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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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Kendall Kerew (Georgia State; Google Scholar), Using Technology to Promote Well-Being and Foster Professional Identity Formation in the 1L Classroom, 20 U. St. Thomas L.J. ___ (2024):  Critical components of professional identity are associated with self-determination theory.  While all three of the basic psychological needs contribute to well-being, autonomy is considered the most important.  Moreover,…

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Samuel Beswick (British Columbia; Google Scholar) & Maddison Zapach (British Columbia), The Open Casebook Revolution, 3 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. __ (2024):  The open-access casebook revolution is gaining momentum. Open casebooks are compiled and edited teaching materials, typically hosted as webpages and available as downloadable, searchable, printable, mark-up-able documents. In the United States, dozens of…

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Angela P. Harris (UC-Davis) & Monika B. Kashyap (Seattle), From Trauma to Transformation: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Law School, 27 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 1 (2023):  In this essay, we seek to expand the meaning of “trauma” by aligning trauma-informed pedagogy with principles of disability justice and progressive critiques of legal education. We argue…

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The Journal of Law Teaching and Learning has published its inaugural issue, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024): Debra Moss Vollweiler (Nova), The Year of Magical Teaching: Lessons Learned from One Class in Three Modalities, 1 J. Law Teaching & Learning 1 (2024) Hillary A. Wandler (Montana; Google Scholar), Pacing Beside the Pool: Coaching Champion Writers to…

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Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Dean, Boston University; Google Scholar), Roberts's Revisions: A Narratological Reading of the Affirmative Action Cases, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 192 (2023): In law, one of the stories told by some scholars is that legal opinions are not stories. The story goes: legal opinions are mere recitations of facts and legal principles applied to…

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Jenny E. Carroll (Texas A&M; Google Scholar), Law Review and Finding a Place in the Academy, 100 Tex. L. Rev. Online 60 (2021): Membership on the Texas Law Review created opportunities for me, taught me a lot about editorial processes, and served as a reminder that I was a law outsider. The last of these is…

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