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2020

Legal Education

Legal education

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From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein Oct 2020

From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

Although this issue arrives on desks roughly two years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it offers a degree of continuity with our usual fare concerning scholarship about legal education. Our next double-length issue will explore in depth matters of teaching modality, technology, and change connected with the ongoing pandemic. This issue offers fresh perspectives on matters of long-standing concern-line drawing, pro bono requirements, pedagogy, law student instruction of high school students, and bar exams. We found the articles, as well as the three book reviews that fill out this issue, to be engaging and insightful and we hope …


The Legal Scholar's Guide Book Reviews, Jamie Abrams Apr 2020

The Legal Scholar's Guide Book Reviews, Jamie Abrams

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Success in law school and in the legal profession often involves mastering and navigating the plethora of unwritten rules and norms that govern institutions and communities. Differences in access to those unwritten rules can privilege and advance some while disadvantaging others. A second-generation law student, for example, is far more likely to know about the professional value of law review than a first-generation law student. Law scholarship is particularly plagued by an insularity that can yield a problematic echo chamber within elite institutions and privileged communities. Thus, the more legal scholarship can be explicitly demystified, taught, and mentored, the more …


From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein Jan 2020

From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

For many law professors, the experiences they had as law students often serve as the primary lens through which they make sense of their own students' experiences. Who could doubt the value in connecting with students over the stress of the first legal research and writing memo or over the challenge involved in learning the rule against perpetuities? But the legal academy will surely prosper from learning directly from students themselves. That is where the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) project comes in.