Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Putting The C Back In IRAC
Jacob S. Sherkow (Illinois; Google Scholar), Putting the C Back in IRAC, 27 Green Bag 39 (2024): Read a law school exam these days, and you're likely to find one of the IRAC elements given short-shrift: the conclusion, C. That's unfortunate because conclusions in legal writing are important for myriad reasons. A legal system that focuses…
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Call For Legal Ed Tech Papers: 2025 AALS Annual Meeting
Call For Papers: 2025 AALS Annual Meeting: The AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education will be hosting up to four sessions at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, January 7 – 11. There will be two programs introducing a variety of issues involving the intersection of technology and law, one program on the…
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Truth And Law: The Role And Mission Of A Christian Law School In Africa
Craig A. Stern (Regent; Google Scholar), Truth and Law: The Role and Mission of a Christian Law School in Africa: Integrating biblical truth into teaching the law equips students to practice law as a ministry. It also brings other considerable intellectual and professional benefits. Biblical integration should inform the role and mission of the Christian…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 71, No. 4 (Summer 2022): From the Editors Robert Dinerstein (American), Jeremy Paul (Northeastern; Google Scholar), Sonia Rolland (Northeastern) & Ezra Rosser (American; Google Scholar), From the Editors, 71 J. Legal Educ. 593 (2022) Articles Karen D. Thornton (George Washington), Steven L. Schooner (George Washington; Google Scholar) & Markus Speidel…
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Oscar Law
Reid K. Weisbord (Rutgers) & Jordan Bondurant (J.D. 2024, Rutgers), Oscar Law, 76 Ala. L. Rev. __ (2024): In most vocational fields, trade associations promote their industry’s common business interests by performing various community-building functions, including the establishment of awards for outstanding professional accomplishments. In the entertainment industry, however, the elite trade associations (known as…
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Ethics 3.0—Attorney Responsibility In The Age Of Generative AI
Jon Garon (Nova; Google Scholar), Ethics 3.0—Attorney Responsibility in the Age of Generative AI, 80 Bus. Law. __ (2024): A lawyer’s duty to remain competent and diligent in light of technological change begins with the Model Rules but it must extend to the substantive relevant law. This article focuses on the obligations of client confidentiality,…
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Mandatory Anti-Bias CLE: A Serious Problem Deserves A More Meaningful Response
Rima Sirota (Georgetown), Mandatory Anti-Bias CLE: A Serious Problem Deserves a More Meaningful Response, 73 J. Legal Educ. ___ (2024): This essay addresses the problematic convergence of two recent trends: (1) the expansion of jurisdictions requiring anti-bias training (ABT) as part of mandatory continuing legal education (CLE), and (2) the growing recognition among social scientists…
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Digital Lawyering: Advocacy In The Age Of AI
Patrick Barry (Michigan), Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI, 30 Mich. Tech. L. Rev. __ (2024): All lawyers are now digital lawyers. From Zoom hearings, to e-discovery, to AI-enhanced research and writing, the practice of law increasingly requires the skillful navigation of a wide range of technological tools. It’s no longer enough to…
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The Legal Imitation Game: Generative AI’s Incompatibility With Clinical Legal Education
Jake Karr (NYU) & Jason Schultz (NYU; Google Scholar), The Legal Imitation Game: Generative AI's Incompatibility with Clinical Legal Education, 92 Fordham L. Rev. __ (2024): Legal practitioners are currently in the midst of a technological maelstrom. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), and specifically Large Language Models (LLMs), are taking the legal world by storm, and…
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The Intentional Pursuit Of Purpose: Nurturing Students’ Authentic Motivation For Practicing Law
Katya S. Cronin (George Washington), The Intentional Pursuit of Purpose: Nurturing Students’ Authentic Motivation for Practicing Law, 28 Legal Writing 159 (2024): “Why do you want to pursue a career in the law?” Nearly every aspiring attorney answers this question as part of their law school application personal statement. They pour their hopes, dreams, and…
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ABA-Approved Online Law Schools Make Becoming A Lawyer Easier And More Affordable
Ulysses Jaen (Ave Maria; Google Scholar) & Rebekah Miller (Ave Maria), The Future of Legal Education: Game-Changing ABA-Approved Online Law Schools Make Becoming a Lawyer Easier and More Affordable, 20 Ave Maria L. Rev. 66 (2022): As the ABA allows law schools to implement a distance education program for legal education, opportunities for potential lawyers…
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George, Gulati & Yoon: The Gender Makeup Of Newsworthy Deal Teams
Tracey E. George (Vanderbilt; Google Scholar), Mitu Gulati (Virginia; Google Scholar) & Albert Yoon (Toronto; Google Scholar), The Power Five: The Making of Newsworthy Deal Teams: The number of law firm partners who identify as women has more than doubled since 1993. Will these gender parity advances regress as employers curb diversity efforts? To answer…
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Awarding Racial Segregation: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit As A New Racially Restrictive Covenant
Jessica Xu (J.D. 2022, UCLA; King & Spalding, Los Angeles), Comment, Awarding Racial Segregation: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit as a New Racially Restrictive Covenant, 70 UCLA L. Rev. 596 (2023): The United States has a history of racial segregation in its facilitation of federal housing programs. One such program, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit…
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What Law Professors Believe About Law And The Legal Academy
Eric Martínez (Graduate Student, MIT) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown; Google Scholar), What Do Law Professors Believe about Law and the Legal Academy? An Empirical Inquiry, 112 Geo. L.J. 111 (2023): Legal scholarship is replete with debates about competing legal theories: textualism or purposivism; formalism or realism; natural law or positivism; prison reform or abolition; universal or…
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Students’ Right To Free Inquiry vs. A.I. Usage Policy At Schools And Universities
Martin Kwan (OBOR Legal Research Centre), Students' Right to Free Inquiry vs. A.I. Usage Policy at Schools and Universities, 6 Notre Dame J. on Emerging Tech. __ (2023): Some schools and universities have restricted the use of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, by students and staff to various extents. This work emphasizes and reminds that students'…
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Reimagining Lawyering: Supporting Well-Being And Liberation
Susan L. Brooks (Drexel), Reimagining Lawyering: Supporting Well-Being and Liberation, 52 Hofstra L. Rev. __ (2024): Given the tremendous turmoil we continue to experience throughout the globe, the present moment calls on us as legal educators to reimagine how we teach and practice law to incorporate more heart-centered, purpose-driven, and embodied sources of wisdom. Our…
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Amorality In The Lawyering Skills Classroom
Ezra Ross (UC-Irvine), Amorality in the Lawyering Skills Classroom, 73 J. Legal Educ. __ (2024): What we don’t teach can have as much impact as what we do. This Article explores one facet of the “hidden curriculum” in 1L Lawyering Skills courses. Commentators have long criticized the law school classroom as cultivating an attitude of…
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Pro Bono Supreme Court Amicus Briefs Provide Additional Evidence That BigLaw Skews Liberal
David Lat (Bloomberg Law), Big Law Skews Liberal in Amicus Briefs, New Study Finds: Does Big Law lean liberal? Everyone has opinions and anecdotes, but there’s actually empirical research on this question. A 2015 paper by experts from Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Chicago [The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers] analyzed a vast dataset…
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The Next Generation Professional: An Opportunity To Reframe Legal Education To Center Student Wellness
Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh (St. Mary's), The Next Generation Professional: An Opportunity to Reframe Legal Education to Center Student Wellness, 51 Hofstra L. Rev. 775 (2023): “A law school shall maintain a rigorous program of legal education that prepares its students, upon graduation, for admission to the bar and for effective, ethical, and responsible participation as…
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Law Clerk Selection And Diversity: Insights From Fifty U.S. Court Of Appeals Judges
Jeremy D. Fogel (Berkeley Judicial Institute), Mary S. Hoopes (Pepperdine) & Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court), Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 588 (2024): Judicial clerkships are key positions of responsibility and coveted opportunities for career advancement. Commentators have noted that…
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Civility As Morally Justified Oppression
Rory D. Bahadur (Washburn), Civility as Morally Justified Oppression: The current legal education focus on civility in Professional Identity Formation (“PIF”) perpetuates systemic racism and imbues this perpetuation with moral certainty. But civility and morality are powerful agents of oppression representing behaviors and beliefs that the powerful impose on the powerless to ensure that power…
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Harvard Law Review: Alienation In Law School
Note, Alienation in Law School, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 958 (2024): There is a lot to admire about lawyers. Many commit their professional lives to the pursuit of a fairer world, and at the same time they uplift the basic principles that underlie our system of social cooperation. They are often smart, principled, and hardworking.…
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Centering Disability In The Law School Pedagogy: A Way To Include Disabled Law Students
Ella Maiden (PCB Byrne, U.K.), Centering Disability in the Law School Pedagogy: A Way to Include Disabled Law Students, 52 J.L. & Educ. 175 (2023): This discussion of pedagogical change and increasing access for disabled law students needs to be considered in light of the initial discussion: that there is a high number of disabled people…
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The Story Of The Sale Of University Of Puget Sound Law School To Seattle University
Annette E. Clark (Dean Emerita, Seattle), “What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle University, 46 Seattle U. L. Rev. 773 (2023): When the Seattle University Law Review editorial staff invited me to write an updated history of the Seattle University School of…
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Spring 2024 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Spring 2024 submission season covering the 196 main journals of each law school. We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to the law review’s submissions page. (Perhaps a quarter of those now link to a…