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• WSJ: Law Schools Turn to Non-J.D. Students to Make Up for Enrollment Shortfall

  
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  Wall Street Journal: More Often, Nonlawyers Try Taste of Law School: Law schools hunting for students as their enrollment numbers drop are increasingly trying to attract an unexpected group: people who have no intention of practicing law. Doctors, environmental consultants and even an urban planner have signed up for ...
  3 days ago

• TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

  
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  Saturday: Sense and Sensibility: Estate Planning Lessons From Jane Austen WSJ: Tax Court Slaps Down IRAs Holding Alternative Assets The IRS Scandal, Day 9 FATCA: Toward a Multilateral Automatic Information Reporting Regime Sunday: SNL on the IRS Scandal The IRS Scandal, Day 10 Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Benefit ...
  3 days ago

• A Cincinnati Lawyers Rise, Fall, and Redemption ... in Hawaii (Thanks to a Tax Prof)

  
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  In the small world department: my Pepperdine colleague Shelley Saxer is completing a visit at Hawaii and dropped me a note about her colleague next door, Ken Lawson, whose faculty bio only begins to capture his extraordinary journey: Ken Lawson is the associate director of the Hawaii Innocence Project and...
  1 week ago

• College Advice From The Daily Show

  
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  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook New York Times, Student Debt Slows Growth as Young Spend Less Wall Street Journal, Cutting Down Student Debt Obama Plan Would Ease Burden, but Critics Say It Could Promote Overborrowing Matt ...
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• Law Prof: Lets Scrap the Gentlemans C

  
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  Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Law Prof: Let’s Scrap the ‘Gentleman’s C’: Law schools should embrace grade inflation, says Professor Joshua Silverstein of the William H. Bowen School of Law. In a forthcoming paper in the University of San Francisco Law Review [A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education],...
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• Reinventing Law (and Law School)

  
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  ABA Journal Legal Rebels: How This Duo Is Trying to ReInvent Law School, by Daniel Martin Katz (Michigan State) & Renee Newman Knake (Michigan State): Greetings from ReInvent Law, our law laboratory devoted to technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Michigan State University College of Law. You read that ...
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• So Where Is Your Notebook Computer, FutureLawyer?

  
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  I am so glad you asked that question. I am using my Chromebook to take notes and do this post in the Assembly seminar room, and following along on my tablet with the written materials. However, what if I need a document or file on my main law practice notebook computer? Again, as proof of concept, I set it up in the ...
  1 week ago

• Why Do You Need A Netbook AND A Tablet?

  
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  It seems that many pundits these days are discussing whether users need a tablet or a netbook or notebook computer. As this photo shows, sometimes you need both. I am attending the Attorneys Title Fund Seminar for Florida Real Estate Lawyers this week, and, for the first time, all of the Assembly written materials ...
  1 week ago

• New Paper Posted -- Towards a Robust Theory of the Chinese Constitutional State: Between Formalism and Legitimacy in Jiang Shigongs Constitutionalism

  
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  I have been considering the development of modern Chinese constitutionalism.  In particular, I have been considering the unique structures of Chinese constitutionalism beyond the constitutional document and the related issue of its legitimacy within emerging norms of transnational constitutionalism.  As part of that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Law Practice Technology in Law Schools

  
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  Please take a minute to read Richard Granat’s post entitled “ 10 Top Law Schools Teaching Law Practice Technology .” The eLawyering Task Force is working on a project to identify law schools that are adequately preparing their students to enter practice with practical skills related to the use of technology. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Law Faculty Salaries, 2012-13

  
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  The Society of American Law Teachers has released the results of its 2012-13 Salary Survey, reporting the median faculty salaries and summer stipends at 68 of the 200 American law schools (132 law schools either refused to participate or did not respond to the survey). Here are the median faculty...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shrinking Law Faculty Lateral Market

  
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  Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington) reports on the "deep dive" in law faculty lateral moves this year: Year Schools Faculty 2006 71 132 2007 72 131 2008 80 136 2009 68 114 2010 72 92 2011 55 93 2012 56 84 2013 41 56 Of course, the 2013 figures are still...
  2 weeks ago

• Legal Education: A New Paradigm

  
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  Ernst Van Bemmelen van Gent (Bynkershoek Research Center on Legal Education), Legal Education: A New Paradigm, 1 Bynkershoek L. Rev. 2 (2012): In the past, between the years 1800 and 1950, legal education was a local, generalist, apprentice-based, non-corporate, and highly academic self-explanatory affair. Most of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Epstein: There Is No Crisis in Big Law or Legal Education

  
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  Richard A. Epstein (NYU) reviews Steven J. Harper (Former Partner, Kirkland & Ellis; Adjunct Professor, Northwestern), The Lawyer Bubble (Basic Books, 2013): Law schools are under siege. Applications have dropped to around 54,000 annually, from around 100,000 in 2004. First-year enrollment has slipped to under ...
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• FTC Can Use Facebook to Serve Papers, Judge Rules

  
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  When we think about getting served papers, it’s generally by a scary guy in a suit who shows up on the doorstep. Of course, if you live in India and you commit a violation against the U.S., the odds of a U.S. official showing up on your doorstep are low. The U.S. court system can hardly send people overseas to serve ...
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• 10 Top Law Schools Teaching Law Practice Technology

  
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  The eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA was created in 2000 by then President of the ABA, William Paul. At that initial meeting Gary Munneke , a founding member of the Task Force and the leading law school educator and author on the subject of law practice management and then ...
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• 12 Top Law Schools Teaching Law Practice Technology

  
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  The eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA was created in 2000 by then President of the ABA, William Paul. At that initial meeting Gary Munneke , a founding member of the Task Force and the leading law school educator and author on the subject of law practice management and then ...
  2 weeks ago

• Democratization of higher education

  
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  In March 2012 I delivered a talk at TEDxVillanovaU about The Future of Higher Education, in which I spoke about how online learning can bring about a democratization of higher education.  Renee Knake of Michigan State has taken the idea further and applies it to legal education in her forthcoming article, ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Liking" Hamlet

  
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  Norman Ferguson, Jr., a professor at Georgia State, describes incorporating social media into a production of Hamlet, an experiment which he calls "Hamlet 2.0."  Brilliant! There has  to be something in this idea for the legal academy...
  2 weeks ago

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