A View from the Third Tier: One Professor鈥檚 Preliminary Thoughts about Teaching Law Students

By Theresa M. Beiner   I am in my eighteenth year [1] of teaching at a law school that currently sits in the third tier of the U.S. News and World Report law school rankings.[2]  Over the years, I have been amazed by the amount of focus in legal academia placed on the needs and experiences … A View from the Third Tier: One Professor鈥檚 Preliminary Thoughts about Teaching Law Students

Logic as the Lens of Faith: An Abductive Approach to Religious Conflict

  By Gary Slater [1] The logical method of abduction provides a constructive means of addressing religious disputes in public settings.  By allowing one to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate contexts in relation to the meaning of religious claims, such logic uncovers errant rules of reasoning among religious arguments without presuming to judge the truth … Logic as the Lens of Faith: An Abductive Approach to Religious Conflict

Haiti: Where is the Money?

By Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas

Haiti, a close neighbor of the United States with a population of more than nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Before the quake, Haiti was already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most impoverished in the world. After? Conservative estimates for the cost of reconstructing Haiti are nearly $14 billion.

Why Another Journal?

By Lee Lowther

In late spring of 2011, David Slade pitched the idea for the Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service to a group of my now co-editors.