I have previously argued against the traditional law school teaching technique of “hiding the ball.” ( How to Help Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds Succeed in Law School) Rather, research has shown that scaffolding, giving students part of the answer so……

Yesterday, Eugene Volokh had an interesting post on the Volokh Blog. In an article discussing mass shootings, he noted that an article in a major law journal (apparently, Yale) observed, “White men have committed the vast majority of mass shootings……

I have mentioned several times that the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has proposed a change to Standard 303 that would require law schools to provide substantial opportunities for “the development of professional……

There are many pop, pseudo-scientific theories floating around out there. One that I have written about extensively is the disproven theory that students have “learning preferences.” (Theory-Induced Blindness in Legal Scholarship). Now, a law professor and a leading psychologist have……

Here is an excellent article on how cognitive biases affect criminal justice. The Unsettling Truth about Our Legal System: What the Mind Sciences Can Teach Teenagers About Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado. Abstract Young people deserve to be told the……

Last month, I mentioned that the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar had proposed a change to Standard 303 that would require law schools to provide substantial opportunities for “the development of professional identity.”……

You have probably heard about the many problems with the U.S. New Law School rankings this year. In fact they were so bad that Brian Leiter was able to pull off a convincing April Fool’s joke about them last week….…