Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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USC Call For Papers: 2026 Poverty Law Conference (Scholarship, Pedagogy, And Community In A Time Of Attacks On The Vulnerable)
Call For Papers: This year's conference will take place in Los Angeles on February 20–21, 2026, with a welcome reception on the evening of Thursday, February 19. This national event brings together scholars, educators, and advocates whose work focuses on poverty, inequality, and access to justice. Like previous gatherings, the event will feature paper presentations,…
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AI Gets Its First Law School A+s (And An A In Tax)
Update: Reuters, Artificial Intelligence Is Now an A+ Law Student, Study Finds Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland; Google Scholar), Donald G. Gifford (Maryland), Mark Graber (Maryland; Google Scholar), Guha Krishnamurthi (Maryland; Google Scholar), Jeff Sovern (Maryland; Google Scholar), Donald B. Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar) & Michael P. Van Alstine (Maryland), AI Gets Its First Law School A+s:…
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Do Bar Exam Waivers Hurt Lawyer Quality?
Adam Chilton (Chicago; Google Scholar), Jacob Goldin (Chicago; Google Scholar), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern; Google Scholar), & Sarath Sanga (Yale; Google Scholar), Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Legal Profession: We study how state occupational licensing requirements shape labor mobility across U.S. legal markets. Drawing on newly collected data, we link variation in…
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Velasco: Shortcomings Of Law School And Big Law
Julian Velasco (Notre Dame), Shortcomings of Law School and Big Law, 93 Fordham L. Rev. 1279 (2025): The present Colloquium, on Lawyers and Their Institutions, seeks to consider how various legal institutions shape lawyers’ professional norms, values, and conduct. In this Essay, I will consider the two legal institutions with which I have been most…
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Kuehn & Joy: Measuring The Impacts Of Experiential Legal Education
Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar) & Peter A. Joy (Washington University; Google Scholar), Measuring the Impacts of Experiential Legal Education, 73 J. Legal Educ. 598 (2024): Experiential legal education has become an essential component of the law school curriculum, emphasizing “learning by doing” through practical experiences in law clinics, externships, and simulation courses.…
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Law Jobs: Professional Regulation, The Division Of Legal Labor, And Institutional Change
Emily S. Taylor Poppe (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar), Law Jobs: Professional Regulation, the Division of Legal Labor, and Institutional Change, 93 Fordham L. Rev. 1217 (2025): Over the past century, changing economic conditions, technological advances, and shifts in the composition of the American workforce have transformed the organization of many fields. Meanwhile, the legal field has…
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The Tradition Of History At Harvard Law School
Note, The Tradition of History at Harvard Law School, 138 Harv. L. Rev. 775 (2025): There has been a noticeable trend at the Supreme Court in the last half-century toward using history to determine constitutional meaning. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, Justice Thomas’s majority opinion announced a new methodology for Second…
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Seattle Symposium: The Role Of Affirmative Action, Race, And Diversity In University Admissions
EPOCH 2023 Symposium, Going Forward: The Role of Affirmative Action, Race, and Diversity in University Admissions and the Broader Construction of Society, 47 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1003-1425 (2024): Steven W. Bender (Seattle), Foreword, 47 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1003 (2024) Margaret E. Montoya (New Mexico; Google Scholar), Memories of an Affirmative Action Activist, 47 Seattle U. L.…
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Symposium: Law School 101—An Exploration Of Legal Pedagogy
Symposium, Law School 101: An Exploration Of Legal Pedagogy, 102 U. Detroit Mercy L. Rev. 1-208 (2024) (Part 2): Mary Lu Bilek (Former Dean, UMass & CUNY), Claudia Angelos (NYU), Joan W. Howarth (UNLV; Google Scholar) & Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State; Google Scholar), Langdell's Subjects, 102 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 1 (2024) Courtney A. Griffin…
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Preparing Law Students For The Artificial Intelligence Era
Samantha A. Moppett (Suffolk), Preparing Students for the Artificial Intelligence Era: The Crucial Role of Critical Thinking Skills, 52 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. __ (2025): As artificial intelligence transforms the legal profession, the role of critical thinking skills among legal professionals becomes increasingly vital. This Article argues that while AI will automate many routine legal…
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Religious Lawyering In A Polarized Society
Amelia J. Uelmen (Georgetown), Religious Lawyering in a Polarized Society, 102 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 99 (2024): I am deeply humbled to be included in the stellar lineup of speakers in this lecture series and delighted for the occasion to be in conversation with the University of Detroit-Mercy Law School community. Thank you for the…
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Taking Integrity Risks Seriously In Legal Education
Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn; Google Scholar), Taking Integrity Risks Seriously, 93 Fordham L. Rev. 1119 (2025): Several recent scandals in higher education have illuminated notable weaknesses in the academy’s scholarly self-monitoring function. Plagiarism, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and shocking allegations of data fraud have arisen in contexts suggesting real weaknesses in peer review and other…
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Law Professors Have Become More Liberal, But They Also Have Become More Conservative Than Their Students
Following up on my previous post on the article by Adam Bonica (Stanford; Google Scholar), Adam Chilton (Chicago; Google Scholar), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern; Google Scholar) & Maya Sen (Harvard; Google Scholar), The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity: the authors have a new paper, Ideological Concordance Between Students and Professors: The largely liberal composition of American university…
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Does Artificial Intelligence Have A Role In Legal Scholarship?
ABA Journal, Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Role in Legal Scholarship?: Now that artificial intelligence is actively used by many in academia—in the classroom, for syllabus development and in research—what is its proper role in legal scholarships while maintaining academic integrity? It’s a question that’s largely left unanswered, says Nachman N. Gutowski, an assistant professor…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 73, No. 2 (Winter 2025): From the Editors Kris Franklin (New York Law School), Bill LaPiana (New York Law School), Alison Mikkor (UC-Irvine) & Austen Parrish (Dean, UC-Irvine; Google Scholar), From the Editors, 73 J. Legal Educ. 271 (2025) Articles Megan McAlpin (Oregon), Impact Beyond the Classroom: Teaching…
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Brennen: The Chilling Effect Of SFFA v. UNC/Harvard On Race-Based Affirmation By Tax-Exempt Charities
David A. Brennen (Kentucky), The Chilling Effect of SFFA v. UNC/Harvard on Race-Based Affirmation by Tax-Exempt Charities, 29 Fla. Tax Rev. __ (2025): In 2023, the Supreme Court decided in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC that colleges and universities are significantly restricted in their ability to engage in race-based affirmative action when making admissions decisions. Post-SFFA, many have wrongly…
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Reconciling Tenure And Faculty Accountability
Stuart Chinn (Oregon), Reconciling Tenure and Faculty Accountability, 128 W. Va. L. Rev. __ (2025): Part of the very identity of the American university is its insulation from society—a crucial contributor, at least in some instances, toward facilitating the search for knowledge and the disruption of established orthodoxies. Yet American higher education does not exist and…
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Kuehn: How New Lawyers Value Law School Experiential Training
Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar), How New Lawyers Value Law School Experiential Training: While the legal academy continues to debate the appropriate role of experiential training in preparing graduates for practice, one group consistently embraces its value: newly-licensed lawyers. In repeated surveys over the past twenty years, early career lawyers, as well as…
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Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination At Harvard Law Review
Washington Free Beacon (Aaron Sibarium), Internal Documents Reveal Pervasive Pattern of Racial Discrimination at Harvard Law Review: Will this law review article "promote DEI values"? Does it cite scholars from "underrepresented groups"? Will it have "any foreseeable impact in enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion"? And why did one team of editors solicit "only white, male…
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The Seven Essential Law School Simulation Courses
Mitch Zamoff (Minnesota; Google Scholar), The Seven Essential Law School Simulation Courses , 2024 Utah L. Rev. 997: As we mark the ten-year anniversary of the American Bar Association’s six-credit experiential learning requirement and the launch of the NextGen bar exam, it is critical for U.S. law schools to conduct rigorous assessments of their experiential…
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Detroit Law Review Symposium: Law School 101—An Exploration Of Legal Pedagogy
Symposium, Law School 101: An Exploration Of Legal Pedagogy, 101 U. Det. L. Rev. 257-374 (2024): Katya S. Cronin (George Washington), Value-Centered Lawyering: Reshaping the Law School Curriculum to Promote Well-Being, Quality Client Representation, and a Thriving Legal Field, 101 U. Det. L. Rev. 257 (2024) Chance Meyer (New England) & Nicole Noël (New England),…
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Large Language Scholarship: Generative AI In The Legal Academy
Alan Z. Rozenshtein (Minnesota; Google Scholar) & Kevin Frazier (Texas), Large Language Scholarship: Generative AI in the Legal Academy: Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have ushered in an era where machines meaningfully assist—and in some cases independently produce—legal reasoning, doctrinal synthesis, and scholarly writing. This Article introduces the concept of “Large Language Scholarship,” arguing…
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Forward Looking Academic Impact Rankings For U.S. Law Schools
Matthew Sag (Emory; Google Scholar), Forward Looking Academic Impact Rankings for U.S. Law Schools, 51 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 763 (2024): Although the very concept of law school rankings is currently under fire, rankings abolitionism is misplaced. Given the number, diversity, and geographic dispersion of the more than 190 law schools fully accredited by…
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Are Appellate Clinics Effective?
Xiao Wang (Virginia), Are Appellate Clinics Effective?, 31 Clin. L. Rev. 427 (2025): Law school clinics are integral to legal education, offering students practical experience while serving clients in need and affecting the law more broadly. But despite the enormous investments in experiential learning that law schools make each year, there remains a lack of…
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Washington University Symposium: New Developments In Clinical Education, Dispute Resolution, And Professional Identity
Symposium, New Developments In Clinical Education, Dispute Resolution, And Professional Identity, 75 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 1-215 (2024): Karen Tokarz (Washington University), New Directions in Clinical Education, Dispute Resolution, and Professional Identity: Introduction, 75 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y i (2024) Bryan L. Adamson (Case Western; Google Scholar), Case Western Reserve University School of…