Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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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…
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Generative AI And The Purpose Of Legal Scholarship
Following up on my previous post, Andrew Perlman (Dean, Suffolk), Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship: Michael L. Smith (St. Mary’s), Generative AI and the Purpose of Legal Scholarship: What does generative AI mean for the future of legal scholarship? The topic has been the talk of the town around academic water coolers. Some legal scholars…
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Kuehn: The Employment Benefits Of Law Clinics And Externships
Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar), The Employment Benefits of Law Clinics and Externships, 33 Clin. Legal Educ. Newsletter __ (2025): One of the reasons law students enroll in a law clinic or externship is the belief that the experience will improve their marketability. Surveys of recent law graduates and employers show that students'…
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Spring 2025 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Spring 2025 submission season covering the 196 main journals of each law school. We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to the law review’s submissions page. Again the chart includes as much information as possible…
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Wendel: The Good Lawyers Of January 6
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell; Google Scholar), The Good Lawyers of January 6: Much of the response by the community of legal ethics and professional responsibility scholars to the 2020 presidential election has been focused on the wrongs committed by lawyers like John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and Kenneth Chesebro, who created the alternate elector scheme to…
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“How Do I Design My New Law Course?”
Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University; Google Scholar), “How Do I Design My New Law Course?”: How should a professor design a new law course? This question is a particular challenge for new law professors, who lack resources for course design. While some scholarship exists on specific law courses and pedagogy, trans-substantive course design literature is…
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Rapoport: Training Law Students To Model Civility In An Uncivil Social Media World
Nancy B. Rapoport (UNLV; Google Scholar), Training Law Students to Model Civility When Social Media Makes Civility Harder to Maintain, 85 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 511 (2024): This paper, presented as part of a symposium honoring the Hon. Joseph F. Weis Jr., discusses two relatively recent law student behavioral failures, triggered in part by the…
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Does The 1L Curriculum Make A Difference?
David A. Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua C. Teitelbaum (Georgetown; Google Scholar), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 375 (2024): Georgetown Law’s Curriculum B (also known as Section 3) offers a unique opportunity to study an alternative 1L curriculum. The standard 1L curriculum has been…
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Rankings Without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach To Evaluating Law Schools
Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley; Google Scholar) & Albert Yoon (Toronto; Google Scholar), Rankings without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach to Evaluating Law Schools, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 279 (2024): Since their inception in 1989, the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings have influenced how schools, students, and the legal profession itself think…
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The Great British Bake Off And Critiquing Student Legal Writing
Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman; Google Scholar) & Abigail Patthoff (Chapman), Flour, Fondant & Feedback: What the Great British Bake Off Can Teach Us About Critiquing Student Legal Writing: We've all been there: a stack of legal memos towering, grading deadlines approaching, and suddenly that British baking show on Netflix seems irresistible. But what if your…
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Perlman: Generative AI And The Future Of Legal Scholarship
Andrew M. Perlman (Dean, Suffolk; Google Scholar), Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship: Since ChatGPT's release in November 2022, legal scholars have grappled with generative AI's implications for the law, lawyers, and legal education. Articles have examined the technology's potential to transform the delivery of legal services, explored the attendant legal ethics concerns, identified…
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Using a Status Email Assignment In First-Year Legal Writing To Address Issues With Student Correspondence
Meredith Geller (Northern Illinois), ‘Yo, Prof!’ is Not the Proper Way to Address Me: Using a Status Email Assignment in First-Year Legal Writing to Address Issues with Student Correspondence: This article summarizes the status email assignment used in a first year legal writing class in order to help students with professional writing.
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Critical Curriculum Design To Cultivate Qualities Of ‘Engaged Citizenship’
Rachel López (Temple; Google Scholar), Critical Curriculum Design: Legal education in the United States stands at a critical juncture. As democracy faces mounting threats both at home and abroad, law schools must grapple with their role in shaping not just competent lawyers but engaged citizens capable of safeguarding democratic institutions. Yet the traditional model of…
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Professional Identity Formation And The NextGen Bar Open Opportunities For Law Student And Law School Success
Neil W. Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation and the NextGen Bar Open Opportunities for Law Student and Law School Success, 3 J.L. Teaching & Learning __ (2025): All law faculty, staff, and students want students and graduates to be successful with respect to: (1) academic performance; (2) bar passage; (3) meaningful post-graduation employment; and…
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Symposium: Tributes To Michael Olivas
Symposium, Tributes to Michael Olivas, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 881-952 (2024): Gerald Torres (Yale), Celebrating Michael Olivas, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 881 (2024) Steven W. Bender (Seattle) & Ediberto Román (Florida Int'l), Sin Vergüenza: Michael Olivas and Crop Cultivation, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 889 (2024)
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After Affirmative Action: Contextual Admissions And The Future Of African American Law School Enrollment
Nathan L. Bennett Fleming (Wake Forest), After Affirmative Action: Contextual Admissions and the Future of African American Law School Enrollment, 76 Okla. L. Rev. 629 (2024): The Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (“SFFA v. Harvard”) signaled the end of affirmative action in higher education,…
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Symposium: The Rocky Mountain Collective On Race, Place, And Law
Symposium, The Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place, and Law (RPL), 101 Denv. L. Rev. 443-517 (2024): Rashmi Goel (Denver; Google Scholar), The RPL Effect, 101 Denv. L. Rev. 447 (2024) Katherine Steefel (Denver), From Whiteboard to Statement of Principles: The Development of the Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place & Law's Principles, 101 Denv. L. Rev. 455…
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Value-Centered Lawyering: Reshaping The Law School Curriculum To Promote Well-Being, Quality Client Representation, And A Thriving Legal Field
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): For three long and harrowing years in law school, students learn to think like lawyers, to put their clients first, to interpret the law as…
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Ukrainian-U.S. Legal Education Collaboration And Clinics
Davida Finger (Loyola-New Orleans), Susan Felstiner (Lewis & Clark) & Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin (Cardozo), Empowering Ukraine’s First Legal Responders: Ukrainian-US Collaboration and Clinics, 31 Int’l J. Clin. Legal Educ. 147 (2024): At the onset of the full-scale Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, U.S. law clinic professors worked alongside the leadership of the Association of Legal…