Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems
Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pittsburgh), Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems, 32 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y __ (2025): In the 1800s, American academic leaders vehemently opposed distance education, which is when the student and teacher are separated by distance, arguing that it eliminated the social aspects of college life and undermined the…
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Podcasting As Legal Scholarship
Sara Y. Gras (Seton Hall), Positioning Podcasting as Legal Scholarship, 2024 Utah L. Rev. 189: Technology has revolutionized legal practice, education, and society generally, yet the availability of new forms of digital media has not significantly changed the locus of legal scholarship. This Article examines whether our collective understanding of where scholarship can exist should…
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Online Learning In Law Schools: The Pandemic Experiment
Victoria Sutton (Texas Tech; Google Scholar), Online Learning in Law Schools—the Pandemic Experiment: Using methods from epidemiology and disaster research methods and data collected by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), this study observes the effects of law students learning online during the COVID-19 Pandemic government mandated closure and transition to online learning. The…
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Defining The Discipline: Six Pillars Of Academic Success Programming In Law Schools
Kris Franklin (New York Law School) & Catherine Martin Christopher (Texas Tech), Defining the Discipline: Six Pillars of Academic Success Programming in Law Schools: This Article describes six "pillars" of programming that each law school must have in place in order to ensure the academic success of its students and graduates. No one person or…
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Symposium: HBO’s Succession
Symposium, HBO's Succession, 73 DePaul L. Rev. 745-992 (2024): DePaul Law Review, Note From the Editors, 73 DePaul L. Rev. 745 (2024) Susan A. Bandes (DePaul; Google Scholar) & Diane Kemker (Pepperdine, LMU; Google Scholar), Foreward, 73 DePaul L. Rev. 747 (2024) Susan A. Bandes (DePaul; Google Scholar), The Sense of an Ending, 73 DePaul L. Rev.…
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Apple Law School: Innovation, Leadership, And Technology Lessons From Steve Jobs
Byron G. Stier (Southwestern), Applying Steve Jobs's Insights on Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Toward an Apple-Inspired Law School, 38 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 217 (2024): Perhaps the most successful technology entrepreneur, Steve Jobs developed numerous innovations that transformed personal computing, computer-animated film, mobile phones, and music distribution. Over several decades, his efforts…
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Transforming The Law School Matrix
Susan L. Brooks (Drexel), Transforming the Law School Matrix: Law school culture emerges from the adversarial idea of law that is inscribed in the dominant pedagogy. It is reinforced by the prevailing metrics of success, which rank students through relentless public competitions (for grades, jobs, law journals, moot court, and clerkships) and provide very little…
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Call For Papers: 11th Annual Michigan Junior Scholars’ Conference
Michigan Law School has issued a Call for Papers for its 11th Annual Junior Scholars' Conference: The University of Michigan Law School is pleased to invite scholars to submit their abstracts for the 11th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 25-26, 2025. The conference provides junior scholars…
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Pittsburgh Symposium: Modern Legal Education And The Unmaking Of American Lawyers
Symposium, Disarmed, Distracted, Disconnected and Distressed: Modern Legal Education and the Unmaking of American Lawyers, 85 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 201-432 (2023): Bernard J. Hibbitts (Pittsburgh), Introduction, 85 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 201 (2023) Sameer M. Ashar (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar), Benjamin H. Barton (Tennessee), Michael J. Madison (Pittsburgh; Google Scholar) & Rachel F. Moran (Texas A&M; Google…
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BigLaw’s Campus Reach
Raj Ashar (J.D. 2025, Harvard), BigLaw's Campus Reach, 12 Lincoln Mem’l U. L. Rev. ___ (2024): At many top-ranked law schools, BigLaw firms are the top destination for graduating students. But their presence in the lives of law students starts well before graduation. This paper documents the symbiotic relationship between law firms and top law…
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Law Students Aren’t Alright
Amy Levin (Loyola-L.A.), The Kids Aren’t Alright: The U.S. Surgeon General declared mental health “the defining public health crisis of our time.” Law students are not immune. More law students than ever before are suffering from mental health challenges, in particular women (the majority of law students) and underrepresented groups, and these challenges often continue…
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The Politics Of Prestige: Increasing Ideological Discrimination In Law School Rankings
Michael Conklin (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), The Politics of Prestige: Increasing Ideological Discrimination in Law School Rankings, 1 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y Online ___ (2024): This study utilizes a novel metric to measure bias in law school rankings. The result of an astounding 53.14 spot rankings disparity attributable to political ideology elicits discussion regarding…
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A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From External Rankers
Scott Rempell (South Texas), A Blueprint to Reclaim Legal Education from External Rankers, 48 Seattle U. L. Rev. 57 (2024): The U.S. News & World Report (U.S. News) law school rankings have impacted the perceptions and behaviors of everyone in the rankings ecosystem for decades. Commentators have almost universally condemned these ordinal rankings, yet they…
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Leading Law Firms In The “New Normal”: Recovering From Crises Through Leadership Development
Donald J. Polden (Santa Clara), Leading Law Firms in the "New Normal": Recovering from Crises through Leadership Development, 63 Santa Clara L. Rev. 223 (2023): Beginning in 2008, the first of three major crises hit the nation and had global implications and effects, including significant ones for the legal profession. Those crises were the financial…
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Beyond Belonging: Group Solidarity Among First Generation And Low-Income Law Students
Monica Teixeira de Sousa (Roger Williams), The Law Professor and the Therapist: Beyond Belonging There's a Place (and Need) for Group Solidarity among First Generation and Low-Income Students in the Law School Setting, 28 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 161 (2023): We come full circle then to the why of this intervention. Practical, yes. Relatively…
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Think, Reflect, Refine: Shaping The Modern Lawyer
Camesha Little (Detroit Mercy), Think, Reflect, Refine: Shaping The Modern Lawyer: Legal education must undergo a substantive transformation to adequately equip future lawyers for an increasingly complex, technology-driven legal landscape. This article critically examines the limitations of current pedagogical practices, particularly the persistent reliance on traditional methodologies such as the case method, which can engender…
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Dissecting The Frog: How A Meme Explains The Westlaw/Lexis And Generational Divide
Sam Williams (Idaho), Dissecting the Frog: How a Meme Explains the Westlaw/Lexis and Generational Divide: One of the most controversial elements of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was a drag show during the opening ceremony that allegedly parodied Christianity by recreating Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper." A legal meme emerged showing both images…
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A Guide To Becoming A Law Professor
Tiffany C. Li (San Francisco; Google Scholar), So You Want to Be a Law Professor: An Unofficial and Incomplete Guide to Pursuing a Law Teaching Career: You’ve reached this guide because you are interested in becoming a law professor. Included are some resources I’ve collected over the years with tips and information. All career paths…
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Red, Yellow, Green: A New Traffic Light For Legal Education?
Jonathan Bremen (Loyola-L.A.), Red, Yellow, Green: A New Traffic Light for Legal Education?: This paper examines the evolving role of cold-calling in legal education, particularly through the lens of a controversial tricolor name card system introduced at Yale Law School. Drawing on historical and contemporary debates, the article explores the advantages and disadvantages of cold-calling,…
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Effects Of Covid-Induced Remote Learning On LSAT And Bar Exam Performance
Michael Conklin (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), Effects of Covid-Induced Remote Learning on LSAT Performance: Existing research demonstrates that covid restrictions result in diminished academic performance. This first-of-its-kind study is designed to measure if this same effect is present with LSAT exam results. Additionally, the consistent result that racial minorities experience disproportionately bad educational outcomes from…
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Fordham Symposium: The Legal And Ethical Implications Of ChatGPT And Other Emerging Technologies
Symposium, The New AI: The Legal and Ethical Implications of ChayGPT and Other Emerging Technologies, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 1785-2012 (2024): Deborah W. Denno (Fordham; Google Scholar) & Erica Valencia-Graham (Fordham), Foreword, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 1785 (2024) Abdi Aidid (Toronto), Toward an Ethical Human–Computer Division of Labor in Law Practice, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 1797 (2024)…
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Nick Saban, ‘The Process’ And The Bar Exam
Donald E. Campbell (Mississippi College), Get Your Head in the Game: Gamifying the Bar Examination, 40 Miss. C. L. Rev. 223 (2022): During a recent administration of the bar examination, I observed the following: a student who had a child ten days before the exam passed; a student on law review failed; a student whose…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Elite Schools Are Thinking About Black Student Admissions The Wrong Way
New York Times Op-Ed: Harvard, Brown and Other Top Schools Are Thinking About Black Freshmen the Wrong Way, by John McWhorter (Columbia; Google Scholar): Several highly selective universities have recently reported that in their first freshman classes admitted after the Supreme Court banned racial preferences in admissions, the number of Black and Latino students has fallen. The…
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The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Plans & Congress’s Responsibility To Address The Root Cause Of The Student Loan Crisis
James M. Truett (J.D. 2024, Louisiana State), Comment, Congress, Tear Down This Educational Wall: The Biden Administration's Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Plans & Congress's Responsibility to Address the Root Cause of the Student Loan Crisis, 84 La. L. Rev. 625 (2024): The goal of student loan programs is to offer students financial assistance and to…
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AccessLex: Predicting Bar Success — The Mediating Effects Of 1L Law School GPA On Undergraduate GPA And LSAT
AccessLex, Predicting Bar Success: The Mediating Effects of Law School GPA: Most American law schools evaluate candidates for admission based on final undergraduate GPA (UGPA) and Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores, due in part to accreditation requirements and institutional bar passage goals. However, several studies have demonstrated racial and ethnic score disparities associated with…