The Best State For Entry-Level Lawyers To Begin Their Careers: California

August 19, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a chart examining cost-of-living in states compared to the average entry-level salary for lawyers.  

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Using Technology To Promote Well-Being And Foster Professional Identity Formation In The 1L Classroom

August 19, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a University of St. Thomas Law Journal article by Kendall Kerew (Georgia State University Law) that explores how law professors can use technology to promote well-being and teach professional identity formation for first-year students.  

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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy In Law School

August 19, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change article by Angela P. Harris (UC Davis Law) and Monika B. Kashyap (Seattle Law) that outlines how law professors can better understand trauma in order to effectively teach students.  

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ABA Seeks To Hire Senior Law School Accreditation Counsel ($158,000 – $196,000)

August 19, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares that the ABA is looking to hire a senior law school accreditation counsel position.  

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Inaugural Issue: The Journal Of Law Teaching And Learning

August 19, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares articles from the inaugural issue of The Journal of Law Teaching and Learning. 

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Law School Entry-Level Hiring Posting Schedule 2024-2025

August 5, 2024

PrawfsBlawg (by Sarah Lawsky) — Professor Lawsky (Northwestern Law) shares important dates for the 2024 law school entry-level hiring cycle including the release of AALS Faculty Appointment Register forms to law school hiring committees 

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Call for Papers: AALS Professional Responsibility Section (New Voices Workshop) 

August 5, 2024

The Faculty Lounge (by Tim Zinnecker) — Professor Zinnecker (Campbell Law) shares that the AALS Professional Responsibility Section seeks papers for a new voices workshop to take place during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. 

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CFP: Interdisciplinarity at AALS

August 5, 2024

Legal History Blog (by Karen Tani) — Professor Tani (Penn Carey Law) shares a call for papers for the AALS Section on Scholarship to be held at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  

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Registration for AALS DR WIP Conference Now Open!

August 5, 2024

Indisputably (by Jill Gross) — Professor Gross (Pace Law) shares a call for proposals for a works in progress conference for the AALS Dispute Resolution Section to be held at University of the Pacific McGeorge Law from October 18-19. 

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Testmakers Foothold on Bar Examination is Now Uncertain

August 5, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Steven Foster) — Professor Foster (Oklahoma City University Law) discusses recent changes to the bar exam and how they could affect the legal profession and legal education. 

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