Tips for Law Students Learning in the New Distance Formats 

March 30, 2020

The Faculty Lounge (By Bridget Crawford ) — Professor Crawford (Pace Law) offers tips for students adjusting to online classes.

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Embracing Online Teaching with a Growth Mindset 

March 30, 2020

Teach Law Better (By Heidi Brown ) — Professor Brown (Brooklyn Law) provides advice on acclimating to remote instruction.

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Closed: Captioning, Compliance, and the All–Online Transition

March 30, 2020

Dorf on Law (By Diane Klein and Brian Grewe) — Professor Klein (University of La Verne Law) and Professor Grewe (Denver Law) offer tips and solutions for making online courses accessible with closed captioning.

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Webinar Recording About Transitioned Classes and Online Simulations

March 30, 2020

Indisputably (By John Lande) — Professor Lande (Missouri Law) shares a training by Professors Ebner (Creighton Law) and Press (Mitchell Hamline Law) on conducting simulations in courses through Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms. Author also provides additional resources for remote teaching.

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Free Online Content: Business Taxation/Subchapter K 

March 30, 2020

TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron ) — Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares videos from Professor Cass Brewer’s (Georgia State Law) fall 2019 online Partnership & LLC Taxation course.

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Grading in a Time of Crisis 

March 30, 2020

The Faculty Lounge (By Noah Zatz ) — Professor Zatz (UCLA Law) outlines his opinion that law schools should move to pass-fail grading this semester.

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Law schools should not abandon standard grading policies for all students

March 30, 2020

The Volokh Conspiracy (By Josh Blackman) — Professor Blackman (South Texas College of Law Houston) believes law school schools should retain a standard grading policy for most students, while making exceptions for those experiencing hardships.

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NALP cannot compel law firms to move OCI to January, but urges communication about COVID–related changes

March 30, 2020

TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron ) — Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a letter from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) to its membership about recruitment for law jobs and on-campus interviews.

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Covid–19 and the 2020 Bar Exam

March 30, 2020

Best Practices for Legal Education (By Andrea A. Curcio ) — Professor Curcio (Georgia State Law) shares a short paper on proposed alternatives for licensing new law graduates due to disruptions caused by the pandemic.

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Some thoughts on the bar exam and Covid–19

March 30, 2020

Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller provides his perspective on the licensing options for law graduates in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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