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CALI conference June 13-15 in Chicago
If you’ll be in the Chicago area this week, consider attending the CALI conference. Info is available here. This year’s conference is about Driving Innovation and will feature talks by Bill...
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NYT – The Unseen Costs of Cutting Law School Faculty
Take a look at this NYT’s article by University of San Diego Professor, Vic Fleischer, noting that “The law school at Seton Hall University has put its untenured faculty on legal notice that their...
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ABA Standards Review Committee votes for 6 credits of experiential learning
Karen Sloan at the National Law Journal reports that the ABA Standards Review Committee made some decisions during its recent meeting. In addition to eliminating the faculty-student ratio, here are...
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Flipping Law School Classes
I flipped my class yesterday. And I think it worked! The class was on persuasive lawyering. Over the summer I made a video about persuasive lawyering. It talks about persuasion in relation to...
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Law Practice at the Cusp of Disruption
Colleagues, please read this article by Clay Christensen and his colleagues. As law professors, we need to understand how the practice of law is changing. Only if we understand it can we best prepare...
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Law School Applicants: What Are The Jobs Students Hire Law School To Do?
Following on some recent discussions about disruption and legal education, I’d like to solicit help from the community in determining what are the “jobs to be done” in legal education? HBS Professor...
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3 Problems with Legal Education
UC Hastings Dean Frank Wu has an interesting article in Above the Law about Law Schools. He mentions three problems with legal education: (1) a glut of lawyers in today’s market; (2) high cost; (3)...
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Call for Talks – Igniting Law Teaching 2015
LAW PROFESSORS: Are you doing innovative things in the classroom? I would love to showcase your ideas at Igniting Law Teaching, a TEDx-styled conference on law school innovations. The Call for Talks...
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Using Portfolios for Assessment
A few years ago I started to use student portfolios as part of the end-of-semester evaluation of my students. I have found that portfolios can be an excellent vehicle both for the student’s own...
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