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 law professor at the University of California-Davis who also authors Anupam Chander; 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.

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; 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.

Guest blogger: Dale Oesterle, a law professor at Ohio State University who also edits Business Law Prof Blog.

Board of Advisers: Paul Caron, a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law who also authors TaxProf Blog, 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.

Recent Posts from Law School Innovation

BCS-style Law School Rankings (Alpha Test Version)
In the late 1990's, college football was at a crossroads. The power conferences formed an alliance, the Bowl Championship Series, and then faced the dilemma of creating a ranking system through which it could select…
Keeping up with the law...
With the flurry of exciting cases last week coming down from the Supreme Court, I was anxious to talk about some of the outcomes. However, when I tried to engage students in conversation about it,…
Liveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Open Access to the Law
Open access law is here (or coming soon), but law schools aren't big players in advancing it, or more importantly, doing interesting things with all that law. These new players are all different birds: they…
Will the Northwestern innovative new program be successful?
While Gene is off at a great CALI conference, Northwestern Law School announced today its innovative new approach to legal education (official announcement here). Making all the headlines (in Insider Higher Ed and in the…
Liveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Deliberate Practice and Skills Instruction
Larry Farmer of BYU School of Law is describing how he set up an intensive skills course -- which may not be cheaper than other methods, but which he believes to be superior in quality…
Liveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Simulated Practice in-depth
SIMPLE is a system for authoring and managing practice simulations for professional learning, especially practices that are document- and transaction-centered. SIMPLE can, for example, articulate a multi-party negotiation, collaborative drafting of documents, complex litigation, etc.…
Liveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Simulations and Legal Education
I'm here at CALI's 18th annual Conference for Law School Computing at the University of Maryland Law School. I like to think that "CALI" stands for the "Center for Advancing Legal Innovation" (it's actually the…
Wouldn't it be crazy if we just let students at some other school decide who gets tenure?
Brian Tamanaha and Brian Leiter, among others, have recently written about the effects of law review placement on legal scholars. Especially in tenure considerations, where an article appears is often considered to be the primary…
ABA's Outcome Measures and Tenure Proposals
The ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has released two special committee reports that could be influential in reforming legal education in the US, namely, Interim Report of the Outcome Measures…
Adjunct-ion Junction
While working on another project, I happened to notice the percentage of classes taught by adjuncts at some law schools. In a few cases, it may be that a majority of the classes offered are…