Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Ryan & Muller: Law Schools That Overperform On The Bar Exam
Christopher J. Ryan (Louisville; Google Scholar) & Derek T. Muller (Iowa; Google Scholar), The Secret Sauce: Examining Law Schools that Overperform on the Bar Exam: Despite recent signs of improvement, since 2010, law schools have faced declining enrollment and entering classes with lower predictors of success. At least partly as a result, the rates at…
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Creating Online Education Spaces To Support Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, And Wellbeing
Lisa Bliss (Georgia State), Susan L. Brooks (Drexel) & Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY), Creating Online Education Spaces to Support Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Wellbeing, 14 Atlanta's J. Marshall L.J. __ (2022): The pivot to online education during the pandemic has led those who teach students at all levels to explore how to promote student engagement in…
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Curricular Change In Legal Education: The Number Of Tax Faculty Is Down 46% Since 1973
William J. Carney (Emory), Curricular Change In Legal Education, 53 Ind. L. Rev. 245 (2020): This article surveys basic changes in legal education from 1973 to 2017-2018, using a comparison of the sizes of the student body with the professoriate, and changes in the allocation of faculty resources over this period. The paper documents law…
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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: 2020 and 2021 continue to illustrate the 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 simultaneously resulting in inferior…
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The Effect Of COVID-19 On Law Libraries
Thomas Sneed (Washburn), The Effect of COVID-19 on Law Libraries: Are These Changes Temporary or a Sign of the Future?, 60 Washburn L.J. 107 (2020): Due to the public health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the traditional roles of the library were altered spontaneously. These sudden changes, coupled with the reality that libraries often…
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Women Deans And Faculty Have Better Representation And Pay In Universities With Female Presidents And Provosts
College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, Women in the Leadership Pipeline in Higher Education Have Better Representation and Pay in Institutions With Female Presidents and Provosts: At most higher education institutions, the two most senior positions are the president and provost. Advancement to these roles most often follows a straightforward path. More than…
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Spring 2022 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Spring 2022 submission season covering the 196 main journals of each law school. The first chart (pp. 1-59) contains information gathered from the journals’ websites on: Methods for submitting an article (such as by e-mail, regular…
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Field: How The Pandemic Flipped My Perspective On Flipping The Tax Law Classroom
Heather M. Field (UC-Hastings; Google Scholar), How the Pandemic Flipped My Perspective on Flipping the Tax Law Classroom, 19 U. Pitt. Tax Rev. __ (2022): Flipping the classroom—where the traditional in-class activities (lecture) and pre-class homework activities (problems) are reversed—is a pedagogical technique that has grown more popular in higher education over the past decade.…
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Managing Law Students As Consumers In A COVID World
Debra Moss Vollweiler (Nova), If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em (Virtually): Institutionally Managing Law Students as Consumers in a COVID World, 41 Pace L. Rev. 57 (2020): In early 2020, I published an article that examined how law schools—with rising costs, pressure on performance metrics and competitive high-profile rankings—were more than ever before being judged on…
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Student Grade Satisfaction Drives Teaching Evaluations
Vladimir Kogan, Brandon Genetin, Joyce Chen & Alan Kalish (Ohio State), Students' Grade Satisfaction Influences Evaluations of Teaching: Evidence from Individual-level Data and an Experimental Intervention: Student surveys are widely used to evaluate university teaching and increasingly adopted at the K-12 level, although there remains considerable debate about what they measure. Much disagreement focuses on…
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Legal Writing Professors, Salary Disparities, And The Impossibility Of ‘Improved Status’
Amy Soled (Rutgers), Legal Writing Professors, Salary Disparities, and the Impossibility of 'Improved Status', 24 J. Legal Writing 47 (2020): There should be a concerted effort to eliminate the wage discrimination experienced by legal writing faculty. A legal writing professor’s status cannot truly improve until the pay gap that exists between those who teach legal…
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St. Louis Symposium: Teaching Law Online
Symposium, Teaching Law Online, 65 St. Louis U. L.J. 455-726 (2021): Bridget J. Crawford (Pace; Google Scholar) & Michelle S. Simon (Pace), Law Faculty Experiences Teaching During the Pandemic, 65 St. Louis U. L.J. 455 (2021) Yvonne M. Dutton (Indiana-McKinney) & Seema Mohapatra (SMU; Google Scholar), COVID-19 and Law Teaching: Guidance on Developing an Asynchronous…
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Cowan & Cutler: Cross-Fertilizing The Tax Classroom
Mark J. Cowan (Boise State) & Joshua Cutler (Boise State), Cross-Fertilizing the Tax Classroom, 19 U. Pitt. Tax Rev. ___ (2022): Taxation, embedded in both the legal and accounting professions, is taught in law schools and business schools. Courses in the former develop the skills of future tax attorneys, who will engage in tax structuring,…
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Microaggressions In The Context Of Academic Communities
Catharine P. Wells (Boston College; Google Scholar), Microaggressions in the Context of Academic Communities, 12 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 319 (2013): In the late 1990s, I was invited to speak on a panel about the difficulties encountered by women in the legal academy. In this connection, I wrote a paper about microaggressions in which I…
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Leadership Evolution: The Rise Of Lawyers In The C-Suite
Garry Jenkins (Dean, Minnesota; Google Scholar) & Jon J. Lee (Minnesota; moving to Oklahoma), Leadership Evolution: The Rise of Lawyers in the C-Suite, 96 Tul. L. Rev. __ (2022): The traditional thinking about the path to the top corporate executive leadership posts, reaching the so-called C-suite, is that it begins with earning an MBA degree.…
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Modern Diploma Privilege: A Path Rather Than A Gate
Catherine Martin Christopher (Texas Tech), Modern Diploma Privilege: A Path Rather Than a Gate: This article proposes a modern diploma privilege, a licensure framework that allows state licensure authorities to identify what competencies are expected of first-year attorneys, then partner with law schools to assess those competencies. Freed from the format and timing of a…
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AI, Law Schools, And Bar Exams
Lance B. Eliot (Codex: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics), The Reasoned Case For Teaching About AI In Law Schools For Law Students: A perhaps surprisingly controversial question is whether or not law schools should be offering a formal class on the topic of AI and the law, and if so, additional queries arise about…
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Brown: Stereotypes, Sexism And Superhuman Faculty
Teneille R. Brown (Utah; Google Scholar), Stereotypes, Sexism and Superhuman Faculty, 16 Fla. Int'l L. Rev. __ (2021): This symposium article explores how law professors with caretaking responsibilities struggled so greatly during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because legal academia prioritizes masculine ideals of competence over warmth, faculty were expected to suppress their…
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Bob Jones, Critical Race Theory, And Democracy
Lynn Lu (CUNY; Google Scholar), Who’s Afraid of Bob Jones?: “Fundamental National Public Policy” and Critical Race Theory in a Delicate Democracy, 25 CUNY L. Rev. ___ (2022): In Summer of 2021, Republican legislators across the United States introduced a host of bills to prohibit government funding for schools or agencies that teach critical race…
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Delgado: Groundhog Law
Richard Delgado (Alabama; Google Scholar), Groundhog Law, 21 J.L. Society 1 (2021): Is law an academic discipline like chemistry, history, or English that belongs on a university campus? Rodrigo and the professor discuss an innocent question by a conference attender who wanted to know why legal knowledge never seems to advance. Rodrigo and the professor…
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From Academic Freedom To Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women In The Legal Academy
Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's), From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy, 68 UCLA L. Rev. 364 (2021): In 1988, Black women law professors formed the Northeast Corridor Collective of Black Women Law Professors, a network of Black women in the legal academy. They supported one another’s scholarship, shared…
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Clinical Fellowships, Faculty Hiring, And Community Values
G.S. Hans (Vanderbilt), Clinical Fellowships, Faculty Hiring, and Community Values, 27 Clinical L. Rev. 253 (2021): This Essay explores clinical hiring practices as an expression of community values. In particular, it discusses how lawyers become clinical faculty to reflect on whether and how prior clinical teaching experience should be assessed for entry-level clinical applicants in…
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Learning Outcomes In A Flipped Law School Classroom
Katharine Traylor Schaffzin (Dean, Memphis; Google Scholar), Learning Outcomes in a Flipped Classroom: A Comparison of Civil Procedure II Test Scores Between Students in a Traditional Class & a Flipped Class, 46 U. Mem. L. Rev. 661 (2016): By now, many legal educators have heard of a “flipped classroom,” even if they may not be…
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Kuehn: Shifting Law School Faculty Demographics
TaxProf Blog op-ed: Shifting Law School Faculty Demographics, by Robert Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar): In 1980, one-third of law students and only 14% of all law teachers were female, and a mere 9% of students and 4% of faculty were identified as non-white. Today, law faculties are more diverse by gender and race/ethnicity. Yet, the demographics of…
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Third-Party Sexual Harassment: The Challenge Of Title IX Obligations For Law School Clinics
Ty Alper (UC-Berkeley), Third-Party Sexual Harassment: The Challenge of Title IX Obligations for Law School Clinics, 96 Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2021): Law faculty who teach and train students in clinical settings regularly expose students to the potential for sexual harassment. Because clinics involve actual cases in real-world contexts, students may encounter sexual harassment from…