tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-535163 2009-11-20T19:35:37Z A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad LawSchoolInnovationhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef012875be1c7e970c 2009-11-20T14:35:37-05:00 2009-11-20T19:35:37Z

Today at a lunch for prospective students, I was asked "should the rankings matter when we make a decision on where to go to law school?" My first instinct was to answer "no," and then describe the usual litany of...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a65030af970b 2009-11-03T15:30:11-05:00 2009-11-03T20:30:11Z

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, in large part because they...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a6371c92970c 2009-10-13T10:09:18-04:00 2009-10-13T14:11:03Z

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 so-called Uniform Bar Exam, and...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a63129ba970c 2009-10-11T23:02:38-04:00 2009-10-12T03:02:38Z

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 general practice. Yet, our curriculum...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5ae7470970b 2009-09-30T16:30:43-04:00 2009-09-30T21:22:32Z

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 class on White Collar Crime--...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5ddeaaa970c 2009-09-21T10:21:19-04:00 2009-09-21T14:21:19Z

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 google fastflip can be found...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5769613970b 2009-09-16T19:41:16-04:00 2009-09-16T23:41:16Z

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 course of this coming school...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5697e9e970b 2009-09-13T09:31:50-04:00 2009-09-13T13:31:50Z

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 the very top, are nearly...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5b926ea970c 2009-09-10T22:15:32-04:00 2009-09-11T02:15:32Z

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 alternate ways of gaining practical...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5b38999970c 2009-09-09T12:53:16-04:00 2009-09-09T16:53:16Z

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 spotlights necessity being the nuturing...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a59b546f970c 2009-09-03T11:11:51-04:00 2009-09-04T16:58:46Z

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 tests and credit. The basis...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a58c3694970c 2009-08-30T21:40:58-04:00 2009-08-31T01:41:45Z

In this economic climate, I know that most people are happy to have a job. That said, the big-firm associates I am hearing from may be glad to be employed, but for the most part they appear to be profoundly...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a50004e1970b 2009-08-17T23:43:39-04:00 2009-08-18T03:44:50Z

While there is a lot of cross-school dialogue about classes and methodology, I haven't seen much relating to how we all handle orientation. Based on what I have heard from colleagues at other schools and my own experience, orientation sessions...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a4fba23c970b 2009-08-16T16:48:18-04:00 2009-08-16T20:52:02Z

Regular readers of my home blog know I am interested in the intersection of the Second Amendment and the criminal justice system in the wake of Heller. My interest is finding expression this coming fall semester — which starts tomorrow(!)...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a5479d30970c 2009-08-13T13:39:05-04:00 2009-08-13T17:39:05Z

This new article available via law.com, which is headlined "Fordham Law School Bans Reed Smith After Firm Pulls Out of On-Campus Interviews," has me wondering whether the rough economy is changing for the worse the relationship between law school and...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0120a52f0587970c 2009-08-08T15:13:37-04:00 2009-08-08T19:13:37Z

This recent article from the National Law Journal, which headlined "At public law schools, tuition jumps sharply: Students may pay as much as 20% more at some state institutions," has me wondering about the relationship between lean times and law...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef011572299e56970b 2009-07-23T15:20:59-04:00 2009-07-23T19:20:59Z

The August 2009 Issue of the ABA Journal has this new piece on the new UC law school, which is titled "Irvine by Erwin: Can a top legal academic create a law school that is both innovative and elite?". The...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef01157124e411970c 2009-07-19T15:36:12-04:00 2009-07-19T19:36:12Z

Reports are dribbling back to me from some students regarding their summer jobs, and it is a little grimmer than usual (as we all would probably expect). At the largest firms, there is a great deal of uncertainty about future...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0115720732f1970b 2009-07-14T23:41:28-04:00 2009-07-15T03:42:52Z

As detailed in some of the posts linked below, various folks have chatted for years in this forum about the Kindle and other e-readers as a possible platform for legal materials. This press release spotlights the first major legal publishing...

LS Innovation Editor tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef01157203781d970b 2009-07-14T11:37:32-04:00 2009-07-14T15:38:21Z

The title of this post is the headline of this recent piece from the National Law Journal. Here are excerpts from an effective piece: The unstable economy created a tricky situation for law school admissions offices this year. Would the...

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