Barry Currier To Step Down; Search Begins For New Managing Director Of ABA Legal Ed Section
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) Announcement and summary of Barry Currier’s resignation as Managing Director of Accreditation and Legal Education for the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He is stepping down at the end of the 2019-20 year after eight years in the position.
Read More about Barry Currier To Step Down; Search Begins For New Managing Director Of ABA Legal Ed SectionAlabama Law Professor Deepa Das Acevedo Highlights Current Project on Gig Economy Regulation
(PrawfsBlawg) by Deepa Das Acevedo Professor Acevedo (University of Alabama Law) highlights one of her current publication projects: an edited volume for Cambridge University Press on qualitative empirical approaches to studying “gig economy” regulation.
Read More about Alabama Law Professor Deepa Das Acevedo Highlights Current Project on Gig Economy RegulationInterview with Wisconsin Law Professor Miriam Seifter
(PrawfsBlawg) By Jessica Erickson Professor Erickson’s (Richmond Law) next interview in her blog series with VAP and fellowship directors. Miriam Seifter, an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, chairs the committee that oversees the William H. Hastie Fellowship Program.
Read More about Interview with Wisconsin Law Professor Miriam SeifterPepperdine Dean Paul Caron Offers Perspective on Diversity and Law School Admissions
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) posts an abstract and link to a panel at the 2019 SEALS conference. Panel explored methodologies and programs that will help students from low-income and diverse backgrounds have opportunities to attend law school.
Read More about Pepperdine Dean Paul Caron Offers Perspective on Diversity and Law School AdmissionsHow Law Schools Cope with Changing Legal Education Market
(TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron Author posts an abstract and link to Bernard A. Burk’s (formerly North Carolina Law), Jerome Organ’s (University of St. Thomas Law) & Emma Rasiel’s (Duke Law) recent Nevada Law Journal article, which looks at the schools that were most likely to see declines in entering-class profile, entering-class size, and average net tuition since the recession.
Read More about How Law Schools Cope with Changing Legal Education MarketNon-Lawyer Master’s Programs Enhance Public Mission of Law Schools
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Author posts an abstract and link to Mark Edwin Burge’s (Texas A&M Law) recent University of Miami Law Review article, which argues that non-lawyer master’s degree programs are not a distraction from the public missions of law schools.
Read More about Non-Lawyer Master’s Programs Enhance Public Mission of Law SchoolsABA Should Require Mentoring Programs for Junior Lawyers and Law Students
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Author posts an abstract and link to Katerina Lewinbuk’s (South Texas College of Law Houston) recent Saint Louis University Law Journal article, which suggests that the ABA should require states to implement their own mentoring programs for junior lawyers and law students.
Read More about ABA Should Require Mentoring Programs for Junior Lawyers and Law StudentsIncorporating Use of Peer Reviews Across the Law School Curriculum
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Author posts an abstract and link to Diana Donahoe (Georgetown Law) and Julie Ross’ (Georgetown Law) recent article, which argues that the use of peer reviews and self-evaluations can be successfully used across the law school curriculum to enhance teaching and learning.
Read More about Incorporating Use of Peer Reviews Across the Law School CurriculumIntegrating Spaced Retrieval into the Law School Curriculum
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Author posts an abstract and link to Brian Sites’s (Barry Law) recent Law and Psychology article, which advocates for formally integrating spaced retrieval into the law school curriculum.
Read More about Integrating Spaced Retrieval into the Law School CurriculumCalifornia State Bar’s Leak of Exam Topics Should Have Little Impact
(Excess of Democracy) By Derek Muller Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) analyzes the impact of the California State Bar’s leak of exam topics to law school deans.
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