Best Practices for Legal Education
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The blog contributors and editor will attempt to document and record the most recent innovations and academic experiments accompanying the legal education reform movement and stimulate dialogue between and among all sectors of the legal academy. To create a place where those interested in the future of legal education can freely exchange ideas, concerns, and opinions.
Best Practices for Legal Education
2y ago
Robert Kuehn, Washington University School of Law Each year law school clinics provide free legal assistance to tens of thousands of clients, most of whom would otherwise go unrepresented. The work of clinic students and faculty allows clients to advance or defend their rights or obtain assistance or funds to which they are entitled, assistance ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
2y ago
"While the diversity of law school faculty has been increasing over the past four decades, it still lags behind the gender and racial/ethnic diversity among students. And even though schools are hiring increasingly more female faculty, women continue to be disproportionately hired into traditionally lower status/lower paying clinical and legal writing positions ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
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Best Practices for Legal Education
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Roy Stuckey, South Carolina (emeritus), has written an article about the successful efforts of clinical teachers from 1979 to 1996 to secure a future for clinical legal education and to enhance the status and job security of clinical teachers. Stuckey’s work was encouraged and supported by the other surviving members of the Key Biscayne Group’s Coordinating Committee (the ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
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Kaci Bishop of UNC School of Law shares a class exercise designed to help students develop a growth mindset and a framework for giving effective feedback - a critical skill used in clinic as well as throughout a legal career ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
2y ago
By Professor Deborah Jones Merritt, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Stark racial disparities mark our profession’s licensing system. Last year, 88% of White candidates passed the bar exam on their first try. For BIPOC candidates, pass rates were significantly lower: 66% for Black candidates, 76% for Latinx candidates, 78% for both Hawaiian ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
2y ago
By: Mallika Kaur, UC Berkeley School of Law and Executive Director, Sikh Family Center As a human rights advocate focused on gendered violence work, about seven years ago I began employing the term “negotiating trauma” (while developing a class of the same name for UC Berkeley School of Law) in order to encourage fellow lawyers to consider ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
3y ago
With the aid of my smart and industrious research assistant Rob Galloway, I have completed the annual list of Legislation and Regulation (Leg Reg) and Administrative Law course requirements at ABA accredited law schools. The link to the list as a publicly viewable Google doc is below. Two schools (Georgia State and Wisconsin) have added ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
3y ago
Janet Thompson Jackson* I’m not always okay. It’s the end of the semester and I’m mentally and emotionally exhausted. My fuse is a bit shorter than normal and my cynicism is a bit longer. I’m ready to distance myself from my work and many of my co-workers. Does that sound familiar to you? We label ..read more
Best Practices for Legal Education
3y ago
July 22, 2021 Register here and read more about the book here. The abrupt move to online legal education in Spring 2020 accelerated the move to online legal education that has been slowing gathering steam in recent years. As more institutions consider the potential to expand their reach with online courses and programs, law professors ..read more