Is Mandatory P/F An Opportunity to More Accurately Assesss Competency to Practice Law and For Bar Admission?
Best Practices for Legal Education (By Mary A. Lynch) — Professor Lynch (Albany Law) suggests that changing the law school grading system due to the COVID-19 outbreak will move law schools to more qualitative assessments rather than relying on more quantitative systems. She speculates that this could lead to a more accurate assessment of a graduate’s…
Read More about Is Mandatory P/F An Opportunity to More Accurately Assesss Competency to Practice Law and For Bar Admission?Crisis Grading Policy 2.0: Universality over Carve-outs
The Faculty Lounge (By Noah Zatz) — Professor Zatz (UCLA Law) argues the validity of schools allowing certain types of courses to be carved out from the mandatory pass/fail grading system.
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The Volokh Conspiracy (By Josh Blackman) — Professor Blackman (South Texas Law) shares Notre Dame Law’s decision to adopt a modified pass/no credit grading system.
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Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) shares advice on requesting feedback from students to improve remote instruction.
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Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) suggests that state bars review a portfolio of law graduates’ work to determine whether candidates meet a minimum standard to practice law.
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Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) shares recommendations for how state bar licensing authorities can accommodate students who were set to take the July 2020 bar exam.
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PrawfsBlawg (By Howard Wasserman) — Professor Wasserman (FIU Law) shares an online petition calling on the Florida Board of Bar Examiners to grant a one-time diploma privilege exemption to all graduates of ABA-accredited law schools who are registered for the July 2020 Bar Exam.
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PrawfsBlawg (By Paul Horwitz) — Professor Horwitz (Alabama Law) analyzes the implications of emergency licensing for new law school graduates.
Read More about More on Emergency Licenses to Practice Law: Identify and Address the Emergent Problem—and Only That ProblemWhat law schools can learn from a disrupted Spring 2020 semester
Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) offers insight on what law schools can learn during the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More about What law schools can learn from a disrupted Spring 2020 semesterAsk-A-Librarian: We Are Here for You
Library of Congress (By Andrew Winston) — The head of the Library of Congress Law Library Public Services Division offers resources to students and researchers dealing with the challenges of remote learning.
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