Interview with Columbia Law Professor Michael Heller

July 17, 2019

(PrawfsBlawg) By Jessica Erickson Professor Erickson’s next interview in her blog series with VAP and fellowship directors. Michael Heller, the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law, oversees the Associates-in-Law Program at Columbia Law School.    

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Interview with Stanford Law Professor Jeanne Merino

July 17, 2019

(PrawfsBlawg) By Jessica Erickson Professor Erickson (Richmond Law), chair of AALS Committee on Becoming a Law Teacher, continues her blog series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors.  Jeanne Merino, Director of the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program, oversees the fellows in Stanford Law School’s Thomas C. Grey Fellowship for Legal Research and Writing.  

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Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Will Probably Be Retroactively Eliminated

July 17, 2019

(TaxProf Blog) By Paul Caron Professor Caron (Pepperdine Law) posts an abstract and link to Gregory S. Crespi’s (SMU Dedman Law) recent Connecticut Law Review article on predicting the future of the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.    

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In-Class Exams Are Probably Wrong

July 15, 2019

PrawfsBlawg (By Gerard Magliocca) Professor Magliocca (Indiana University McKinney Law) discusses his move away from closed book, timed in-class exams.

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Dean Gerken’s Vision Versus Malcolm Gladwell’s Experience

July 15, 2019

Best Practices for Legal Education (by Andrea A. Curcio) Professor Curcio (Georgia State University Law) compares author Malcolm Gladwell’s recent comments in a podcast episode on the timed LSAT with Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken’s vision for legal education in a recent Harvard Law Review article.

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The Overhyped Rise Of Robot Lawyers

July 15, 2019

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) In a new article in the Arizona Law Review, Milan Markovic (Texas A&M) explains that artificial intelligence is likely to enhance law practice rather than replace it.

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