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Quite 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...
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SRC 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...
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TEACHING 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...
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The Baby Has Finally Been Birthed!
Comprehensive revisions passed The ABA House of Delegates passed the comprehensve revisions with “minimal fuss” according to the ABA Journal linked above. One area, however, garnered significant...
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Call for Talks – Igniting Law Teaching 2015
LAW PROFESSORS: Are you doing innovative things in the classroom? I would love to showcase your ideas at Igniting Law Teaching, a TEDx-styled conference on law school innovations. The Call for Talks...
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Using Portfolios for Assessment
A few years ago I started to use student portfolios as part of the end-of-semester evaluation of my students. I have found that portfolios can be an excellent vehicle both for the student’s own...
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LexternWeb By: Sandy Ogilvy
If you are new to externships or returning to them after being away, I would like to invite you to check out the website created for faculty and administrators of externship programs, LexternWeb....
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Building 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...
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New 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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CLINICAL COSTS: SEPARATING FACT FROM OPINION
by Robert Kuehn, Washington University School of Law The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” When it comes to...
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