SCOTUS Database–Updates
Empirical Legal Studies (by Michael Heise) — Professor Heise (Cornell Law) shares an update that the Supreme Court Database has been updated to include information on all cases through 2023.
Read More about SCOTUS Database–UpdatesDeadline Stress: Navigating Legal Writing in School and Beyond
Legal Writing Matters (by Stevie Leahy) — Professor Leahy (Suffolk Law) offers advice on how law students can apply skills that they learn in legal writing courses on managing deadlines to their future careers.
Read More about Deadline Stress: Navigating Legal Writing in School and BeyondOnline Learning In Law Schools: The Pandemic Experiment
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by Victoria Sutton (Texas Tech Law) that analyzes how online learning implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic affected law students’ grades and performance on the bar exam.
Read More about Online Learning In Law Schools: The Pandemic ExperimentFrom BOO to WOO: Turning Tricky Midterms into Sweet Success
Law School Academic Support Blog (by Erica Sylvia) — Professor Sylvia (UMass Law) offers advice on how law students can learn from failure on midterm exams.
Read More about From BOO to WOO: Turning Tricky Midterms into Sweet SuccessDeo: Equity In Legal Education
TaxProf Blog by Paul Caron — (Dean Caron) (Pepperdine Law) shares a Santa Clara Law Review article by Meera Deo (Southwestern Law) that examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected equity in legal education and presents ideas on how law schools can address these challenges.
Read More about Deo: Equity In Legal EducationImplementing ABA Standard 303(B)(3): Positive Legal Education Through A Community Of Inquiry
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Vermont Law Review article by Joshua Aaron Jones (California Western Law) that details how law schools can implement positive psychology through community of inquiry in order to help law students during their education and beyond.
Read More about Implementing ABA Standard 303(B)(3): Positive Legal Education Through A Community Of InquiryDistance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy article by Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pitt Law) that details how law professors can look to the past in order to solve current challenges with distance learning.
Read More about Distance Learning: New Tech, Old ProblemsLegal Employment Equity Gaps: Hard Work Remains for Law Schools, Employers
The Law School Admission Council (by James Leipold) — The author examines NALP employment outcome data to highlight why law schools must do more to ensure equity among all graduates.
Read More about Legal Employment Equity Gaps: Hard Work Remains for Law Schools, EmployersPodcasting As Legal Scholarship
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) –Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Utah Law Review article by Sara Y. Gras (Seton Hall Law) that argues podcasting should be formally recognized as a medium for legal scholarship.
Read More about Podcasting As Legal Scholarship1L of a Blog Series: Learning from Midterms
Law School Academic Support Blog (by Dayna Smith) — Professor Smith (Vermont Law and Graduate School) explains how first-year law students can review their midterms to learn from past mistakes.
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