The editors of the Journal of Legal Education, now housed at UCIrvine and New York Law School, had the great idea of inviting today’s law faculty members to look back on some of the most influential articles published in the JLE over the past 40 years. These reflections are collected in a forthcoming double issue, Vol. 74, Nos. 2-3. (full disclosure, I co-wrote one essay with Western State Professor Susan Keller). Today, I’m celebrating the stellar contribution, Twenty Years after a Turning Point, from long time collaborators, former Dean and now Professor at McGeorge School of Law, Michael Hunter Schwartz (also a taxprof blog contributor), and Professor of Law and Assoc. Dean for Student Learning at Detroit Mercy, Paula Manning. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6797220,

These authors offer marvelous insights on the significance and contemporary relevance of two deservedly acclaimed articles, Lawrence Krieger’s Institutional Denial About the Dark Side of Law School, and Fresh Empirical Guidance for Constructively Breaking the Silence, 52 J. Legal Educ. 112 (2002) and Gerald Hess’s Heads and Hearts: The Teaching and LearningEnvironment in Law School 52 J. Legal Educ. 75 (2002) I’m sure you’ll agree we still have much to learn from today’s authors and their esteemed forebearers.

Schwartz, Michael Hunter and Manning, Paula J., Twenty Years After a Turning Point: Legacies, Lessons, and the Unfinished Business of Institutional Denial and Heads and Hearts (October 01, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6797220