Law Schools Should Continue to Develop Critical Thinking Skills, Not Become Finishing Schools

May 1, 2023

Dorf on Law (by Neil H. Buchanan) — Professor Buchanan (University of Florida Law) explains how teaching critical thinking skills to law students is important to their future careers and lives.  

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Ghosted

May 1, 2023

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Liz Stillman) — Professor Stillman (Suffolk Law) discusses an experience with a student who repeatedly did not attend scheduled meetings. 

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ChatGPT Will Make Writers Lazy

May 1, 2023

The Volokh Conspiracy (by Josh Blackman) –Professor Blackman (South Texas Law College of Law Houston) discusses how ChatGPT could make people less likely to build important skills needed for writing. 

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Guidance on Patenting Inventions with AI Contributions

May 1, 2023

Patently-O (by Dennis Crouch) — Professor Crouch (University of Missouri Law) looks at the legal process of patenting inventions made with contributions from AI. 

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Leading Law Schools: Relationships, Influence, And Negotiation

April 24, 2023

TaxProfBlog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a University of Cincinnati Law Review article by Michael T. Colatrella Jr. (University of the Pacific McGeorge Law) that details the most important skills for law school leadership to develop. 

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Six law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

April 24, 2023

Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (by Brian Leiter) — Professor Leiter (University of Chicago Law) shares an announcement regarding the law professors who have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.  

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What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series

April 24, 2023

Verdict (by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone) — Dean Amar and Professor Mazzone (University of Illinois Law) look at the lessons law students should take from the recent student protest of a speaker event at Stanford Law. 

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Do Law Schools Truly Have to Worry About Students Not Being Able to Handle Real-World Disagreements?

April 24, 2023

Dorf on Law (by Neil H. Buchanan) — Professor Buchanan (University of Florida Law) looks at the protest of a recent speaker event at Stanford Law in order to examine law professors’ responsibilities to their students. 

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MPT advice, part 1 in a series

April 24, 2023

Law School Academic Support Blog (by Lisa DeLaTorre) — Associate Director of Academic Success and Bar Readiness Lisa Delatorre (TSU Thurgood Marshall Law) offers advice to new law graduates planning to take the bar exam’s Multistate Performance Test.  

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