Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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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…
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Boston University Law Review: Diversity & Inclusion Book
Diversity & Inclusion Book, 104 B.U. L. Rev. 1-287 (2024): Carmen Alvarado-Hernandez (J.D. 2024, Boston University) & Madeline A. Freeman (J.D. 2024, Boston University), Editors’ Foreword, 104 B.U. L. Rev. (2024) Asad Rahim (UC-Berkeley), The Legitimacy Trap, 104 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (2024) Ndjuoh MehChu (Seton Hall; Google Scholar), Neither Cops nor Caseworkers: Transforming Family Policing Through…
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Principia Bibliometrica: Modeling Citation And Download Data In Legal Scholarship
James Ming Chen (Michigan State; Google Scholar), Principia Bibliometrica: Modeling Citation and Download Data in Legal Scholarship, 2023 Mich. St. L. Rev. 455: A stretched exponential function taking the form f(x) = e^(〖-x〗^β ); x∈ [0,∞), β∈(0,1] characterizes decay, diffusion, and relaxation phenomena known as Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts processes. Recent work on relaxation kinetics in metallic glasses…
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The High Cost Of Law School Casebooks
Jeffrey Bellin (William & Mary; Google Scholar), The High Cost of Law School Casebooks: Commentators have forecasted the demise of high-priced commercial casebooks for two decades. Yet little has changed. This Symposium Essay explores the headwinds facing free and low-cost books in the law school casebook market. It suggests that the biggest problem is “casebook…
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LLMs Provide Unstable Answers To Legal Questions
Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland; Google Scholar) & Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins; Google Scholar), LLMs Provide Unstable Answers to Legal Questions: An LLM is stable if it reaches the same conclusion when asked the identical question multiple times. We find leading LLMs like gpt-4o, claude-3.5, and gemini-1.5 are unstable when providing answers to hard legal questions,…
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AI-Powered Lawyering: AI Reasoning Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, And The Future of Legal Practice
Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Sam Manning (Centre for the Governance of AI; Google Scholar), Patrick Barry (Michigan), David R. Cleveland (Minnesota; Google Scholar), J.J. Prescott (Michigan; Google Scholar) & Beverly Rich (Ogletree Deakins), AI-Powered Lawyering: AI Reasoning Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and the Future of Legal Practice: Generative AI is set to transform the…
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Fischman: A Statistical Approach To Law School Citation Rankings
Joshua Fischman (Virginia; Google Scholar), A Statistical Approach to Law School Citation Rankings, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 632 (2024): Citation rankings have emerged as a popular approach to ranking the scholarly impact of law faculties. This paper develops a statistical approach for inferring faculty quality from citation counts and determining when differences among law…
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Choi, Monahan & Schwarcz: Lawyering In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan Choi (USC; Google Scholar), Amy B. Monahan (Minnesota; Google Scholar) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 109 Minn. L. Rev. 147 (2024): We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to study the effect of AI assistance on human legal analysis. We randomly assigned law school students to…
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Symposium: Fifty Years Of Clinical Legal Education At American University Washington College of Law
Symposium, Fifty Years of Clinical Legal Education at American University Washington College of Law, 31 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 257-484 (2023): Robert D. Dinerstein (American), Elliott S. Milstein (American) & Ann C. Shalleck (American), The Evolution of a Movement in Theory, Practice, and People, 31 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L.…
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Baylor Symposium: Power Of Speech—Creating Environments In Which Free Speech And Civil Discourse Thrive
Symposium, Powers of Speech: Creating Environments in Which Free Speech and Civil Discourse Thrive, 76 Baylor L. Rev. 1-155 (2023): Leah Teague (Baylor), Civility Matters: Why Law School Must Teach Students to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable, 76 Baylor L. Rev. 1 (2023) Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley; Google Scholar), When Should University Administrators Speak?: Personal Reflections, 76…
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Mississippi Symposium: Tributes To Dean Deborah Hodges Bell
Symposium, Tributes to Dean Deborah Hodges Bell, 93 Miss. L.J. 569-616 (2024): Frederick G. Slabach (Dean, Mississippi), The Legend of Debbie Bell: A Skinny on Service and Impact, 93 Miss. L.J. 569 (2024) Guthrie T. Abbott (Mississippi), Tribute to Deborah Hodges Bell, 93 Miss. L.J. 573 (2024) I. Richard Gershon (Mississippi; Google Scholar), Tribute to Professor Debbie Bell, 93…
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Can AI Hold Office Hours?
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette (Stanford; Google Scholar), Amy Motomura (Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar), Jason Reinecke (Marquette) & Jonathan S. Masur (Chicago; Google Scholar), Can AI Hold Office Hours?: Rapid improvements in AI tools offer transformative opportunities in legal education, including the possibility of students using AI tools to answer questions that students might otherwise ask during office…
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Mazur & Thimmesch: Beyond ChatGPT: Transforming Government With Augmented LLMs
Orly Mazur (SMU; Google Scholar) & Adam B. Thimmesch (Nebraska; Google Scholar), Beyond ChatGPT: Transforming Government with Augmented LLMs, 92 Tenn. L. Rev. ___ (2025): The release of ChatGPT demonstrated the remarkable capabilities and the existing limitations of large language models (LLMs) and the natural language chatbots that they power. One area that is ripe…
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A Critical Perspective On Formative Assessment Mandates
Joshua M. Silverstein (Arkansas-Little Rock; Google Scholar), A Critical Perspective on Formative Assessment Mandates, 47 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 189 (2025): Formative assessment is a hot topic in legal education. Numerous commentators maintain that such assessment improves student learning of legal skills and content. Many law schools have adopted formative assessment requirements. And…
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Teaching Law In The Age of Generative AI
John Bliss (Denver; Google Scholar), Teaching Law in the Age of Generative AI, 64 Jurimetrics 111 (2024): With the rise of large language models capable of passing law school exams and the Uniform Bar Exam, how should legal educators prepare their students for an age of transformative technological change? As text-generating AI is being integrated…
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AALS Call For Papers: Reflecting On The Journal of Legal Education
AALS, A Symposium Issue of the Journal of Legal Education The Journal of Legal Education is the official scholarly journal of the AALS and in that role it has and continues to play an important role in chronicling the development of legal education in the United States. For a special symposium issue dedicated to analyzing that role,…
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New Legal Ed Articles
Claudia Angelos (NYU), Mary Lu Bilek, Joan Howarth (UNLV; Google Scholar) & Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State; Google Scholar), Langdell’s Subjects, 102 U. Detroit Mercy L. Rev. 1 (2024) Catherine Martin Christopher (Texas Tech), Assessing Experiential Education in Law Schools: Toward a Modern Diploma Privilege, 93 Miss. L. J. 1137 (2024) Kelly Collinsworth (South Dakota)…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 73, No. 1 (Fall 2024): From the Editors Robert Dinerstein (American) & Ezra Rosser (American; Google Scholar), From the Editors, 73 J. Legal Educ. i (2024) Articles Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver), When Professors Get in Their Own Way: Law Teaching and Academic Perfectionism, 73 J. Legal Educ. 1…
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Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
The Journal of Legal Education has published Vol. 72, Nos. 3 & 4 (Spring 2023-Fall 2023): From the Editors Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar), Janie Chuang (American; Google Scholar), Austen Parrish (Dean, UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Ezra Rosser (American; Google Scholar), From the Editors, 72 J. Legal Educ. 271 (2023) General Articles Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale; Google…