Law School Innovation
This blawg is a forum to discuss and discover law school innovation.
Author: Primary editors of Law School Innovation Blog: Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at The Ohio State University (who also authors Sentencing Law and Policy); Anupam Chander, a visiting professor at the University of Chicago who also authors Anupam Chander and contributes to The Faculty Blog; Gene Koo, a fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School and director of online training for Legal Aid University; and Mark W. Osler, a law professor at Baylor University who also authors Osler's Razor and contributes to The Religiously Affiliated Law Schools.
Contributing editors: Jim Chen, dean and professor of law at University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law who also contributes to MoneyLaw, Ratio Juris, Jurisdynamics, The Cardinal Lawyer and BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences; Elmer R. Masters, director of Internet development at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction; Judith Welch Wegner, a law professor at the University of North Carolina; and Ellen S. Podgor, associate dean for faculty development & distance education, and a law professor at Stetson University College of Law. Podgor also contributes to White Collar Crime Prof Blog.
Board of Advisers: Paul Caron, a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law who also authors TaxProf Blog and contributes to MoneyLaw, and Joe Hodnicki, associate director for library operations at the University of Cincinnati Law Library who also co-edits Law X.0 and Law Librarian Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Law Schools • Baylor University • Harvard University • The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law • Stetson University • University of Chicago • University of Cincinnati • University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law • University of North Carolina • Law Professor • Librarian • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Law School Innovation
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Role Modeling for Future Academics
For many of us, there are a tiny fraction of our own students who will go into our particular field, law teaching. That said, these students are usually easy to identify by their third year,…
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Will a uniform bar exam influence law school education for the better or for the worse?
The National Law Journal has this effective and important new piece, headlined "Uniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer To Reality." Here are the basics: Next year, at least 10 states are expected to switch to the…
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Training the general practitioner
The law school curriculum sometimes seems very odd, as others have noted before. At better schools, most of the students aspire to high-paying jobs with large law firms. Few of them aspire to a low-paying…
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The Professor-Driven Curriculum
One of the classes I teach is White Collar Crime. It is a three-credit class, one credit more than my sentencing class, appeals and habeas, and juvenile justice. Many, if not most, schools offer a…
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Google Fast Flip
Google FastFlip may offer a new way to quickly read news stories. It certainly looks like one can flip through headlines and first paragraphs faster than previously. For a preview see here. News stories on…
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Watching Kanye West Rather than Your Professor
Farhad Manjoo has a reminder of the remarkable amount of time we might spend away from our work pursuing digital distractions available online. It seems useful to remind students to avoid such distractions during the…
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Great Law Schools, Great Football?
College football and the legal academy are two worlds that both seem obsessed with rankings. What may be surprising is how little overlap there is between those two worlds. Intriguingly, those rankings, at least at…
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"The recession makes externships a sweeter deal for students"
The title of this post is the headline of this interesting recent article from the National Law Journal. Here is how it starts: Without summer associate programs to rely on, law students are turning to…
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"Reality's knocking: The recession is forcing schools to bow to reality"
The title of this post is the headline of this effective new National Law Journal article which highlights the various ways in which lean economic times are impacting law schools. Here is a snippet that…
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Vanderbilt Law: America's Best Orientation?
In response to my earlier post regarding orientation, I received a detailed response from Suzanna Sherry, who has revamped the orientation at Vanderbilt. One striking innovation is that they treat orientation as a class-- with…