Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Harvard: The Black-White Student Debt Gap Among Law School Graduates
Meghan Dawe (Harvard Center On The Legal Profession), The Black-White Student Debt Gap Among Law School Graduates: My research draws on a rich and novel data set on law school graduates from the first ever national study of lawyers’ careers. After the JD (AJD) employs a rigorous and sophisticated multimethod research design to track the first…
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Introverted Lawyers: Agents Of Change In The Legal Profession
Chloe Sovinee-Dyroff (J.D. 2022, Colorado), Introverted Lawyers: Agents of Change in the Legal Profession, 36 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 111 (2023): From law school admission to legal practice, students and practitioners are inundated with messages about who is, and who is not, fit to be a lawyer. The stereotypical lawyer is a fast-talking, podium-pounding extrovert…
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Legal Writing And Faculty Pro Bono
Ezra Ross (UC-Irvine), Legal Writing and Faculty Pro Bono, 28 Legal Writing __ (2024): Legal writing teachers today face an array of questions about what they value and how to spend their professional time. Although scholarship has addressed facets of this exploration, one question that hasn’t been deeply probed is what role pro bono should…
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An Empirical Analysis Of Practice-Based Technology Training In Law Schools
Jessica De Perio Wittman (Connecticut; Google Scholar) & Katie Brown (Charleston; Google Scholar), Taking on the Ethical Obligation of Technology Competency in the Academy: An Empirical Analysis of Practice-Based Technology Training Today, 36 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1 (2023): Today’s lawyers must be technologically competent, per Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1. Law schools and…
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Reflective Journal: Curricular Deficits, Pedagogical Challenges, And Constructing Community In A Non-Traditional Law School Class
Rita A. Sethi (Hofstra), Reflective Journal: Curricular Deficits, Pedagogical Challenges and Constructing Community in a Non- Traditional Law School Class, 27 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 57 (2022): In adherence to honest praxis, this essay is a reflective journal about the experience of teaching a law school class consisting of predominantly students of color, as…
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Black And BarRed: The Bar Examination’s History Of Exclusivity And ABA Standard 316
Nicola A. Boothe (Dean, Illinois-Chicago), Black and BarRed: The Bar Examination’s History of Exclusivity and the Threat of Further Exclusion Posed by ABA Standard 316, 74 S.C. L. Rev. 179 (2022): Amid all the dismay, hardship, and loss caused by the pandemic and the social reckoning in this country, the legal profession is uniquely poised to…
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Ultimate Bar Passage Rates: Which Law Schools Are Overperforming And Underperforming Expectations
Jeffrey S. Kinsler (Belmont), Ultimate Bar Passage Rates: Which Law Schools Are Overperforming and Underperforming Expectations, 52 J.L. & Educ. 158 (2023): Statistically, students with higher undergraduate grade point averages (UGPA) and LSAT scores are more likely to pass the bar exam than students with lower UGPAs and LSAT scores. As a result, a predicted…
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Pittsburgh Tax Review Publishes New Issue
The Pittsburgh Tax Review has published Vol. 20, No. 1 (2022): Nina Olson (Center for Taxpayer Rights), Some Reflections on the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act Twenty-Five Years Later, 20 Pitt. Tax Rev. 1 (2022) Armando Gomez (Skadden), Can the IRS Yet Achieve the Restructuring Commission’s Vision?, 20 Pitt. Tax Rev. 23 (2022) Christopher S. Rizek…
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AI Assistance In Legal Analysis: An Empirical Study
Jonathan H. Choi (USC; Google Scholar) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), AI Assistance in Legal Analysis: An Empirical Study: Can artificial intelligence (AI) augment human legal reasoning? To find out, we designed a novel experiment administering law school exams to students with and without access to GPT-4, the best-performing AI model currently available. We…
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JD-Next: A Valid And Reliable Tool To Predict Diverse Students’ Success In Law School
Jessica Findley, Adriana Cimetta, Heidi Burross, Katherine Cheng, Matt Charles, Cayley Balser, Ran Li & Christopher T. Robertson (Arizona), JD-Next: A Valid and Reliable Tool to Predict Diverse Students’ Success in Law School, 20 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 134 (2023): Admissions tests have increasingly come under attack by those seeking to broaden access and reduce…
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Langdell And The Eclipse Of Character
Harold Anthony Lloyd (Wake Forest; Google Scholar), Langdell and the Eclipse of Character, 85 Pitt. L. Rev. __ (2023): Christopher Columbus Langdell has not only damaged the study of law with his three follies: his legal formalism, his redacted appellate case method, and his notion that legal practice taints the professor of law. His three…
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All Rise: Pursuing Equity In Oral Argument Evaluation
Rachel Stabler (Arizona State), All Rise: Pursuing Equity in Oral Argument Evaluation, 101 Neb. L. Rev. 438 (2023): Oral argument is often described as a “rite of passage” for law students. As challenging and nerve-wracking as it may be for law students, it is also uniquely challenging for the person who evaluates it—usually a moot…
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The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
Abdi Aidid (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Specialist, Legal Innovation, Blue J Legal) & Benjamin Alarie (Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; CEO, Blue J Legal), The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press 2023): Law today is incomplete, inaccessible,…
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Symposium: Freedom Of Expression At American Law Schools
Symposium, Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools, 51 Hofstra L. Rev. 189-502, 577-695 (2023): Part 1: Speech and Civility Norman I. Silber (Hofstra), Introduction: Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools, 51 Hofstra L. Rev. 389 (2023) Articles Kevin T. Baine (Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C.), Free Speech on Campus: The Attack from Within, 51…
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Religion In The Law: An Open Access Casebook
L. Joe Dunman (Louisville), Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook (1st Ed.): This casebook features nearly sixty cases from American courts that involve, in some important way, religious belief and action. The book is divided into sections: First Principles, Establishment, Free Exercise, and Special Problems. Each section includes landmark or otherwise influential cases…
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Chat GPT Makes A Better Therapist Than A Lawyer
Diana Simon (Arizona), More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: Chat GPT Makes a Better Therapist Than a Lawyer: This, at times, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek article is about how Chat GPT (and generative AI in general) makes a better therapist than a lawyer. First, it references examples where generative AI has hallucinated cases, refers to the…
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The Rise And Fall Of The Mental Health Inquiry For Bar Admission
Colin M. Black (Suffolk), The Rise and Fall of the Mental Health Inquiry for Bar Admission, 50 Cap. U. L. Rev. 537 (2022): The legal profession suffers from a mental health crisis, and it continues to lose lawyers to suicide and substance abuse. Take Peter and Gabe for example. Peter graduated first in his law…
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The Best Predictor Of Happiness In America? Marriage
Sam Peltzman (Chicago-Booth; Google Scholar), The Socio Political Demography of Happiness: Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults “… [are] you …very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard…
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Boycotts, Race, And Rankings: Howard Law School’s Peculiar Position
Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), Boycotts, Race, Rankings, and Howard Law School's Peculiar Position: Novel research was conducted in 2020 to measure disparities between the U.S. News & World Report overall rankings and the peer rankings of law schools. The research uncovered a stark outlier—Howard University School of Law—whose peer rank was consistently twenty to…
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Constructing Inclusive & Current Scholarship Impact Rankings
Rob Willey (George Mason; Google Scholar), Melanie Knapp (George Mason; Google Scholar) & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), Constructing Inclusive & Current Scholarship Impact Rankings, 44 Women’s Rts. L. Rep. 1 (2022): Most legal scholarship ranking metrics focus on all-time publications — even rankings that purport to identify the top legal scholars of today, consider decades-old papers…
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Cochran: Christianity And Law Practice
Robert F. Cochran, Jr. (Pepperdine; Google Scholar), Christianity And Law Practice, 13 J. Christian Legal Thought 20 (2023): A Christian perspective on law practice is grounded in basic Christian themes—Creation, Fall, wisdom, justice, and peace. God created humans in his image, with three significant implications for lawyers: (1) clients and other people who might be…
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The § 221 Higher Education Loan Interest Deduction And The Student Debt Crisis
Brianna C. Frontuto (J.D. 2023, West Virginia), Note, Shifting the Scope toward Students: An Analysis of Tax Code Treatment of the Higher Education Loan Interest Deduction, 125 W. Va. L. Rev. 691 (2022): In a nation where education is held in the highest regard but given the lowest priority, the United States continues to enlarge…
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The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
Bradley A. Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data: The best proxy for how other law professors react and respond to publishing in main, or flagship, law reviews is the US News and World Report (USNWR) rankings. This paper utilizes historical USNWR data to rank the top 100…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 71, No. 2 (Winter 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. 237 (2022) Articles Tom Ginsburg (Chicago; Google Scholar), Academic Freedom and Democratic Backsliding, 71 J. Legal Educ. 238…
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McMahon: What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis
Susan A. McMahon (Arizona State; Google Scholar), What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis, 107 Minn. L. Rev. 2511 (2023): Legal analysis pedagogy effectively teaches students the rule-based and analogical reasoning skills that are necessary for a successful career. But making this the only pedagogy imposes costs that law schools often fail to recognize.…