Reminder: Important new book on professional identity training: Neil Hamilton (St Thomas) & Louis Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals (Cambridge University Press 2022). You can download this book for free…
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Learning How to Distinguish Cases: A Basic Skill for Lawyers and Law Students
One of the legal education reforms that I have advocated is explicitly teaching miniskills, such as rule-based reasoning, analogical reasoning, and case synthesis. I think that students need to master these skills before moving on to more advanced types of…
The Economic Value of Law Clinic Legal Assistance by Robert Kuehn
“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…
What We Do: The Life and Work of The Legal Writing Professor by David I. C. Thomson
When Deb Green, James Garland, and I started teaching legal writing at the University of Alabama, Dean Randall suggested we present a faculty forum about what legal writing professors do. He wanted us to demonstrate that legal writing professors did…
"Teaching" Professional Identity: A New Book for Administrators and Professors
Professors Neil W. Hamilton and Louis D. Bilionis, two leaders of the professional identity development movement, have just published a book to help administrators and law professors satisfy the new ABA requirement that professional identity training be included in the…
Workshop on Professional Identity Training at the Holloran Center
As I have mentioned before, the ABA made significant changes to the standards for legal education at their mid-year meeting, including adding a new requirement for professional identity training. Neil Hamilton has just informed me that the Holloran Center will…
Experiential Legal Education: An Antidote to Law Student Stress
How does experiential education affect law students’ stress levels? Bloomberg Law: Experiential Legal Education: An Antidote to Law Student Stress “A recent Insight suggested that one source of law students’ stress is the expansion of experiential learning. Three New York…
Teaching Law Students Cross-Cultural Competence
The ABA recently made significant changes to the standards for legal education. Among these changes is a new requirement to include cross-cultural competence training in the curriculum. Here is a new book to help law students learn cross-cultural competence. A…
Honoring Deborah Jones Merritt
Claudia Angelos (NYU), Mary Lu Bilek (Dean, CUNY), & Joan Howarth (UNLV), The Deborah Jones Merritt Center for the Advancement of Justice Abstract When invited to write an essay on clinical legal education honoring our friend, we were struck by…
Chapman business law prof sues his own students for posting final exams on the web
The New York Times recently reported that a professor who teaches business law at Chapman University’s George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics has sued his own students for copyright infringement after discovering that they had posted his midterm…