Testy: Building The Future Of Justice: Law School Applicants 2019
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) Kellye Testy (President & CEO, Law School Admissions Council) announces that applicants have again increased for the 2019-2020 admission cycle, but more modestly, with some encouraging progress for diversity.
Read More about Testy: Building The Future Of Justice: Law School Applicants 2019Fall 2019 Law Review Article Submission Guide
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) Announcement and summary of Professor Nancy Levitt and Allen Rostron’s (University of Missouri-Kansas City Law) updated guide on the law review article submission process. The document contains two charts for the fall 2019 submission season covering 203 law reviews.
Read More about Fall 2019 Law Review Article Submission GuideLegal Innovation Website — A Valuable New Resource
PrawfsBlawg (By Dan Rodriguez) Professor Rodriguez (Northwestern Law) shares a new legal innovation website by the ABA Center for Innovation that collects information about regulatory innovations in the delivery of legal services.
Read More about Legal Innovation Website — A Valuable New ResourceFree Speech on Campus
PrawfsBlawg (By Howard Wasserman) Professor Wasserman (Florida International Law) shares details of a recent SEALS program covering an assortment of free-speech controversies on college campuses.
Read More about Free Speech on CampusCall for Submissions: AALS New Voices in Administrative Law and Legislation
The Faculty Lounge (By Tim Zinnecker) Professor Zinnecker (Campbell Law) shares a “call for contributions” for the co-sponsored “New Voices in Administrative Law and Legislation” program for the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Read More about Call for Submissions: AALS New Voices in Administrative Law and LegislationNebraska’s Children’s Justice Clinic
What Great Law Schools Do (By Michael Hunter Schwartz) Dean Schwartz (Pacific McGeorge Law) highlights the University of Nebraska College of Law’s Children’s Justice Clinic, which allows third-year law students to serve as guardians ad litem for children in Nebraska’s child welfare system.
Read More about Nebraska’s Children’s Justice ClinicMalcolm Gladwell Mangles Casuistry
Dorf on Law (By Michael Dorf) Professor Dorf (Cornell Law) critiques the fourth season of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History which includes a multi-episode discussion on the LSAT and timed law school exams.
Read More about Malcolm Gladwell Mangles CasuistryMore On A Dean’s Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School Rankings
Taxprof Blog (By Paul Caron) Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a chart of the racial and ethnic composition of the 2017-2018 law school applicant pool from LSAC data.
Read More about More On A Dean’s Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School RankingsA Hard Thing To Do
Madisonian (By Michael Madison) Professor Madison (University of Pittsburgh Law) presents the final part of his response to a recent Forbes article by legal business consultant Mark Cohen, in which he critiqued law schools for failing to respond to a developing “skills gap” between legal education and the growing technology needs of the legal profession.
Read More about A Hard Thing To DoWhy Are Seemingly Satisfied Female Lawyers Running For The Exits?
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) Author posts an abstract and link to a recent Marquette Law Review article by Joni Hersch and Erin E. Meyers (Vanderbilt Law), which looks at the discrepancy between the reported job satisfaction of women lawyers and the rate of women leaving the profession earlier in their careers.
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