Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Wellness And Law: Reforming Legal Education To Support Student Wellness
Janet Thompson Jackson (Washburn), Wellness and Law: Reforming Legal Education to Support Student Wellness, 65 How. L. J. 45 (2021): No one goes to law school with the expectation that their mental health and overall well-being will be significantly compromised during those three years. But, for a substantial number of law students, it is. It…
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Square Pegs And Round Holes: Differentiated Instruction And The Law School Classroom
Karen J. Sneddon (Mercer), Square Pegs and Round Holes: Differentiated Instruction and the Law School Classroom, 48 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 1095 (2022): Adapting to the needs of student learners while adequately preparing them for the challenges of the bar exam, and the demands of practice, may seem impossible. This Article shares a theoretical framework…
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The Miseducation Of Public Citizens
Etienne C. Toussaint (South Carolina; Google Scholar), The Miseducation of Public Citizens, 29 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 287 (2022): The American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct calls upon lawyers, as public citizens, to embrace a special responsibility for the quality of justice in the legal profession and in society. Yet,…
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Rutgers Law School Fundraising Dean Files Gender Discrimination And Equal Pay Lawsuit
Law360, Ex-Rutgers Law Fundraising Exec Launches Equal Pay Suit: A former law school fundraising executive has slammed Rutgers University with a gender discrimination and equal pay lawsuit in New Jersey state court alleging she was improperly paid less than a male counterpart and ultimately fired for complaining about the inequitable treatment. Robin Todd, who served…
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An Empirical Analysis Of The Environmental Law Hiring Market From 2011 – 2022
Alex Erwin (Florida International), So You Want to be an Environmental Law Professor …: An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Law Hiring Market from 2011 – 2022, 49 Ecology L. Currents __ (2022): Using data collected by Professor Sarah Lawsky for her annual entry level hiring report, I analyzed trends in the hiring of environmental…
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Are Discipline Code Proceedings Another Example Of Racial Disparities In Legal Education?
Andrea Anne Curcio (Georgia State) & Alexis Martinez (Georgia Tech), Are Discipline Code Proceedings Another Example of Racial Disparities in Legal Education?, 22 Md. J. Race Religion Gender & Class __ (2022): Addressing racism within legal education has historically focused on diversifying the faculty and student body, as well as integrating teaching about institutional and structural…
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Subversive Legal Education: Reformist Steps Toward Abolitionist Visions
Christina John (New Jersey Appellate Division), Russell G. Pearce (Fordham), Aundray Jermaine Archer (Legal Aid Society of Westchester County), Sarah Medina Camiscoli (Public Counsel, Peer Defense Project, Yale) & Aron Pines (PEN America Writing for Justice), Subversive Legal Education: Reformist Steps Toward Abolitionist Visions, 90 Fordham L. Rev. 2089 (2022): Exclusivity in legal education divides…
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Table Of Links To U.S. Law School Statements On Antiracism/Diversity
Elizabeth Mertz (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) & Frances Tung (American Bar Foundation), Table of Links to U.S. Law School Statements on Antiracism/Diversity: This Table continues a data-sharing effort begun by Scharf & Merton, and continued by Tung & Mertz in a 2021 SSRN posting as part of a larger project on law school education funded by…
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Deflect, Delay, Deny: A Case Study Of Segregation By Law School Faculty
Briana Rosenbaum (Tennessee), Deflect, Delay, Deny: A Case Study of Segregation by Law School Faculty, 90 Tenn. L. Rev. __ (2022): Many histories of school desegregation litigation center on the natural protagonists, such as the lawyers and plaintiffs who fought the status quo. Little attention is paid to the role that individual faculty members played…
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Putting The Bar Exam On Constitutional Notice: Cut Scores, Race & Ethnicity, And The Public Good
Scott Johns (Denver), Putting the Bar Exam on Constitutional Notice: Cut Scores, Race & Ethnicity, and the Public Good, 45 Seattle U. L. Rev. __ (2022): Nothing to see here. Season in and season out, bar examiners, experts, supreme courts, and bar associations seem nonplussed, trapped by what they see as the facts, namely, that…
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Explicit Instruction In Legal Education: Boon Or Spoon?
Beth A. Brennan (Montana), Explicit Instruction in Legal Education: Boon or Spoon?, 52 U. Mem. L. Rev. 1 (2021): While legal education unquestionably hones students’ critical thinking skills, it also privileges students who are faster readers and have prior background knowledge or larger working memories. According to the prevailing mythology of law school pedagogy, students…
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2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Update: 2023 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 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 September 16, 2022). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also…
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CSI: Law School. Forensic Science In Legal Education.
Brandon L. Garrett (Duke; Google Scholar), Glinda Cooper (Yeshiva) & Quinn Beckham (Duke), Forensic Science in Legal Education, 51 J.L. & Educ. 1 (2022): In criminal cases, forensic science reports and expert testimony play an increasingly important role in adjudication. More states now follow a federal reliability standard, following Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and…
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Academic Attrition And Transfers, Not Pedagogy, Drive A Law School’s Bar Exam Performance
Rory D. Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Reexamining Relative Bar Performance as a Function of Non-Linearity, Heteroscedasticity, and a New Independent Variable, 52 N.M. L. Rev. 119 (2022): One might believe that a law school’s graduates doing better on the bar exam than their matriculating credentials predicted…
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Second Time’s The Charm: An Empirical Examination Of The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Repeat Legal Externships
Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman; Google Scholar), Second Time’s the Charm: An Empirical Examination of the Benefits and Potential Drawbacks of Repeat Legal Externships, 70 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y __ (2022): Law schools offer externships to give students real world experience that can’t be taught in the classroom. We encourage field supervisors to provide students with…
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What We Do: The Life And Work Of The Legal Writing Professor
David I. C. Thomson (Denver; Google Scholar), What We Do: The Life and Work of The Legal Writing Professor, 50 J. Law & Educ. 170 (2021): The life of the legal writing professor in today’s law schools is a challenging yet rewarding one. Out of necessity, over the last thirty years the pedagogy of legal…
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High Anxiety: Racism, The Law, And Legal Education
Elayne E. Greenberg (St. John's), High Anxiety: Racism, the Law, and Legal Education: Conspicuously absent from the United States’ ongoing discourse about its racist history is a more honest discussion about the individual and personal stressors that are evoked in people when they talk about racism. What if they got it wrong? The fear of…
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Krieger Reviews The Law Student’s Guide To Doing Well And Being Well
Lawrence S. Krieger (Florida State), Book Review and Essay, 72 J. Legal Educ. __ (2023): Review: Shailini Jandial George (Suffolk), The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well Essay: From Stressful to Mindful to Joyful: Proposing a New Paradigm to Release the Deeper Chains Binding Law Students and Lawyers to Unhappy, Unhealthy Lives …
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Does The 1L Curriculum Make A Difference?
David A. Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua C. Teitelbaum (Georgetown; Google Scholar), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?: Georgetown Law’s Curriculum B (also known as Section 3) offers a unique opportunity to study an alternative 1L curriculum. The standard 1L curriculum has been around for decades and is still offered…
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Fostering Law Student Professional Identity In A Time Of Instability And Strife
Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas; Google Scholar) & Louis Bilionis (Cincinnati), Fostering Law Student Professional Identity In A Time Of Instability And Strife: Recent posts in Legal Evolution have explored the country’s political and economic instability and social strife, theories for national decline, and the special roles and responsibilities of the legal profession to address these…
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What The Access To Justice Crisis Means For Legal Education
Kathryne M. Young (George Washington; Google Scholar), What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 811 (2021): Despite enormous social, legal, and technological shifts in the last century, the structure of legal education has remained largely unchanged. Part of the reason so little change has occurred is that…
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Introducing First-Year Law Students To ‘Legal Realism’
Gregory S. Crespi (SMU; Google Scholar), What Do Good Lawyers Know that the Rest of Us Don't? Introducing First-Year Law Students to 'Legal Realism':, 100 Neb. L. Rev. Bull. (2022): This short article presents the general outlines of a short lecture that I usually give to my first-year contract law students, in about their second…
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Professorial Speech, The First Amendment, And The ‘Anti-CRT’ Laws
Keith E. Whittington (Princeton; Google Scholar), Professorial Speech, the First Amendment, and the 'Anti-CRT' Laws: Academic freedom enjoys an uncertain status in American constitutional law under the First Amendment. It is particularly unclear how the First Amendment applies when it comes to professorial speech in the classroom. This lack of clarity has grave implications in…
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Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence In Law School Admissions Through A Filipino-American Paradigm
Joseph D. G. Castro (J.D. Pepperdine, 2022), Comment, Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence in Law School Admissions Through a Filipino-American Paradigm, 49 Pepp. L. Rev. 195 (2022): Writing the majority opinion upholding the use of racial preferences in law school admissions in 2003, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor anticipated that racial preferences…
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Teaching Law And Digital Age Legal Practice With An AI And Law Seminar
Kevin Ashley (Pittsburgh; Google Scholar), Teaching Law and Digital Age Legal Practice with an AI and Law Seminar: Justice, Lawyering and Legal Education in the Digital Age, 88 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 783 (2013): A seminar on Artificial Intelligence ("Al") and Law can teach law students lessons about legal reasoning and legal practice in the digital…