Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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The Case Against Commercial Casebooks
W. David Ball (Santa Clara; Google Scholar) & Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara; Google Scholar), The Case Against Commercial Casebooks, 71 J. Legal Educ. __ (2023): Open-source, online casebooks are a free alternative to the for-profit commercial casebooks that dominate the legal academy. They offer a host of benefits for students and professors alike. Online casebooks…
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The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2022
Rank Name School Downloads 1 Cass Sunstein Harvard 43,282 2 Daniel Solove George Washington 28,479 3 Lucian Bebchuk Harvard 27,727 4 Mark Lemley Stanford 21,131 5 Orin Kerr UC-Berkeley 19,608 6 Roberto Tallarita Harvard 15,229 7 Brian Frye Kentucky 14,991 8 Bernard Black Northwestern 13,599 9 Brandon Hasbrouck Washington & Lee 13,456 10 Danielle Keats…
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ChatGPT Gets C+ Grade On Four Minnesota Law School Exams (C- In Tax)
Following up on this morning's post, ChatGPT Gets B|B- Grade On Wharton MBA Exam: Jonathan Choi (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Kristin Hickman (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Amy Monahan (Minnesota) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), ChatGPT Goes to Law School: How well can AI models write law school exams without human assistance? To find out, we used…
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ChatGPT Gets B|B- Grade On Wharton MBA Exam
Following up on this morning's post, ChatGPT Gets C+ Grade On Four Minnesota Law School Exams: Christian Terwiesch (Wharton; Google Scholar), Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA?: OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 has shown a remarkable ability to automate some of the skills of highly compensated knowledge workers in general and specifically the knowledge workers in…
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How A Person Of Faith Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome In Law School
David Grenardo (St. Thomas-Minnesota), How A Person of Faith Can Address Imposter Syndrome in Law School, 37 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y ___ (2023): Imposter syndrome makes people feel as if they are frauds and others will soon find out that they do not belong. Imposter syndrome typically affects high achievers, which includes…
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Resources For Authors Submitting Law Review Articles In The Spring 2023 Cycle
1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools. … The MetaRank was computed by averaging ranks (using a 25% weighting from each) of the following rankings: prRank = US News Peer Reputation score ranking (averaged over 10 years);usnRank = overall…
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Hofmann: The Politics Of Religion And Taxation: Keeping Church And State Separate
Mary Ann Hofmann (Appalachian; Google Scholar), The Politics of Religion and Taxation: Keeping Church and State Separate, 22 J. of Mgmt. Pol'y & Prac. 31 (2021): This paper discusses tax laws and federal court decisions relating to the taxation or exemption of religious non-profit organizations. In a democracy characterized by separation of church and state,…
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51% Of Young Professionals Need Help For Mental Health Problems
Mary Christie Institute, The Mental Health and Well Being of Young Professionals: The prevalence of mental health issues among college students is well documented (Auerbach et al, 2018, National College Health Assessment, American College Health Association, 2021), yet less is known about this same population group as they graduate and begin their careers. The Mary…
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New York Law School Symposium: Race, Bias, And Advocacy
Symposium, Race, Bias, and Advocacy, 66 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 121-413 (2021-2022): Deborah N. Archer (NYU; Google Scholar), Preface, 66 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 121 (2021-2022) Edward A. Purcell, Jr. (New York Law School; Google Scholar), Race Across the Curriculum: A Team-Taught Course on Law and Race in America, 66 N.Y. L. Sch.…
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The Global Benefits Of The Law & Economics Framework In Legal Education: Overview (Part 1)
Patrick H. Gaughan (Akron; Google Scholar), The Global Benefits of the Law & Economics Framework in Legal Education: Overview (Part 1), 54 Akron L. Rev. 891 (2021): This is the first in a series of articles that overarchingly proposes that the globalization of markets necessitates the integration of the Law & Economics Framework into legal…
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Santa Clara Symposium: Lawyers, Leadership, And Change
Symposium, Lawyers, Leadership, and Change: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Unprecedented Times, 62 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1-244 (2022): Donald J. Polden (Dean Emeritus, Santa Clara), Introduction, 62 Santa Clara L. Rev. i (2022) Lindsey P. Gustafson (Arkansas-Little Rock), Aric K. Short (Texas A&M; Google Scholar) & Neil W. Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar), Teaching and Assessing…
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The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure Of Latinas: See Women Law Deans Of Color
Laura Padilla (California Western; Google Scholar), The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure of Latinas: See Women Law Deans of Color, 99 Denver L. Rev. 683 (2022): This Essay describes the Black–White paradigm and how it erases communities of color that do not fit within it, thus further marginalizing already sidelined communities. The Essay focuses on Latinas,…
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Maynard: Killing The Motivation Of The Minority Professor
Goldburn Maynard Jr. (Indiana-Kelley Business School; Google Scholar), Killing the Motivation of the Minority Professor, 107 Minn. L. Rev. 245 (2022): This Essay hypothesizes that a significant number of junior scholars with radical or non-normative ideas forego those ideas or mute them in order to fit their work within the dominant paradigm of legal scholarship.…
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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. __ (2023): Admissions tests have increasingly come under attack by those seeking to broaden access and reduce disparities…
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Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud: Teaching Students How Law School Works
Alexa Chew (North Carolina; Google Scholar) & Rachel Gurvich (North Carolina), Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud: Teaching Students How Law School Works, 100 Neb. L. Rev. 887 (2022): Like the law we teach our students, legal education itself isn’t neutral. It is the product of both structural forces and individual decisions. Hierarchy and structural…
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Law, Legal Socializations, And Epistemic Injustice
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Sarah B. Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice, 47 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1026 (2022) (reviewing Meera E. Deo (Southwestern), Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (Stanford University Press 2019); and Deborah Tuerkheimer (Northwestern), Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers…
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Blackman: GPT Will Soon Be Able To Pass The Multistate Bar Exam
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Josh Blackman (South Texas; Google Scholar), Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam?: My frequent co-authors, Mike Bommarito and Dan Katz utilized a different software tool from OpenAI, known as GPT-3.5, to answer the multiple choice questions on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE). If there are four choices, the…
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Volokh: Free Speech Rules, Free Speech Culture, And Legal Education
Eugene Volokh (UCLA; Google Scholar), Free Speech Rules, Free Speech Culture, and Legal Education (Hofstra Law Review Symposium, Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools (Feb. 10, 2023)): The lawyer's job is to persuade people, including people who may disagree with the lawyer. To do this, lawyers must be able to connect with people whose views…
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Louisville Law Review Symposium: Mental Health And The Legal Profession
Mental Health and the Legal Profession, 60 U. Louisville L. Rev. 423- 519 (2022): Timothy S. Hall (Louisville), "We Don't Talk about Bruno:" Of Mental Health, Honesty and Openness, and the Legal Profession, 60 U. Louisville L. Rev. 423 (2022) David Jaffe (American), Reflections on Law Student Mental Health by a Dean of Students after…
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May It Please The Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education
Patricia E. Salkin (Touro), May It Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education (Touro University Press 2022): This is a groundbreaking study on the important and little known role that lawyers have played as leaders in higher education. The book traces the history of lawyer campus presidents from the 1700s to present, exploring dozens of…
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Law’s Contributions To The Mindfulness Revolution
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia), Law’s Contributions to the Mindfulness Revolution, 2022 Utah L. Rev. 573 (2022): These are phenomenally challenging times. Mindfulness is a tool that can help lawyers support themselves, each other, their clients, and their collaborators in the hard work needed to build community and take action. For these and other reasons, mindfulness has…
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Lawsky: Coding The Code—Catala And Computationally Accessible Tax Law
Sarah B. Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law, 75 S.M.U. L. Rev. 535 (2022): This Article describes a new programming language, Catala, created by a team of computer scientists and lawyers. Catala provides a tractable and functional approach to coding U.S. tax law that offers a more transparent…
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Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity In The Law School Classroom
Rory D. Bahadur (Washburn) & Catherine Bramble (BYU), Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity in the Law School Classroom, 70 Clev. St. L. Rev. 709 (2022): 2020 illustrated the ongoing pervasiveness of implicit and explicit racism in our society. Less well-acknowledged and recognized is the extent to which Socratic pedagogy also reflects those pervasive racist realities while…
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Drake Legal Education Symposium
Symposium on Legal Education, 70 Drake L. Rev. 1- 247 (2022): Russell E. Lovell (Drake), Celebrating the Drake Legal Clinic at 50! Drake Law Experiential Education at 157! 157–50! A Proud Tradition since 1865, 70 Drake L. Rev. 1 (2022) Melissa L. Kidder (Ohio Northern; Google Scholar), The Future of Rural Lawyering: How Law Schools…
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The Implications Of OpenAI’s Assistant For Legal Services And Society
Andrew M. Perlman (Dean, Suffolk; Google Scholar) & Open AI's Assistant, The Implications of OpenAI’s Assistant for Legal Services and Society: On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a chatbot called ChatGPT. To demonstrate the chatbot’s remarkable sophistication and its potential implications, both for legal services and society more generally, a human author generated this paper…