Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Scholarship
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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…
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Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity And Building An Inclusive Future
Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (Baltimore; Google Scholar) & Charlie Amiot (Google Scholar), Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity and Building an Inclusive Future: Neurodiverse (ND) students comprise approximately 1/4 of the law school population, yet traditional legal education often fails to meet their needs. This paper critically examines the prevailing challenges faced by ND students within legal…
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Wash U Symposium: Advancing DEI In Legal Education And The Legal Profession
Symposium, Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 73 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 1-342 (2024): Karen Tokarz (Washington University), Introduction, 73 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 1 (2024) Hon. Willie J. Epps, Jr. (Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge, Western District of Missouri) & Katalin M. Minkler (Law Clerk, Judge Bough),…
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Major Reform Of Legal Education With Minor Risk
Sara Berman (USC) & Chance Meyer (New England), Major Reform With Minor Risk: Implementation of Change Initiatives as a Learning Challenge, 22 U.N.H. L. Rev. 151 (2024): The call for change in legal education has been loud and clear for more than a century. Despite some resistance among powerholders who benefit from status quo, faculty…
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Professional Identity Development In The 1L Legal Writing Curriculum
Charles Oldfield (Akron), Entertaining and Embracing Professional Identity Development in the 1L Legal Writing Curriculum, 59 Tulsa L. Rev. 415 (2024): Because of their already heavy workload, legal writing faculty sometimes resist taking on new curricular responsibilities, including calls to incorporate ethics and professionalism training in the first-year legal writing curriculum. But the ABA now…
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Alabama Symposium: Legal Education — Our History, Our Future
Our History, Our Future, 75 Ala. L. Rev. 555-817 (2024): Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley; Google Scholar), The Challenges Facing Legal Education, 75 Ala. L. Rev. 555 (2024) Eli Wald (Denver), A Liberal Theory of Legal Education, 75 Ala. L. Rev. 563 (2024) Paul M. Pruitt Jr. (Alabama; Google Scholar), Capstone Law: The University of Alabama…
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The Making Of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality And Opportunity In The American Legal Profession
Robert L. Nelson (Northwestern), Ronit Dinovitzer (Toronto), Bryant G. Garth (UC-Irvine), Joyce S. Sterling (Denver), David B. Wilkins (Harvard), Meghan Dawe (Harvard) & Ethan Michelson (Indiana), The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession (University of Chicago Press 2023) (reviewed by Eli Wald (Denver) here): An unprecedented account of social…
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Integrating Legal Research Into The Law School Curriculum
Denitsa Mavrova Heinrich (North Dakota) & Tammy Pettinato Oltz (North Dakota; Google Scholar), Legal Research Just in Time: A New Approach to Integrating Legal Research into the Law School Curriculum, 88 Tenn. L. Rev. 469: This Article discusses an innovative way of integrating legal research instruction into the law school curriculum without detracting from the…
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The 64 Most-Cited Law Faculties
Gregory C. Sisk (St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar), Adam Bent (Florida), et al., Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2024: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third: This updated 2024 study explores the scholarly impact of law faculties, ranking the top third of ABA-accredited law schools. Refined by Brian Leiter, the “Scholarly Impact…
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The Gray Box Of Legal Analysis: Disentangling Knowledge And Skill
Chance Meyer & Nicole Noël (New England), The Gray Box of Legal Analysis: Disentangling Knowledge and Skill, 101 U. Detroit Mercy L. Rev. 101 (2024): Problem-solving abilities critical in legal analysis are thought to be transferable skills when, according to cognitive science, they are benefits of domain knowledge. As a result, learners and faculty attempt…
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Deans’ Leadership In Legal Education Symposium
16th Deans' Leadership In Legal Education Symposium, 55 U. Tol. L. Rev. 159-294 (2023): Gregory W. Bowman (Dean, Roger Williams), Strategic and Operational Leadership: Building a Diverse and Talented Leadership Team, 55 U. Tol. L. Rev. 155 (2023) Todd J. Clark (Dean, Widener-DE), Reversing DEI: The Consequence – "IED" Indoctrination and Elimination of Diversity, 55…
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From Briefs To Bytes: How Generative AI Is Transforming Legal Writing And Practice
Joe Regalia (UNLV), From Briefs to Bytes: How Generative AI is Transforming Legal Writing and Practice, 59 Tulsa L. Rev. 193 (2024): ChatGPT is having a moment in the legal field. And for good reason: Generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) was already disrupting the practice of law before OpenAI’s new chatbot came on the scene. But…
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The History Of American Student-Edited International Law Journals
Harlan Grant Cohen (Fordham; Google Scholar), A Short History of the Early History of American Student-Edited International Law Journals, 64 Va. J. Int'l L. 357 (2024): While to some the “invisible college of international lawyers” may invoke images of open spaces between buildings and airy quads, to others the picture will be something much more…
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St. Louis Symposium: Teaching Legal Research, Writing, Communication, And Feedback
Symposium, Teaching Legal Research, Writing, Communication, and Feedback, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 399-556 (2024): Ellie Margolis (Temple; Google Scholar), Doing Less—Reflections on Cognitive Load and Hard Choices in Teaching First-Year Legal Writing, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 399 (2024) Katrina Lee (Ohio State; Google Scholar), The Adaptable Legal Writer, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 419…
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Grimmelmann Reviews Lawsky’s Coding the Code: Catala And Computationally Accessible Tax Law
James Grimmelmann (Cornell; Google Scholar), When Law Is Code (JOTWELL) (reviewing Sarah B. Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law, 75 S.M.U. L. Rev. 535 (2022)): Sarah B. Lawsky’s Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law offers an exceptionally thoughtful perspective on the automation of legal rules. It provides not just…
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AI And Tools For Expanding Access To Justice
Quinten Steenhuis (Suffolk; Google Scholar), AI and Tools for Expanding Access to Justice, in The Cambridge Handbook of AI in Civil Dispute Resolution (Cambridge University Press 2025): Access to justice is a fundamental right, yet for millions of people around the world resolution of legal problems via both formal and informal means isn't available, affordable, accessible,…
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Peer Review In Advanced Legal Writing Course
Patricia Montana (St. John’s), Peer Review in Advanced Legal Writing Course, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 1 (2023): This Article adds to the conversation about peer review, discussing specifically the numerous benefits peer review brings to an advanced legal writing course. The Article illustrates how to effectively integrate peer review into an advanced legal writing…
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Effective Law Professor Feedback For Today’s Students
Randall Ryder (Minnesota), "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility": Improving Your Feedback and Hallmarks of Effective Feedback, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 537 (2024): Effective feedback can change a law student’s trajectory in law school and beyond. The feedback-centric nature of experiential learning courses allows law students to both develop their skills and personal lawyering…
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Questioning The Inevitability Of The NextGen Bar Exam
Nachman N. Gutowski (UNLV; Google Scholar), Ashley London (Duquesne; Google Scholar), Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Taylor Israel (Thomas Jefferson), Questioning the Inevitability of the NextGen Bar Examination: The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) is actively promoting the NextGen Bar Exam (NextGen) as an inevitable and necessary replacement for the current Uniform Bar Examination…