It’s that time of year when we all have the grading of our last semester’s bluebooks well behind us and the last few students have come in to review their exams. So we have packed up the bluebooks to be archived and they are out of sight and out of mind. But wait! In the [...]
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Happy Martin Luther King Day!
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The following article, Unaccredited Law School Sparks Debate With Lawsuit Against Bar Association by Katherine Mangan, comes to us from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The argument is that the ABA and accredited schools are using their market dominance to prevent new schools from gaining accreditation. Here is an excerpt: A Tennessee law school’s lawsuit against the American [...]
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I think it does. In my experience, it is unusual for a professor or dean to encourage a student to forego taking or to drop a so-called stand up or doctrinal class, particularly if it’s required. The opposite situation prevails in clinics, which presently are rarely required; in these classes, the pressure to maintain in [...]
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In our quest to offer and provide as many students as possible the opportunity to participate in clinics while in law school, the notion that a clinical experience is not appropriate for certain students is not likely to be a popular one. Nonetheless, I imagine I’m not the only clinical professor who has faced this [...]
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The New York Times has a new opinion on educating law students, this time from Stanley Fish from Yale. His opinion focuses on the art of law and states that the study of legal scholarship in his course gives students an understanding of what is at stake in a legal proceeding, and provides a basic [...]
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Professor Louis N. Schulz, Jr. from New England Law School recently posted an article entitled Alternative Justifications for Academic Support II: How ‘Academic Support Across the Curriculum’ Helps Meet the Goals of the Carnegie Report and Best Practices, Capital University Law Review, Vol. 40, 2011. Here is the abstract: In the wake of two momentous [...]
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In December 2010, the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law approved a pilot curriculum for one section of the first-year class to run in 2011-2012. The Deans also created a Pilot Assessment Committee, whose task would be to monitor and evaluate implementation of the pilot curriculum. I am the chair of that committee. The [...]
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This was brought to my attention by Professor Irene Scharf, a frequent author on this blog. The New York Times has an editorial yesterday on Legal Education Reform. It also appears in the paper on page A16. Here is a piece: Addressing these issues requires changing legal education and how the profession sees its responsibility [...]
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A new article, No Time to Lose: Negative Impact on Law Student Wellbeing May Begin in Year One was recently published in The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 49-60, 2011 and posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Preliminary results of a pilot study of law students suggest [...]
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The Clinical Law Review will hold its next Clinical Writers’ Workshop on Saturday, September 29, 2012, at NYU Law School. The Workshop will provide an opportunity for clinical teachers who are writing about any subject (clinical pedagogy, substantive law, interdisciplinary analysis, empirical work, etc.) to meet with other clinicians writing on related topics to discuss [...]
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Matthew J. Festa from South Texas College of Law recently published an article entitled “Academic Research and Writing as Best Practices in a ‘Practically Grounded’ Land Use Course“. Here is the abstract: Land use is a discipline that involves diverse academic, practical, and social perspectives; it is also an ideal subject for applying nontraditional teaching [...]
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The next meeting of the Standards Review Committee will be on Friday, November 11, and Saturday, November 12 at the Ritz Carlton Chicago. Meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. on Friday and ends at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Following are links to information about on Open Forum and to the drafts and Reporter’s Notes. Open Forum Invitation [...]
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Albany Law School’s Center for Excellence in Law Teaching (CELT) will host a national conference on “Setting and Assessing Learning Objectives from Day One” for law school faculty and administrators on March 30, 2012. The conference, to be held at Albany Law School, will focus on setting and assessing foundational objectives for law students, as [...]
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A recent white paper authored by Professor Deborah Rhode and Dmitry Bam for a consortium on access to justice concluded that access to justice issues are insufficiently covered in many law school curricula. For example, one national survey found that only one percent of law school graduates recalled coverage of pro bono obligations in their professional [...]
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