Article: Sitting By The Well: The Case For Intercultural Competency Training In International Experiential Learning

By Jeffrey Blumberg¹ “Sit by the well.” This was the guiding principle by which a friend and fellow returned Peace Corps volunteer, who served in Africa in the 1960s, conducted her volunteer service. She explained that volunteers were instructed to listen, learn, adapt and integrate culturally, and understand their cultural settings. Volunteers were given permissionContinue reading “Article: Sitting By The Well: The Case For Intercultural Competency Training In International Experiential Learning”

Volume 42 Issue 3

Our March 28, 2013 symposium, Privacy Rights and Proactive Investigations: Emerging Constitutional Issues in Law Enforcement, brought together leading scholars and practitioners to explore three issues that have once more thrust Maryland to the frontier of law enforcement: the validity of DNA databases, new approaches and the latest thinking on witness identifications, and the use of trackingContinue reading “Volume 42 Issue 3”

Volume 42 Issue 2

Here’s a look at our latest issue: 1) A Q&A with Keynote Speaker Senator Barbara Mikulski, moderated by Professor Margaret E. Johnson. A full transcript of Senator Mikulski’s remarks at the 2012 Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Applied Feminism and Democracy, is available here. 2) Reflections on VAWA’S Strange Bedfellows: The Partnership between the Battered ImmigrantContinue reading “Volume 42 Issue 2”

Volume 42 Issue 1

Here’s a look at Volume 42 Issue 1: 1) A Critique of Best Practices in Legal Education: Five Things All Law Professors Should Know, by Michael T. Gibson, Professor of Law at the Oklahoma City University School of Law Professor Gibson has written a critique of four of the central claims in Best Practices inContinue reading “Volume 42 Issue 1”