How colleges can communicate fall plans effectively
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Circumstances may force colleges to shift their current plans, and they must carefully communicate that to preserve credibility and enrollment, write Teresa Valerio Parrot and Erin Hennessy.
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UCLA LAW — The UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, in collaboration with the Bronx Defenders, Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional and Social Change and Zealous, has launched a new electronic database of COVID-19-related materials designed to help lawyers, advocates, researchers, journalists and others interested in challenging, remedying, or drawing attention to the grave risk…
Read More about UCLA Law expands database tracking COVID-19 cases in prisonCase Western Reserve Law professor Brian Gran receives grant from National Science Foundation to study COVID-19 and human rights
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Brian Gran, a professor in both the law school and the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded a RAPID grant from the Law and Science Program of the National Science Foundation.
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law professor Brian Gran receives grant from National Science Foundation to study COVID-19 and human rightsToday’s Tuesday Afternoon AALS Faculty Focus Webinar: Excellence In Online Instruction
TAXPROF BLOG by PAUL CARON – Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares information about the weekly AALS Faculty Focus webinar series. Faculty Focus invites tenure-track, clinical, and legal writing faculty to join on Tuesday afternoons to hear from law school leaders and colleagues about the issues facing early career law professors.
Read More about Today’s Tuesday Afternoon AALS Faculty Focus Webinar: Excellence In Online InstructionThe Difficulties of Teaching a “Hybrid” Class
THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY by JOSH BLACKMAN – Professor Blackman (South Texas College of Law Houston) discusses the unique struggles that professors will face with hybrid classes in the fall. These professors will have challenges in teaching both in-person and online students simultaneously. Blackman offers suggestions on how technologies in the classroom will need to be enhanced…
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THE FACULTY LOUNGE – Announcement of a call for papers for the University of New Hampshire Law Review for Rights & Responsibilities’ volume on judicial and legislative responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The deadline to submit an abstract is September 1, 2020. Four submissions will be chosen to be presented as part of the symposium on…
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LAW SCHOOL ACADEMIC SUPPORT BLOG by STEPHEN FOSTER – New law graduates taking the bar exam this summer face unique preparing for the test. The author links to a letter written by Dean Annette Clark (Seattle Law) to the Washington Supreme Court advocating for these aspiring attorneys.
Read More about What’s it Like to Prepare for The July/Sep Bar Exam?The Washington State bar exam experiment of 2020 will be one to watch
EXCESS OF DEMOCRACY by DEREK T. MULLER – Professor Derek T. Muller (University of Iowa Law) discusses the state of Washington’s plan to give diploma privilege to graduates of all ABA law schools who previously registered for the July bar exam. He compares Washington’s plan to the plans of other states, such as Utah, in terms…
Read More about The Washington State bar exam experiment of 2020 will be one to watchIndiana Law’s fall 1L program (170)
LEGAL EVOLUTION by AUSTIN PARRISH – Dean Parrish (Indiana University Maurer Law) introduces his school’s plan for the fall semester to adjust and prepare for challenges due to the pandemic. The school will have a block schedule that has both in-person and online components to support students with differing circumstances.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The SEICHE Center will focus on identifying and applying strategies to improve the health of individuals and communities impacted by incarceration in Connecticut, nationally, and globally. At the core of this coalition will be Yale faculty, students, and staff who have been personally impacted by mass incarceration.
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