Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Columbia
Human Rights At Home Blog (By Michael Meltsner) — Professor Meltsner (Northeastern Law) reflects on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy as a law professor and the landscape of the legal academy in the 1970s.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a letter from California law school deans requesting the state supreme court allow the October online bar exam to be open book without proctoring.
Read More about California Law School Deans Request Supreme Court To Make Oct. 5-6 Online Bar Exam Open Book With No ProctoringLaw School Exams During A Pandemic: One Law School’s Experience
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — The author shares an article by professor Beth Parker (Nova Southeastern Law) that shares the law school’s spring semester exam experience.
Read More about Law School Exams During A Pandemic: One Law School’s ExperienceWhat About the Bar Exam After the 2020 Dust Settles?
Verdict (By Vikram David Amar) — Dean Amar (University of Illinois Law) reflects on the debates surrounding diploma privilege and the bar exam during the pandemic.
Read More about What About the Bar Exam After the 2020 Dust Settles?Making more effective use of samples in an online legal writing course in the time of Covid
Legal Skills Prof Blog (By James B. Levy) — Professor Levy (Nova Southeastern Law) provides examples and advice on using writing samples in online legal writing courses.
Read More about Making more effective use of samples in an online legal writing course in the time of CovidHelping 1L law students find study groups during a time of online teaching
Legal Skills Blog (By James B. Levy) — Professor Levy (Nova Southeastern Law) gives advice to law faculty on how to help law students to form study groups and connections during the pandemic.
Read More about Helping 1L law students find study groups during a time of online teachingNew article explores legal bases for exemptions from in-person teaching during the Coronavirus pandemic
Best Practice for Legal Education (By Gary Simson) — Professor Simson (Mercer Law) explores colleges’ legal obligations to allow faculty to teach classes online instead of in-person during the pandemic.
Read More about New article explores legal bases for exemptions from in-person teaching during the Coronavirus pandemicThe tension in measuring law school quality and graduating first generation law students
Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (University of Iowa Law) argues law schools are focusing on the wrong measures of quality especially as it relates to graduating first-generation law students.
Read More about The tension in measuring law school quality and graduating first generation law studentsLegal Education’s Waterloo: The Last of the Fire Swamp
Madisonian (By Michael Madison) — Professor Madison (Pitt Law) takes a look at recent innovations in legal education and law practice and expresses some optimism for the future of the legal profession despite its challenges.
Read More about Legal Education’s Waterloo: The Last of the Fire SwampWSJ: MBA Hiring Is Down 60% This Year
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article from The Wall Street Journal that reports a sharp decline in the hiring of MBA graduates.
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