Law School Innovationtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5351632008-07-02T16:20:41ZA Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePad537762http://www.feedburner.comBCS-style Law School Rankings (Alpha Test Version)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-521665302008-07-02T12:20:41-04:002008-07-02T16:20:47ZIn 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 teams for the big-money bowl...LS Innovation EditorKeeping up with the law...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-520928402008-06-30T20:21:39-04:002008-07-01T00:21:46ZWith 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, I was surprised how many...LS Innovation EditorLiveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Open Access to the Lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-516679782008-06-21T09:49:56-04:002008-06-21T15:31:25ZOpen 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 have different motives, are decentralized,...LS Innovation EditorWill the Northwestern innovative new program be successful?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-516606002008-06-20T23:23:55-04:002008-06-21T03:24:12ZWhile 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 Chicago Tribune) is Northwestern's creation...LS Innovation EditorLiveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Deliberate Practice and Skills Instructiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-515798822008-06-19T14:36:52-04:002008-06-19T19:35:28ZLarry 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 and results (largely because it...LS Innovation EditorLiveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Simulated Practice in-depthtag:typepad.com,2003:post-515696982008-06-19T10:54:47-04:002008-06-19T15:40:39ZSIMPLE 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. Some articles about SIMPLE: Article:...LS Innovation EditorLiveblogging the CALI Conference 2008: Simulations and Legal Educationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-515614602008-06-19T08:12:33-04:002008-06-19T14:08:49ZI'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 "Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction")....LS Innovation EditorWouldn't it be crazy if we just let students at some other school decide who gets tenure?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-513957642008-06-16T10:06:58-04:002008-06-16T14:17:39ZBrian 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 indicator of quality. In the...LS Innovation EditorABA's Outcome Measures and Tenure Proposalstag:typepad.com,2003:post-511824102008-06-11T06:04:46-04:002008-06-11T10:04:53ZThe 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 Committee and Report of the...LS Innovation EditorAdjunct-ion Junctiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-510832262008-06-10T22:56:00-04:002008-06-11T02:56:10ZWhile 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 taught by adjuncts. As one...LS Innovation EditorPromoting Law to the Next Generation - Beyond Street Lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-510785002008-06-09T09:24:55-04:002008-06-09T13:25:07ZSome law schools have Street Law Projects to promote law in high schools and to the general public. On the Georgetown University website it states that "[s]ince 1972, the D.C. Street Law Clinic has provided law-related educational services in the...LS Innovation EditorIs there an ideal grading system for law schools?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-508841862008-06-05T17:55:34-04:002008-06-05T21:55:44ZThis piece at Insider Higher Ed reports that Stanford Law School is looking to move away from letter grades. Here are snippets from the story: The faculty at Stanford Law School voted last week to approve a grade reform proposal...LS Innovation EditorCan there be too many (innovative) law schools?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-507124942008-06-02T09:20:17-04:002008-06-02T13:20:55ZThis week's National Law Journal has this lengthy and interesting article, titled "A Deluge of Law Schools: As Many as 10 Are in the Works — But Are They Needed?". Here is an excerpt, which highlights the innovation potential in...LS Innovation EditorLocal Law School Blogospherestag:typepad.com,2003:post-506274582008-05-30T15:37:21-04:002008-05-30T19:46:49ZI have become fascinated with the local blogospheres that have developed at different law schools. Some are extensive, integrated, and active. Others are diffuse or have died out after an apparently active period. They (or at least the active ones)...LS Innovation EditorMany flavors of law schooltag:typepad.com,2003:post-503213882008-05-23T15:48:04-04:002008-05-23T19:48:16ZOver the past few issues of the AALS News, AALS president John Garvey (Dean of BC Law) has written about the importance and value of pluralism in the legal academy as a whole. I'm a fan of both Garvey and...LS Innovation EditorAn intriguing attack on the traditional law reviewstag:typepad.com,2003:post-502426782008-05-21T21:04:54-04:002008-05-22T01:05:04ZThanks to this post at The Faculty Lounge, I saw this interesting new piece from Rachel Anderson titled "Revisiting the Imperial Scholar: Market Failure on Law Review?". Here is the abstract: This article argues for reforms in the institution of...LS Innovation EditorHarvard University Press to publish open access, peer-reviewed journaltag:typepad.com,2003:post-502192622008-05-21T13:07:14-04:002008-05-21T17:07:22ZHarvard University Press has unveiled its deal to publish the open access, peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis. This development is interesting not just in piling on to the open access movement, or pushing peer review into legal academia, but because...LS Innovation EditorDeath of an Innovatortag:typepad.com,2003:post-499608882008-05-16T10:43:09-04:002008-05-16T14:45:28ZEarlier this week, Robert Rauschenberg died. Though our paths crossed in various ways, I never met him. In an indirect way, though, he changed my life. It was at a lecture two years ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...LS Innovation EditorInteresting discussion of generational law faculty realitiestag:typepad.com,2003:post-498534322008-05-14T10:49:31-04:002008-05-14T14:49:41ZIn my view, many debates about law school reform and innovations are impacted, at least indirectly, by generational dynamics. Consequently, I found this new piece on SSRN by Gregory Bowman, titled "The Comparative and Absolute Advantages of Junior Law Faculty:...LS Innovation EditorAmazing law school insights from an innovative sourcetag:typepad.com,2003:post-497036422008-05-11T12:31:27-04:002008-05-11T16:31:37ZI was at first amused and then amazed by the terrific law-school-selection advice to be found in this great column by Clay Travis at CBS Sports. Though the first 7 points are cheeky, the final 10 are remarkably insightful about...LS Innovation Editor