Nelson P. Miller

Cooley Law School

300 S. Capitol Avenue

P.O. Box 13038

Lansing, MI 48901

United States

http://www.cooley.edu/faculty/miller_nelson.html

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Scholarly Papers (41)

1.

Equality as Talisman: Getting Beyond Bias to Cultural Competence as a Professional Skill

Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 100, 2008
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller, Tracey Brame, Dale Iverson and Goldie Adele
Cooley Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 403 (142,971)
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culture, cultural, competence, equality, model, ethics, skill

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An Apprenticeship of Professional Identity: A Paradigm for Educating Lawyers

Michigan Bar Journal, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 238 (248,836)

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legal education, integrating ethics, practice preparation

Teaching Law: A Framework for Instructional Mastery

Teaching Law: A Framework for Instructional Mastery, 2nd eds, ISBN: 978-0-9980601-8-7; 2018
Number of pages: 218 Posted: 23 Mar 2018
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 181 (320,073)

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law, teaching, legal, education, mastery

Teaching Law: A Framework for Instructional Mastery

An excerpt from the 2010 book published by Bridge Publishing Group
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 45 (793,051)
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teaching, law, lawyers, legal education, law school, curriculum, education, dimensions, knowledge, skill, ethics

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curriculum, map, mapping, lawyer, competence, competency, legal, education

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Preparing for the Bar Exam: A Comprehensive Guide to Plans, Programs, Content, Conditions, and Skills

Number of pages: 168 Posted: 03 Nov 2015
Nelson P. Miller and Douglas Johnson
Cooley Law School and Western Michigan University
Downloads 172 (335,382)

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law, law practice, bar, bar exam, law school, license exam

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The Role of Law Schools in Shaping Culturally Competent Lawyers

Michigan Bar Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Nelson P. Miller and Cynthia M. Ward
Cooley Law School and Cooley Law School
Downloads 170 (338,868)

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cultural competency, diversity, interpersonal skills, diversity framework

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The Culture of the Legal Profession: Character-Based Legal Education for Client-Centered Representation

Number of pages: 218 Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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lawyer, ethics, legal education, moral development, morality, profession, professional, responsibility, law practice

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Meeting the Carnegie Report’s Challenge to Make Legal Analysis Explicit — Subsidiary Skills to the IRAC Framework

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 59, p. 192, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller and Bradley J. Charles
Cooley Law School and Cooley Law School
Downloads 140 (397,755)
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Carnegie, educating, lawyers, law students, reasoning, explicit, subsidiary, skills, analytic, analogical

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An Ancient Law of Care

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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torts, history, evolution, ancient laws

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Lawyer Finances: Principles and Practices for Personal and Professional Financial Success

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Nov 2014
Nelson P. Miller, Paul Sorensen and Mark Michon
Cooley Law School, Cooley Law School and Wells Fargo Bank
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lawyer, practice, finance, firm, debt, manage, management, financial, success

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Teaching Law: A Behavioral Approach

Teaching Law: A Behavioral Approach, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-9980601-9-4
Number of pages: 194 Posted: 23 Mar 2018
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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teaching, law, legal, education, behavior

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Preserving Law School’s Signature Pedagogy and Great Subjects

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 88, No. 5, p. 46, 2009
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller and Heather Garretson
Cooley Law School and CUNY School of Law
Downloads 88 (555,004)

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legal education, reform, pedagogy, Socratic, curriculum, traditional, advocacy

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Why Prolixity Does Not Produce Clarity: Francis Lieber on Plain Language

The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, pp. 108-114, 2007
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 85 (570,841)

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plain language, words, uncertainty, Lieber

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Entrepreneurial Practice: Enterprise Skills for Lawyers Serving Emerging Client Populations

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller, Michael Dunn and John Crane
Cooley Law School, Independent and Independent
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entrepreneur, lawyers, paradigm, commodity, commoditization, practice, specialization, marketing

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Superhuman – Biotechnology’s Emerging Impact on the Law

Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Cooley Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN (deceased), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cooley Law School
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biotechnology, reform, change, law, policy, regulation, rights, human rights, world views, impact

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Introduction: Teaching Law Practice: Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers

Teaching Law Practice: Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers, Charles Cercone, Nelson P. Miller, & Christopher Trudeau, eds., Vandeplas, 2013
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Sep 2013
Cooley Law School, Indiana Tech - Law School and UALR Bowen School of Law
Downloads 66 (652,073)
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law, practice, preparation, entrepreneur, enterprise, innovation, instruction

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Lawyers as Economic Drivers — The Business Case for Legal Services

Journal of the Legal Profession, Vol. 37, No. 67, 2012
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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lawyer, economic, entrepreneur, vision, practice, service, business

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Conceptual and Historical Errors in Tort Law

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Vol. 40, p. 59, 2004
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 61 (677,880)
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history, tort law, practice, administration, reform, early, ancient, foundation, evaluation

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Facing Death: Necessary Reflection on a Worthwhile Subject

Facing Death: Necessary Reflection on a Worthwhile Subject; ISBN: 978-0-9980601-6-3
Number of pages: 200 Posted: 22 Jul 2017
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 58 (694,042)

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death, philosophy, religion, dying

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Dear J.D.: What to Do with Your Law Degree

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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law, legal, education, practice, juris, doctor, degree, mission

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Helping Law-Firm Luddites Cross the Digital Divide — Arguments for Mastering Law-Practice Technology

Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 12, p. 113, 2009
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller and Derek S. Witte
Cooley Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Luddite, technology, lawyers, information, demands, professional, practitioner

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Reflections of a Lawyer's Soul: The Institutional Experience of Professionalism at Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Reflections of a Lawyer's Soul: The Institutional Experience of Professionalism at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, A. Timmer & N. Miller, eds., Thomas M. Cooley Law School, 2007
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Oct 2013
Amy Timmer and Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School and Cooley Law School
Downloads 51 (735,142)

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lawyer, professionalism, law school, legal education, ethics, service, commitment, culture, values

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The Nobility of the American Lawyer: the Ennobling History, Philosophy, and Morality of a Maligned Profession

Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2005
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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professionalism, morality, legal history, noble, values

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Going to Law School: Preparing for a Transformative Experience

Going to Law School: Preparing for a Transformative Experience, Crown Management, LLC, 2016
Number of pages: 156 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 45 (774,109)

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legal, education, law, profession, school

25.

Are You Legal? A Personal Legal-Audit and Empowerment Tool

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Nov 2014
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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legal, audit, empowerment, law, individual, standards, order

26.

A Law Student's Guide: To Legal Education's Knowledge, Skills, and Ethics Dimensions

Carolina Academic Press (2010)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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law school, law student, lawyer, legal education, curriculum, knowledge, skills, ethics

27.

The Symbolism of the Federal Rules of Evidence — The Created, the Fallen, and the Redeemed

Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 327, 2013
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Nelson P. Miller, Curt A. Benson and Christopher G. Hastings
Cooley Law School, Cooley Law School and Cooley Law School
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rules, evidence, symbolism, ethics, constructs, culture, foundation, redemption

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'Judicial Politics': Restoring the Michigan Supreme Court

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 85, No. 1, p. 38, 2006
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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politics, political, judiciary, majority, precedent, stare decisis, reputation, public, confidence

29.

Now What? Steadying Tort Law’s Pendulum

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 88, No. 5, p. 38, 2009
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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tort law, reverse, politics, political, steadying, pendulum, stare decisis, reason, reasonable, care

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No-Fault Tort Law as a 'Strategic Assumption': Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater

University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 47, 2004
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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no-fault, tort law, replace, policy, civil justice, compensation, rights, private

31.

Meta-Ethical Competence as a Lawyer Skill: Variant Ethics Affecting Lawyer and Client Decision-Making

Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law, Vol. 9, No. 91, 2007
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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variation, ethics, worldview, perspective, practice, advice, advise, counsel, skill, meta, instruct, teach

32.

Lawlessness Revealed: The Supreme Court’s Man of Liberty Transcends Tort Law

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 95, 2005
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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First Amendment, liberty, care, tort law, injury, intrinsic good, foundation, philosophy, self-expression

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Who is the Customer and What are We Selling? Employer-Based Objectives for the Ethical Competence of Law School Graduates

Journal of the Legal Profession, Vol. 33, No. 223, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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ethics, competence, objectives, instruction

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A Law Graduate's Guide: Navigating Law School's Hidden Career and Professional Development Curriculum

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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law, lawyer, career, professional, development, curriculum, guide, navigate, orient

35.

The Faithful Lawyer -- Flourishing from Law Study to Practice

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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lawyer, faith, morality, resources, commitments, values, ethics, spirituality, law, practice, religion, universal

36.

How to Build Your Practice with Pro Bono for Lawyers

Published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section (2012)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Oct 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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pro bono, law, practice, business, skill, development, populations, service, compassion, marketing, ethics, commitment

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Injured — Seriously!: Personal Injuries and Their Mechanisms and Effects

Injured--Seriously!: Personal Injuries and Their Mechanism and Effects. Lake Mary, FL: Vandeplas Pub. Co., 2013
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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injury, personal, trial, lawyer, mechanism, effects, tort, compassion, experience, statistics, death

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Of Shining Knights and Cunning Pettifoggers: The Symbolic World of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Penn State Law Review, Vol. 110, No. 855, 2006
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller and Joan Vestrand
Cooley Law School and Cooley Law School
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ethics, rules, profession, conduct, lawyers, symbolic, coherence, norms

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Legal Education as a Pie-Maker: Why Michigan Benefits from Accessible Law Schools

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 89, No. 10, p. 42, October 2010
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
Downloads 27 (919,292)
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economics, productivity, produce, lawyers, legal services, labor, capital, increase, compete

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The Lost of Michigan — Released Prisoners Needing State Identification

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 87, No. 11, p. 36, 2008
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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identification, photograph, proof, citizenship, prisoner, release, rehabilitation, recidivism

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How to Get a J-O-B: An Eight-Step Program for Lawyer Employment

How to Get a J-O-B: An Eight-Step Program for Lawyer Employment; ISBN 0998060127
Number of pages: 160 Posted: 22 Jul 2017
Nelson P. Miller
Cooley Law School
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lawyer, law, employment, job, student, search