Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Happiness And The Law: Lifelong Learning As A Path To Meaning And Purpose
Isaac Mamaysky (Potomac Law Group, New York), Happiness and the Law: Lifelong Learning as a Path to Meaning and Purpose, 63 Santa Clara L. Rev. 65 (2023): We begin with the premise that the happiest and most fulfilled attorneys are those who live a life of meaning and purpose. While many in the legal profession…
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Empower The Imposters In The Legal Field: Teaching & Practicing Mindfulness For Letting Go Of Unproductive Thoughts
Katerina Lewinbuk (South Texas) & Kurstin Grady (Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, Houston), Empower the Imposters in the Legal Field: Teaching & Practicing Mindfulness for Letting Go of Unproductive Thoughts, 44 N. Ill. Univ. L. Rev. 109 (2024): Imposter syndrome, initially coined “imposter phenomenon” by psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, refers to “a psychological…
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Visible Learning: Adapting Primary And Secondary Pedagogical Approaches To Legal Education
Dawn Young (Loyola-Chicago), Visible Learning: Adapting Primary and Secondary Pedagogical Approaches to Legal Education, 72 J. Legal Educ. ___ (2023): As a new generation of students, Generation Z, enter law school, educators must continually adapt and improve to be the most effective in their roles. While traditional teaching methods like Socratic dialogue, the case method,…
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Symposium: Legal Research Pedagogy
Symposium, Legal Research Pedagogy, 43 N. Ill. Univ. L. Rev. 248-299 (2024): Tanya M. Johnson (Connecticut), On Bringing Alternative Methods to Legal Research Instruction, 43 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 248 (2023) Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale; Google Scholar), Notes for a New Legal Research Pedagogy, 43 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 265 (2023)
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Ten Empowering Strategies For Nondirective Clinical Supervision
Michele Estrin Gilman (Baltimore), Ten Empowering Strategies for Nondirective Clinical Supervision, 31 Clinical L. Rev. 211 (2024): Nondirective clinical supervision is the signature pedagogy of clinical teaching. It encourages students to take ownership over their cases and assume their role as attorneys through a supported process of decision-making. While the goals of non-directive supervision are well…
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First-Gen In The Field
Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman; Google Scholar), First-Gen in the Field, 31 Clinical L. Rev. 239 (2024): First-generation law students are often at a disadvantage in law school, having no family experience in higher education and few connections with attorneys or other professionals. These difficulties are only compounded when first-gen students leave the classroom and venture…
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Finding Our Way: Teaching Legislative Advocacy Clinics
Elizabeth B. Cooper (Fordham) & Anita Weinberg (Loyola-Chicago), Finding Our Way: Teaching Legislative Advocacy Clinics, 31 Clinical L. Rev. 41 (2024): Legislative advocacy clinics are excellent vehicles for teaching lawyering skills, for achieving broad-based social change, and for imparting to law students the important roles they can play in preserving and strengthening our democracy. Notwithstanding their growth…
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Collaborative Holistic Services And Education In Law School Clinical Programs
Melina A. Healey (Touro), Opening Up the In-House: A Model for Collaborative Holistic Services and Education in Law School Clinical Programs, 75 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 152 (2024): Individual in-house clinics too commonly operate autonomously behind separate walls. These barriers impair the meaningful holistic representation of clients and the educational opportunities of clinic students.…
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Clinics And Emergencies
Sabrina Balgamwalla (Wayne State) & Elizabeth Keyes (Baltimore; Google Scholar), Clinics and Emergencies, 31 Clinical L. Rev. 1 (2024): Clinical programs—and the clinicians who run them—are regularly called upon to respond to emergency situations. These engagements can be rewarding, personally and professionally. But, as we know from our own work as immigration clinicians, emergency lawyering…
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The Rise Of The Critical–Contextual Legal Education Reform Movement
Cara R. Shaffer (Colorado), Context at the Periphery: The Rise of the Critical–Contextual Legal Education Reform Movement, 30 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 55 (2023): Despite challenges faced by Generation Z (“Gen Z”), research shows that they are resilient and deeply committed to impacting positive political and social change. This is no surprise.…
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Lawsky: The Intersection Of Tax Law And Computational Law
John Nay (Stanford; Google Scholar) & Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar) et. al, Large Language Models as Tax Attorneys: A Case Study in Legal Capabilities Emergence, 382 Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society A (2024): Better understanding of Large Language Models’(LLMs) legal analysis abilities can contribute to improving the efficiency of legal services, governing artificial intelligence…
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Teaching Fails: Celebration and Adaptation
Brian Flaherty (Boston University), Teaching Fails: Celebration and Adaptation: This paper is about publicly (or at least in our teaching community) celebrating those occasional classroom SNAFUs, those dreaded teaching fails, which we would all rather put behind us as soon as we stop cringing. Why celebrate them you ask? I suggest that there is no…
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QuizBot: An Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment In Legal Education
Sean A.Harrington (Oklahoma; Google Scholar), Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education: This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage students in substantive conversations about course materials,…
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On Women Professors Who Teach Legal Writing: Addressing Stigma And Women’s Health
Amanda L. Stephens (St. Mary’s) & Sean M. Viña (University of the Incarnate Word), On Women Professors Who Teach Legal Writing: Addressing Stigma and Women's Health, 48 Vt. L. Rev. 237 (2023): Since the late 1980s, legal writing (LW) professors have been disproportionately white women because the LW field has been stigmatized as “women’s work.”…
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Breaking The Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring And Portability For NextGen Examinees
Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Nachman N. Gutowski (UNLV; Google Scholar), Breaking the Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring and Portability for NextGen Examinees, 2024 U. N. Tex. Dall. L. Rev. __ : The development of the NextGen Bar Exam presents a crucial opportunity to address longstanding challenges in both bar exam scoring and portability concerns.…
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Bar Examination: A Verb, Not A Noun
Marsha Griggs (St. Louis; Google Scholar), Bar Examination: A Verb, Not a Noun, 76 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y __ (2025): The legal profession, long steeped in tradition, is witnessing a transformative shift in the protocols for licensing new attorneys. Ironically, the proposed NextGen Bar exam has been a major catalyst in the transformation away…
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A New Inclusive Scholar Rank
Rob Willey (George Mason; Google Scholar), Melanie Knapp (George Mason; Google Scholar) & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), A New Inclusive Scholar Rank, 45 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 124 (2024): For a variety of reasons, most existing legal scholarship ranking systems fail to identify the authors who are currently producing the most impactful scholarship. Most current…
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Symposium: Roadmap For Law School Modernity — Teaching Technology Competence
Symposium, Roadmap for Law School Modernity: Teaching Technology Competence, 20 U. St. Thomas L.J. 1-374 (2024): Michael Robak (St. Thomas-MN), An Introduction to A Roadmap for Law School Modernity: Teaching Technology Competence, 20 U. St. Thomas L.J. 1 (2024) Jessica de Perio Wittman (Connecticut) & Kathleen (Katie) Brown (Charleston; Google Scholar), Navigating Legal Ethics and Law…
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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; Google Scholar), 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…
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The Law Professor’s Role In Legal Education: Theory v. Practice
Carlo A. Pedrioli (Southern), Exploring Conflict over the Professor's Role in U.S. Legal Education: Theory v. Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2024): In the United States, the professionalization of the role of the law professor began in the late nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century, occurring along with the professionalization of the legal field…
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Kuehn: Whither Coursework And NextGen Bar Exam Success?
Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University; Google Scholar), Whither Coursework and NextGen Bar Exam Success?, 7 Raising the Bar 2 (2024): The NextGen bar exam will focus on an expanded range of essential lawyering skills and a reduced set of legal topics. Moving toward less reliance on knowledge of the black letter law concepts of past…
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Deo: Building Belonging In Law Schools
Meera E. Deo (Southwestern; Google Scholar), Building Belonging: Given the end of affirmative action as we know it, a decline in numeric representation of students of color in higher education is inevitable—resulting in devastating losses for legal education, the legal profession, and American leadership. Yet, those who seek to maintain diversity cannot focus their attention…
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On Academic Lawyers In The U.S. Government: Walter’s Wisdom
Harold Hongju Koh (Yale), On Academic Lawyers in the U.S. Government: Walter's Wisdom, 102 N.C. L. Rev. 1321 (2024): Walter Dellinger was one of the most effective lawyers ever to work in the United States government. He was also a natural mentor, which made him a source of joy and wisdom for generations. In remembering…
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Walter Dellinger: The Lawyer As Consummate Teacher
Michael J. Gerhardt (North Carolina), Walter Dellinger: The Lawyer as Consummate Teacher, 102 N.C. L. Rev. 1403 (2024): In this short Essay, Professor Michael Gerhardt shares the ways in which Walter Dellinger was an exemplary teacher. As Professor Gerhardt explains through several interactions, Walter Dellinger’s humility, intellectual curiosity, and insights were inspiring and contagious. ConclusionA…
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What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions
Ellie Margolis (Temple; Google Scholar) & Leonore Carpenter (Rutgers; Google Scholar), What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions, 55 N.M. L. Rev. ___ (2025): State constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important today.…