Learning Outcomes: Helping Students, Employers, Clients, And Law Schools
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Journal of Legal Education article by Neil Hamilton and Jerome Organ (University of St. Thomas Law) that explores how focusing on learning outcomes and better assessment options will provide long term benefits for law students.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (by Melissa Hale) — Professor Hale (Loyola Law Chicago) shares advice for recent law school graduates as they prepare to take the bar exam.
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Law School Café (by Deborah J. Merritt, Sara J. Berman, Marsha Griggs, and Carol Chomsky) — Professors share advice and well-wishes to 2022 law school graduates as they prepare to take the bar exam.
Read More about This Year Is Still Different: An Outdated Bar Exam in Troubled TimesWill remote work adversely affect the training, productivity, and retention of lawyers? (317)
Legal Evolution (by Tom Sharbaugh) — Professor Sharbaugh (Penn State Law) analyzes the drawbacks and benefits of remote work for lawyers both in the short and long term.
Read More about Will remote work adversely affect the training, productivity, and retention of lawyers? (317)Alena Allen to Serve as Deputy Director of AALS
The Faculty Director (by Dan Filler) — University of Arkansas School of Law interim dean Alena Allen has accepted the position of Deputy Director of the American Association of Law Schools effective August 1. She will remain a tenured professor on the faculty and will conclude her role as interim dean June 30.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a forthcoming University of Louisville Law Review article by David Jaffe (American University Law), Katherine Bender (Bridgewater State University) and Jerome M. Organ (University of St. Thomas Law). The article shares data from the 2021 Survey of Law Student Well-Being and looks at how law student…
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a collection of articles from an Ohio State Law Journal issue honoring the career of Ohio State Law professor Deborah Jones Merritt.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a forthcoming Utah Law Review essay by Danielle Conway (Dean, Penn State Dickinson Law) urging members of legal academy and the legal profession to address how the law is complicit in systemic inequality.
Read More about Conway: Antiracist Lawyering Begins With Teaching Antiracism In Law SchoolAn Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a forthcoming University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform article by Scott Devito (Ave Maria University), Kelsey Hample (Furman University), and Erin Lain (Drake Law). The article analyzes how racial bias plays a part in bar exam pass rates for schools.
Read More about An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color IncreasesHBCU Law Schools Face Severe Underfunding
TaxProf Blog — There are six Historically Black Colleges and Universities law schools in the U.S., established because Black students were denied access to law school, and each is struggling due to underfunding.
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