Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Kuehn: Who’s Minding The Clinical Legal Education Store?
TaxProf Blog Op-Ed: Who’s Minding the Clinical Legal Education Store?, by Robert Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar): Oversight of law clinic and field placement programs has changed in significant ways in the over five decades since clinical legal education began taking hold in U.S. law schools. These oversight changes can be seen in the surveys conducted…
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Shapiro: Learning From My Lived Experience With Academic Intolerance
Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), Learning from My Lived Experience with Academic Intolerance, 27 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 743 (2023): “Shut up.” That’s the response, cleaned up for publication, that I got from students at the University of California Hastings College of Law—since renamed University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, or “UC Law…
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Free Speech In Academia
Peter W. Wood (President, National Association of Scholars), Free Speech in Academia, 27 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 761 (2023): To win back a place for free speech in higher education, free speech has to be rediscovered as the best and perhaps the only secure path we have to worthy knowledge, no matter whether the…
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Weekly Legal Education Roundup And The Best Legal Education Scholarship of 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup: Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine), Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession California Bar, 2023 Bar Exam Results For California Law Schools California Bar, 2023 Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine): Merry Christmas From Pepperdine University Orin Kerr (UC-Berkeley), Has The Law Professoriate's…
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Following Merger Of William Mitchell And Hamline Law Schools, Faculty And Board Of Trustees Unanimously Adopted New Tenure Policy
David Allen Larson (Mitchell | Hamline Law School) & Linda Hanson (Former President, Hamline University), Crossing the Cultural Chasm and the Power of Listening: How We Wrote a New Tenure Code, 39 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 169 (2023): Revising the Tenure Code of an institution of higher learning may be among the most…
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Ballakrishnen: Rethinking Inclusion In The Legal Profession
Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar), Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession, 48 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1157 (2023): Using preliminary observations from three parallel projects that employ a range of methods (network and content analysis, surveys, focus groups, and interviews), this article traces the experience of navigating different…
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Teaching To The Tech: Law Schools And The Duty Of Technology Competence
Raymond H. Brescia (Albany), Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence, 62 Washburn L.J. 507 (2023): As a result of a wide range of emerging technologies, the American legal profession is at a critical inflection point. Some may argue that lawyers face dramatic threats not only to their business models…
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First-Gen In The Field
Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman; Google Scholar), First-Gen in the Field, 31 Clinical L. Rev. ___ (2024): First-generation law students are often at a disadvantage in law school, having no family experience in higher education and few connections with attorneys or other professionals. These difficulties are only compounded when first-gen students leave the classroom and venture…
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ChatGPT, Professor Of Law
Tammy Pettinato Oltz (North Dakota; Google Scholar), ChatGPT, Professor of Law, 2023 U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol'y 207 (2023): Although ChatGPT was just released by OpenAI in November 2022, legal scholars have already been delving into the implications of the new tool for legal education and the legal profession. Several scholars have recently written…
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution And Legal Education
Steven R. Smith (Cal-Western), The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Legal Education, 39 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 337 (2023): A “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR) will dramatically change current law students’ careers. Innovations in technology, business, and social structures will require different and more sophisticated legal services. Law school graduates will be responsible for harnessing, encouraging,…
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St. Louis Symposium: Teaching Immigration Law
Symposium, Teaching Immigration Law, St. Louis U. L.J. 473- 570 (2023): Kevin R. Johnson (UC-Davis), Teaching Racial and Social Justice in the Immigration Law Survey Course, 67 St. Louis U. L.J. 473 (2023) Sabrina Balgamwalla (Wayne State) & Lauren E. Bartlett (St. Louis), Anti-Carceral Theory and Immigration: A View From Two Law School Clinics, 67 St.…
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Howard Law School, Race, And Peer Rankings: The Increasing Correlation Between Racial Salience And Preferential Rankings
Michael Conklin (Angelo State; Google Scholar), Howard Law School, Race, and Peer Rankings: The Increasing Correlation Between Racial Salience and Preferential Rankings, 59 Willamette L. Rev. 189 (2023): In 2020, novel research was conducted to measure disparities between the U.S. News & World Report overall rankings and the peer rankings of law schools. The research…
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BLT: Can Large Language Models Handle Basic Legal Text?
Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland; Google Scholar), Nils Holzenberger (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) & Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins; Google Scholar), BLT: Can Large Language Models Handle Basic Legal Text?: We find that the best publicly available LLMs like GPT-4 and PaLM 2 currently perform poorly at basic text handling required of lawyers or paralegals, such as…
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A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From U.S. News
Scott Rempell (South Texas), A Blueprint to Reclaim Legal Education from U.S. News: The U.S. News & World Report (“U.S. News”) law school rankings impact the perceptions and behaviors of everyone in the rankings ecosystem, from law school administrators and law professors to prospective students and legal employers. Despite decades of near universal condemnation, these…
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Law Schools: Want To Help Bend The Arc Of The Moral Universe Toward Justice? Hire Law Professors With Public Service Experience.
Rachel Kincaid (Baylor), Law Schools: Want to Help Bend the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice? Hire Law Professors with Public Service Experience, 58 U. Rich. L. Rev. __ (2024): We are living in momentous times. Social justice and the legitimacy of our political systems are at the forefront of many people’s minds. Demands…
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Lawyering In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan H. Choi (USC; Google Scholar), Amy Monahan (Minnesota; Google Scholar) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: We conduct the first randomized controlled trial of AI assistance’s effect on human legal analysis. We randomly assigned sixty students at the University of Minnesota Law School each to complete four…
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Catholic University Hosts Symposium Today On Free Speech And Civility in American Law Schools
The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law hosts a symposium today on Free Speech And Civility in American Law Schools (register): 8:40 A.M. EST: Welcome A.G. Harmon (Catholic University) Stephen Payne (Dean, Catholic University) 8:45 A.M. EST: Causes Greg Lukianoff (FIRE), Cultural Changes in Society Jonathan Zimmerman (Penn), Institutional Changes in Society and…
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Bernstein: Racial Classification In Higher Education Admissions Before And After SFFA
David E. Bernstein (George Mason; Google Scholar), Racial Classification in Higher Education Admissions Before and after SFFA, 77 SMU L. Rev. __ (2024): Hundreds of law review articles have discussed the legality of affirmative action programs. Virtually all of them begin with the implicit assumption that the racial classifications used in these programs are legitimate…
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Why Law Schools Should Require Poverty Law And International Human Rights
Eric J. Boos (Idaho), Moral Imperative—Legal Requirement: Why Law Schools Should Require Poverty Law and International Human Rights, 19 U. St. Thomas L.J. 63 (2023): This paper argues that the growing undercurrent of discontent in this nation, which has manifested in increasing levels of civil unrest, violence, crime, mass shootings, and political chaos, is symptomatic…
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Law Schools Should Rethink The Role Of Adjunct Faculty
T. Markus Funk (Perkins Coie; Google Scholar), Andrew S. Boutros (Dechert) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA; Google Scholar), The Hidden Life of Law School Adjuncts: Teaching Temps, Indispensable Instructors, Underappreciated Cash Cows, or Something Else?, 102 Tex. L. Rev. Online 44 (2023): Adjunct professors are fixtures in law schools around the country. Yet they are among…
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The Lawyer-Hero: Lessons In Leadership For Lawyers From Watergate To The Present Day
Paula A. Franzese (Seton Hall), Eugene D. Mazo (Seton Hall), & Lawrence Spinelli (Drew University), The Lawyer-Hero: Lessons in Leadership for Lawyers from Watergate to the Present Day, 54 U. Tol. L. Rev. 359 (2023): In recent years, a growing body of literature has turned to examine the critical role played by lawyers in the…
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Minnesota Symposium: Leaving Langdell Behind — Reimagining Legal Education For A New Era
Symposium, Leaving Langdell Behind: Reimagining Legal Education for a New Era, 107 Minn. L. Rev. 2407-2826 (2023): Judith Gundersen (National Conference of Bar Examiners), Leaving Langdell Behind: Reimagining Legal Education for a New Era, 107 Minn. L. Rev. 2407 (2023) (video) Anahid Gharakhanian (Southwestern), Natalie Rodriguez (Southwestern) & Elizabeth Anderson (Embraced Wisdom Resource Group), “More than…
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Gender, Race, And Job Satisfaction Of Law School Graduates
Joni Hersch (Vanderbilt; Google Scholar), Gender, Race, and Job Satisfaction of Law Graduates: Intersectional Evidence from the National Survey of College Graduates, 20 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 339 (2023): Studies typically find that lawyers have high job satisfaction and that women are not less satisfied than are men. But racial differences as well as gender…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 71, No. 3 (Spring 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. 385 (2022) Articles Jonathan H. Choi (USC; Google Scholar), Kristin E. Hickman (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Amy B. Monahan…
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Ok, Zoomer: Teaching Legal Research To Gen Z
Olivia Schlinck (Cardozo; Google Scholar), Ok, Zoomer: Teaching Legal Research to Gen Z, 115 Law Libr. J. 269 (2023): Generation Z has entered law school. With each new generation comes new education preferences. While research on Gen Z in the legal academy has grown over the past few years, to date none deal explicitly with…