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Take it From Me: Elites Just Don’t Understand
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by Christopher Harbin Marc likes to post about the worthlessness of legal education yet never outright addresses the underlying reason it is worthless. The reason is simple: Legal academia is run by and large by the elite. And the elite (for the most part) are completely worthless as lawyers. Here’s ...6 hours ago -
The Truth About Law School Exams
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Can I Pick Up A Credit Card Following A Bankruptcy Filing?
eTrades.net —
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In spite of the stigma and possible embarrassment of filing for bankruptcy, many folks have mitigating circumstances that make it often their only option to bypass repeated court proceedings against them. One thing that often worries these people is the obtaining of a Credit Card after Bankruptcy. Neither the less, ...14 hours ago -
The Ten Most Important Tax Developments, 2000-2009
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Inspired by Brian Leiters poll of the most important developments in legal academia over the last decade "in terms of their importance or impact, whether good or ill" -- please send me your nominees for the most important tax developments of the 2000-2009 decade. I will put the Top 10...17 hours ago -
FBA Tax Section Student Writing Competition
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The Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation invites law students to participate in its annual annual tax writing competition: All full-time law students currently seeking a juris doctor or master of laws at an accredited law school are eligible to enter the competition. ... Papers must be a minimum of...19 hours ago -
American legal education – scientifically proven to be worthless, law professors jam heads up asses in response
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I have written previously on the Worthlessness of American Legal Education. That ruffled a few feathers among legal academics who didn’t like being called a “circle jerk.” In response to that critique, legal academics decided to disband the circle jerk and actually focus on practical training of lawyers in ...1 day ago -
Civ Pro Rappers
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Two years ago, I blogged my civil procedure colleague Adam Steinmans tax rap: Robert Bone (Boston University) offers this civil procedure rap: (Hat Tip: Most Strongly Supported.)1 day ago -
Do You Need a Ph.D. to be a Law Professor?
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Dave Hoffman (Temple), To JD/PhD or Not to JD/PhD, That Is the Question and PhD/JDs: Fads or Future? Orin Kerr (George Washington), In the Future, Will a Ph.D. Be More Important to Get A Law Teaching Job — Or Less? Larry Ribstein (Illinois), You Still Don’t Need a PhD for...1 day ago -
Moneyball, Volleyball, and Faculty Productivity
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Bridget J. Crawford (Pace), Moneyball Comes to Women’s Collegiate Sports: The Penn State women’s volleyball team has a 98-game winning streak. ... Coach Russ Rose’s secret? Mathematics. He describes his approach in today’s New York Times. [For Penn State’s Volleyball Coach, the Streak Is Beside the Point]: ...1 day ago -
The ABA Blawg 100 -- Legal Theory
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Here is the first weeks voting for the 2009 ABA Blawg 100, in the Legal Theory category: 1 Volokh Conspiracy 103 2 TaxProf Blog 50 3 Leiters Law School Reports 17 4 Concurring Opinions 17 5 Feminist Law Professors 17 6 Legal Ethics Forum 15 7 PrawfsBlawg 14 8 Becker-Posner...2 days ago -
Top 12 Law School Acceptance Rates for MIT, Princeton & Yale Grads
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The Daily Princetonian, U. Trails Yale in Law School Acceptance Rates: Undergrad Acceptance % at Top 12 Law Schools Average LSAT Average GPA Yale 37% 166 3.58 Princeton 32% 164 3.45 MIT 30% 164 3.32 Harvard and Stanford law schools refused to participate in the Daily Princetonians study. The average...2 days ago -
NY Times: Is it OK for Law Firms to Discriminate Against Conservative Law Students?
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New York Times, The Ethicist: Taking on the Unlikables: While interviewing law students for jobs as paid summer interns and full-time associates for my firm, I noticed several had résumés listing their activities in the Federalist Society. Some of my partners have conservative views similar to those of the ...3 days ago -
Legal ed podcasts from NE Regional Conf.
Equal Justice Works Blog —
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On December 4, Albany Law School hosted a conference focused on the importance of setting and implementing measurable learning goals. “Participants discussed both general trends in curriculum reform and specific ways to develop goals to measure student learning,” Darlene Cardillo wrote. Audio recordings for ...3 days ago -
Supreme Court Grants Cert. in UC-Hastings Christian Legal Society Case
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The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal from a 9th Circuit decision upholding UC-Hastings College of Laws decision to deny student-activities funds and official recognition to a Christian Legal Society student group on the ground that the groups refusal to allow gay and lesbian members and officers...3 days ago -
Ralph Nader Disses Law Schools
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Ralph Nader Calls Out Legal Profession, Law Schools (The Connecticut Law Tribune): A University of Connecticut School of Law moot courtroom was a fitting setting last month, as consumer activist, politician and lawyer Ralph Nader sought to put the legal profession on trial. ... Nader attended law school in the...3 days ago -
Nominate Somebody Special for the JoLeta Reynolds Award
Special Education Law Blog —
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Image via Wikipedia Do you know a special educator or administrator who does a great job? If so, you should consider nominating her or him for the JoLeta Reynolds Award. JoLeta was a policy analyst for the federal Department of Education. She essentially rewrote IDEA in 1997, and she had a big impact upon the ...3 days ago -
Live Blogging from the Best Practices for Legal Education Seminar
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Today at Albany Law School in Room 200: 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Pedagogy and Course Goals – Audio – click HERE. - Corrine Roth Smith , Syracuse University, School of Education —–updated curriculum: added technology courses, deleted redundancy, added ESL courses ...3 days ago -
Washington University Starts 3-Year J.D.-Tax LL.M. Program
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Washington University-St. Louis has announced a three-year joint J.D.-Tax LL.M. program without any required summer classes: The School of Law recently became the first top law school to allow students to earn both a juris doctorate and a master of laws in taxation in six semesters without any summer coursework....3 days ago -
TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
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Saturday: Total Tax Ratio as Percentage of GDP, 2008 1/3 of Tax Returns Filed Pay Zero Tax (and 1/2 of Those Get "Refunds") TIGTA Submits Semiannual Report to Congress Lahav: Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools? Sunday: SNL on the White House Party Crashers...4 days ago -
SNL on the White House Party Crashers
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