Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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The Legal Ethics Of Lying About American Democracy
Andrew M. Perlman (Suffolk; Google Scholar), The Legal Ethics of Lying About American Democracy from Beyond Imagination? The January 6 Insurrection (forthcoming West Academic Publishing 2022), a book co-written by 14 law school deans. Numerous lawyers contributed to the disinformation campaign that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Some…
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Experiential Learning During COVID A Perspective And A Proposal
Katherene Conner (Elon), Experiential Learning During COVID A Perspective and A Proposal: Higher education has become more available to more students; however, post graduate education and post graduate educators had to quickly pivot to online learning when the world closed due to COVID. Experiential learning faced different challenges. This article traces the development of experiential…
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In Favour Of Universal Design: The Argument For Continued Hybrid Online/In-Person Courses
Katherine Benson (UBC), In Favour of Universal Design: The Argument for Continued Hybrid Online/In-Person Courses in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Focus on Students with Disabilities: The global outbreak of the novel 2019-nCoV coronavirus – colloquially referred to as COVID-19 – has had far-reaching implications for post-secondary institutions. There is a tension…
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Utah Symposium: #IncludeTheirStories — Rethinking, Reimagining, And Reshaping Legal Education
Utah Law Review symposium, #IncludeTheirStories: Rethinking, Reimagining, and Reshaping Legal Education: The entire world was shaken by the events of 2020, a year which the history books will pen with infamy. Along with a global health pandemic that tested both human frailties and social infrastructures, the world witnessed the devastation of George Floyd, an African…
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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…
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Johnson & Shen: Teaching Law And Artificial Intelligence
Brendan Johnson (Minnesota) & Francis X. Shen (Minnesota), Teaching Law and Artificial Intelligence, 22 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 23 (2021): In this Essay we present the first detailed analysis of how U.S. law schools are beginning to offer more courses in Law and Artificial Intelligence. Based on a review of 197 law school…
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‘Safe Spaces’ And ‘Brave Spaces’: The Case For Creating Law School Classrooms That Are Both
Laura Graham (Wake Forest), 'Safe Spaces' and 'Brave Spaces': The Case for Creating Law School Classrooms that Are Both, 76 U. Miami L. Rev. __ (2022): Over the past decade, the subject of “safe spaces” on college and university campuses has received much press. As originally conceived, the term “safe space” refers to an environment—often…
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Symposium: Leading Differently Across Difference
Hofstra Symposium, Leading Differently Across Difference Conference, 48 Hofstra L. Rev. 597-759 (2020): Akilah Folami (Hofstra) & Susan Sturm (Columbia), The Paradox of Legal Training and Leadership: A Conversation Between Akilah Folami and Susan Sturm, 48 Hofstra L. Rev. 603 (2020) Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar), Fostering and Assessing Law Student Teamwork and Team…
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Elements Of Effective Online Instruction In Law
David I. C. Thomson (Denver), Elements of Effective Online Instruction in Law, 65 St. Louis U. L. J. __ (2021): The Covid pandemic has had a significant impact on law school pedagogy, although how much that impact will remain and be a benefit post-pandemic remains to be seen. This article argues that we should leverage…
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Tennessee Symposium: Law School Leadership Training
Symposium, Law School Leadership Training, 14 Tenn. J. L. & Pol'y 287-466 (2020): R. Lisle Baker (Suffolk), Character and Fitness for Leadership: Educating Lawyers for Compassion and Courage as Well as Brains—The Wizard of Oz Was Right, 14 Tenn. J. L. & Pol'y 287 (2020) R. Lisle Baker (Suffolk), Appendix 1: Selected Journal Assignments, 14…
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Black Lives Matter: On Challenging The Soul Of Legal Education
Phil Lord (Lakehead; Google Scholar), Black Lives Matter: On Challenging the Soul of Legal Education, 54 Tex. Tech L. Rev. ___ (2022): 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 American society and that the legacy of our…
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Being A ‘First’ — Over And Over Again
Nancy B. Rapoport (UNLV; Google Scholar), Being a 'First' — Over and Over Again, 1 Denver L. Rev. F. ___ (2021): For the first time in its history, Yale Law School will have a woman at the helm: Law professor Heather Gerken will succeed Robert Post … as the school’s 17th dean. The origins of…
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Women Law Deans, Gender Sidelining, And Presumptions Of Incompetence
Laura M. Padilla (California Western), Women Law Deans, Gender Sidelining, and Presumptions of Incompetence, 35 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 1 (2020): In 2007, I wrote A Gendered Update on Women Law Deans: Who, Where, Why, and Why Not? [hereinafter A Gendered Update], which examined the number of women law deans, including women of…
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Protecting Future Generations: A Global Survey Of Legal Academics
Eric Martínez (MIT) & Christoph Winter (Harvard), Protecting Future Generations: A Global Survey of Legal Academics: The laws and policies of today may have historically unique consequences for future generations, yet their interests are rarely represented in current legal systems. The climate crisis has shed light on the importance of taking into consideration the interests…
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Some Thoughts On The Corona Semester
Shivangi Gangwar (Jindal Global; Google Scholar), Some Thoughts on the Corona Semester, 65 St. Louis U. L.J. ___ (2021): The COVID-19 pandemic presented educators across the world with a unique set of challenges. In this Article, I reflect on my experience of transitioning to the online medium mid-semester without much preparation. I compare the vastly…
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Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, And Sexual Orientation In The Legal Workplace
Robert L. Nelson (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Ioana Sendroiu (Toronto, PhD Candidate), Ronit Dinovitzer (Toronto; Google Scholar) & Meghan Dawe (American Bar Foundation; Google Scholar), Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace, 44 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1051 (2019): Using quantitative and qualitative data from a large national sample of lawyers, we…
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Professor, Please Help Me Pass The Bar Exam: #NEXTGENBAR2025/26
Melissa Shultz (Mitchell Hamline), Professor, Please Help Me Pass the Bar Exam: #NEXTGENBAR2025/26, 69 J. Legal Educ. ___ (2022): For students who begin law school in 2022, the final hurdle that they must clear to use their hard-earned degrees—the bar exam—will be substantively and structurally distinct from all bar exams previously administered. Although (with rousing…
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Deans’ Leadership In Legal Education Symposium
15th Deans' Leadership in Legal Education Symposium, 50 U. Tol. L. Rev. 189-333 (2019): Gail B. Agrawal (Former Dean, Iowa), Reflections on Stepping Down, 50 U. Tol. L. Rev. 189 (2019) Nicholas W. Allard (Former Dean, Brooklyn), Love’s Labors Found, 50 U. Tol. L. Rev. 199 (2019) Leonard M. Baynes (Dean, Houston), A Dean’s Roadmap…
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Faculty Diversity Fell During The Great Recession. Will The Pattern Repeat During The Pandemic?
Kwan Woo Kim (Harvard), Alexandra Kalev (Tel Aviv; Google Scholar), Frank Dobbin (Harvard; Google Scholar) & Gal Deutsch (Tel Aviv; Google Scholar), Crisis and Uncertainty: Did the Great Recession Reduce the Diversity of New Faculty?: The demographic composition of the U.S. professoriate affects student composition and, thus, the pipeline for professional and managerial jobs. Amid…
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Wallace & Lutkenhaus: Measuring Scholarly Impact In Law
Karen L. Wallace (Drake) & Rebecca Lutkenhaus (Drake; Google Scholar), Measuring Scholarly Impact in Law, 28 Widener L. Rev. ___ (2022): In February 2019, U.S. News & World Report announced a proposal to use HeinOnline data to publish a scholarly impact ranking of law schools. As a result, interest in using scholarly metrics to quantitatively…
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The Unsung Heroes Of The Desegregation Of American Law Schools
Gail S. Stephenson (Southern; Google Scholar), The Unsung Heroes of the Desegregation of American Law Schools, 51 J. of L. & Educ. ___ (2022): In 1940 seventeen American states prohibited interracial education by force of law. In 1945 the south offered white students sixteen law schools, but African-American students were limited to one segregated law…
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Symposium: Is This A Christian Nation?
Symposium, Is This a Christian Nation?, 26 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 237-665 (2021): Carl T. Bogus (Roger Williams; Google Scholar), Is This a Christian Nation? An Introduction, 26 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 237 (2021) Teresa M. Bejan (Oxford; Google Scholar), In Search of an Established Church, 26 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 284…
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Jewish Lawyers And The Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?
Eli Wald (Denver), Jewish Lawyers and the U.S. Legal Profession: The End of the Affair?, 36 Touro L. Rev. 299 (2020): Scholars of the legal profession have long puzzled over the apparent affinity between Jewish lawyers and the law, in and outside of the United States. This article advances a new explanation to account for the…
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Townsend: Preconditions Of Leadership In Law
Kenneth Townsend (Wake Forest), Preconditions of Leadership in Law, 56 Wake Forest L. Rev. __ (2021): While lawyers have long been over-represented in various leadership contexts, law schools and legal employers have not always been concerned with teaching and cultivating leadership. This historic reluctance is rooted in many things, including an overconfidence that the study…
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True Confessions Of A Legal Writing Professor: I Will Never Surrender To The Sinful Comma Splice
Diana Simon (Arizona; Google Scholar), More True Confessions of a Legal Writing Professor: I Will Never Surrender to the Sinful Comma Splice, __ Ariz. Att'y __ (2021): This, at times, irreverent and tongue-in-cheek article analyzes the increase in the use of comma splices from a legal writing professor’s perspective and suggests ways to fix the…