Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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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…
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New Legal Ed Papers
Edwin Eboigbe (Illinois), AI in Legal Analytics: Balancing Efficiency, Accuracy, and Ethics in Contract and Predictive Analysis Amy Emerson (Villanova), Assessing Information Literacy in the Age of Generative AI: A Call to the National Conference of Bar Examiners Meredith Geller (Northwestern), Law Students Lie and Other Practical Information for First-Year Students Nachman Gutowski (UNLV; Google…
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Scholastica Law Review Submission Insights: 2025 Edition
Scholastica Law Review Submission Insights: 2025 Edition: When do law reviews open?As was the case in all previous Scholastica submission cycle data pulls, most law reviews began opening in late January and late July, and the days with the most law review openings were February 1st, followed by August 1st. When do authors submit to…
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The Top 100 Legal Scholars Of 2024
Rob Willey (George Mason; Google Scholar), Melanie Knapp (George Mason; Google Scholar) & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2024: This article presents the third iteration of our ranking of the current top 100 legal scholars. The ranking addresses some of the limitations of traditional legal scholarship rankings by focusing on recent publications rather…
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Call For Papers: Why Now? Women, Equality, And The Legal Academy
Call for Papers: Why Now? Women, Equality, and the Legal Academy: In 2012, the prior chairs of WLE – 22 in number, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Herma Hill Kay – wrote individually to generate collaboratively a history of the Section of Women in Legal Education. Reflections of Women in Legal Education: Stories from Four Decades…
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Bob Jones University In The 21st Century: Religious Colleges That Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ Students
Sydney Smith (J.D. 2024, USC), Note, Bob Jones University in the 21st Century: An Examination of Charitable Tax-Exempt Status and Religious Exemption from Title IX for Religious Colleges That Discriminate against LGBTQ+ Students, 97 S. Cal. L. Rev. 737 (2024): On March 30, 2021, the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (“REAP”) filed a historic class action…
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Lawless: The Miseducation Of America’s Elites
Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites (2025): In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now, it produces window-smashing activists. What happens when America’s top law schools stop believing in legal education?When protestors at Columbia broke into a building and created illegal encampments,…
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Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask Your LRW Professor For Help
Meredith Geller (Northwestern), Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask for Help: I got an email the other day from a student who was having some difficulty writing his arguments. The student wrote that he kept rewriting his arguments in response to my comments but that he still had not been…