ASP Faculty Scholarships from AccessLex/AASE
Law School Academic Support Blog (by Steven Foster) — Professor Foster (Oklahoma City University Law) shares that AccessLex and AASE are offering scholarships to support acedemic support professionals and faculty writing law review articles.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (by Steven Foster) — Professor Foster (Oklahoma City University Law) explains how law professors can help students better understand writing prompts in which a plaintiff’s claim is not successful.
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The Volokh Conspiracy (by Michael Abramowicz) — Professor Abramowicz (George Washington Law) notes the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in law practice and explains how it could affect the future of the legal profession and access to justice.
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PrawfsBlawg (by Paul Horwitz) — Professor Horwitz (University of Alabama Law) reflects on a recent New York Times article and says distrust in the US Supreme Court and other judicial bodies is not a recent development in teaching constitutional law.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Fordham Law Review article by Jake Karr and Jason Schultz (NYU Law) that explains how students’ use of generative artificial intelligence fails to develop the same skills produced by engagement in law school clinics.
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The Sling (by Darren Bush) — Professor Bush (University of Houston Law Center) presents his case for Federal Trade Commission intervention in the US News law school rankings.
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Excess of Democracy (by Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (Notre Dame Law) believes that the predicted changes to the US News law school rankings may not make major changes to the rankings themselves.
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PrawfsBlawg (by Dan Rodriguez) — Professor Rodriguez (Northwestern Law) discusses the major changes underway in terms of the leadership of several legal education organizations, including AALS. He lists some of the issues and challenges the new leaders will face.
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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (by Brian Leiter) –Professor Leiter (University of Chicago Law) shares comments from Joshua Silverstein (University of Arkansas Little Rock Law) that are critical of the ABA proposal to increase the number of experiential learning credits that law students would need to graduate.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a study by University of Maryland Law professors that explores how ChatGPT has improved its performance on law school exams from 2022 to 2023.
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