Teknoids - Law School Innovation

Experimenting with a one-child one-laptop policy

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:41:49 -0500

I am intrigued and a bit surprised by this post at The Volokh Conspiracy, titled "Experiment with a No-Laptop Policy for Class." Despite the title, it appears that Eugene Volokh will permit one laptop in his (upper-level?) class, but only...

Facebook and the law school prof

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:02:46 -0500

Today, on the addictive magical world of cocaine Facebook, I saw co-blogger Jim Chen welcome his incoming class of law students with a link to this article. Would love Jim or anyone else to weigh on how you use Facebook...

Real-world experiences with open access publishing

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:18:43 -0500

For anyone interested in open access law reviews, Gregory S. McNeal's experience with Northwestern Law Review is worth reading. Prof. McNeal (Dickinson School of Law, Penn State) needed to push an article out into the public before the topic was...

Does a Critical Remark About Opinions Expressed By a Commenter or Blogger On Another Blog Constitute Bullying?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:45:40 -0500

Following up on Mark Osler's post, there are two issues: one is advance notification to commenters. The second, using trackbacks to give to bloggers a heads-up. Chime in and take our just launched polls at A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith...

Blawging and scholarship

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:19:37 -0500

As already noted at Moneylaw and elsewhere, a broad discussion of internet interactions has broken out across the blawgosphere. Concerns about bullying, internet trolls, attribution, and other subjects have clearly developed along with the development of law blogs. Part of...

Getting Legal Education Ready for the 21st Century

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:12:34 -0500

I'm not sure promoting a forthcoming book is the best use of SSRN but it has called a little attention (30 abstract views since posted on July 19, 2008) to David Thomson's forthcoming book, Law School 2.0 (LexisNexis, January 2009)...

But what if it doesn't work out?

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:11:31 -0500

One innovation over the past twenty years in law school (and university) development seems to be that when buildings, rooms, chairs, etc. are named after donors, the name includes both members of a couple. I certainly see the reasons for...

Liveblogging the SEALS Conference 2008: Revamping the Law School Curriculum

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:56:28 -0500

Mark Niles, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Washington College of Law "Integrated teaching" -- Sometimes involves co-teaching, e.g. property + civil procedure profs collaborating on teaching Matthews v. Eldridge. Can also provide a bridge to upper-level courses. Spring electives for...

Interesting examination of law school student evaluations

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:13:25 -0500

I just came across this interesting article by Professor Arthur Best about student evaluations, titled "Student Evaluations of Law Teaching Work Well: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree." Here is the abstract: Academics in the fields of psychology and...

Technology in Legal Education

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:31:22 -0500

To help legal educators locate materials that inform and enrich their teaching and writing, Nova Southwestern law prof Pearl Goldman offers an annotated bibliography of articles, commentaries, conference papers, essays, books, and book chapters that examine the impact of technology...

On-line innovations from New York Law School

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:52:19 -0500

Professor Michael Perlin of the New York Law School sent along this interesting report on an expanding innovation at his institution: This fall, New York Law School will be offering four courses from the nine-course array of its online, distance...

Coming to a Textbook Near You, the Big Screen Kindle

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:43:16 -0500

Once upon a time I wrote that the e-book development model for legal publishing will not follow along the lines of Kindle because the digital text-study aid functionality law schools students want is not gizmo-dependent and products are or can...

Developing an innovative pre-law school summer reading list

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:30:13 -0500

An always useful topic for collective discussion is what should a person read the summer before starting law school. Of course, One L by Scott Turow is the modern classic, and it is still probably worth a read even though...

BCS-style Law School Rankings (Alpha Test Version)

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:20:10 -0500

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...

Keeping up with the law...

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:21:07 -0500

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...