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In the late 1990's, college football was at a crossroads. The power conferences formed an alliance, the Bowl Championship Series, and then faced the dilemma of creating a ranking system through which it could select teams for the big-money bowl...

With the flurry of exciting cases last week coming down from the Supreme Court, I was anxious to talk about some of the outcomes. However, when I tried to engage students in conversation about it, I was surprised how many...

Open access law is here (or coming soon), but law schools aren't big players in advancing it, or more importantly, doing interesting things with all that law. These new players are all different birds: they have different motives, are decentralized,...

While Gene is off at a great CALI conference, Northwestern Law School announced today its innovative new approach to legal education (official announcement here). Making all the headlines (in Insider Higher Ed and in the Chicago Tribune) is Northwestern's creation...

Larry Farmer of BYU School of Law is describing how he set up an intensive skills course -- which may not be cheaper than other methods, but which he believes to be superior in quality and results (largely because it...

SIMPLE is a system for authoring and managing practice simulations for professional learning, especially practices that are document- and transaction-centered. SIMPLE can, for example, articulate a multi-party negotiation, collaborative drafting of documents, complex litigation, etc. Some articles about SIMPLE: Article:...

I'm here at CALI's 18th annual Conference for Law School Computing at the University of Maryland Law School. I like to think that "CALI" stands for the "Center for Advancing Legal Innovation" (it's actually the "Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction")....

Brian Tamanaha and Brian Leiter, among others, have recently written about the effects of law review placement on legal scholars. Especially in tenure considerations, where an article appears is often considered to be the primary indicator of quality. In the...

The ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has released two special committee reports that could be influential in reforming legal education in the US, namely, Interim Report of the Outcome Measures Committee and Report of the...

While working on another project, I happened to notice the percentage of classes taught by adjuncts at some law schools. In a few cases, it may be that a majority of the classes offered are taught by adjuncts. As one...

Some law schools have Street Law Projects to promote law in high schools and to the general public. On the Georgetown University website it states that "[s]ince 1972, the D.C. Street Law Clinic has provided law-related educational services in the...

This piece at Insider Higher Ed reports that Stanford Law School is looking to move away from letter grades. Here are snippets from the story: The faculty at Stanford Law School voted last week to approve a grade reform proposal...

This week's National Law Journal has this lengthy and interesting article, titled "A Deluge of Law Schools: As Many as 10 Are in the Works — But Are They Needed?". Here is an excerpt, which highlights the innovation potential in...

I have become fascinated with the local blogospheres that have developed at different law schools. Some are extensive, integrated, and active. Others are diffuse or have died out after an apparently active period. They (or at least the active ones)...

Over the past few issues of the AALS News, AALS president John Garvey (Dean of BC Law) has written about the importance and value of pluralism in the legal academy as a whole. I'm a fan of both Garvey and...