Law School Grade Insurance

October 10, 2023

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a paper by James Fallows Tierney (IIT Chicago-Kent Law) that looks at how the concept of “grade insurance” can help reduce law students’ stress. 

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Santa Clara’s ‘Tech Edge JD’ Program Improves Admissions Yield, Diversity & Employment Outcomes

October 10, 2023

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Marquette Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Review article by Laura Norris (Santa Clara Law) and Eric Goldman (Santa Clara Law) that looks at the benefits of Santa Clara Law’s certificate program for JD students interested in technology law.  

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ALI Elects New Members 

October 2, 2023

The Faculty Lounge (by Bridget Crawford) — Professor Crawford (Pace Law) shares a list of faculty members who were recently elected into the American Law Institute. 

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Covid Shifted A Law Prof’s Role From ‘Sage On The Stage’ To ‘Guide On The Side’ 

October 2, 2023

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Southwestern University Law Review article by Debra Moss that details how the COVID-19 pandemic changed law professors’ role in and outside of the classroom. 

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USNWR incorporates faculty citations, graduate salary, debt data into its college metrics–will law schools be next?

October 2, 2023

 Excess of Democracy (by Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (University of Iowa Law) shares his thoughts on the US News university rankings adding faculty citations, graduate salary, and debt data to their ranking metrics. 

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Legal Ethics Education: Seeking—And Creating—A Stronger Community Of Practice 

October 2, 2023

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics article by Justine Rogers that looks at how a community of practice framework can help explain legal ethics concepts. 

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Roadmap: The Law Student’s Guide to Meaningful Employment, Third Edition by Neil W. Hamilton

October 2, 2023

Legal Skills Prof Blog (by Scott Fruehwald) — The author shares news that the third edition of the book Roadmap: The Law Student’s Guide to Meaningful Employment by Neil Hamilton has been released. 

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Is Politicization Endangering Higher Education?

September 25, 2023

Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (by Michael Simkovic) — Professor Simkovic (USC Gould Law) explains how recent political sentiment is causing harm to higher education and legal education.

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Law Professor Twitter Social Media Census: Call for Updates and New Entries

September 25, 2023

The Faculty Lounge (by Bridget Crawford) — Professor Crawford (Pace Law) provides a space for law school faculty members to share their social media handles for an online directory. 

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RFP: ASLH Projects and Proposals

September 25, 2023

Legal History Blog (by Daniel Ernst) — Professor Ernst (Georgetown Law) shares a request for proposals from the American Society for Legal History for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical scholarship.

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