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St. Thomas Law Review

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441

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Abstract

The author of this article remained addicted to Westerns on television and in theaters as a child during the 1950s. He remembers a recurring image in the Westerns of that era: a couple of unshaven townspeople sitting on a rustic wooden bench outside the sheriff's office with their faces partially covered by cowboy hats as they slept slumping in a sitting position on the bench. When the sheriff left or entered his office, one or more of these people might lift his or their hats and open one eye greeting the sheriff with a "howdy sheriff." In August, 2003, at the start of the 2003-04 academic year, the author of this article served as one of these somnolent sheriff's office props at his law school, and something unusual and out of character occurred. The sheriff walked out of the sheriff's office, shook him awake, stood him up from the ever-present bench, pinned a badge on him, and deputized him. In this case, the new Dean of the author's law school walked up to the author on the first day of school and told the author to prepare a Self-Study for an American Bar Association ("ABA") sabbatical visit to occur in February, 2005. The new deputy was shocked, befuddled, dismayed, and frightened with the prospect of coping with what appeared to be a group of marauders intending to visit town, the ABA inspection team. What follows are some thoughts about the ABA sabbatical inspection in the context of a Self-Study coordinator.

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