Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Protecting The P(ocket)UBLIC: Why The Legal Professions Regulation/Shmegulation Is Truly Just All About The Benjamins
Barnett Harris (J.D. 2021, Georgetown), Protecting the P(ocket)UBLIC: Why the Legal Professions Regulation/Shmegulation Is Truly Just All About the Benjamins, 12 Hous. L. Rev. Online __ (2022): In 1972, there was a proposal presented to the American Bar Association, which would have eased up just one of the stringent barriers to the practice of law.…
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Work-Life Balance And The Need To Give Law Students A Break
Jonathan Todres (Georgia State; Google Scholar), Work-Life Balance and the Need to Give Law Students a Break, 1 U. Pitt. L. Rev. Online __ (2022): It has long been understood that joining, and staying in, the legal profession is not good for one’s health. Research shows that attorneys experience alcoholism, depression, and other mental health…
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An Empirical Study Of The Effects Of Mindfulness Training On Law Students
Charity Scott (Georgia State; Google Scholar) & Paul Verhaeghen (Georgia Tech; Google Scholar), Calming down and Waking Up: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Mindfulness Training on Law Students, 21 Nev. L.J. 277 (2020): This Article discusses efforts to address directly the crisis in the mental health and well-being of law students by providing…
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Professional Identity Formation Following The 1L Year
Megan Bess (UIC; Google Scholar), Transitions Unexplored: A Proposal for Professional Identity Formation Following the First Year: Like students in other professional fields, law students experience significant transitions during their education. These transitions consist of intense learning periods associated with major change as students develop their professional identities. These challenges and experiences allow students to…
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‘Law School Is Usually A Good Bet: 93% Have Positive Returns, 24% Have ROI > $1 Million’
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Is Graduate School Worth It? A Comprehensive Return on Investment Analysis: This report presents estimates of return on investment (ROI) for nearly 14,000 graduate degree programs, including 11,600 master’s degrees and 2,300 doctoral and professional degrees. In financial markets, ROI measures the profitability of an investment relative to…
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Klein: Teaching Critical Tax—What, Why, And How
Diane Klein (Southern), Teaching Critical Tax: What, Why, And How, 19 U. Pitt. Tax Rev. __ (2021): “Critical tax” is an approach to the analysis of tax law and policy that takes race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, citizenship/immigrant status, and other historically marginalized statuses into account, and does so in a way that is centrally…
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Dividing Law School Faculties Into Academic Departments: Dismantling The Gendered Doctrinal-Skills Hierarchy In Legal Education
Larry Cunningham (Dean, Charleston; Google Scholar), Dividing Law School Faculties into Academic Departments: A Potential Solution to the Gendered Doctrinal-Skills Hierarchy in Legal Education: This article builds on the many works before it that have documented the inequities associated with the way that law school faculties are structured. At most schools, legal writing, clinical, and…
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Vischer: Legal Education In An Age Of Polarization
Robert K. Vischer (Dean, St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar), Legal Education in an Age of Polarization, 18 St. Thomas L.J. __ (2022): Americans have always disagreed about particular issues, but those disagreements have intensified, widened, and coalesced around shared identities that shape the ways in which we view the world. An increasingly impermeable boundary between broad…
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From Pandemic To Pedagogy: Teaching The Technology Of Lawyering In Law Clinics
Sarah Boonin (Suffolk) & Luz E. Herrera (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics, 68 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y __ (2022): The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the nation’s approach to work and learning. Law schools, law firms, courts, and administrative agencies abruptly closed their offices…
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A Pedagogical Rationale For The Law Professor As Moot Court Coach
David W. Case (Mississippi), A Pedagogical Rationale for the Law Professor as Moot Court Coach, 89 Miss. L.J. 367 (2020): This article recounts lessons learned and wisdom gained from nearly two decades of experience coaching moot court competition teams in the annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace Law School in White Plains,…
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Snitches Get Stitches: Ditching The Toleration Clause In Law School Honor Codes
Meredith C. Manuel (J.D. 2021, Georgetown), Note, Snitches Get Stitches: Ditching the Toleration Clause in Law School Honor Codes, 33 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 703 (2020): IntroductionIn Part I this Note will first provide a brief overview of the relevant distinctions between honor codes, conduct codes, and codes of professional ethics. Part II will then narrow the…
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How To Juice Citations To Your Legal Scholarship
Rob Willey (George Mason) & Melanie Knapp (George Mason), How to Increase Citations to Legal Scholarship, 18 Ohio St. Tech. L.J. 157 (2021): Using nearly 250,000 law review articles published on HeinOnline over a five-year period, the authors analyze citation patterns and their relation to characteristics of the articles such as title length, number of…
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Hierarchy, Race, And Gender In Legal Scholarly Networks
Keerthana Nunna (J.D. 2021, Michigan), W. Nicholson Price II (Michigan; Google Scholar) & Jonathan Tietz (J.D. 2019, Michigan; Google Scholar), Hierarchy, Race & Gender in Legal Scholarly Networks, 75 Stan. L. Rev. ___ (2023): A potent myth of legal academic scholarship is that it is mostly meritocratic and that it is mostly solitary. Reality is…
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Growing Number Of Leadership Programs And Courses Supports Professional Identity Formation
Leah Teague (Baylor), Growing Number of Leadership Programs and Courses Supports Professional Identity Formation, 62 Santa Clara L. Rev. __ (2021): Through service and leadership, lawyers influence people and impact organizations and communities. Law students need to be aware of their opportunity for influence as part of their professional identity and they need to be…
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Deo: Pandemic Pressures On Faculty
Meera E. Deo (Southwestern), Pandemic Pressures on Faculty, 170 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online __ (2022): The Pandemic Effects on Legal Academia study is the first national empirical study to document challenges facing law professors with different personal and professional responsibilities during COVID. The data reveal disturbing findings of worsening inequities, especially for caregivers, women…
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Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts And The Future Of Scholarship
Benjamin Alarie (Toronto; Google Scholar) & Arthur J. Cockfield (Queen's; Google Scholar), Will Machines Replace Us? Machine-Authored Texts and the Future of Scholarship, 3 L., Tech & Humans 5 (2021): We present here the first machine-generated law review article. Our self-interest motivates us to believe that knowledge workers who write complex articles drawing upon years…
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Pushing Back Against Langdell
Emily Zimmerman (Drexel), Pushing Back Against Langdell: Legal education is dominated by the study of court opinions, which are the product of litigation. This focus on the law in the context of litigation can have detrimental consequences for law students. First, law students may come to believe that the vast majority of disputes are resolved…
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Pandemic Pedagogy And Its Applications For International Legal Education And The Hyflex Classroom Of The Future
Colleen P. Graffy (Pepperdine; Google Scholar), Pandemic Pedagogy and Its Applications for International Legal Education and the Hyflex Classroom of the Future, 46 S. Ill. U. L.J. __ (2022): As Academic Director of Pepperdine Caruso’s London Law Program for over twenty years, the author saw the early development of technologies linking law schools with their…
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The Devolution Of The Legal Academy And The Revolution In Law Prof Hiring Standards
Amin R. Yacoub (Virginia; Google Scholar), The Devolution of Legal Academia in the United States and the Revolutionization of the Hiring Standards of Law Professors: Legal academia in the US took multiple steps in the wrong direction in recent years regarding the hiring of tenure-track law professors. This has affected both the quality of legal…
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Debating Disability Disclosure In Legal Education
Jasmine Harris (Penn; Google Scholar), Debating Disability Disclosure in Legal Education, 69 J. Legal Educ. __ (2022): More than three decades after President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law, disability identity remains contested and continues to be conflated with medical diagnoses by both law and society. Dichotomies endure—disabled/nondisabled; physical /…
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Let’s Be Honest About Law School Cheating: A Low-Tech Solution For A High-Tech Problem
Lori A. Roberts (Western State) & Monica M. Todd (Syracuse), Let's Be Honest About Law School Cheating: A Low-Tech Solution for a High-Tech Problem, 52 Akron L. Rev. 1155 (2018): The savvy nature of academic cheating has outpaced educators racing to foil students’ high-tech high-jinx. Indeed, a culture of cheating in higher education has become…
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The Law School Curriculum And The Movement For Black Lives
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb (Illinois-Chicago; Google Scholar), The Law School Curriculum and the Movement for Black Lives, 31 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 27 (2020): This Article discusses how faculty can substantively address white supremacy in the law school curriculum as part of the Movement for Black Lives. Because legal education sets how law students…
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Lawyers Are Not Uniquely Unhappy, But They Abuse Alcohol At Very High Rates
Yair Listokin (Yale) & Ray Noonan (J.D. 2021, Yale), Measuring Lawyer Well-Being Systematically: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey, 18 J. Empirical Legal Stu. 4 (2021): Conventional wisdom says that lawyers are uniquely unhappy. Unfortunately, this conventional wisdom rests on a weak empirical foundation. The “unhappy lawyers” narrative relies on nonrandom survey data collected…
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Do Black Lawyers Matter To The Legal Profession?: Applying An Antiracism Paradigm To Eliminate Barriers To Licensure For Future Black Lawyers
DeShun Harris (Memphis), Do Black Lawyers Matter to the Legal Profession?: Applying an Antiracism Paradigm to Eliminate Barriers to Licensure for Future Black Lawyers, 31 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 59 (2020): The legal profession has an anemic representation of Black lawyers. In 2020, the population of Black lawyers was 5% of the legal…
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AALS Call For Papers: Scholars At Risk
AALS, Journal Of Legal Education Call For Papers: Scholars At Risk: The editors of the Journal of Legal Education welcome articles and reflections on threats to academic freedom, coercion of legal and other scholars, and the relationship between legal scholarship, education and democracy both in the United States and around the world. In recent years,…