Deborah J. Merritt 
(Ohio State) and Kyle McEntee (Law School Transparency) have launched a new website, Law School Cafe:

Law School Cafe is a resource for anyone interested in reshaping
legal education. Many law schools, workplaces, and bar associations are
considering change; this site is designed to help you explore specific
proposals.

Cafe Tables

The site’s main page includes a series of posts called “Cafe Tables.”
Each table focuses on a particular proposal for change. Some
innovations are small, others are large. We draw these proposals from
many sources: published papers, other websites, formal comments
submitted to the ABA’s Task Force on the Future of Legal Education, and personal conversations. If you have a proposal, please let Deborah Merritt (the cafe manager) know at merritt52@gmail.com.

Each table includes a brief description of the proposal, links to
sources, and observations or questions to start the conversation. The
comment threads are open: We invite you to offer your reactions,
critiques, and ideas for improvement on each proposal (but please read
the “Comment Policy” below). The tables offer a way to explore the pros
and cons of each proposal, as well as to refine ideas.

If you have experience with a proposed change, or would like to offer
an extended comment, please let the cafe manager know (again, that’s merritt52@gmail.com).
You can create a “perspective” post for a table, which will appear on
the main page together with the original post. The perspectives allow
further development of ideas.

Book Club

The Book Club complements the Cafe Tables by offering brief summaries
of recent papers or books related to legal education. These pieces
don’t always propose specific changes, but they offer useful insights to
the problems facing us. Comments are open here as well, so feel free to
post your reactions.