Deadline Stress: Navigating Legal Writing in School and Beyond

November 4, 2024

Legal Writing Matters (by Stevie Leahy) — Professor Leahy (Suffolk Law) offers advice on how law students can apply skills that they learn in legal writing courses on managing deadlines to their future careers.

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Online Learning In Law Schools: The Pandemic Experiment

November 4, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by Victoria Sutton (Texas Tech Law) that analyzes how online learning implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic affected law students’ grades and performance on the bar exam.

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From BOO to WOO: Turning Tricky Midterms into Sweet Success

November 4, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Erica Sylvia) — Professor Sylvia (UMass Law) offers advice on how law students can learn from failure on midterm exams.

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Deo: Equity In Legal Education

November 4, 2024

TaxProf Blog by Paul Caron — (Dean Caron) (Pepperdine Law) shares a Santa Clara Law Review article by Meera Deo (Southwestern Law) that examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected equity in legal education and presents ideas on how law schools can address these challenges.

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Implementing ABA Standard 303(B)(3): Positive Legal Education Through A Community Of Inquiry

November 4, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Vermont Law Review article by Joshua Aaron Jones (California Western Law) that details how law schools can implement positive psychology through community of inquiry in order to help law students during their education and beyond.

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Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems

November 4, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy article by Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pitt Law) that details how law professors can look to the past in order to solve current challenges with distance learning.

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Legal Employment Equity Gaps: Hard Work Remains for Law Schools, Employers

November 4, 2024

The Law School Admission Council (by James Leipold) — The author examines NALP employment outcome data to highlight why law schools must do more to ensure equity among all graduates.

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Podcasting As Legal Scholarship

November 4, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) –Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Utah Law Review article by Sara Y. Gras (Seton Hall Law) that argues podcasting should be formally recognized as a medium for legal scholarship.

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1L of a Blog Series: Learning from Midterms

November 4, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Dayna Smith) — Professor Smith (Vermont Law and Graduate School) explains how first-year law students can review their midterms to learn from past mistakes.

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Apple Law School: Innovation, Leadership, And Technology Lessons From Steve Jobs

November 4, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy article by Byron G. Stier (Southwestern Law) that outlines how students can learn lessons on innovation, leadership, and technology from the career of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

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