Conference - Legal Education at the Crossroads

The University of Washington School of Law is hosting a small conference, from September 5-7, 2008 entitled, Legal Education at the Crossroads — Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum.  The conference is intended to respond to suggestions from a Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law.  The deadline for submitting proposals is May 15, 2008.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Legal Education

Add comment May 12, 2008

University of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access

Dean Saul Levmore of the University of Chicago Law School has blocked student “access to the Internet in classrooms last month to help them concentrate on course instruction.” Apparently, Dean Levmore has received “inquiries from about 10 other law schools interested in possibly following suit on the move.”  For more details, go here & here.

Topics: Legal Education

Add comment April 17, 2008

Washington & Lee Reinvents Third Year Curriculum

Washington & Lee University School of Law plans to reinvent its third year curriculum by making it a year of “professional development through simulated and actual practice experiences”.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Legal Education

Add comment April 17, 2008

Yale Law Journal: Call for Tax Papers

The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part has issued a call for 1,500-word essays and commentaries in two areas with tax angles: Sovereign Wealth Funds (June 27, 2008 submission deadline) & Virtual Worlds (August 25, 2008 submission deadline).  For more details, go here

Topics: Tax Law; Calls for Papers

Add comment April 17, 2008

Health Law - Call for Papers

St. Louis University School of Law’s Center for Health Law Studies has announced a call for papers for its 2008 Health Law Scholars Workshop.  Submission deadline is May 2, 2008.  For more details, go here & here.

Topics: Health Law; Calls for Papers

Add comment April 17, 2008

15th Annual Education Law Conference

The 15th Annual Education Law Conference will be held in Portland, Maine from July 28-31, 2008.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Education Law

Add comment April 17, 2008

Supreme Court Justices Talk about Brief Writing, Oral Advocacy and Their own Love-Hate Relationships with the Written Word

Take a look at this series of videos  and see eight of the nine justices speaking passionately, sarcastically & angrily into the camera as they answer questions about brief writing, oral advocacy and their own love-hate relationships with the written word.  For more detials, read this article.

Topics: Constitutional Law

Add comment April 10, 2008

Administrative Law - Duke Law Journal, Call for Papers

The topic for the 2009 Duke Law Journal  symposium will be: administrative law under the George W. Bush administration and the future of administrative law.  The symposium expects to include general articles about the larger themes and trends in administrative law as well as articles focusing on specific administrative law fields.  For more details go here or contact the Duke Law Journal Symposium Editor, Elissa Flynn, at Elissa.Flynn[at]law.duke.edu or the Duke Law Journal Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Chemerinsky, at Jeffrey.Chemerinsky[at]law.duke.edu.

 Topics: Administrative Law; Calls for Papers

Add comment April 4, 2008

The Green Bag Announces A New Ranking System - The Deadwood Report

The Green Bag will launch a new ranking this spring called the Deadwood Report.  This annual report will assess “whether faculty members do the work that the law schools say they do.”  The editors explained that law schools “generally hold themselves out as institutions led by faculties whose members are committed to teaching, scholarship, and service….The Deadwood Report will simply test the accuracy of that picture.”    For many more details, including methodology and reaction from law school officials, read this article from Inside Higher Education & this SSRN article.

Topics: Law School Rankings; Legal Education

Add comment March 3, 2008

Big Drop in Minority Law Students

According to a recent ABA Journal article, “nationwide enrollment of African-American and Mexican-American students in U.S. law schools is down significantly since 1992 and could drop further.”  The article cites statistics gathered by folks at Columbia Law School and the Society of American Law Teachers.   According to Vernellia Randall, a professor at the University of Dayton School of Law in Ohio,  “it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.”  Randall has put together a report entitled America’s Whitest Law Schools

Topics: Legal Education

Add comment March 3, 2008

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