Hiring Committee Topics of Interest 2024-2025
PrawfsBlawg (by Sarah Lawsky) — Professor Lawsky (Northwestern Law) shares a spreadsheet listing which topics of interest law school faculty hiring committees are looking for during the 2024-2025 hiring season.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (by Dayna Smith) — Professor Smith (Vermont Law and Graduate School) offers advice to first-year law students on reading and briefing cases for law school assignments.
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Indisputably (by Jill Gross) — Professor Gross (Pace Law) shares an announcement from the American Arbitration Association calling for students to apply for their Diverse Student ADR Summit where all accepted students will receive a scholarship to attend.
Read More about AAA’s Diverse Student ADR SummitShared Values and Principles in Mediation
Indisputably (by John Lande) — Professor Lande (University of Missouri Law) shares a list of key values and principles he believes are necessary for mediation practice.
Read More about Shared Values and Principles in MediationRethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity And Building An Inclusive Future
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (University of Baltimore Law) and Charlie Amiot that examines how law schools can better address the needs of neurodivergent students.
Read More about Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity And Building An Inclusive FutureAccessLex: Predicting Bar Success — The Mediating Effects Of 1L Law School GPA On Undergraduate GPA And LSAT
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares data from AccessLex that examines if the admission and assessment tools used by law schools to determine student success correlate to first-time bar passage.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares the results from a recent ABA and AccessLex study that examines how student debt affects the well-being and life decisions of young lawyers.
Read More about Student Debt Impacts Well-Being And Life Decisions Of Young LawyersRethinking the Academic Term
Substack (by Daniel B. Rodriguez) — Dean Rodriguez (Northwestern Law) suggests different ways the law school academic term could be structured to better serve students.
Read More about Rethinking the Academic TermMultistate Bar Exam scores for July 2024 rebound to highest level since 2013
Excess of Democracy (by Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Notre Dame Law) shares that the pass rate for the July 2024 Multistate Bar Exam has improved over the previous year.
Read More about Multistate Bar Exam scores for July 2024 rebound to highest level since 2013Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight
Law School Academic Support Blog (by Louis Schulze) — Professor Schulze (FIU Law) shares a collection of recent scholarship on academic and bar support.
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