Marjorie Shultz quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 2017
“What it means to determine death is a scary thought for most people,” Shultz said. “We are going to have to move in that direction and revisit it, legally and collectively. We will continue to learn more about what is going on in the brain of people who are minimally conscious, or something in the twilight zone between unquestionably dead and unquestionably alive.”
Marjorie Shultz quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Oct. 20, 2016
“Intentions that are voluntarily chosen, deliberate, express and bargained-for ought presumptively to determine legal parenthood.”
Marjorie Shultz cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 10, 2014
Marjorie M. Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck … conducted a study in which they identified 26 skills that were important to lawyer effectiveness…. The professors found that the LSAT had very weak predictive value for 10 of the skills and no value at all for the other 16. Interestingly, two of the 10 correlations were negative—meaning, the higher the LSAT score, the less effective the lawyers in the study were at exhibiting the skills in question (in this case, networking and community service). Undergraduate GPA had even less predictive value across the 26 skills.
Marjorie Shultz quoted in San Jose Mercury News, January 25, 2014
Professor Emeritus Marjorie Shultz, who specializes in medical ethics, said the family’s personal religious beliefs cannot compel a hospital to abide. “The thing that might have weight is our knowledge of the brain is still quite limited, and we have a tendency to confuse what we can measure as a fact,” she said. However, Shultz said it would likely take the legislature to craft a similar law to those in New Jersey or New York to make any real change.
Marjorie Shultz quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2013
There remains “a lot of turmoil about the definition of death and whether the brain is or is not functioning,” said Marjorie Shultz … who had her own harrowing encounter with the system 18 years ago, when her 19-year-old son’s car was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver….
“We were told over and over there was no hope for him,” Shultz said. She insisted on continuing his medical care, and her son now lives on his own and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees, she said…. But if doctors, using established criteria, make a finding of brain death, she said, “the law takes the position that there isn’t anything to argue about, that the person is dead.”
Marjorie Shultz quoted in ABA Journal, July 1, 2012
“The LSAT itself says it only tries to predict three things: analytic reasoning, logical reasoning and reading skills,” she says. “While I certainly want lawyers to be skilled at those things, nobody has asked whether if you know about a candidate’s logic and analytical skills, do you know all you need to know to evaluate them for entering the legal profession?”
Yale Daily News, January 19, 2012 by Daniel Sisgoreo
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/jan/19/law-professors-stir-national-debate/
There are students at every school in the country who had top scores on [the LSAT] and they’re highly polished applicants — but they bomb,” she said. “Every law firm will tell you that: that they’re not good at lawyering, that they can’t get along with people, that they can’t manage stress.”
Robert Berring, a professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, compared the proposal to an essay published by a pair of law professors after World War II. The essay, which called for several changes to legal education, was highly controversial at the time. “But none of that ever got taken up, and that will probably happen with this too,” he said.
U.S. News & World Report, January 2, 2012 by Shawn P. O’Connor
http://bit.ly/ur8gQa
The most outspoken challengers of the LSAT are University of California—Berkeley Law School professors Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck, who advocate replacing the LSAT with a new test that better measures an applicant’s potential for success in the practice of law.
Daily Journal, August 10, 2011 by Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck
http://dailyjournal.com/ (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
After all the numbers were crunched, results suggested that our new tests (particularly two of them) predicted almost all (24) of the 26 factors identified in the first phase of research as being important to lawyer effectiveness. By contrast, LSAT scores, UGPA, and Index Scores predicted fewer than 10 of the job-effectiveness factors, with several of the relationships being negative.
UC Berkeley News, August 4, 2009 by Carol Ness
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/04_lawschool.shtml
“I can’t overstate the potential of this work to transform the way law schools conduct selected admissions and, perhaps, the way law firms think about training and evaluating young attorneys,” says Edley.
In addition, while research indicates that standardized tests that focus on academic skills put minority candidates at a substantial disadvantage, Shultz says “there is not a race or ethnicity difference in performance on our tests. That’s why I say fairness demands that you have a system that’s a bit broader than the one currently used to pick applicants,” she adds.