Best Practices for Legal Education in Monterrey, Mexico
The States in Mexico are, one by one, revising their criminal law and criminal procedure codes to change from an inquisitional, written system to an adversarial system with oral trials. Of course, this...
View ArticleQuite Moving but Frightening Testimony at AALS Conference
I write from the Hilton Hotel in New York City where the American Association of Law School annual conference has just ended. The most memorable and riveting session I attended was the ABA panel...
View ArticlePublishing “Building on Best Practices in Legal Education”
Regular readers of this blog know that a team of editors, authors and readers are hard at work on a follow up volume to Roy Stuckey (and others), Best Practices in Legal Education (2007), published by...
View ArticleSRC voted to eliminate Interpretation 305-3 which distinguishes paid...
American Bar Association Accreditation Standard 305 addresses “study outside the classroom” and, in particular, field placement courses. Interpretation 305-3 states: A law school may not grant credit...
View ArticleFive Tool Lawyers
Leading Northwest legal practitioner and technology entrepreneur Marty Smith has an interesting post on the Five Tool Lawyer over at Legal Refresh. Using the metaphor of the Five Tool Lawyer, Marty...
View ArticleTEACHING RESILIENCE AND BEING RESILIENT : Filling Our Tanks This Summer
About a month ago, I had the pleasure of attending the annual AALS clinical conference held in Chicago. The conference focused on achieving happiness and resilience at a time of challenge in legal...
View ArticleTransferring Best Practices to a Domestic Violence Agency–i.e. the real world
On February 1, 2014 I left the ivory tower of a law school I had loved for 27 years to become the executive director of Enlace Comunitario, a non-profit agency focused on eliminating domestic violence...
View ArticleNEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES PROPOSAL TO BRING UBE TO NY...
Less than a month ago, the New York State Courts circulated a proposal to change the New York State (NYS) Bar Exam by adopting the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) along with a second, separately graded “New...
View ArticleBuilding on Best Practices for Legal Education Manuscript Submitted to Publisher
Four editors, 59 authors, 92 readers, three copy editors, librarians from two schools, a secretary, miscellaneous consultants, three student assistants for bluebooking, and one for setting up perrmacc...
View ArticleLessons from “Counseling Our Students” (Mini-Plenary at AALS Conference on...
At the recent AALS Conference on Clinical Education two additional sessions provided important insights from experts iin other disciplines on how to operate effectively in the midst of the current...
View ArticleA 21st Century “generalist legal education”? Skills & professional identity...
More musings on generalist v. specialist education, and how much doctrine law schools need to teach. A conversation with one of our University of Washington alums — Leo Flor, Westpoint grad, Gates...
View ArticleLaw School Curriculum Review & Reform: Lessons Learned
In 2012, my dean asked me to chair a review our curriculum at the University of Tennessee College of Law. He asked our committee to consider the current three-year curriculum in light of our learning...
View ArticleBuilding on Best Practices now available as eBook
Are you trying to: Develop a meaningful law school mission statement? Understand new accreditation requirements, learning goals, and outcomes assessment? Expand your experiential offerings? Decide...
View ArticleUnmasking Assumptions about Employment Outcomes and Legal Education
In an upcoming Wisconsin Law Review article, Robert Kuehn, Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Professor of Law at the Washington University Law School, presents a cogent, well-supported and...
View ArticleNew York Proposes “Experiential Learning Requirements” as Condition of...
Readers of this blog and followers of the NCBE’s expansion remember that this past Spring New York became the 16th state to adopt the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), changing its longstanding bar...
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