July Bar Exam Update: Georgia, Tennessee, Virgin Islands
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares July bar exam updates from select states and territories. The Georgia exam will not be administered in July. The Georgia Supreme Court adopted an emergency provisional admittance of certain law school graduates for a limited time. The Tennessee Supreme Court announced additional bar examination…
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PrawfsBlawg (By Paul Horowitz) — Professor Horowitz (University of Alabama Law) offers tips and solutions to improve the efficiency of virtual faculty meetings.
Read More about Zoom Faculty Meeting Incentive Structures: Some Urgent ProposalsWash U/St. Louis eliminates summer salaries for tenured faculty
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (By Brian Leiter) — Professor Leiter (University of Chicago Law) shares news that tenured faculty at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law will have their summer salaries cut.
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The Volokh Conspiracy (By David Bernstein) — Professor Bernstein (George Mason Law) announces the school has extended its application deadline until May 31. He asks readers if their schools have extended application deadlines.
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Clinical Law Prof Blog (By Alex Scherr) — Professor Scherr (University of Georgia Law) shares feedback from students after a virtual practice exercise.
Read More about Assessing Virtual Clinical Practice: an ExerciseFifteen Simple Ways for Law Professors to Integrate Professional Formation and Development into Online Classrooms
Best Practices for Legal Education (By Sara Berman and Neil Hamilton) — Professor Neil Hamilton (University of St. Thomas Law) and Sara Berman (AccessLex) propose steps that faculty can take to incorporate professional development into their online coursework.
Read More about Fifteen Simple Ways for Law Professors to Integrate Professional Formation and Development into Online ClassroomsABA Midyear Meeting 2021 to be Held in Chicago in February
Legal Writing Prof — The American Bar Association Midyear Meeting, scheduled February 10-15, 2021, has been relocated from Orlando to Chicago.
Read More about ABA Midyear Meeting 2021 to be Held in Chicago in FebruaryWill the Coronavirus Calamity Lead to the Next Wave in Legal Innovation
Legal Evolution (By Bill Mooz) — Author details the lessons that legal education can take from current pandemic by looking at the changes that came about during the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the 2008 recession.
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Legal History Blog (By Dan Ernst) — Professor Ernst (Georgetown Law) shares two posts on the legal history of epidemics and a contest from the Stanton Foundation.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (By Halle Hara) — Professor Hara (Capital Law) links to a series of blog posts providing advice for students taking final exams at home.
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