Results of Law Professor Twitter Census 2020-2021 Edition – 9/17/20
The Faculty Lounge (By Bridget Crawford) — Professor Crawford (Pace Law) shares results of the 2020-21 Law Professor Twitter Census.
Read More about Results of Law Professor Twitter Census 2020-2021 Edition – 9/17/20Vischer: How Distinctive Should Catholic Law Schools Be?
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — The author shares an article forthcoming in the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies by professor Robert K. Vischer (University of St. Thomas Law) on the identity of Catholic law schools.
Read More about Vischer: How Distinctive Should Catholic Law Schools Be?Practice Makes Possible…and Helps to Quiet the Heart Too
Law School Academic Support Blog (By Scott Johns) — Professor Johns (University of Denver Law) advises law students that it is normal to feel nervous in class and to seek help from faculty or peers.
Read More about Practice Makes Possible…and Helps to Quiet the Heart TooData–Rough Data–on Bar Exams and COVID Cases Among Test-Takers
PrawfsBlawg (By Paul Horwitz) — Professor Horwitz (University of Alabama Law) reacts to professor Derek T. Muller’s (University of Iowa Law) analysis on the contraction of COVID-19 from in-person administrations of the July Bar Exam in some states.
Read More about Data–Rough Data–on Bar Exams and COVID Cases Among Test-TakersThe NYT on how Zoom interferes with student-teacher rapport and strategies for overcoming that
Legal Skills Prof Blog (By James B. Levy) — Professor Levy (Nova Southeastern Law) shares an article from The New York Times that discusses the challenges of remote teaching by video conferencing.
Read More about The NYT on how Zoom interferes with student-teacher rapport and strategies for overcoming thatSocial Distance Learning
Law School Academic Support Blog (By Bill McDonald) — Professor McDonald (University at Buffalo Law) provides advice for law students on building social networks during the pandemic.
Read More about Social Distance LearningWhat we don’t know about the July 2020 bar exam and COVID-19: a lot
Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (University of Iowa Law) provides a follow-up post on COVID-19 and the in-person bar exam.
Read More about What we don’t know about the July 2020 bar exam and COVID-19: a lotI Have No Words
Law School Academic Support Blog (By Melissa Hale) — Professor Hale (Loyola University Chicago Law) offers support and well-being advice for bar exam test-takers.
Read More about I Have No WordsLetterhead Bias And The Demographics Of Elite Law Review Publications
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — The author shares an article published in the Harvard Law Journal of Law & Technology by professor Stephen Thomson (City University of Hong Kong) on the bias of law journals publishing their own faculty over scholarship by international faculty. He recommends universal adoption of a blind article selection process.
Read More about Letterhead Bias And The Demographics Of Elite Law Review PublicationsThe Relationship Between Bar Passage Rates And Attorney Discipline
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — The author shares an article published in the St. John’s Law Review by professor William Patton (USC Gould Law) that finds previous law review articles have not sufficiently made a relationship the between bar pass rates of law schools and rates of attorney discipline.
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