Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight
Law School Academic Support Blog (by Louis Schulze) — Professor Schulze (FIU Law) highlights recent scholarship related to academic and bar support.
Read More about Academic and Bar Support Scholarship SpotlightUniversity of Michigan Law prohibits use of ChatGPT in law school applications
REUTERS — The admissions department at the University of Michigan Law School is looking for personal statements and application essays that reflect the traits and writing ability of aspiring attorneys. But those essays better not have been written by ChatGPT.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LAW — Law professor Sara Gosman, two law students and a recent graduate of the Sam M. Walton College of Business spoke to Sam’s Club employees about renewable energy and electric vehicles at a recent company-wide “regeneration” learning event at the corporate headquarters in Bentonville.
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UC LAW SAN FRANCISCO — UC Law San Francisco is home to dozens of student organizations that help law students connect with like-minded peers and network for their future careers. One of these many groups is the Plaintiffs’ Law Association. Meet Plaintiffs’ Law Association President Catherine Cawley and hear in her own words what’s great…
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Empirical Legal Studies (by Michael Heise) — Professor Heise (Cornell Law) shares tips on using UCLA’s statistical consulting site as a resource for empirical legal studies.
Read More about An Online Resource of NoteFordham Law professor Benjamin Zipursky honored by AALS Section on Torts & Compensation Systems
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Benjamin Zipursky, James H. Quinn Chair in Legal Ethics, will receive this year’s William L. Prosser Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Torts & Compensation Systems. The award recognizes the significant contributions of law teachers in scholarship, teaching, and service in the torts…
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NYU LAW — Mitchell Engler ’90 LLM ’91, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, passed away on November 4 at age 58. An editor of the NYU Law Review and the Tax Law Review, Engler was a longtime adjunct professor at the Law School and a former acting assistant professor. Engler’s scholarship centered on tax…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Two new studies on gender bias in student evaluations of teaching look at the phenomenon from fresh—and troubling—angles. One study surveyed students at the beginning of the semester and after their first exam and found that female instructors faced more backlash for grades given than did male instructors.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new study suggests that students choose to stop out of college and others choose not to enroll in the first place because of a range of “psychographics,” or psychological factors, including doubts about the financial returns of a college education and an awareness of other career training options outside traditional…
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BC LAW — Boston College Law School has launched a new Early Decision admissions program to provide an expedited review, with special consideration that BC Law is the applicant’s first choice.
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