国台湾地