How Popular Discontent is Reshaping Higher Education Law
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Author provides a link to Ben Trachtenberg’s (University of Missouri Law) Kentucky Law Journal article on how opinions about higher education are shaped by political affiliation and the effect it has on policy making.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Link to Agnieszka McPeak’s (Duquesne Law) Idaho Law Review article on the clash between the norms of social media and the norms of the legal profession.
Read More about Social Media And Professional Norms for Lawyers, Judges, And Law ProfessorsSander: Are Law Schools Engines of Inequality?
Taxprof Blog (By Paul Caron) — In a new Journal of Law & Education article, Richard Sander (UCLA Law) responds to Aaron Taylor’s (St. Louis University Law) op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education arguing that the structure of legal education exacerbates inequality in the legal profession.
Read More about Sander: Are Law Schools Engines of Inequality?Learning to Love Pro Bono: A Practical Recipe for Engaging Law Students
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Alissa Gomez (University of Houston Law Center) shares the benefits of hosting virtual legal advice clinic in a new SSRN article.
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TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a new article from Richard A. Bales (Ohio Northern Law) and Stephen F. Befort (University of Minnesota Law) in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing covering best practices for co-authoring scholarship with law students.
Read More about Co-Authoring Legal Scholarship With StudentsAfter All These Years: Another Bar Exam Over, Another Entering Class, but Still a Disconnect between the Licensing Exam and What We Need Lawyers to Be and Do
Best Practices for Legal Education (By Mary A. Lynch) — Professor Lynch (Albany Law) discusses the efforts to reform the bar exam and shares a trove of analysis on the disconnect between the test and law practice.
Read More about After All These Years: Another Bar Exam Over, Another Entering Class, but Still a Disconnect between the Licensing Exam and What We Need Lawyers to Be and DoThe role of law school internships and supervisors
Best Practices for Legal Education (By Mary A. Lynch) — Professor Lynch (Albany Law) discusses the role that internship supervisors play in communicating professional norms to law students.
Read More about The role of law school internships and supervisorsThe indisputable need for mentors to bridge the gap between law school and practice-readiness
Legal Skills Prof Blog — Author discusses the role of law schools in embedding student character and the importance of mentors to the professional development of law students and recent graduates.
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Legal Writing Prof Blog — John Marshall Law School has officially merged with the University of Illinois at Chicago. The new name is UIC John Marshall School.
Read More about UIC John Marshall Law SchoolUsing fiction to teach legal history
Legal History Blog (By Mitra Sharafi) — Professor Sharafi (University of Wisconsin Law) discusses the benefits of using works of fiction in legal history courses to provide context for different legal issues.
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