Teaching Law Today

Inpatient Teaching Today

patient teacher, perhaps the most intense assignment clinician-educators are asked to assume. Always challenging, inpatient teaching currently must meet requirements and regulations that did not even exist years ago. Today’s handbook of inpatient teaching includes chapters written by (1) the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) governing training experiences and working c...

Applying the Old Testament Law Today

HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS APPLY the Old Testament Law? Obviously commands in the Mosaic Law are important, for they make up a substantial portion of God's written revelation. Yet the Old Testament contains many laws that seem strange to modern readers (e.g., "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk," Exod. 34:26; "Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material," Lev. 19:19; "Make tassels...

On Teaching International Law

The Teaching of International Law

Let me say in the beginning that I do not take it as my responsibility in this program to describe the teaching of international law in the United States. I would not dare to give my version with my colleague, Professor Stevens, an ex-colleague, Professor McWhinney, and other friends and associates present in the audience. I do not think, either, that I will attempt to make any comparison betwe...

The Second Law Today: Using Maximum-Minimum Entropy Generation

There are a great number of thermodynamic schools, independent of each other, and without a powerful general approach, but with a split on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In 1912, in relation to the stationary non-equilibrium states, Ehrenfest introduced the fundamental question on the existence of a functional that achieves its extreme value for stable states, as entropy does for the stationar...