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Nancy B. Rapoport*

* © Nancy B. Rapoport 2002. All rights reserved. Nancy Rapoport is Dean andProfessor of Law, University of Houston Law Center. Special thanks for this paper go to H.C.Chang, Alison Chien, and Harriet Richman, for their wonderful research, and to Seth Chandler,Susan Evangelist, Debbie Hirsch, Alex Kopatic, Peter Linzer, Michael Olivas, Greg Robertson,Morris and Shirley Rapoport, Peter Shaw, Ben Turin, Jeff Van Niel, and Bob Wimpelberg, aswell as to the participants in ALWD’s outstanding conference, Erasing Lines: Integrating the LawSchool Curriculum, held at the University of Minnesota from July 26-28, 2001. Although it wasmighty intimidating to present a paper at a conference for those whose scholarship is in legalwriting, it was also exhilarating, and I’m also extremely grateful to my co-panelists—Scott Bice,Christine Coughlin, Molly Lien, Sandy Patrick, Arnold Siegel, and Deborah Schmedemann—and to the audience for giving me such good food for thought.