Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight
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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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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PatentlyO (by Jason Rantanen) — Professor Rantanen (University of Iowa Law) shares updated information from the Federal Circuit Dataset Project to assist professors with research.
Read More about Federal Circuit Dataset & Stats: January 2023 UpdateThe Travesty Of The US News Rankings: How Legal Education Should Be Measured
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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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.
Read More about Your bar prep program is enough, you are enough.With Gonzaga, Quinnipiac, Rutgers, And Seattle, 36 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
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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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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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.
Read More about Freedom of Expression at American Law SchoolsHarvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 2023 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
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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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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