The recently released issue 68-3 of the Journal of Legal Education opens with the full text of the plenary address given at the 2019 AALS Annual Meeting by Justice Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Justice Cameron’s inspiring speech delivered lessons learned over a lifetime of service to the law and anti-apartheid activism.
The rest of the issue includes articles organized around several topics, including the financing of law school, the relationship between legal education and student success on the bar exam, and more. This issue was edited by Northeastern University School of Law.
Issue 68-3 features the following articles:
- “2019 AALS Annual Meeting Keynote Address: South Africa under the Rule of Law: Peril and Promise,” by The Honorable Edwin Cameron
- “Curing the Cost Disease: Legal Education, Legal Services,and the Role of Income-Contingent Loans,” by John R. Brooks
- “Law School, Debt, and Discrimination,” by Jonathan D. Glater
- “Value of a Law Degree by College Major,” by Frank McIntyre and Michael Simkovic
- “The Elite Teaching the Elite: Who Gets Hired by the Top Law Schools?,” by Eric J. Segall and Adam Feldman
- “A Study of the Relationship Between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes,” by Robert R. Kuehn and David R. Moss
- “Where Are We on the Path to Law Student Well-Being?: Report on the ABA CoLAP Law Student Assistance Committee Law School Wellness Survey,” by Jordana Alter Confino
- “Early Graduate Legal Studies in America and Legal Transplantation: The Case of China’s First International and Comparative Legal Scholar ,” by Li Chen
- “Knitting 101: Why Law Professors Should Share their Hobbies with their Students,” by Susan Greene
In addition, David Ray Papke reviews the book The Rooster Bar, by John Grisham; Margaret Y.K. Woo reviews the book The Future of Economic and Social Rights, by Katharine Young; and Rima Y. Mullins reviews the book The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber.
