ABA releases 9-part questionnaire on law school responses to COVID-19 in the spring 2020 semester
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares the ABA legal education section survey for law schools on their implementation of online classes during the pandemic.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares July bar exam update from select states. The Supreme Court of Alabama has ruled that bar exam applicants are eligible to work as student interns until they are admitted to the Alabama State Bar or whenever February 2021 bar exam results are released. The…
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares July bar exam updates from select states. The Colorado Supreme Court ordered that the Uniform Bar Examination proceed as scheduled on July 28-29, 2020, with an alternative date of September 30-October 1, 2020, should the test need to be rescheduled. If the exam is…
Read More about July Bar Exam Update: Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington57 deans ask Massachusetts not to discriminate against graduates of out-of-state law schools in sitting for September bar exam
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron shares a letter from more than fifty law school deans requesting that graduates from non-Massachusetts based law schools be given the same access to the state bar exam as in-state graduates.
Read More about 57 deans ask Massachusetts not to discriminate against graduates of out-of-state law schools in sitting for September bar examBar exams can be administered online
Law School Academic Support Blog (By Marsha Griggs) — Professor Griggs (Washburn Law) provides examples of how the bar exam can be administered remotely.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed written by University of the Pacific Law Interim Provost Michael Hunter Schwartz on how the COVID-19 crisis has forced faculty and students alike to adjust expectations of online teaching and learning.
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Best Practices for Legal Education (By Mary Lynch) — Professor Lynch (Albany Law) shares a statement from the Society of American Law Teachers calling for the suspension of the ABA standard on bar passage due to disruptions to the bar exam caused by the pandemic.
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Best Practices for Legal Education (By Mary Lynch) — Professor Lynch (Albany Law) shares a statement from the Clinical Legal Education Association, joining SALT in urging the ABA to suspend their standard on bar passage due to disruption in bar exam administration caused by the pandemic.
Read More about CLEA joins SALT in urging council to suspend accreditation standard 316Message from AASE regarding ABA rule
Law School Academic Support Blog — The author shares a letter from the Association of Academic Support Educators joining SALT and CLEA in urging the ABA legal education section to suspend their rule on bar passage.
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The Faculty Lounge (By Bridget Crawford) — Professor Crawford (Pace Law) shares reflections from law faculty on their experiences with online teaching during the pandemic.
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