Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Using Technology To Promote Well-Being And Foster Professional Identity Formation In The 1L Classroom
Kendall Kerew (Georgia State; Google Scholar), Using Technology to Promote Well-Being and Foster Professional Identity Formation in the 1L Classroom, 20 U. St. Thomas L.J. ___ (2024): Critical components of professional identity are associated with self-determination theory. While all three of the basic psychological needs contribute to well-being, autonomy is considered the most important. Moreover,…
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2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of August 7, 2024). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also compare MetaRanking from 2018-2024, including changes in ranking…
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The Open Casebook Revolution
Samuel Beswick (British Columbia; Google Scholar) & Maddison Zapach (British Columbia), The Open Casebook Revolution, 3 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. __ (2024): The open-access casebook revolution is gaining momentum. Open casebooks are compiled and edited teaching materials, typically hosted as webpages and available as downloadable, searchable, printable, mark-up-able documents. In the United States, dozens of…
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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy In Law School
Angela P. Harris (UC-Davis) & Monika B. Kashyap (Seattle), From Trauma to Transformation: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Law School, 27 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 1 (2023): In this essay, we seek to expand the meaning of “trauma” by aligning trauma-informed pedagogy with principles of disability justice and progressive critiques of legal education. We argue…
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Inaugural Issue: The Journal Of Law Teaching And Learning
The Journal of Law Teaching and Learning has published its inaugural issue, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024): Debra Moss Vollweiler (Nova), The Year of Magical Teaching: Lessons Learned from One Class in Three Modalities, 1 J. Law Teaching & Learning 1 (2024) Hillary A. Wandler (Montana; Google Scholar), Pacing Beside the Pool: Coaching Champion Writers to…
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Onwuachi-Willig: Roberts’s Revisions: A Narratological Reading Of The Affirmative Action Cases
Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Dean, Boston University; Google Scholar), Roberts's Revisions: A Narratological Reading of the Affirmative Action Cases, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 192 (2023): In law, one of the stories told by some scholars is that legal opinions are not stories. The story goes: legal opinions are mere recitations of facts and legal principles applied to…
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Law Review And Finding A Place In The Academy
Jenny E. Carroll (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), Law Review and Finding a Place in the Academy, 100 Tex. L. Rev. Online 60 (2021): Membership on the Texas Law Review created opportunities for me, taught me a lot about editorial processes, and served as a reminder that I was a law outsider. The last of these is…
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An Empirical Study Of The Bar Examination’s Disparate Impact On Applicants From Communities Of Color
Scott Devito (Ave Maria; Google Scholar), Kelsey Hample (Furman; Google Scholar) & Erin Lain (Drake; Google Scholar), Onerous Disabilities and Burdens: An Empirical Study of the Bar Examination’s Disparate Impact on Applicants From Communities of Color, 43 Pace L. Rev. 205 (2023): This Article provides the results of the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the correlation…
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Zywicki: How Law School Got Woke
National Review Special Section: Defending the Rule of Law (Sept. 2024): Todd Zywicki (George Mason), How Law School Got Woke: Students learn to seek outcomes, not justice. Law schools are the training ground of the next generation of lawyers, judges, and public officials, and for many decades, beginning with the emergence of critical legal studies…
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Fall 2024 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Fall 2024 submission season covering the 196 main journals of each law school. The following are two charts useful for the law review/journal article submission process. The first chart contains information gathered from the journals’ websites about the following topics:…
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Symposium: Immigration And Taxation
Symposium, Immigration and Taxation, 21 Pitt. Tax Rev. 153-243 (2024): Francine J. Lipman (UNLV; Google Scholar), Taxing Undocumented Immigrants Redux, 21 Pitt. Tax Rev. 153 (2024) Jackie Vimo (National Immigration Law Center), The History and Future of ITINs and Taxigration Policy for Undocumented Taxpayers in the United States, 21 Pitt. Tax Rev. 169 (2024) Gaby…
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Teaching Character-Based Skills To 1Ls In Light Of ABA Standard 303(B)(3)’s Professional Identity Requirement
Marni Goldstein Caputo (Boston University) & Kathleen Luz (Boston University), Beyond "Hard" Skills: Teaching Outward—and Inward—Facing Character-Based Skills to 1Ls in Light of ABA Standard 303(B)(3)'s Professional Identity Requirement, 89 Brook. L. Rev. 809 (2024): Newly adopted American Bar Association Standard 303(b)(3) requires law schools to provide “substantial opportunities to students for . . .…
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Harvard Symposium: Latinas In The Legal Academy
Symposium, Latinas in the Legal Academy, 26 Harv. Latin Am. L. Rev. 123-202 (2023): Maritza I. Reyes (Florida A&M), Planning, Executing, and Documenting the 2022 Inaugural Graciela Oliva ́rez Latinas in the Legal Academy (“GO LILA”) Workshop – A Chair’s Account and Introduction, 26 Harv. Latin Am. L. Rev. 123 (2023) Leticia M. Diaz (Barry), A Seat…
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The Legal Tech Bro Blues: Generative AI, Legal Indeterminacy, And The Future Of Legal Research And Writing
Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale; Google Scholar), The Legal Tech Bro Blues: Generative AI, Legal Indeterminacy, and the Future of Legal Research and Writing, 8 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 298 (2024): In recent years, a new figure, the tech bro, has arrived in the legal field. He can be found opining on podcasts and social media platforms,…
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Symposium: Current Issues In Professional Identity Formation
Symposium, Current Issues in Professional Identity Formation, 75 Mercer L. Rev. 1395-1519 (2024): Patrick Longan (Mercer), Foreword: Symposium on Current Issues in Professional Identity Formation, 75 Mercer L. Rev. 1395 (2024) Kenneth Townsend (Wake Forest), Purpose, Practical Wisdom, and the Formation of Trustworthy Lawyers, 75 Mercer L. Rev. 1399 (2024) Aric Short (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), Putting the Lawyer…
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As The Percentage Of Accommodated Students In A Law School Increases, Its First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases
Scott Devito (Jacksonville; Google Scholar), The Kids Are Definitely Not All Right: An Empirical Study Establishing a Statistically Significant Negative Relationship between Receiving Accommodations in Law School and Passing the Bar Exam, 102 Or. L. Rev. 1 (2023): Throughout my career as a law professor and a law school dean, I have had a deep…
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Teaching Transactional Business Law Through Campus And Community Partnerships
Joan MacLeod Heminway (Tennessee; Google Scholar) & Brian Kingsley Krumm (Tennessee), Teaching Transactional Business Law through Campus and Community Partnerships, 25 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 931 (2024): In this edited transcript, we explain how each of us–a doctrinal law professor and a clinician–use members of our campus and local communities to help instruct transactional…
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The Upper-Level Writing Paper And The Law Review Article: How To Tell Your Story
Lisa Smith-Butler (Charleston), The Upper-Level Writing Paper and the Law Review Article: How to Tell Your Story, 51 Cap. U. L. Rev. 205 (2023): This article theorizes the actual writing process for faculty and students is quite similar and mirrors one another. Differences do exist between the two groups, particularly in terms of motivation, expectations,…
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2024-25 U.S. News Global Universities Rankings
U.S. News & World Report, 2024-25 Best Global Universities Rankings: These institutions from the U.S. and more than 100 other countries have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their…
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ABA Standard 303(C) And Divisive Concepts Legislation And Policies: Challenges And Opportunities
Sherley Cruz (Tennessee; Google Scholar), Karen L. Tokarz (Washington University), Becky L. Jacobs (Tennessee), Kendall Kerew (Montana; Google Scholar), Andrew King-Ries (Montana) & Carwina Weng (Indiana-Maurer), ABA Standard 303(C) and Divisive Concepts Legislation and Policies: Challenges and Opportunities, 73 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 247 (2024): This article by six clinicians discusses the challenges…
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James Boyd White, Legal Reading, And Bringing Back The Human
David Kenny (Trinity College Dublin; Google Scholar), Reencountering Texts: James Boyd White, Legal Reading, and Bringing Back the Human, 35 Yale J.L. & Human. __ (2024): This paper, written in honour of James Boyd White and his magisterial work The Legal Imagination, asks what lawyers lose in the process of legal education. It suggests, drawing on…
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AI In 2024: A Year Of Crossroads And Decisions For Legal Education And Law Practice
Patrick Parsons (Georgia State; Google Scholar), Foreword—AI in 2024: A Year of Crossroads and Decisions, 41 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. __ (2025): As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its rapid evolution, the legal profession stands at a critical juncture. This article serves as a gateway to understanding the profound impact of generative AI on the…
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Transactional Skills For Tomorrow
Adam Eckart (Suffolk), Transactional Skills for Tomorrow: Transactional Skills courses have long covered the ins and outs of contract drafting. But in practice, transactional skills are much more broad and are constantly evolving. While recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have motivated many skills professors, including professors covering transactional skills, to integrate elements of AI into…
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Law Professors And AI
Rachelle Holmes Perkins (George Mason; Google Scholar), AI Now, 97 Temp. L. Rev. __ (2024): Legal scholars have made important explorations into the opportunities and challenges of generative artificial intelligence within legal education and the practice of law. This Article adds to this literature by directly addressing members of the legal academy. As a collective,…
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ChatGPT Is Bullshit
Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow; Google Scholar), James Humphries (University of Glasgow) & Joe Slater (University of Glasgow; Google Scholar), ChatGPT Is Bullshit:, 26 Ethics & Information Technology Art. 38 (2024): Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce humanlike text and dialogue. Applications of these systems…