Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight

February 13, 2023

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Steven Foster) — Professor Foster (Oklahoma City University Law) shares a Minnesota Law Review article by O.J. Salinas (University of North Carolina Law) and a Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal article by Mary Szto (Mitchell Hamline Law). Both articles look at best practices for academic and bar support in law schools. 

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Adjunct Law Professors

February 13, 2023

Volokh Conspiracy (by Eugene Volokh) — Professor Volokh (UCLA Law) requests information from adjunct professors and their students for an upcoming piece on adjunct professors.  

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Federal Circuit Dataset & Stats: January 2023 Update

February 13, 2023

PatentlyO (by Jason Rantanen) — Professor Rantanen (University of Iowa Law) shares updated information from the Federal Circuit Dataset Project to assist professors with research. 

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The Travesty Of The US News Rankings: How Legal Education Should Be Measured

February 13, 2023

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review article by Reuben Guttman (American University) and Gregg Ivers (American University) that outlines  alternative ways to measure law schools after several institutions boycott US News rankings. 

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Your bar prep program is enough, you are enough.

January 26, 2023

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Lisa DeLaTorre) — Professor DeLaTorre (TSU Thurgood Marshall Law) gives advice to February Bar Exam takers, reminding them to trust themselves and the preparation methods they are using.

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With Gonzaga, Quinnipiac, Rutgers, And Seattle, 36 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings

January 26, 2023

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Caruso Law) compiles a list of the 36 law schools that have announced that they will not provide information to US News for their annual rankings.

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Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight

January 26, 2023

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Louis Schulze) — Professor Schulze (FIU Law) shares an article by Michael James Bommarito (Michigan State University Law and Daniel Martin Katz (IIT – Chicago Kent Law) titled “GPT Takes the Bar Exam,” which examines the performance of an AI program on the Multistate Bar Exam.

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Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools

January 26, 2023

Legal History Blog (by Theresa J. Kelley and Norman I. Silber) — Theresa J. Kelley (Hofstra Law) and Norman I. Silber (Hofstra Law) provide the information on the Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools event to be held at Hofstra Law on Friday, February 10.

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Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2023 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

January 26, 2023

The Faculty Lounge (by Dan Filler) — Dean Filler (Drexel Law) announces that the 2023 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum is now accepting submissions for its event at Yale Law School on June 29-30, 2023. He outlines the submission topics and qualifications as well as list of contacts for the forum.  

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Modeling and projecting USNWR law school rankings under new methodologies

January 24, 2023

Excess of Democracy (by Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (University of Iowa Law) looks at how changes to the US News ranking methodology could affect the rankings of law schools in the future.  

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