Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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The Exclusion Of Public Legal Education From Mandatory And Aspirational State Pro Bono Service Requirements
Amy Wallace (New York Law School), The Exclusion of Public Legal Education from Mandatory and Aspirational State Pro Bono Service Requirements, 23 Loy. J. of Pub. Int. L. __ (2022): Pro bono service is embedded in legal education and practice. Every year, lawyers and law students across the United States engage in countless hours of…
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Tampon Taxes: Menstruation, Pregnancy, And The Complexities Of Comparison
Emily Gold Waldman (Pace), Compared to What? Menstruation, Pregnancy, and the Complexities of Comparison, 41 Colum. J. Gender & L. 218 (2021): When crafting a sex discrimination argument, finding the right comparison can be crucial. Indeed, comparison-drawing has been a key strategy for advocates challenging the constitutionality of the tampon tax. In their 2016 lawsuit…
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The Year Of Magical Teaching: Lessons Learned From One Class In Three Modalities
Debra Moss Vollweiler (Nova), The Year of Magical Teaching: Lessons Learned from One Class in Three Modalities: This article narrates eight key lessons learned by an experienced law professor teaching one course in three different ways during one academic year. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I taught one course—Secured Transactions—three times, for three different schools,…
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Women In U.S. Law Schools, 1948-2021
Elizabeth D. Katz (Washington University), Kyle Rozema (Washington University; Google Scholar) & Sarath Sanga (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Women in U.S. Law Schools, 1948-2021: We study the progress of women’s representation and achievement in law schools. To do this, we assemble a new dataset on the number of women and men students, faculty, and deans at…
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Are Law Schools Raising Their Attrition And Transfer Rates To Boost Their Bar Exam Pass Rates?
Jason Scott (AccessLex; Google Scholar) & Joshua Jackson (AccessLex), Are Law Schools Cream-Skimming to Bolster Their Bar Exam Pass Rates?: Law schools are held accountable on many fronts to achieve and maintain high bar passage rates. ABA Standard 316 is likely the strongest accountability measure. While the course of legal education itself, along with academic…
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Brooks Reviews Givens’s Radical Empathy: Finding A Path To Bridging Racial Divides
Susan L. Brooks (Drexel), Book Review, 5 Int'l J. Restorative Just. __ (2022) (reviewing Terri E. Givens, Radical Empathy: Finding A Path To Bridging Racial Divides (2021): In her recent book, Dr. Terri Givens, a highly accomplished political scientist and entrepreneur, guides readers through the process of her own racial healing and invites them to…
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Teaching To Neurodiverse Law Students
Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (George Washington), Teaching to Neurodiverse Law Students, 29 Persps. ___ (2021): As the legal academy continues to explore ways to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into our schools and curriculum, this article seeks to expand our understanding of DEI to include neurodiversity. Legal writing is a challenging subject to teach and for…
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Pre-Publication Publications: SSRN And Self-Plagiarism
Gregory S. Crespi (SMU; Google Scholar), Pre-Publication Publications: Many law professors now post essentially complete drafts of their articles on SSRN and/or on university-sponsored working paper websites prior to submitting those articles for journal publication. This “pre-publication publication,” so to speak, is useful for both authors and their readers, but it raises some self-plagiarism issues,…
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Weathering Invisible Labor
Ederlina Co (Pacific), Weathering Invisible Labor, 51 Sw. L. Rev. 258 (2022): Professor Meera Deo’s Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia powerfully demonstrates how the legal academy has adopted many of American society’s social hierarchies as they relate to race and gender. Inspired by Unequal Profession and using a Critical Race Feminism framework,…
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The Median Real Income Of Lawyers Has Fallen 1.9% Since 2001
James V. Koch (Old Dominion) & Barbara Blake-Gonzalez (Old Dominion; Google Scholar), Why Has the Median Real income of Lawyers Been Declining?, 46 J. Econ. & Fin ___ (2022): The median real incomes of lawyers have been declining. In 2001, the median real income of lawyers in the 50 states plus the District of Columbia…
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Tenured-Terminations, 2000-2021
Deepa Das Acevedo (Alabama; Google Scholar), Tenured-Terminations: The debate over faculty tenure has proceeded despite a glaring absence of data on tenure’s real-world operations as an employment practice. I use an original, manually-assembled dataset of “tenured-terminations” from 2000 to 2021 to offer a first look into the landscape of tenured employment via instances where tenure…
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The Politics Of Bar Admission: Lessons From The Pandemic
Leslie C. Levin (Connecticut; Google Scholar), The Politics of Bar Admission: Lessons from the Pandemic, 50 Hofstra L. Rev. 81 (2021): The controversy over how and whether to administer the July 2020 bar examination during the COVID-19 pandemic upended the usual process of lawyer regulation. New actors—including bar applicants—very publicly challenged regulators’ decisions and questioned…
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Millennial Leadership In Law Schools: Essays On Disruption, Innovation, And The Future
Millennial Leadership in Law Schools: Essays on Disruption, Innovation, and the Future (Ashley Krenelka Chase (Stetson; Google Scholar), ed. 2021): This book explores the role millennials will play—as faculty, administrators, or staff members—in shaping the future of legal education, and what the academy can do to embrace the millennial generation as colleagues, not students. Section…
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The ABA Should Be Required To Disclose Law School Accreditation Information
Henry Webb (Palm Beach Atlantic), Patrick Baker (Tennessee; Google Scholar) & Kaleb Byars (J.D. 2021, Tennessee), Accreditation Information Produced by United States Law Schools to the American Bar Association Should be Made Available to the Public From Both Law and Policy Perspectives, 34 Loy. U. Chi. Consumer L. Rev. 79 (2021): This article argues that,…
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What Do 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: Legal theorists seek to persuade other jurists of certain theories: Textualism or purposivism; formalism or realism; natural law theory or positivism; prison reform or abolition; universal or particular human rights?…
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Trailblazing And Living A Purposeful Life In The Law: A Dakota Woman’s Reflections As A Law Professor
Angelique EagleWoman (Mitchell|Hamline; Google Scholar), Trailblazing and Living a Purposeful Life in the Law: A Dakota Woman’s Reflections as a Law Professor, 51 Sw. U. L. Rev. 227 (2022): This Essay is a reflection from my perspective as a Dakota woman law professor on my fifth law school faculty. In the illuminating work of Meera…
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A Supreme Dilemma: Admissions v. Representation In Law School And Legal Profession
Ahmuan Williams (J.D. 2023, Oklahoma), A Supreme Dilemma: Admissions v. Representation in Law School and Legal Profession: Diversity in the legal profession does not have to be a myth, but we have to put in the effort to do it. A Supreme Dilemma: Admissions v. Representation in Law School and Legal Profession gives you an…
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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…
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Stephen Carter, Deborah Merritt, And The Bar Exam
Deborah J. Merritt (Ohio State; Google Scholar), Stephen Carter on the Bar Exam: Eminent Yale Professor Stephen Carter has penned has penned a thoughtful critique of the bar exam [RIP to the LSAT? Let’s Kill the Bar Exam, Too]. Professor Carter notes the exam’s similarities to the LSAT, which some law schools have abandoned as an…
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Listening To Our Students: Fostering Resilience And Engagement To Promote Culture Change In Legal Education
Ann Sinsheimer (Pittsburgh) & Omid Fotuhi (Pittsburgh), Listening to Our Students: Fostering Resilience and Engagement to Promote Culture Change in Legal Education, 26 Legal Writing: The J. Legal Writing Inst. 81 (2022): In this Article, we describe a dynamic program of research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law that uses mindset to promote…
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Listen!: Amplifying The Experiences Of Black Law School Graduates In 2020
Sarah J. Schendel (Suffolk; Google Scholar), Listen!: Amplifying the Experiences of Black Law School Graduates in 2020, 100 Neb. L. Rev. 73 (2021): Law students graduating in 2020 faced a number of unusual challenges. However, perhaps no students faced more emotional, psychological, logistical, and financial challenges than Black law school graduates in 2020. In addition…
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Ancillary Skills And Law School Success
Michael D. O. Rusco (Southern), Ancillary Skills and Law School Success, 35 The Second Draft 1 (2022): This article assumes that some of what influences a student’s ultimate law school performance are “ancillary skills.” Ancillary skills are skills that affect performance or address stressors that law students commonly face but are not primarily academic or…
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Academic Law Libraries And Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, And Ranking
Dana Neacsu (Columbia; Google Scholar) & James M. Donovan (Kentucky; Google Scholar), Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking, 49 J.L. & Educ. 433 (2020): We argue that the increasing role of scholarly impact in determining a school’s status will provide a new opportunity for libraries to assume a critical institutional role behind…
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Krauss: Pincites
Sam Fox Krauss (J.D. 2022, NYU; Google Scholar), Note, Pincites, 97 N.Y.U. L. Rev. __ (2022): Within the literature on legal scholarship, academics have studied citation practices. For example, scholars have examined which authors, journals, and articles are most-cited. But no one has examined which parts of articles scholars cite. Understanding which parts of articles…
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Fall 2022 Online Law Review Article Submission Guide
Following up on last week's post, Fall 2022 Law Review Article Submission Guide: Bridget J. Crawford (Pace; Google Scholar), Information for Submitting to Online Law Review Companions: This document contains information about submitting essays, commentaries, reviews, responses, and other writings to online companions to the main law reviews and journals at selected law schools. The…