Advice on How to Prepare for the Bar Exam
(Teach Law Better) By Quentin Huff Professor Huff (Wake Forest Law) provides advice to recent law graduates on preparing for the bar exam.
Read More about Advice on How to Prepare for the Bar ExamBar Leaders Should Regularly Take and Pass the Bar Exam
(The Volokh Conspiracy) by Ilya Somin Professor Somin (George Mason Law) proposes that members of bar exam boards and leaders of state bar associations should be required to take and pass the bar exam every year.
Read More about Bar Leaders Should Regularly Take and Pass the Bar ExamReasons Why State Bar Licensing Authorities Require the Bar Exam
(Excess of Democracy) By Derek Muller Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) considers the reasons why state bar licensing authorities require graduates of in-state law schools to take the bar exam.
Read More about Reasons Why State Bar Licensing Authorities Require the Bar ExamRegistration open for 2019 Central States Law Schools Association Scholarship Conference
(The Faculty Lounge) By Bridgett Crawford Professor Crawford (Pace Law) shares information on the 2019 Central States Law Schools Association Scholarship Conference, which will be held on September 20-21 at the University of Toledo College of Law.
Read More about Registration open for 2019 Central States Law Schools Association Scholarship ConferenceContinuing Challenges Facing Legal Education
(Best Practices in Legal Education) By Mary Lynch Professor Lynch (Albany Law) reflects on what she learned about the future of legal education at the sixth annual Leading Edge Conference hosted by Wolters Kluwer in Riverwoods, Illinois.
Read More about Continuing Challenges Facing Legal EducationThe Appropriate Response to Dealing with Political Conflict in the Classroom
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Law professors weigh in on Visiting Assistant Professor Jeffrey Omari’s (Gonazaga Law) ABA Journal op-ed on dealing with political conflict in the classroom.
Read More about The Appropriate Response to Dealing with Political Conflict in the ClassroomLaw School Faculty Hiring Season 2019-2020
(PrawfsBlawg) By Sarah Lawsky Professor Lawsky (Northwestern Law) is collecting information related to hiring committees for the 2019-2020 law school faculty hiring season.
Read More about Law School Faculty Hiring Season 2019-2020The Risks of Technology in the Classroom
(Slaw) Canadian law blog links to an article by Nikos Harris, Q.C. (University of British Columbia Law) in the University of British Columbia Law Review which advocates for “low-tech” teaching methods and note-taking based on recent research on the risks of laptops and other technology in the classroom.
Read More about The Risks of Technology in the ClassroomSummary of CALI’s Law School and Bar Exam Study Skills Fellowship
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Announcement and summary of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction’s (CALI) formation of the Law School and Bar Exam Study Skills Fellowship.
Read More about Summary of CALI’s Law School and Bar Exam Study Skills FellowshipPrestige Ranking and Impact Factor in American Law Journals
(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Dean Paul Caron (Pepperdine Law) posts an abstract and link to Ignacio Cofone (McGill Law) & Pierre-Jean G. Malé’s (Harvard) recent article on the relationship between prestige ranking and impact factor of American law journals.
Read More about Prestige Ranking and Impact Factor in American Law Journals