CLEA: Social Justice in Legal Clinics: Tennessee and Memphis collaboration on housing and eviction justice during the COVID-19 pandemic
Clinical Law Prof Blog (By Jeff R. Baker) — Professor Baker (Pepperdine Law) shares how professors Wendy Bach (University of Tennessee Law) Katy Ramsey (University of Memphis Law) have joined efforts through their clinics to help attorneys and their clients facing evictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More about CLEA: Social Justice in Legal Clinics: Tennessee and Memphis collaboration on housing and eviction justice during the COVID-19 pandemicCall for Papers: Third Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference
The Faculty Lounge (By Maybell Romero) — Professor Romero (Northern Illinois University Law) shares a call for papers for the Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference hosted by NIU Law and scheduled to take place on Friday, October 2, 2020. The deadline for submissions is September 11, 2020.
Read More about Call for Papers: Third Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars ConferenceCrim Law Works in Progress Series
The Faculty Lounge (By Maybell Romero) — Professor Romero (Northern Illinois University Law) announces a series of online workshops for criminal law professors featuring panel discussions and paper presentations.
Read More about Crim Law Works in Progress SeriesIssuance of Title IX rules governing educational institutions
Indisputably (By Sarah Cole) — Professor Cole (Ohio State University Law) analyzes the ramifications of the Department of Education’s Title IX rule changes for schools and colleges.
Read More about Issuance of Title IX rules governing educational institutionsSecure Online High States Testing in Legal Education
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Paul Caron shares an article by Sara Berman, Gregory Brandes (St. Francis Law), Dean Megan Carpenter (University of New Hampshire Law), and Dean Andrew L. Strauss (University of Dayton Law). The authors call for advisory panels and an emergency task force to develop practice alternatives and determine bar…
Read More about Secure Online High States Testing in Legal EducationThe Coronavirus Crisis provides an opportunity to better systems for licensing lawyers than the bar
Best Practices for Legal Education) by John Lande) — Professor Lande (University of Missouri Law) suggests alternatives to the bar exam for licensing new lawyers.
Read More about The Coronavirus Crisis provides an opportunity to better systems for licensing lawyers than the barJuly Bar Exam Update: New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron shares bar exam updates from select states. The New Mexico Supreme Court ordered that the July 2020 bar exam be postponed until September 2020. The court also ordered a working group to be formed on licensing alternatives, including small group testing and allowing new law graduates to practice…
Read More about July Bar Exam Update: New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, PennsylvaniaBlockchain and the bar exam
Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) outlines his doubt that licensing authorities can successfully administer a secure bar exam online in four months.
Read More about Blockchain and the bar examA word of caution before offering the bar exam online
The Volokh Conspiracy (By Josh Blackman) — Professor Blackman (South Texas Law) shares Professor Muller’s concerns about administering an online bar exam, pointing to a couple high-profile technology launches that did not go off as planned.
Read More about A word of caution before offering the bar exam onlineHarvard Business School Lets Incoming Students Defer Admission For Two Years Due To COVID-19
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares the announcement from Harvard Business School offering a deferment for up to two years for incoming MBA students, should they decide against attending this fall due to the pandemic.
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