Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Toussaint: Monuments Of American Sorrow
Etienne C. Toussaint (South Carolina; Google Scholar), Monuments of American Sorrow, 69 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 128 (2021): The COVID-19 pandemic not only exposed the socio-political and economic hardships that plague vulnerable communities across the United States, but it also challenged academicians with caregiving responsibilities. Teaching from home threatened the very notion of work-life balance.…
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Assessing Heinonline As A Source Of Scholarly Impact Metrics
Karen L. Wallace (Drake; Google Scholar), Rebecca Lutkenhaus (Drake; Google Scholar) & David B. Hanson (Drake), Assessing Heinonline as a Source of Scholarly Impact Metrics: After the February 2019 U.S. News & World Report announcement of a planned law school scholarly impact ranking based on HeinOnline data, law schools accelerated efforts to ensure that HeinOnline…
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Whittington: The Value Of Ideological Diversity Among University Faculty
Keith E. Whittington (Princeton), The Value of Ideological Diversity Among University Faculty, 37 Soc. Phil. & Pol'y 90 (2021): Conservatives in the United States have grown increasingly critical of universities and their faculty, convinced that professors are ideologues from the political left. Universities, for their part, have increasingly adopted a mantra of diversity and inclusivity,…
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Capers: The Law School As A White Space
I. Bennett Capers (Fordham; Google Scholar), The Law School as a White Space, 106 Minn. L. Rev. 7 (2021): In this moment when the country is undergoing a racial reckoning, when law schools have pledged to look inward and become anti-racist and truly inclusive, it is past time to acknowledge how law schools function as “white spaces.”…
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Generation Z And The Future Of Legal Education
Tiffany Atkins (Elon), #Fortheculture: Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education, 26 Mich. J. Race & L. 115 (2021): Generation Z, with a birth year between 1995 and 2010, is the most diverse generational cohort in U.S. history and is the largest segment of our population. Gen Zers hold progressive views on social issues…
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Rozema: Does The Bar Exam Protect the Public?
Kyle Rozema (Washington University; Google Scholar), Does the Bar Exam Protect the Public?, 18 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 801 (2021): I study the effects of requiring lawyers to pass the bar exam on whether they are later publicly disciplined for misconduct. In the 1980s, by abolishing what is known as a diploma privilege, four states…
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The First Empirical Study Of Novelty Claims In Law Review Articles
Paul Horwitz (Alabama), "The First": Among the most-played tunes on my broken record is my criticism of the "novelty claim" and my fascination with what it says, not about novelty as such–I rather doubt the phrase says very much about that–but about the practice of American legal scholarship: its norms, tactics, motivations, means of advancement and…
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The ‘Pink Ghettos’ of Public Interest Law: An Open Secret
Sandra Simkins (Rutgers), The "Pink Ghettos" of Public Interest Law: An Open Secret, 68 Buff. L. Rev. 857 (2020): There is a downside to public interest law careers and law school pro bono work for women. Law schools cue women to enter and remain at lower rungs of the profession by normalizing women in “caregiving”…
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Griggs: Race, Rules, And Disregarded Reality
Marsha Griggs (Washburn), Race, Rules, and Disregarded Reality, 82 Ohio St. L.J. __ (2021): Exploring issues of racial bias and social injustice in the law school classroom is a modern imperative. Yet, important conversations about systemic inequality in the law and legal profession are too often dissociated from core doctrinal courses and woodenly siloed to…
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Keep Distance Education for Law Schools: Online Education, the Pandemic, and Access to Justice
Lael Daniel Weinberger (Harvard), Keep Distance Education for Law Schools: Online Education, the Pandemic, and Access to Justice, 53 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 211 (2021): While distance education made inroads throughout higher education, law schools kept their distance—until a global pandemic forced them all online for a time. Then the gatekeepers to the profession at…
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Letterhead Bias and Blind Review: An Analysis of Prevalence and Mitigation Efforts
Michael Conklin (Angelo State; Google Scholar), Letterhead Bias and Blind Review: An Analysis of Prevalence and Mitigation Efforts, 2021 U. Ill. L. Rev. Online__ (2022): Claims regarding letterhead bias in legal academia have been limited to anecdotes and hyperbolic assertions such as how “[s]omebody from a top 5 school could bluebook a ham sandwich and…
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Law Teaching Strategies For A New Era: Beyond The Physical Classroom
Tessa L. Dysart (Arizona) & Tracy Norton (Touro), Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom (2021): The abrupt move to online legal education in Spring 2020 accelerated the move to online legal education that has been slowing gathering steam in recent years. As more institutions consider the potential to expand their reach…
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Chauvin: The Banality of Law Journal Rejections
Noah Chauvin (Google Scholar), The Banality of Law Journal Rejections, 106 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 18 (2021): In the spring of 2021, I received two rejection messages from law journals I had submitted an article to. The messages came within seven minutes of one another. Nothing about this was remarkable, except that the two messages…
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Call For Papers: Teaching Law Without Borders — Comparative Perspectives On Legal Pedagogy
Journal Of Legal Education Call For Papers: Teaching Law Without Borders — Comparative Perspectives on Legal Pedagogy: The Editors of the Journal of Legal Education welcome articles and reflections on the methods of law teaching in different legal cultures. Law is taught as an undergraduate/first degree course in much of the world, and as a graduate/postgraduate…
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Legal Education’s Curricular Tipping Point Toward Inclusive Socratic Teaching
Jamie R. Abrams (Louisville), Legal Education's Curricular Tipping Point Toward Inclusive Socratic Teaching, 49 Hofstra L. Rev. 897 (2021): Two seismic curricular disruptions create a tipping point for legal education to reform and transform. COVID-19 abruptly disrupted the delivery of legal education. It aligned with a tectonic racial justice reckoning, as more professors and institutions…
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Implementing ABA Standard 314 by Incorporating Effective Formative Assessment Techniques Across The Law School Curriculum
Diana R. Donahoe (Georgetown) & Julie Ross (Georgetown), Lighting the Fires of Learning in Law School: Implementing ABA Standard 314 by Incorporating Effective Formative Assessment Techniques Across the Curriculum, 81 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 657 (2020): The American Bar Association now requires law schools to incorporate formative assessment into the law school curriculum by providing…
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Menstrual Dignity And The Bar Exam
Marcy L. Karin (District of Columbia), Margaret E. Johnson (Baltimore) & Elizabeth B. Cooper (Fordham), Menstrual Dignity and the Bar Exam, 55 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1 (2021): This Article examines the issue of menstruation and the administration of the bar exam. Although such problems are not new, over the summer and fall of 2020,…
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If You Build It, They Will Come: What Students Say About Experiential Learning
David I. C. Thomson (Denver; Google Scholar) & Stephen Daniels (American Bar Foundation; Google Scholar), If You Build It, They Will Come: What Students Say About Experiential Learning, 13 Fla. A & M U. L. Rev. 203 (2018): Our purpose here is to explore one of the “natural experiments” cited by the Task Force: the…
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Clinicians Reflect On COVID-19: Lessons Learned And Looking Beyond
Deborah N. Archer (NYU), Caitlin Barry (Villanova), Lisa Bliss (Georgia State), G.S. Hans (Vanderbilt), Vida Johnson (Georgetown), Wilkes Kaas (Quinnipiac), Lynnise Pantin (Columbia), Kele Stewart (Miami), Priya Baskaran (American), Jennifer Fernandez (Penn), Crystal Grant (Duke), Anjum Gupta (Rutgers), Julia Hernandez (CUNY), Alexis Karteron (Rutgers) & Shobha Mahadev (Northwestern), Clinicians Reflect on COVID-19: Lessons Learned and…
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Table Of U.S. Law School Mission Statements (2019 & 2021); 58 Schools Lack Explicit Mission Statements
Frances Tung (American Bar Foundation) & Elizabeth Mertz (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Table of U.S. Law School Mission Statements, 2019 & 2021: This Table continues a data-sharing effort begun by Irene Scharf and Vanessa Merton in 2016, as part of their research on U.S. law schools’ mission statements. They had been inspired, in part, by Jerome…
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Only 57% Of White Students At Harvard Are Admitted On Merit
The Guardian, Turns Out, Harvard Students Aren’t That Smart After All: A whopping 43% of white students weren’t admitted on merit. One might call it affirmative action for the rich and privileged. Ever wondered what it takes to get into Harvard? Stellar grades, impressive extracurriculars and based on a recently published study, having deep pockets and a…
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Jenoff: Big Law Dreams
Pam Jenoff (Rutgers), Big Law Dreams, 13 Fla. A & M U. L. Rev. 183 (2018): Upon graduation, law students continue to seek positions with large law firms in record numbers. Graduates are drawn to Big Law for the purported pluses of high compensation; interesting work; extensive training and resources; mobility and prestige. However, a closer…
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A Letter To Students On The Meaning Of Work And Professional Formation
Benjamin C. Carpenter (St. Thomas), A Letter to Students on the Meaning of Work and Professional Formation, 17 U. St. Thomas L.J. ___ (2021): The law is a wonderful profession—one that provides opportunities for individuals to make a formative difference in people’s lives, to work with talented colleagues and against skilled opponents, to earn the…
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Reducing Debt And Increasing Access To The Profession: An Empirical Study Of Graduate Debt At U.S. Law Schools
Scott F. Norberg (Florida Int'l; Google Scholar) & Stephanie J. Garcia (Florida Int'l), Reducing Debt and Increasing Access to the Profession: An Empirical Study of Graduate Debt at U.S. Law Schools: 69 J. Legal Educ. 710 (2021): Legal education in the United States is in crisis because it is so costly and the number of…
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The Makings Of A Culturally Savvy Lawyer: Novel Approaches For Teaching And Assessing Cross-Cultural Skills In Law School
Shahrokh Falati (New York Law School; Google Scholar), The Makings of a Culturally Savvy Lawyer: Novel Approaches For Teaching and Assessing Cross-Cultural Skills in Law School, 49 J.L. & Educ. 627 (2020): All 205 American Bar Association-accredited Law schools in the U.S. must now define learning outcomes for their credit-bearing Juris Doctorate (JD) courses, and…