Law School Innovationtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5351632009-07-15T03:41:28ZA Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadLawSchoolInnovationhttp://feedburner.google.comPLI becomes first (but surely not the last) to put its law books on the Kindletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef0115720732f1970b2009-07-14T23:41:28-04:002009-07-15T03:42:52ZAs 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"Law school pays students to stay away"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef01157203781d970b2009-07-14T11:37:32-04:002009-07-14T15:38:21ZThe 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...LS Innovation EditorWhat is the latest state of multiple-choice testing in law school?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef011571fdf541970b2009-07-13T12:34:12-04:002009-07-13T16:34:12ZI am trying to catch up on some law school readings this summer, and I noticed this interesting-looking piece on SSRN. The piece by Janet Fisher is titled "Multiple-Choice: Choosing the Best Options for More Effective and Less Frustrating Law...LS Innovation EditorUp or Down?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef011570fa9f25970c2009-07-10T16:15:37-04:002009-07-10T20:15:37ZReflecting on the last post, I will admit to noticing a lack of big movements this summer in our field, and I think the down market for legal employment has something to do with it. I am beginning to suspect...LS Innovation EditorSeeking news, reports, information on serious summer innovationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8ccf53ef011570cd14f5970c2009-07-05T12:19:07-04:002009-07-05T16:19:07ZThe summer of 2009 would seem to present a uniquely vibrant opportunity for law school innovations. A down job market for both recent grad and summer associates likely creates lots of potential "human capital" for innovative summer law school programming...LS Innovation EditorLiveblogging #CALICON09 - John Palfrey Keynotetag:typepad.com,2003:post-682431552009-06-18T11:20:47-04:002009-06-18T16:05:38ZJohn Palfrey, Harvard Law School Professor and Vice Dean for Information, is delivering the keynote for this year's Conference for Law School Computing. (Search Twitter for #calicon09 for live tweets). How do Digital Natives, the Iranian blogosphere, and law school...LS Innovation EditorThe Most Direct Form of Scholarshiptag:typepad.com,2003:post-679604612009-06-10T18:02:50-04:002009-06-11T03:55:24ZYesterday, I had an experience several others here have already been through-- offering invited testimony before a congressional committee. In my case, it was at a hearing on H.R. 2289, which involved eliminating the sentence of life without parole for...LS Innovation EditorTaking an Oath to Serve the Greater Goodtag:typepad.com,2003:post-674523832009-05-30T09:24:51-04:002009-05-30T13:24:51ZThe New York Times has a fascinating story by Leslie Wayne identifying a possible new trend among business students--to take oaths to serve the greater good, especially during their careers to come. Should law students take similar oaths? Lawyers, after...LS Innovation EditorFree Law Review Article Submission System: LexOpustag:typepad.com,2003:post-673850432009-05-28T18:01:36-04:002009-05-28T22:01:51ZI post details from an email I received from John Doyle at Washington and Lee: LexOpus (http://lexopus.wlu.edu) is a recently launched service at Washington and Lee Law School offering free online submissions to law journals. The service has two facets:...LS Innovation EditorFashion and Courttag:typepad.com,2003:post-671970092009-05-23T17:41:06-04:002009-05-23T21:42:47ZApparently, the Seventh Circuit conference tackled the unusual issue of how lawyers dress. The consensus: Too sexy and too silly. Interestingly, they blame the law schools, in part, for this failure. Should we be teaching students how to dress? I've...LS Innovation EditorRankings and Drinkingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-667677952009-05-14T11:08:25-04:002009-05-14T15:11:43ZOver at Paul Caron's blog, I noticed his analysis of the Law School Party Rankings (in which Arizona State is #1, somehow edging out Tulane). Tulane's Alan Childress, in turn, ignores this anomoly and makes a fascinating observation: Sloppy as...LS Innovation EditorWho will get the first e-book into the law school classroom?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-664429012009-05-06T10:14:13-04:002009-05-06T14:15:40ZThanks to this post by Jonathan Alder at Volokh, I see from this article that Case Western Reserve University will soon have students in certain classes getting their their textbooks via the Amazon Kindles. This Wall Street Journal report explains...LS Innovation EditorThe grimmest side of the legal economytag:typepad.com,2003:post-662486012009-05-01T12:34:32-04:002009-05-01T20:25:57ZAs a summer associate, I worked for Mark Levy at Mayer, Brown, and Platt in Chicago. His suicide yesterday, reportedly just as people were being laid off by his current firm, Kilpatrick Stockton, comes as a shock. Mark was a...LS Innovation EditorSome real-world insights from some real-world lawyerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-661489112009-04-29T09:34:31-04:002009-04-29T13:34:31ZThis interesting new article from the Fulton County Daily Report, headlined "Best Lawyers' Panels Agree That Law Schools, Firms Need Retooling," say a lot about the modern realities facing lawyers and law schools. Here are a excerpts from a must-read:...LS Innovation EditorDigg This: Leading Law Reviews Collaborate to Introduce Online "Legal Workshop"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-660586272009-04-27T07:22:13-04:002009-04-27T11:43:01ZAs Doug Berman has written, seven law reviews form the founding membership in a new online forum, a "Legal Workshop" that allows one-stop-shopping for cutting-edge legal scholarship. The founding members: Cornell Law Review Duke Law Journal Georgetown Law Journal New...LS Innovation EditorSusskind on "The End of Lawyers? The End of Law Schools?" - liveblogtag:typepad.com,2003:post-658702372009-04-22T12:23:50-04:002009-04-22T17:36:15ZThe Harvard Berkman Center's Law Lab sponsored a talk today with Prof. Richard Susskind at Gresham College / University of Strathclyde on the future of the legal profession and legal education. The live video stream can be found here. Liveblog...LS Innovation EditorToo much of a good thing at the new site The Legal Workshop?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-658619752009-04-22T09:39:55-04:002009-04-22T13:39:55ZI am pleased to report on a new scholarly on-line project (which I hope will evolve to better achieve its laudatory goals). The project is the Legal Workshop, and here is its basic mission statement: The Legal Workshop is a...LS Innovation EditorRankings leakage and other buzz-worthy stuff around the blogospheretag:typepad.com,2003:post-657603572009-04-20T12:38:23-04:002009-04-20T16:38:23ZThe US News law school rankings are officially due out later this week, but there is already much buzzing in the blogosphere about the leakage of the (perhaps official) results. Here is just a sample of all the blog talk...LS Innovation EditorRankings and institutional identitytag:typepad.com,2003:post-655018972009-04-15T11:27:31-04:002009-04-15T20:28:40ZBrian Leiter has suggested, with good reason, that bloggers not post the US News law school rankings when they come out. That's not to say, though, that they should not be discussed, vigorously. I doubt that Brian would disagree, since...LS Innovation EditorIs a bad economy good for encouraging innovative career paths for lawyers?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-654169292009-04-13T15:48:54-04:002009-04-13T19:50:17ZThis New York Times article reports that Skadden, Arps is offering "all of its associates — about 1,300 worldwide — the option of accepting a third of their base pay to not show up for work for a year ......LS Innovation Editor