Today is Law Student Mental Health Day!

October 15, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Erica Sylvia) — Professor Sylvia (UMass Law) commemorates October 10 as Law Student Mental Health Day and shares resources professors can share with students to support their mental health. 

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From PACER to SCALES: Access to Federal Court Data

October 15, 2024

Empirical Legal Studies (by Michael Heise) — Professor Heise (Cornell Law) examines how the new online platform SCALES could help lawyers and other legal professionals access federal court data more easily. 

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AALS Statements Of Good Practices For Faculty Recruitment, Hiring, Retention, And Resignation

October 7, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares AALS Statements of Good Practices on faculty recruitment, hiring, retention, and resignation, along with their amended dates. 

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Anxiety Before Autumn: Considering Why Law Students are Seemingly Stressed Much Earlier in the Semester

October 7, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Erica Sylvia) — Professor Sylvia (UMass Law) shares reasons why law students may be stressed earlier in the semester and some ways law professors can help them. 

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Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight

October 7, 2024

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Louis Schulze) — Professor Schulze (FIU Law) shares recently published scholarship in the field of academic and bar support. 

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Speck: Zoom As An In-Person Learning Platform

October 7, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a North Dakota Law Review article by Sloan Speck (University of Colorado Law) that explores how professors can use Zoom as a tool for in-person teaching. 

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ABA Releases Guidance Memo On Standard 208: Academic Freedom And Freedom Of Expression

October 1, 2024

TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a memo from ABA legal education section managing director Jennifer Rosato Perea that provides guidance to law schools on complying with the new ABA standard on academic freedom and freedom of expression.

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The new timetable of the law school hiring market

October 1, 2024

Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (by Brian Leiter) — Professor Leiter (University of Chicago Law) discusses how the timing of the entry-level law professor hiring market has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ABA Standard 208, Law Schools, and the First Amendment

October 1, 2024

The Volokh Conspiracy (by Jonathan H. Adler) — Professor Adler (Case Western Reserve Law) discusses the new ABA accreditation standard requiring law schools to protect free speech and the First Amendment.

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Call for Nominations: Best Untenured Article

October 1, 2024

(PrawfsBlawg) — The author shares a call for nominations for the best article on the law of federal jurisdiction by an untenured faculty member to be presented at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

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