Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Black Lives Matter: On Challenging The Soul Of Legal Education
Phil Lord (Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University (Ontario, Canada); Google Scholar), Black Lives Matter: On Challenging the Soul of Legal Education, 54 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 89 (2021): In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement moved to the fore. Many Americans understood for the first time that racism persists in countless aspects of…
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Crawford: The Bar Exam, Menstruation, And Unconstitutional Tampon Bans
Bridget J. Crawford (Pace; Google Scholar), Menstruation and the Bar Exam: Unconstitutional Tampon Bans, 40 Colum. J. Gender & L. 63 (2021): Some states have policies that prevent bar exam candidates from bringing their own menstrual products to the test. Via social media, awareness of these policies achieved new heights in the weeks leading up…
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Confessions Of A Catholic Litigator
David A. Shaneyfelt (Alvarez Firm, Calabasas, CA), Confessions of a Catholic Litigator, 17 U. St. Thomas L.J. 111 (2020): I imagine there are Navy Seals whose consciences prick them when they swim aboard an enemy’s base in the dead of night, slit the throats of guards on duty, retrieve a hostage, gun down pursuers, and…
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Heminway: Change Leadership And The Law School Curriculum
Joan MacLeod Heminway (Tennessee; Google Scholar), Change Leadership and the Law School Curriculum, 62 Santa Clara L. Rev. 43 (2022): Lawyers, as inherent and frequent leaders in professional, community, and personal environments, have a greater-than-average need for proficiency in change leadership. In these many settings, lawyers are charged with promoting, making, and addressing change. For…
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Black Law Student Attrition In The Age Of Affirmative Action: Why America’s Current Diversity Framework Is Failing
Damon Christopher Williams (J.D. 2021, Toledo), Comment, Black Law Student Attrition in the Age of Affirmative Action: Why America's Current Diversity Framework Is Failing, 52 U. Tol. L. Rev. 653 (2021): Black law students encounter unique obstacles that leave them with some of the highest non-transfer attrition rates among all groups. Theories have emerged alleging…
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Fall 2022 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Fall 2022 submission season covering the 196 main journals of each law school. We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to the law review’s submissions page. Again the chart includes as…
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Heminway: Leadership For The Transactional Business Law Student
Joan MacLeod Heminway (Tennessee; Google Scholar), Leadership for the Transactional Business Law Student, 22 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. Law 311 (2022): We do not always acknowledge this in legal education, but our students are learning to be leaders, because lawyers are leaders. That is as true of transactional business lawyers as it is of litigators,…
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Learning Outcomes: Helping Students, Employers, Clients, And Law Schools
Neil W. Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar) & Jerome M. Organ (St. Thomas-MN), Learning Outcomes that Law Schools Have Adopted: Seizing the Opportunity to Help Students, Legal Employers, Clients, and the Law School, 69 J. Legal Educ. ___ (2022): Over the next several years, legal education’s movement toward learning outcomes and better assessment offers an…
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Doing Law School Wrong: Case Teaching And An Integrated Legal Practice Method
Gregory Marsden (Monterrey Law School) & Soledad Atienza (IE Law School), Doing Law School Wrong: Case Teaching and an Integrated Legal Practice Method, 66 St. Louis U. L.J. (2022): Since its inception, the Langdellian case method has been used to teach legal analysis and reasoning to generations of U.S. law students. For nearly as long,…
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A Black Woman Law Dean Speaks About The Precarity Of Leadership
Danielle M. Conway (Penn State-Dickinson), A Black Woman Law Dean Speaks About The Precarity of Leadership, 51 Sw. L. Rev. 240 (2022): I was honored to write an essay as a contribution to the Southwestern Law Review Symposium dedicated to amplifying the Professor Meera Deo’s groundbreaking book, titled Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal…
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The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure Of Latinas: See Women Law Deans Of Color
Laura Padilla (California Western), The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure of Latinas: See Women Law Deans of Color, 99 Denver L. Rev. __ (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, elaborating on…
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Deo: Progress And Backlash In Our Unequal Profession — Race And Gender In Legal Academia
Meera E. Deo (Southwestern), Progress and Backlash in our Unequal Profession, 52 Sw. U. L. Rev. 310 (2022): Over the past two years, we have collectively suffered through a global pandemic, ongoing attacks on Black Americans (despite protests supporting Black Lives Matter), challenges to American democracy, increasing anti-Asian hate crimes, ongoing family separation at the…
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Pittsburgh Tax Review Publishes New Issue
The Pittsburgh Tax Review has published Vol. 19, No. 2 (2022): Alice G. Abreu (Temple), Tax on the Ground: How a VITA Course Enhances the Law School Curriculum, 19 Pitt. Tax Rev. 101 (2022) Diane Kemker (Southern), Teaching Critical Tax: What, Why, & How, 19 Pitt. Tax Rev. 143 (2022) Stephanie McMahon (Cincinnati), Teaching Tax…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 70, No. 1 (Fall 2020): From the Editors Robert Dinerstein (American) & Ezra Rosser (American; Google Scholar), From the Editors, 70 J. Legal Educ. 1 (2020) Articles Ezra Ross (UC-Irvine), Reframing Faculty Pro Bono, 70 J. Legal Educ. 3 (2020) Jonathan R. Siegel (George Washington; Google Scholar),…
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Conway: Antiracist Lawyering Begins With Teaching Antiracism In Law School
Danielle M. Conway (Dean, Penn State-Dickinson), Antiracist Lawyering in Practice Begins with the Practice of Teaching and Learning Antiracism in Law School, 2022 Utah L. Rev. __ : I was honored by the invitation to deliver the 2021 Lee E. Teitelbaum keynote address. Dean Teitelbaum was a gentleman and a titan for justice. I am…
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‘It Is Okay To Not Be Okay’: The 2021 Survey Of Law Student Well-Being
David Jaffe (American), Katherine Bender (Bridgewater State) & Jerome M. Organ (St. Thomas-MN), 'It is Okay to Not Be Okay': The 2021 Survey of Law Student Well-Being, 62 U. Louisville L. Rev. __ (2022): The Survey of Law Student Well-Being, implemented in Spring 2014 [hereinafter “2014 SLSWB”], was the first multi-law school study in over…
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A Comment On Sander & Steinbuch’s ‘Mismatch And Bar Passage: A School-Specific Analysis’
Sherod Thaxton (UCLA; Google Scholar), A Comment on Sander and Steinbuch's “Mismatch and Bar Passage: A School-Specific Analysis”: Richard Sander and Robert Steinbuch’s, “Mismatch and Bar Passage: A School-Specific Analysis,” offers a statistical analysis of the “law school mismatch hypothesis” in an effort to explain racial differences in the likelihood of passing the bar examination. Sander and Steinbuch claim their…
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Looking Back: A Case Study Of Career Interest And Experiential Learning In Law School
David I.C. Thomson (Denver; Google Scholar) & Stephen Daniels (American Bar Foundation; Google Scholar), Looking Back: A Case Study of Career Interest and Experiential Learning in Law School, 56 Willamette L. Rev. 283 (2020): As outsiders to the world of business law teaching, we started with an idea animating the Willamette symposium—career relevance. That idea…
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Feminist Legal History And Legal Pedagogy
Paula A. Monopoli (Maryland), Feminist Legal History and Legal Pedagogy, 108 Va. L. Rev. Online 91 (2022): Women are mere trace elements in the traditional law school curriculum. They exist only on the margins of the canonical cases. Built on masculine norms, traditional modes of legal pedagogy involve appellate cases that overwhelmingly involve men as…
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An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
Scott Devito (Ave Maria; Google Scholar), Kelsey Hample (Furman; Google Scholar) & Erin Lain (Drake; Google Scholar), Examining the Bar Exam: An Empirical Analysis of Racial Bias in the Uniform Bar Examination, 55 U. Mich. J.L. Reform ___ (2022): The legal profession is one of the least diverse in the United States. Given continuing issues…
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Get Out: Structural Racism In The Legal Academy And Academic Terror
Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's; Google Scholar), Get Out: Structural Racism and Academic Terror, 29 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. __ (2023): Released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed film Get Out explores the horrors of racism. The film’s plot involves the murder and appropriation of Black bodies for the benefit of wealthy,…
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Gender Pay Disparities In The Legal Academy
Christopher J. Ryan (Louisville; Google Scholar) & Meghan Dawe (American Bar Foundation; Google Scholar), Mind the Gap: Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy, 34 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 567 (2021): Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and…
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Ohio State Festschrift In Honor Of Deborah Jones Merritt
Festschrift in Honor of Deborah Jones Merritt, 82 Ohio St. L.J. 879-951 (2021): Gregory M. Travalio (Isaac Wiles, Columbus; former Associate Dean & Director of Clinical Programs, Ohio State), Festschrift in Honor of Deborah Jones Merritt: An Introduction, 82 Ohio St. L.J. 879 (2021) Jessica Kim (DOJ), Dave Twombly (USAO), Christopher Gawronski (Ohio Attorney General's…
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Inazu: Beyond Unreasonable
John Inazu (Washington Univ.), Beyond Unreasonable, 99 Neb. L. Rev. 375 (2020): The concept of “reasonableness” permeates the law: the “reasonable person” determines the outcome of torts and contracts disputes, the criminal burden of proof requires factfinders to reach conclusions “beyond a reasonable doubt,” and claims of self-defense succeed or fail on reasonableness determinations. But…
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How Introverted Law Students Can Thrive: Become Tax Lawyers|Tax Professors (And Deans)
John Lande (Missouri), Introversion, the Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution: This article analyzes introversion and discusses the implications of the large proportion of people who are introverted, including many lawyers and other dispute resolution professionals. It relies on two analytical books, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain…