Monday, May 12, 2014
Legal Education Roundup
- Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), What Matters in the ABA Employment Data?
- Jeff Baker (Pepperdine), The Problematic Award for Experiential Professor of the Year
- Boston Globe, Deciding Whether You Should Go to Law School
- ClassCrits VII: Poverty, Precarity, and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis (UC-Davis, Nov. 14-15, 2014), Call for Papers & Participation
- College Station Eagle, New Dean Has Big Plans for Texas A&M Law School
- Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington), Pikettian Law Schools
- Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington), Correction on Faculty Hiring and Buyouts
- Steven Harper (Northwestern), Is ABA Task Force on Law School Costs Credible?
- William Henderson (Indiana), Successful Lawyer Skills and Behaviors
- Adam Lamparello (Indiana Tech) & Charles MacLean (Indiana Tech), A Proposal to the ABA: One Required Legal Writing Course for All Six Semesters of Law School
- Matt Leichter, Well, If *Moody’s* Says the Lawyer Bubble Has Popped…
- Pam Mueller (Princeton) & Daniel Oppenheimer (UCLA), The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
- Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law School Microranking: Federal Judicial Clerkship Placement, 2011-2013
- Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Numbers, When a Prospective Law Student Wants to Do X
- NPR, As Law Schools Recover, Online Learning Part of the Equation
- Carlo Pedrioli (Barry), Constructing Modern-Day U.S. Legal Education with Rhetoric: Langdell, Ames, and the Scholar Model of the Law Professor Persona, 66 Rutgers L. Rev. 55 (2014)
- PolicyMic, New Statistics on the Legal Sector Spell Bad News For Law Students
- Quartz, Case Closed: The US Lawyer Bubble Has Conclusively Popped
- Brittany Stringfellow Otey (Pepperdine), Clinics in the Cloud, the "Technology Question," and Teaching Technological Professionalism
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Comments
It's kind of funny how law profs are even more preoccupied with legal employment than students. It seems like the majority of the articles posts on legal blogs these days are on this topic rather than substantive law. I can understand why, I just think it is kind of funny that the "law is a $million degree class" is watching the decline as closely as anyone.
Posted by: JM | May 12, 2014 7:41:35 AM
I don't think it's odd. The employment outcomes of their graduates is a legitimate concern for law faculty. Even putting aside any self-interested reasons for watching the market, faculty should be interested in seeing what the prospects of their students are.
Posted by: Former Editor | May 12, 2014 12:49:18 PM