Students at faculty workshops?

March 11, 2024

PrawfsBlawg (by Howard Wasserman) — Professor Wasserman (FIU Law) shares his thoughts on student participation in faculty workshops and asks for opinions on the topic from other law faculty.  

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ABA International Law News: “Global Legal English Skills Community Expands Support for Ukrainian Law Schools”

March 11, 2024

Georgetown Legal English Blog — The author shares an article by Stephen Horowitz (Georgetown Law) explaining how the Global Legal English Skills community has aided law schools in Ukraine.  

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ASP Faculty Scholarships from AccessLex/AASE

March 11, 2024

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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“The Plaintiff Must Always Win” Syndrome

March 11, 2024

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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Will AI Make Law Productive?

March 11, 2024

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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The Sense of ‘Crisis’ in “The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law”

March 4, 2024

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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The Legal Imitation Game: Generative AI’s Incompatibility With Clinical Legal Education

March 4, 2024

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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Why the FTC Needs to Intervene in Law School Rankings

March 4, 2024

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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There’s not much to change with the USNWR rankings to disrupt the status quo

March 4, 2024

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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Passing the batons: Reform and Reckoning in 2024 Legal Education

February 26, 2024

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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