University of Virginia Law professor Douglas Laycock announces retirement
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Douglas Laycock doesn’t remember all the events surrounding his public high school’s 1963 Christmas assembly. Half a century of appellate litigation, writing and teaching will do that. But he does clearly remember hearing the Christian Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke. And he remembers walking out in protest. Laycock,…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, an education law expert known for empowering her students, has been named a recipient of one of this year’s All-University Teaching Awards. Robinson, a former education policy lawyer at the Department of Education, has been a member of the Law…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Although women were not admitted to UVA Law as students until 1920, their presence on Grounds helped shape the legal curriculum of the 19th century. Professor Laura Edwards discusses the Black and white women who lived and labored at UVA, and the ways in which they navigated the repressive limitations…
Read More about Podcast: A look at the history of women at University of Virginia LawWidener Law partners with Lycoming College for ‘3+3’ accelerated degree program
WIDENER LAW — Two schools in Pennsylvania have signed an agreement that officials say will save time and money towards earning a law degree. Widener Law Commonwealth and Lycoming College have signed an agreement that will allow Lycoming students to have the opportunity to complete their undergraduate and law degrees in six years. This 3+3…
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WILLAMETTE LAW — As bar exam pass rates have declined nationally against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Willamette Law faculty and staff began to wonder if bar passage rates would increase for examinees studying with and being accountable to their peers. An idea began to emerge from the success of 1L students’ cohort structure…
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WILLAMETTE LAW — Zach Forrester had a chance encounter that ultimately led to him joining Willamette Law and taking part in the inaugural immersion externship in Alaska. When he began at the law school, Forrester was interested in a number of different areas of law, and most specifically civil rights, the working of the court…
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WILLAMETTE LAW — Professor Buske, College of Law faculty, is teaching an International Children’s Rights course during the Summer 2023 intersession. Along with Professor Cook, she will take 12 students across the globe to Africa for a new perspective. While there for three weeks, students will have class sessions each morning and will spend the…
Read More about Willamette Law professor Sheryl Buske teaches course on international children’s rightsOpinion: Is it worth it to enforce ChatGPT bans in college writing?
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The sun descends and I’m still not through grading papers, because they take twice as long now that my students have learned about ChatGPT. First, I put all the papers through GPTZero, but there are too many false positives, so I take the flagged text and try to reverse engineer it…
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SEARCH ENGINE LAND — As new ChatGPT alternatives pop up daily, AI content detectors are also gaining popularity. In this article, I’ll share 16 of these detectors and show you how they score some paragraphs of my original, unpublished writing versus a few paragraphs on the same topic from ChatGPT. I’ll also walk through the types of…
Read More about Comparing AI and ChatGPT content detectorsHow artificial intelligence could impact the future of higher education
SEATTLE U THE NEWSROOM — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is at once intriguing, exciting and, yes, a little disturbing. For those of us in higher education, these technologies have apparent potential to disrupt traditional teaching and learning models. There is well-founded concern about generative AI’s implications for academic integrity along with a recognition that these…
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