AALS Section on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Programming Survey
The Faculty Lounge (by Bridget Crawford) — Professor Crawford (Pace Law) shares a survey from the AALS Section on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging seeking input on possible programming for the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting.
Read More about AALS Section on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Programming SurveyICYMI: Teaching Tips for New Professors
PrawfsBlawg (by Lyrissa Lidsky) — Professor Lidsky (University of Florida Law) shares advice for new law professors as they begin their careers this fall.
Read More about ICYMI: Teaching Tips for New ProfessorsA Black Woman Law Dean Speaks About The Precarity Of Leadership
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares dean Danielle Conway’s (Penn State Dickinson Law) Southwestern Law Review essay on the book Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia by Meera Deo (Southwestern Law). Conway’s review looks at how Deo describes inequity in legal education and how institutions have responded.
Read More about A Black Woman Law Dean Speaks About The Precarity Of LeadershipDeo: Progress And Backlash In Our Unequal Profession — Race And Gender In Legal Academia
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Southwestern Law Review essay by Meera Deo (Southwestern Law) reflecting on her book Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia. Deo looks at how the book has remained relevant to events happening in this country since 2019 when it was initially published.
Read More about Deo: Progress And Backlash In Our Unequal Profession — Race And Gender In Legal AcademiaHeminway: Change Leadership And The Law School Curriculum
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Santa Clara Law Review article by Joan MacLeod Heminway (University of Tennessee Law) that argues law schools must make change leadership a more important piece of the law school curriculum.
Read More about Heminway: Change Leadership And The Law School CurriculumLearning Outcomes: Helping Students, Employers, Clients, And Law Schools
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Journal of Legal Education article by Neil Hamilton and Jerome Organ (University of St. Thomas Law) that explores how focusing on learning outcomes and better assessment options will provide long term benefits for law students.
Read More about Learning Outcomes: Helping Students, Employers, Clients, And Law SchoolsThe Final Countdown to the Bar Exam
Law School Academic Support Blog (by Melissa Hale) — Professor Hale (Loyola Law Chicago) shares advice for recent law school graduates as they prepare to take the bar exam.
Read More about The Final Countdown to the Bar ExamThis Year Is Still Different: An Outdated Bar Exam in Troubled Times
Law School Café (by Deborah J. Merritt, Sara J. Berman, Marsha Griggs, and Carol Chomsky) — Professors share advice and well-wishes to 2022 law school graduates as they prepare to take the bar exam.
Read More about This Year Is Still Different: An Outdated Bar Exam in Troubled TimesWill remote work adversely affect the training, productivity, and retention of lawyers? (317)
Legal Evolution (by Tom Sharbaugh) — Professor Sharbaugh (Penn State Law) analyzes the drawbacks and benefits of remote work for lawyers both in the short and long term.
Read More about Will remote work adversely affect the training, productivity, and retention of lawyers? (317)Alena Allen to Serve as Deputy Director of AALS
The Faculty Director (by Dan Filler) — University of Arkansas School of Law interim dean Alena Allen has accepted the position of Deputy Director of the American Association of Law Schools effective August 1. She will remain a tenured professor on the faculty and will conclude her role as interim dean June 30.
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