Hiring Plans and Hiring Committees 2024-2025

June 24, 2024

PrawfsBlawg (by Sarah Lawsky) — Professor Lawsky (Northwestern Law) requests information regarding which law schools are planning to hire, subjects of interest, and who is on the hiring committees for the 2024-25 academic year. 

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Using AI to Help Flip the Law School Classroom

June 24, 2024

The Faculty Lounge (by Rick Bales) — Professor Bales (Ohio Northern University Law) explains how he uses generative artificial intelligence to help create exercises for law students.  

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CFP: Heirs’ Property and its Ties to Generational Wealth, Gentrification and Fraudulent Deeds

June 24, 2024

The Faculty Lounge (by Dan Filler) — Dean Filler (Drexel Law) shares a call for papers from the FAMU Law Review  on heirs’ property, generational wealth, gentrification, and fraudulent deeds.  

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DCP Provides Resources for Teaching Students How to Manage Difficult Conversations

June 24, 2024

Indisputably (by Sarah Cole) — Professor Cole (Ohio State Law) shares resources from Ohio State Law’s Divided Community Project on how to help students manage difficult conversations. 

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An Experiment in Using ChatGPT-4 to Draft ASP Practice Problems

June 24, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Louis Schulze) — Professor Schulze (FIU Law) shares how generative artificial intelligence can be used to craft questions about academic support. 

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More things change, the more they stay the same

June 24, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Steven Foster) — Professor Foster (Oklahoma City University Law) shares his thoughts on the National Council of Bar Examiners NextGen Bar Exam pilot tests.  

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Raising the Bar: The NextGen Bar Exam and Contract Drafting by Karen J. Sneddon & Susan Chesler

June 24, 2024

Legal Skills Prof Blog (by Scott Fruehwald) — The author shares aPacific Legal Foundation research paper by Karen J. Sneddon (Mercer Law) and Susan Chesler (Arizona State University Law) that details how law professors can adapt their teaching methods to help students with the NextGen Bar Exam questions on contract drafting.  

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New Book: Brain Science for Lawyers, Judges, and Policymakers

June 24, 2024

Legal Skills Prof Blog (by Scott Fruehwald) — The author shares an excerpt from the book Brain Science for Lawyers, Judges, and Policymakers that details how lawyers can better understand brain science.  

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Learning The Rural Practice of Law

June 24, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Wyoming Law Review article by Ashli Tomisich (University of Wyoming Law) that explains how law schools can better prepare students for the unique problems that arise when practicing law in rural communities. 

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CFP: 2025 AALS Criminal Procedure Works In Progress Panel

June 24, 2024

The Faculty Lounge (by Dan Filler) — Dean Filler (Drexel Law) shares a call for papers for an upcoming AALS Section on Criminal Procedure Works in Progress panel at the AALS Annual Meeting on January 8-11 in San Francisco. 

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