Law professors change tactics to better support students during the pandemic
ABA JOURNAL — Brenda Gibson is trying something new this semester with her legal writing students. After almost 17 years of using honorifics while teaching, she started calling them by their first names. “There are some things I had to do differently because I didn’t show up as authentic,” says Gibson, a professor at Wake Forest University…
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NATIONAL JURIST — On-campus learning may have returned, but some of the online technology that schools relied on during the darkest days of the pandemic are not being shelved. The ABA has given variances to a handful of schools to offer hybrid J.D. programs, which allow most courses to be held online. However, there are some on-campus…
Read More about How distance learning will shape the future of legal educationOpinion: What to teach law students as public trust in the US Supreme Court erodes
LOS ANGELES TIMES — At the start of this new semester, we face a sobering reality. As law and political science professors, we’re in new territory: instructing our students about the foundations of constitutional law when neither they nor we have faith that the current Supreme Court will respect precedent and approach the law as the…
Read More about Opinion: What to teach law students as public trust in the US Supreme Court erodesReport: Undergraduate classics majors have highest GPAs among law students
NATIONAL JURIST — The law school applicants with the highest grade point averages and LSAT scores studied the classics in college, according to a 2014 analysis of data from the Law School Admissions Council by Derek Muller, Bouma Fellow in Law and Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, formerly associate professor…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law has joined the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning as a host school to promote the improvement of teaching and learning in legal education. The Institute, a nationally recognized non-profit organization, provides teaching resources that help law professors ensure that their students…
Read More about University of the Pacific McGeorge Law joins Institute for Law Teaching and Learning as co-hostA look at the factors behind law school admission decisions
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — A pernicious myth of law school admissions, particularly prevalent on online forums, is that admissions decisions are largely based on only two factors: grade point average and LSAT score. If only it were that simple. Instead of hiring admissions officers, law schools could just sort applicants by their numbers…
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INDY WEEK — “Justice is not postponed,” the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson observed in his 1841 essay “Compensation.” But the stack of handwritten letters on Jamie Lau’s desk says otherwise. Lau, a professor at Duke University School of Law, attributes the influx of mail to national publicity surrounding the exoneration of Ronnie Long more…
Read More about A look at approaches of law school innocence projects in North CarolinaLaw schools in Washington state create program to address attorney shortage in rural areas
THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW — Administrators at Heritage University, a small commuter school near Yakima, noticed a trend in tracking what its students did after graduating in the past five years: Only one of them went to law school. One out of approximately 1,200 graduating undergrads. Heritage University, a federally recognized Hispanic Serving Institution and Native American Serving Non-Tribal…
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TIMES UNION — 20 things you don’t know about me: Alicia Ouellette, Albany Law School president and dean.
Read More about A look at Albany Law president and dean Alicia OuellettAlbany Law hosts national family law moot court competition
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School will virtually host 28 teams from across the country — including four first-time attendees — for the 34th Annual Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition from March 4-5, 2022. Caitlin Curtin ’22 is this year’s Competition Chair and the Competition Associates are Neha Goel ’23 and Jingyu…
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