Best Legal Education Articles of 2022
William Carney (Emory), Curricular Change In Legal Education
- Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), Taxonomizing Professional Identity Formation: The Soul of Legal Education
- Neil Hamilton (St Thomas) & Louis Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals (Cambridge University Press 2022)
- Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas) & Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Learning Outcomes that Law Schools Have Adopted: Seizing the Opportunity to Help Students, Legal Employers, Clients, and the Law School
- Lawrence Krieger (Florida State), Book Review and Essay (The Law Student’s Guide To Doing Well And Being Well)
- Harold Anthony Lloyd (Wake Forest), Balancing Freedom and Restraint: The Role of Virtue in Legal Analysis
- Frederick Schauer (UVA) & Barbara A. Spellman (UVA), Precedent and Similarity
- David Thomson (Denver) & Stephen Daniels (American Bar Foundation), Looking Back: A Case Study of Career Interest and Experiential Learning in Law School
- Amin Yacoub (Virginia), The Devolution of Legal Academia in the United States and the Revolutionization of the Hiring Standards of Law Professors
My Contribution to Legal Education This Year
E. Scott Fruehwald, Critical Thinking: An Essential Skill for Law Students, Lawyers, Law Professors, and Judges
Weekly Roundup (Dec. 24-Dec.30)
- ABA Journal, Pass Rates For First-Time Bar-Takers Decrease; Are Online Classes the Cause?
- Josh Blackman (South Texas), Plagiarism and ChatGPT
- Steve Epstein (Poyner Spruill, Raleigh, North Carolina), Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story Of Dan Markel’s Murder
- Paul Horwitz (Alabama), Twitter as Institutional and Self-Corruption
- Sarah Isgur (Politico Magazine), I’m A Conservative Who Got Heckled At Yale Law School. But Not By Who You Think.
- John McWhorter (Columbia; New York Times Op-Ed), : When a Racist Joke Does Not Merit Cancellation
- Alan Morrison (George Washington; National Law Journal Op-Ed), Law School Rankings: You Can’t Beat Something With Nothing
- Derek Muller (Iowa), What Does the Endgame Look Like For Law Schools Refusing to Participate in USNWR Rankings?
- Roundup, Legal Ed News
- Sean Scott (President & Dean), California Western Will Not Participate in the U.S. News Law School Rankings
- Mike Spivey, New Law School Data as of December 2022 ABA 509 Disclosures
- Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Free Speech Rules, Free Speech Culture, and Legal Education
