This is about books. It’s about legal education casebooks. A lot of what follows comes out of my experience as a law professor and speaks to law schools and law students and the legal profession. A lot of it dovetails
A New Paper Chase
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A Hard Thing to Do
This post concludes a long response to a terrific recent piece by Mark Cohen, in which he critiqued law schools for failing to respond appropriately and systematically to an emerging “skills gap” between baseline legal education and the needs
After the Law Factory
This post continues a long response to a terrific recent piece by Mark Cohen, in which he critiqued law schools for failing to respond appropriately and systematically to an emerging “skills gap” between baseline legal education and the needs of
The Responsive Law School
US law schools today are subjected to a lot of criticism, much of it deserved. One big chunk that is not always deserved is this: Law schools aren’t sufficiently in tune with the needs of the market. That’s the topic
Bringing Change to the Law
Change is one of the themes of this rebooted blog. In law, legal services, the legal profession, and legal education, what does change look like? Why and how is change happening? How can we accelerate the pace of needed change?
Leadership and the T-shaped Lawyer
I promised an example of those challenges: leadership
On Training “T-shaped” Lawyers
These conversations apply to law the “T-shaped” concept that has circulated in professional development circles for a
The Dis-Integration of Legal Education
Last week’s post, about “The New Look of Legal Education,” emphasized the ways in which contemporary US legal education strongly resembles the legal education of the last several decades.
In many respects, the core of the current JD program remains
The New Look of Legal Education
For most of this blog’s existence, I and my co-authors wrote primarily for our fellow law professors. This re-boot is directed instead, primarily, to the legal profession – or rather, to what is now often referred to as the “legal
Madisonian.net Re-boots, Again
I was invited recently to have madisonian.net included in Kevin O’Keefe’s new “LexBlog” venture (https://www.lexblog.com/about/). Accepting the invitation, which I did, implied that I might resume writing here, so I am. What’s new?
Since the last signs of