Comments on: New Article: No Excuses Left for Failing to Reform Legal Education http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/07/22/new-article-no-excuses-left-for-failing-to-reform-legal-education/ A Vision and a Road Map Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:52:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Solomon http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/07/22/new-article-no-excuses-left-for-failing-to-reform-legal-education/#comment-284 Jason Solomon Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:07:59 +0000 http://bestpracticeslegaled.wordpress.com/?p=317#comment-284 Very interesting. I teach at the University of Georgia, and have been thinking about a way to accelerate the implementation process -- through creating comparative educational data on "best practices," as Deborah Rhode at Stanford has described, and using this to rate schools in the annual U.S. News survey. I've been blogging at Prawfsblawg the past few weeks about using the U.S. News surveys to rate schools on relative educational quality, thus creating a race to the top in legal education. I'm planning on doing it on a limited, pilot basis this fall, and am in the process of forming an Advisory Board, with Nancy Rapoport, fomer dean at Houston and Nebraska, as its charter member. The basic gist is summarized here: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2008/07/the-legacies-of.html Most of the posts are collected here: http://money-law.blogspot.com/2008/07/value-added-law-schools.html And a sample voters' guide is here: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2008/07/stanford-harvar.html One thing that will be critical, I think, is the support and help of people like you, Professor Stuckey, and your colleagues here, and Dean Wegner and her Carnegie colleagues. I can be reached at jsolomon@uga.edu and would welcome the opportunity to talk further about this with anyone who is interested. Very interesting. I teach at the University of Georgia, and have been thinking about a way to accelerate the implementation process — through creating comparative educational data on “best practices,” as Deborah Rhode at Stanford has described, and using this to rate schools in the annual U.S. News survey.

I’ve been blogging at Prawfsblawg the past few weeks about using the U.S. News surveys to rate schools on relative educational quality, thus creating a race to the top in legal education. I’m planning on doing it on a limited, pilot basis this fall, and am in the process of forming an Advisory Board, with Nancy Rapoport, fomer dean at Houston and Nebraska, as its charter member.

The basic gist is summarized here:
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2008/07/the-legacies-of.html

Most of the posts are collected here:
http://money-law.blogspot.com/2008/07/value-added-law-schools.html

And a sample voters’ guide is here:
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2008/07/stanford-harvar.html

One thing that will be critical, I think, is the support and help of people like you, Professor Stuckey, and your colleagues here, and Dean Wegner and her Carnegie colleagues. I can be reached at jsolomon@uga.edu and would welcome the opportunity to talk further about this with anyone who is interested.

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