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Friday, October 3, 2014
Legal Services Sector Sheds Jobs at Highest Rate in Five Years
Wall Street Journal, Legal Services Jobs Drop Sharply in September:
The U.S. legal services sector shed 4,600 jobs in September, the biggest one-month drop in employment for the field in nearly five years.
The total number of legal jobs now stands at 1,133,800, a preliminary and seasonally adjusted figure, according to the U.S. Labor Department's latest monthly report. ... The sector is down 2,900 jobs since the start of the year, dipping to its lowest point since July 2013. Employment numbers are about 46,000 jobs below pre-recession record levels set in 2007. ...
October 3, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (6)
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- ABA Journal, In Rural America, There Are Job Opportunities and a Need for Lawyers
- Debra Austin (Denver), Drink Like a Lawyer: The Neuroscience of Substance Use and Its Impact on Cognitive Wellness
- David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), Law as Societal 'Umpire'
- Jack Crittenden (National Jurist), Why Creditors Are Unlikely to Foreclose on Thomas Jefferson
- Gould Law Library (Touro), Legal Education Reform Bibliography
- Ken Grady (SeyfarthLean Consulting), Why a Computer Won't Replace Law Firm Associates Tomorrow
- Rachel Grate, Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books
- Steven J. Harper (Northwestern), Student Loans, Moral Hazard, and Law School Loans -- Conclusion
- Matt Leichter (American Lawyer), Changes to Law School Standards Eliminate Waste
- Matt Leichter (American Lawyer), Economic Census Shows Legal Sector Battered by Depression
- Tom Lin (Temple), National Pastime(s), 55 B.C. L. Rev. 1197 (2014) (reviewing John Sexton (NYU), Baseball as a Road to God (2014))
- Mari Matsuda (Hawaii), Admit That the Waters Around You Have Grown: Change and Legal Education, 89 Ind. L.J. 1381 (2014)
- Derek Muller (Pepperdine), A More Difficult Bar Exam, or a Sign of Declining Student Quality?
- National Law Journal, Albany Law School Master Plan Might Include Affiliation
- New York Times, Seeking Dean's Firing, Seminary Professors End Up Jobless
- Mark Pulliam (City Journal), Thomas Jefferson's Folly: California's Worst-performing Law School Illustrates the Moral Hazard of Federal Student Loans
- Susan Richardson (NewsWorks), It's Hard For This Philly Lawyer to Fit His Spiritual Life Into His Briefcase
- Frank Snyder (Texas A&M), AALS: When You Reach the Fork in the Road, Keep Going
- Frank Wu (Dean, UC-Hastings), How to Start a Law School Clinic
- WSJ Law Blog, After Bar Exam Scoring Snafu, Would-be Lawyers Get Crushing News
October 3, 2014 in Legal Education, Weekly Legal Education Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Unlike Virginia, North Carolina Does Not Hire Its Own Law Grads, Resulting in Rankings Decline
Daily Tar Heel, Activists Push for Law School Transparency; Many Schools, But Not UNC, Fund Jobs For Graduates:
University of Virginia School of Law applicants are likely attracted by the school's ranking — eighth, according to U.S. News and World Report. It also has the highest employment rate in the nation, 95.6 percent, within nine months of graduation.
But about 16 percent of those graduates hold jobs funded by the university.
Only about 62.2 percent of 2013 law school graduates nationwide reported having a full-time job within nine months of graduation that required passing the bar exam.
Many schools have fellowship programs to assist graduates who are unable to find long-term employment — and students who accept these university-funded jobs are considered to be employed full time when the school reports employment data nine months after graduation.
Among the top 10 schools ranked by U.S. News and World Report, six schools fund jobs for at least 5 percent of graduates nine months after graduation.
UNC School of Law doesn't have a fellowship program, and its employment rate is about 69 percent, ranking 33rd nationally.
"It does hurt us in the rankings," said Brian Lewis, assistant dean for career development at UNC School of Law. "Our employment numbers aren't as good as other schools that are counting people that they're paying as employed. But we've tried to be as transparent as possible." ...
UVa. Law School Dean Paul Mahoney said while the school does employ a number of graduates in university-funded jobs, most are participating in a yearlong fellowship program for graduates, who work in the nonprofit or government sector. "They are not working here at the law school," he said.
In contrast, Duke University has an employment rate of 85.9 percent, with less than 1 percent of students working in jobs funded by the school. ...
October 3, 2014 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (4)
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Georgia Seeks to Hire a Tax Prof
The University of Georgia School of Law is seeking entry-level and junior lateral candidates in tax. Course needs are flexible but include Income Tax, Corporate Tax, International Tax, and State & Local Tax. Interested persons should contact Randy Beck, Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee.
October 2, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax, Tax Prof Jobs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Nebraska Offers Early Retirement Buyouts to 30% of Tenured Faculty
The University of Nebraska (press release; plan) is offering early retirement buyouts to tenured faculty 62 years of age and older with at least ten years of experience (30% of the tenured faculty): a one-time payment of 90% of salary. (Hat Tip: Inside Higher Ed.)
October 2, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Indiana Tech Seeks to Hire a Tax Prof
Indiana Tech Law School invites applications for Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor of Law positions for the 2015-16 academic year who will teach primarily in one or more of the following areas: Tax and related courses, Wills, Trusts, and Estates and related courses, Torts, Family Law, and Civil Procedure. More details here. The application deadline is October 6.
October 2, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kerr: Five Tips on Placing Law Review Articles
Orin Kerr (George Washington), Tips on Placing Law Review Articles:
I've come back to guest-blog this month at Prawfs in memory of my friend Dan Markel. Dan started Prawfs as a forum for junior law professors. ... I thought it would be fitting to focus my guest-blogging on the topic that originally formed the core of Dan's vision. In particular, I'm going to blog about topics of special interest to junior law professors and those currently on the teaching market. I'll start with a topic that a lot of junior profs worry a lot about: How to place a law review article in a good journal. Here are five tips to consider.
- Submit in the spring
- Make your abstract and introduction clear and easy to read
- Proof-read and Blue Book properly
- If you have relevant experience, consider saying so in an "About the Author" blurb
- Shorter titles are usually better than longer titles
October 2, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Do Law Schools Teach (and Model) Inefficiency (Especially in Tax Law)?
SeytLines Blog, Another Reason to Re-Think Legal Education:
Lawyers have suggested many reasons for changing legal education. I have another one to add to the list. I think legal education teaches inefficiency. From day one in law school, law students are taught to be inefficient in the practice of law. By the time they hit the world outside academia and start practicing, they have three years of intensive inefficiency training. In a world that has moved towards reducing waste, at least in corporations, having someone join the workforce who has been taught inefficiency adds some complications. At a minimum, it means we will spend years re-training them, at the same time they are learning to practice. More realistically, we will end up with many lawyers who are never re-trained. ...
The good news is that this one issue could be fixed at little or no cost. The first step is teaching law school faculty about the modern practice of law. Seminars, workshops, and other training tools can accomplish that goal. The second step is to have law school faculty start modifying existing courses to reflect these modern practices and incorporate them as part of the core learning experience. My son is taking accounting, yet they don't have him using accounting ledger paper from the 1930s to learn double-entry bookkeeping. If he can learn the basics of accounting with Excel, I'm not sure why law students can't learn the basics of contract law in combination with Word and contract automation. Third, law schools should start thinking about law in the context of problems presented by clients. This isn't a novel suggestion, but it still is a good one. Some classes should be integrated classes where students confront problems that require cross-functional thinking. Three years of training students to think one-dimensionally creates habits that are difficult to break. Problems don't come neatly sliced into property law, tax, or other substantive areas.
The last point involves a personal pet-peeve, so I'll share a story about it. As a corporate general counsel, I spent a fair amount of time on tax issues. The companies where I worked had global businesses, so we had plenty of international tax "opportunities." On more than one occasion, partners from whichever of the Big Four accounting firms my company used would come to us with a tax proposal. They would have spent a fair amount of time working on the proposal and consulting with our tax team. They would invite the corporate lawyers to an overview presentation. We would identify several fatal flaws in the plan almost immediately. Those flaws were missed because the tax practitioners knew nothing about and didn't take the time to ask about, the corporate law aspects of what they proposed. We would suggest many ways to work around the problem, and usually, after much additional work by the tax practitioners, we would land on a solution. I would always ask why the tax practitioners didn't come to us right at the start, knowing that the key to the entire plan depended on corporate work, so that we could develop an integrated solution that worked. They always responded, "we were taught to look at the tax issues and let someone else think about the rest." Not very efficient.
October 2, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (2)
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Lewis & Clark Law School Closes Legal Clinic, Cites Enrollment, Revenue Decline
The Oregonian: Lewis & Clark Law School Closes Downtown Legal Clinic, Cites Enrollment, Revenue Decline:
Lewis & Clark Law School is closing its namesake legal clinic in downtown Portland that provides services to the poor, a high-profile victim of the school's budget constraints.
As Lewis & Clark and the state's two other law schools get their new years underway this month, they are dealing with 13 to 30 percent enrollment declines from the peak two to four years ago. Corresponding declines in revenue have forced the schools to cut costs, downsize staff and make other efficiency moves.
"What we have to do, like everybody else, is face budget realities," said Jennifer Johnson, the new dean at Lewis & Clark. The clinic "has largely been a tuition-driven enterprise that we can't afford. It's purely financial."
The clinic's pending closure -- the doors will close Dec. 31 -- has disturbed other public-interest lawyers in town who say the move will worsen an already significant shortage of legal services for the low-income. ...
Lewis & Clark's total enrollment, including part-time evening students, hit 609 this fall. That's down from a peak of 735 in 2010.
Enrollment of law students at the University of Oregon Law School fell to 376 this year, from a peak of 526 in 2010.
Willamette Law School enrollment hit 341 this year, down from a peak of 429.
October 1, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
University of Arizona Professor Plagiarized Student's Work
Arizona Daily Star, UA Professor Plagiarized Student's Work, School Finds:
A University of Arizona professor recently lauded as a top new teaching talent in her field has been reprimanded for plagiarizing the work of a former student.
Susannah Dickinson, an assistant professor in the UA's school of architecture since 2009, recently received a formal admonishment from the university's provost after the student accused Dickinson of poaching material from his master's thesis and presenting it as her own.
The finding is a rare one in academia, where professors often are accusers rather than accused in plagiarism cases involving students.
But one national expert believes such cases happen more often than reported because graduate students fear potential repercussions if they complain about professors.
Compare the student's thesis with the professor's paper.
Chronicle of Higher Education, U. of Arizona Reprimands Professor in Wake of Plagiarism Inquiry
(Hat Tip: Bob Kamman.)
October 1, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (4)
A Mother's Love
(Hat Tip: Naomi Goodno.)
October 1, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
UC-Berkeley Law School to Raise Tuition 5.4%
The Daily Californian, Campus Law School Proposes Tuition Increase:
In addition to the proposed supplemental tuition increase, Berkeley Law anticipates systemwide as well as campus tuition increases. Berkeley Law projects that these increases will total a 5.4-percent increase for California residents, raising the total cost of attendance from $51,320 to $54,091. Nonresidents' total fees would increase by 5.3 percent, from $55,271 to $58,225.
Above the Law, Hey, Let's Make Law School More Expensive! Top School Dean Proposes Tuition Increase
October 1, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (7)
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October 1, 2014 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Elizabeth Garrett (USC) Named President of Cornell University
Cornell Press Release, Elizabeth Garrett, USC Provost, Named Cornell's 13th President:
The Cornell University Board of Trustees today approved the appointment of Elizabeth Garrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, as Cornell's next president. Garrett will assume the presidency July 1, 2015. ...
Garrett is married to Andrei Marmor, professor of philosophy and the Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law at USC, who will be joining the Cornell faculty as a full professor with joint appointments in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Law School. ...
Garrett's primary scholarly interests include legislative process, the design of democratic institutions, the federal budget process and tax policy. She is the author of more than 50 articles, book chapters and essays, and is co-author of the nation's most influential casebook on legislation and statutory interpretation, now in its fifth edition. At Cornell, Garrett will be a tenured faculty member in the Law School with a joint appointment in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Garrett has an exemplary record of public service. In 2005, President George W. Bush appointed her to serve on the nine-member bipartisan Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. ... Before entering academics, Garrett served as budget and tax counsel and legislative director for Sen. David L. Boren (D-Okla.) and clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court.
September 30, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (1)
How to Get Into an Ivy League College—Guaranteed (For $600,000)
Bloomberg, How to Get Into an Ivy League College—Guaranteed (For $600,000):
The academic transcript looked like a rap sheet. The 16-year-old had dropped out of boarding schools in England and California because of behavioral problems and had only two semesters left at a small school in Utah. Somehow, he had to raise his grade-point average above a C before applying to college. His confidence was shot, and though his parents didn't openly discuss it, he knew they were crushed at the thought that he might not get into a reputable college. What the boy didn't know was that back home in Hong Kong, where his dad is chief executive officer of a big publicly traded investment company, the family was calling in a miracle worker.
Through a friend, his father reached out to Steven Ma, founder of ThinkTank Learning, a chain of San Francisco Bay Area tutoring centers that operate out of strip malls. Like many in the field, Ma helps kids apply to college. Unlike his competitors, Ma guarantees that his students will get into a top school or their parents get their money back—provided the applicant achieves a certain GPA and other metrics. He also offers a standard college consulting package that doesn't come with a guarantee; for a lower price, Ma's centers provide after-school tutoring, test prep, college counseling, and extra class work in English, math, science, and history.
September 30, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
Rapp: The Professor as Node
Geoffrey Rapp (Toledo), The Professor as Node:
It's hard not to notice a shift this fall(?) among the lawblog world to Twitter. Though the cool kids are already up on something called "Ello," the rest of us, having only recently figured out how to create a "split post" on a blog are now trying to limit ourselves to 140 characters through imaginative vowel-deletion.
When I entered full-time teaching, the big, symposium-worthy question was whether blogging "counted" as scholarship [Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025-1261 (2006)]. At that time and today, I thought that question somewhat off point -- it didn't and doesn't matter whether blogging is scholarship or counts as scholarship. The only real question was whether blogging was a worthwhile activity for a scholar and teacher. That is to say, is blogging what our students are borrowing money to have us do? Because Twitter posts are necessarily less detailed and thus, at least individually, seem to lack the usual scholarly weight, they perhaps more obviously raise the question of appropriateness as an activity for those whose lives are funded by the future repayment obligations of others.
I've come to the opinion that Tweeting, "LinkedIn-ing", and blogging -- along with other forms of online networking -- are exactly what our students are paying us to do.
(Hat Tip: Michael Helfand.)
September 30, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mounting Debt Makes Law School a Gamble, But Students Continue to Enroll
New York Observer: Mounting Debt Makes Law School a Gamble But Students Continue to Enroll, by Gary M. Stern:
It is a risky proposition getting a graduate degree in the humanities these days, what with the prospect of crippling debt and high unemployment rates. But enrolling in a law program is among the riskiest of all.
"Law school is a major gamble," said Daniel A. Hochheiser, a criminal attorney and managing partner at New York-based Hochheiser & Hochheiser. "It works only for a minute number of students, leaving the majority of students holding the bag, entering a saturated market struggling with debt."
In 2013, the average public law school graduate carried a debt of $84,600, while graduates of private colleges incurred $122,158 in debt. At the same time, legal firms are cutting back on hiring, causing a glut of attorneys and rising unemployment.
In 2012, only 56.2 percent of all law school graduates found full-time employment in their chosen field, and nearly 28 percent were unemployed or underemployed, according to Law School Transparency, a reform group.
When the end result, it seems, is likely to be high debt and little to no employment, one has to wonder why more wannabe lawyers aren't screaming "Objection!" before they apply. ...
Oliver Bateman, an assistant professor of law at the University of Texas at Arlington, qualified Mr. Hochheiser's sentiment, but in far blunter terms. "If you're not going to be first at a mid-tier or lower-level school," Mr. Bateman said, "you may as well be last." ...
Not everyone in the field, however, is quite as negative.
September 30, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Three Chicago Law Schools Prevail in Fraud Lawsuits Brought by Alumni Over Placement Data
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Law Schools Prevail in Suit Over Job Stats:
Disgruntled alumni from three local law schools cannot claim their schools deceived them in marketing materials containing high employment and salary statistics, the 1st District Appellate Court ruled today in a trio of orders.
For several years, The John Marshall Law School, DePaul University College of Law and IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law each published post-graduation employment rates for their classes above 90 percent.
But that rate included graduates holding a job, not necessarily one requiring the time and expense of earning a law degree.
In one published opinion and two unpublished orders — each written by Justice Mary K. Rochford, each addressing one school — the panel found the former students did not show how the data was deceptive or how the data was the cause of any injuries.
- National Law Journal, Dismissal of Fraud Claims Against Law Schools Affirmed
(Hat Tip: Brian Leiter.)
September 30, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 29, 2014
How to Build a Better Law Professor
National Law Journal Special Report, How to Build a Better Law Professor:
A good legal education offers more than an understanding of case law — it provides students with the real-world skills they need to succeed, an appreciation for the role of attorneys in society and the confidence to pursue their career goals. In this special report, we look at a new book [What the Best Law Professors Do (Harvard University Press, 2013)] that identifies the top law teachers in the country and spotlight how some of those honorees approach teaching.
- Professor Kingsfield Couldn't Cut It Today: "A four-year study discovers a blueprint for teaching in a fast-changing environment."
- This Scholar's Comfortable in the Classroom: "Yale professor [Heather Gerken] insists it's all about communicating ideas, whether on paper or directly to students."
- Professor Compares Role to That of a Traffic Cop: "Her [Susan Kuo (South Carolina)] job is to direct students; theirs 'to drive and keep the cars gassed up. It's a collaborative effort.'"
- He Doesn't Stop Caring After Students Graduate: "UCLA Law professor [Hiroshi Motomura] helps former students network and find places for themselves within the profession."
- A Primer for the Modern Law Professor: "It helps to be thoughtful, true to yourself, accessible and to learn the students' names."
- Respect Is Key to Teaching, And Also to Learning
- It helps both sides negotiate the sometimes mysterious passing along of knowledge.
- 'Best' Law Professors: "A list of exceptional law professors, according to What the Best Law Professors Do."
Patti Alleva (North Dakota)
Rory Bahadur (Washburn)
Cary Bricker (McGeorge)
Roberto Corrada (Denver)
Bridget Crawford (Pace)
September 29, 2014 in Book Club, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Deep Rift Exposed as SUNY-Buffalo Dean Resigns; Faculty Foes Allege Perjury, Mismanagement of Law School
Following up on my previous posts:
- Former SUNY-Buffalo Law Prof Sues Dean for Wrongful Termination
- Eight Senior SUNY-Buffalo Law Profs Accept Buyouts
- SUNY-Buffalo Law School Dean Resigns Amidst Perjury Allegations in Lawsuit by Former Professor
Buffalo News, Deep Rift Exposed as UB Law's Dean Resigns; Faculty Foes Allege Perjury, Mismanagement of School:
Behind the scenes at one of Buffalo's oldest and most important legal institutions, there is a growing rift, an internal family feud fueled by allegations of perjury against its leader, a near vote of no confidence and an internal review that paints a portrait of a deeply divided institution.
At the center of the storm is Makau Mutua, a Harvard Law graduate, an internationally known human rights activist, and the dean of the University at Buffalo Law School. Mutua suddenly gave up that position Monday in the wake of criticism over his leadership, and he will step down in December to return as a faculty member.
Mutua's seven years as dean appear to have divided the law school, pitting a man known across the world for human rights activism against many of the school's most distinguished faculty members.
"It's very toxic. It's very sad," one faculty member said of the environment at the law school. "We have a community that feels alienated by the administration and distanced from the school."
The dean's critics, and they are numerous, include some of the school's most highly regarded faculty members.
They claim Mutua's management style divided the school at a time of great economic turmoil. Applications and enrollment at UB Law, like at most law schools across the country, are down dramatically, and the school is going through a downsizing of both faculty and students.
Critics say Mutua, who came from within the ranks of the faculty, arrived in the dean's office with a "divide and rule" philosophy that placed a priority on loyalty and penalized critics while rewarding allies.
But many alumni and donors view his stewardship as a much-needed step forward.
September 29, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Should Law Schools Adopt the Montessori Method?
Emily Grant (Washburn), The Pink Tower Meets the Ivory Tower: Adapting Montessori Teaching Methods for Law School, 66 Ark. L. Rev. ___ (2014):
Some principles of teaching are timeless. Maria Montessori developed a methodology for teaching children over 100 years ago, nearly the same time Christopher Columbus Langdell was adapting the Socratic Method for teaching law students. Law school professors can incorporate Montessori's ideas to foster a more robust educational environment for law students as they join a profession of life-long self-directed learners.
September 29, 2014 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Teaching | Permalink | Comments (2)
TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
- 6th Annual Aspiring Law Profs Conference Today at Arizona State
- NY Times: Profits Made in the USA, but Banked Overseas
- Morgan Stanley on Income and Wealth Inequality
- The IRS Scandal, Day 506
- Income Gains in the Obama Economic Recovery: +116% to Top 10%, -16% to Bottom 90%
- Cass Sunstein's Ode to the Independent Bookstore: 'Church, House of Worship, Sacred Place'
- Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
- The IRS Scandal, Day 507
September 29, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekend Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Cass Sunstein's Ode to the Independent Bookstore: 'Church, House of Worship, Sacred Place'
Chicago Tribune: A Treasure-Trove Beyond Words, by Cass Sunstein (Harvard):
I joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1981. On the day after I moved to Hyde Park, a young English professor told me, in hushed tones, "The best thing about the University of Chicago is the Sem Co-op." He added, as if he were discussing a legendary priest, or a world leader, or perhaps a spy, "It's run by Jack Cella."
Of course I had no idea what a "Sem Co-op" might be, and I had never heard of Jack Cella — and I was properly intimidated by both. A week later, I discovered the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, and I was able to see, at his small desk on the right as you enter the store, the famous Jack Cella.
Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op Bookstore is not merely a bookstore. It is a community. It is a small town. It is a church, a sacred place. The air is cleaner there, and the people are more gracious, and they move more slowly. It is defined by quiet, and by gentleness, and by respect. No one disturbs anyone there. When they talk, they tend to whisper.
A confession: During my first years at the University of Chicago, I was a bit frightened whenever I entered the Seminary Co-op. I met Jack, or sort of met Jack, but I didn't know if he knew my name. When I saw him, I felt painfully shy. You could find the university's legendary professors there — the people who wrote the books that made it onto the celebrated Front Table (more on that in a minute). Wayne Booth might be there, or Marshall Sahlins, or Wendy Doniger, or David Tracy, or William Julius Wilson, or Gary Becker. (Would one say, "hello, Professor Becker"? "Hi there, Gary?" Nothing at all?)
The Seminary Co-op was a magnet. It was analogous to a great city as memorably described by Jane Jacobs: It was full of life-altering surprises, and unknown treasures, and whenever you turned a corner, you never knew what you would see. ...
September 28, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, September 26, 2014
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- ABA & NALP, After the JD III: Third Results from a National Study of Legal Careers
- David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), Christopher Langdell and the "Scientific" Law School
- Ben Barton (Widener), Review of After the JD III , A Law Professor's Take
- Buffalo Law School Student Newspaper, Law School Dean Makau Mutua Resigns, Faces Allegations of Lying Under Oath in Federal Court
- Ray Campbell (Peking University School of Transnational Law), Core Methodologies for Law Practice
- Michael Dillon (General Counsel, Adobe), Reinventing Law School
- Kyle Graham (Santa Clara), Lies Law Professors Tell Each Other, Some of Which I May Have Said Myself
- Steven J. Harper (Northwestern), Student Loans, Moral Hazard, and a Law School Mess: Part 2
- Sherri Lee Keene (Maryland), One Small Step for Legal Writing, One Giant Leap for Legal Education: Making the Case for More Writing Opportunities in the 'Practice-Ready' Law School Curriculum, 65 Mercer L. Rev. 467 (2014)
- Julian Laurens, Alex Steel & Anna Huggins (all of University of New South Wales), 'Works Well with Others': Examining the Different Types of Small Group Learning and Their Implications for Law Student Learning Outcomes
- The Legal Watchdog, The Law Professor Priss Factor
- Naples Daily News, Ave Maria Law School Welcomes New Dean
- New York Times, Why Federal College Ratings Won't Rein In Tuition
- Paula Schaefer (Tennessee), A Primer on Professionalism for Doctrinal Professors, 81 Tenn. L. Rev. 277 (2014)
- Mitchell M. Simon (New Hampshire), Limiting the Use of Expunged Offenses in Bar and Law School Admission Processes: A Case for Not Creating Unnecessary Problems, 28 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 79 (2014)
- Kathleen Elliott Vinson (Suffolk), What's Your Problem?, 43 Stetson L. Rev. ___ (2014)
September 26, 2014 in Legal Education, Weekly Legal Education Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Nine Law Schools Offer Online Tax LL.M. Degrees
According to the National Jurist and other sources, nine law schools now offer an online Tax LL.M. degree:
- Alabama
- Boston University
- Denver
- Georgetown
- Temple
- Thomas Cooley
- Thomas Jefferson (International Tax)
- Villanova
September 26, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
The U.S. News Law School Rankings and the Rise of Transfer Students
Bruce M. Price (San Francisco) & Sara Star (Miller Starr Regalia, Walnut Creek CA), The Elephant in the Admissions Office: The Influence of U.S. News & World Report on the Rise of Transfer Students in Law Schools and a Modest Proposal for Reform, 49 U.S.F.L. Rev. ___ (2014):
Students who perform well after the first year of law school are increasingly transferring to schools ranked higher by U.S. News to maximize their chances of getting a law firm job immediately following graduation. This phenomena raises two fundamental and understudied issues: how students make the decision to seek to transfer to a higher-ranked and higher-tier law school, and why such law schools are willing to admit transfer students into their second-year class who they were not willing to admit initially. The first issue we explore through interviews with students who transferred as well as those who could have transferred but chose not to. The second issue we explore by highlighting the persuasiveness of U.S. News as a determinant of law school status and the ways in which the magazine has spawned the growth and development of law school competition for transfer students. We conclude that the scale and magnitude of the phenomenon of transfer students is affecting significantly the practices and procedures of all law schools, and that this phenomenon is driven by U.S. News's failure to account for the LSAT scores and UGPAs of students that both transfer into and out of law schools when determining rankings. We conclude with a modest proposal that the ABA and U.S. News should require law schools to provide the metrics of incoming transfer students and exclude the metrics of departed transfer students.
September 26, 2014 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (3)
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Kahng: Tax, Incest, and Big (Gay) Love
Lily Kahng (Seattle), Next Up, Incest (Jotwell) (reviewing Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh), Big (Gay) Love: Has the IRS Legalized Polygamy?, 92 N.C. L. Rev. Addendum ___ (2014)):
Gay marriage opponents love to fear monger about the slippery slope of extending marriage beyond the legal union between one man and one woman. They prophesy that if we allow marriage between two men or two women, we will descend into a Gomorrah of incest, adultery, polygamy, and animal love. In his essay, Big (Gay) Love: Has the IRS Legalized Polygamy?, Anthony Infanti makes subversive use of this repugnant meme to advance his view that tax results should not depend on marriage in the first place. ...
September 25, 2014 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0)
A Nightmare Future of Higher-Ed
Minding the Campus: A Nightmare Future of Higher-Ed, by Lee Kottner:
A favorite trope of science fiction dystopias is a classroom of students wearing metallic skull caps wired to a blinking, monolithic computer, and staring vacantly into space while the propaganda and "facts" that pass for knowledge and education are downloaded directly into their brains. That scenario may be coming soon to a college campus near you, if in a somewhat more refined manner.
Consider the state of higher education today. Since the late 1970s, the total of poorly paid untenured and contingent faculty has far outstripped the number of tenured faculty on college campuses all over the world and now accounts for roughly 76 % of faculty in U.S. higher education.
The shrinking number of tenured academics has been paralleled by a growing number of very well-paid administration positions, filled by MBAs or Educational Administration doctorates who have spent little or no time in the actual educational trenches. The current corporate administrative pattern emphasizes a profit model of efficiency, cost control, and knowledge delivery, which is fundamentally different from the academic and pedagogical model of knowledge creation, a messy, individualistic but often life-changing process. This new emphasis is evident in the constant rise of tuition (going to grandiose building projects and bloated administrative salaries mirroring the corporate world), increasing demands for the quantification and standardization of instruction, larger class sizes, and the devaluing of educators' professionalism, expertise, mentoring, innovative pedagogy, and the kind of student-centered, highly personalized learning opportunities I had at my small liberal arts college in the 1980s.
September 25, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Former AALS President: Thomas Jefferson Is 'The Canary in the Coal Mine of Legal Education,' Expects Six Law Schools to Close
Chronicle of Higher Education, As Law School Struggles to Stay Open, Some See 'a Canary in the Coal Mine':
Much has been written about the sky-high debts facing law-school graduates, who face difficult odds in landing jobs that will help pay off their loans. But students at Thomas Jefferson School of Law are among the first who are contemplating the possibility of a get-out-of-debt-free card that no one's eager to cash in.
It would apply only if the law school, which is struggling to restructure a $133-million debt, were to close—a prospect the private, stand-alone school in downtown San Diego is determined to avert. After failing to make a June payment, the school was given a reprieve until October 17 but ordered to pay an additional $2-million. ...
The number of applicants to law schools accredited by the American Bar Association plummeted 45 percent from 2004 to 2014, according to preliminary figures released by the association. By 2013, first-year enrollment had slid about 18 percent, a devastating decline for schools, like Thomas Jefferson, that depend heavily on tuition.
As Thomas Jefferson struggles to remain afloat, Michael A. Olivas, a former president of the Association of American Law Schools, suggested it may be "a canary in the coal mine of legal education." The nation has too many law schools, said Mr. Olivas, who is also a professor of law at the University of Houston, and he expects some will close in the next several years. "I believe there will be, in all likelihood, about a half-dozen schools that are on anybody's watch list," he said.
September 25, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (8)
U.S. News Jobs Rankings: Lawyers #51 (Down From #33 Last Year)
U.S. News & World Report, The 100 Best Jobs:
All jobs aren't created equal. In fact, some are simply better than the rest. U.S. News 100 Best Jobs of 2014 offer a mosaic of employment opportunity, good salary, manageable work-life balance and job security. Some careers offer just the right mix of these components – for instance, nearly 40 percent of our picks are health care jobs – but the list also includes strong showings from occupations in the social services and business sectors. And for the first time, our No. 1 pick is a technology job. Read more on how we rank the best jobs, and check out our complete list.
51. Lawyer (details here). Consider this: 25 of our U.S. presidents have been lawyers. So it almost goes without saying that working in law holds a particular draw for us Americans. There will be the need for about 74,800 more professionals with Juris Doctor degrees by the year 2022.
September 25, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (11)
ABA Announces Plan to Implement New Law School Accreditation Standards
ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar Standards Review Committee, Implementation of New Standards and Rules for Approval of Law Schools:
At its meeting on Monday, August 11, 2014, in Boston, the ABA House of Delegates concurred in all of the proposed new Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools with the exception of Interpretation 305-2. The Interpretation, which prohibits law schools from granting credit for field placement programs for which the student receives compensation, was referred back to the Council after the House heard strong testimony for and against the provision. Because the revised Standards proposed to continue the existing rule on this matter, the existing rule remains in place, pending further review by the Council.
In accordance with the Rules of Procedure, a decision by the Council to adopt, review, amend or repeal the Standards, Interpretations or Rules is subject to a maximum of two referrals back to the Council by the House. If the House refers a Council decision back to the Council twice, then the decision of the Council following the second referral will be final and will not be subject to further review by the House.
The revised Standards and Rules are legally effective as of the end of the ABA Annual Meeting on August 12, 2014. However, cognizant that law schools will need time to do the work that some of the changed Standards will require, the Council and the Section have established a transition and implementation plan. The revised Rules do not require a delay for implementation and are effective immediately.
- Revised Standards - Redline
- Revised Standards - Clean copy
- Overview of Changes
- Explanation of Changes
- Revised Rules of Procedure
September 25, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
How Appealing Partners With Above the Law
Howard Bashman's wonderful appellate litigation blog, How Appealing, is partnering with Breaking Media's Above the Law, effective October 1, 2014. For details of the arrangement, see:
- Above the Law, A Most Appealing Announcement
- How Appealing, Announcing the New Location of "How Appealing" Effective October 1, 2014
Howard does not reveal the traffic numbers for How Appealing, but reports that Above the Law receives "7 million page views per month from over 1.1 million visitors."
(Hat Tip: Greg McNeal.)
September 24, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
College Rankings by Billionaire Alumni
WEALTH-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014:
Of the top 20 most popular schools for billionaires – in terms of the number of billionaires who have obtained their bachelor's degree at these institutions – 16 were in the United States.
No. of Billionaires
London School of Econ.
Moscow State U.
ETH Zurich
September 24, 2014 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (3)
Dramatic Employment Gains at 19 Law Schools
National Jurist (Sept/Oct 2014): Employment Turnarounds: Despite a Tepid Job Market, Some Schools Have Made Dramatic Improvements in the Number of Graduates Finding Jobs:
While the nationwide employment rate for recent graduates has been largely flat during the past few years, some schools have bucked the trend and significantly improved their employment rates. Nineteen law schools improved their employment rate by 10% or more during the past two years, according to a formula created by The National Jurist ... using data from the ABA. ... The National Jurist calculates its employment rate using a formula that tracks full-time bar passage required employment at 100%, full-time-JD preferred employment at 70%, and ten other categories at percents from 60% to as low as 10% for non-professional, full-time positions.
September 24, 2014 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
SUNY-Buffalo Law School Dean Resigns Amidst Perjury Allegations in Lawsuit by Former Professor
Buffalo Art Voice, UB Law School Dean to Step Down Amid Charges of Perjury:
Makau Mutua will be stepping down as Dean of UB's Law School effective December 19. He'll then return to the law school faculty as SUNY Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar. ...
Mutua was educated at the University of Nairobi, the University of Dar-es-Salaam and Harvard Law School. But the statement from UB doesn't mention anything that was reported last month in The Star newspaper based in Nairobi, Kenya.
From The Star:
A Kenyan law professor based in US has been accused of committing perjury in an American court, his co-accused now wants the cases separated.
Makau Mutua, a human and civil rights activist, has been accused of lying in court. He is sued for allegedly irregularly laying off Jeffrey Malkan, a lecturer at Buffalo Law School where Mutua is a Dean. [Malkan was the former director of the law school's Legal Research and Writing program.]
Evidence against Mutua is said to include sworn deposition testimony and sworn affidavits from seven tenured faculty members.
How embarrassing to all us local media outlets that this hometown story was broken over a month ago by a paper in Nairobi.
More details here and here. The University's press release and other local and national press reports do not mention the lawsuit.
September 23, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tax Prof Wedding: Victoria Haneman
Tax Prof Victoria Haneman (Concordia) married Jeff Stone yesterday. Victoria reports:
Jeff and I moved to Idaho at the end of May 2014. We wanted to get married before the end of the tax year, and we also wanted to be married in our new home state. We did not, however, want to trouble our friends and family with having to fly all the way to Idaho to attend a ceremony. Jeff and I were married this afternoon by Idaho Supreme Court Justice Joel Horton, in a small private ceremony performed at the Court.
And to top things off, today is Victoria's birthday!
September 23, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, September 22, 2014
Scholars Critique Validity of Student Evaluations: 'Consumer Satisfaction' ≠ 'Product Value'
Chronicle of Higher Education, Scholars Take Aim at Student Evaluations' 'Air of Objectivity':
Student course evaluations are often misused statistically and shed little light on the quality of teaching, two scholars at the University of California at Berkeley argue in the draft of a new paper.
"We're confusing consumer satisfaction with product value," Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley, said in an interview.
An Evaluation of Course Evaluations, which he wrote with Richard Freishtat, senior consultant at Berkeley's Center for Teaching and Learning, lays out a mathematical critique of the evaluations and describes an alternative vision for analyzing and improving teaching.
Even though evaluations have become ubiquitous in academe, they remain controversial because they often assume a high-stakes role in determining tenure and promotion. But they persist because they are easy to produce, administer, and tabulate, Mr. Stark said. And because they are based on Likert scales whose results can be added and averaged, he said, they offer the comfort of a number. But it is a false kind of security. "Averages of numerical student ratings have an air of objectivity," the authors write, "simply because they are numerical."
September 22, 2014 in Legal Education, Teaching | Permalink | Comments (3)
$700 Million in New Buildings at Five Law Schools
- Arizona State: $129 million
- Boston University: $180 million
- Fordham: $250 million
- Quinnipiac: $50 million
- Syracuse: $90 million
Nat'l Law Journal, Law Schools Continue to Build Out
NY Law Journal, Fordham Celebrates New Law School
September 22, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (14)
TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup
- Harvard Law School Debate: Save the World by Working in BigLaw?
- Tax Papers at Canadian Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting
- S&P Lowers Thomas Jefferson Law School's Junk Bond Rating to CC (3 Notches Lower Than Venezuela's); Default Is Expected
- The IRS Scandal, Day 499
- Enrollments Decline at 8 of 9 Ohio Law Schools
- ABA Tax Section Fall CLE Meeting
- Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
- The IRS Scandal, Day 500
September 22, 2014 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekend Roundup | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Enrollments Decline at 8 of 9 Ohio Law Schools
The Blade, UT Law School Enrollment Decline Worst in Ohio as Slump Spooks Students:
As law school enrollment continues a four-year slide locally and across the country, Toledo attorney Randall Dixon didn't have any trouble coming up with a topic for his first column as president of the Toledo Bar Association. "Don't let your babies grow up to be lawyers" went the headline on a piece that posed the question, "What do you tell people about pursuing a career in law?" ...
Last week, the University of Toledo, whose law school took the biggest hit in the state this year with a 25.9 percent decline in first-year law students, announced a 13 percent reduction in tuition in an attempt to reverse the trend.
UT law school Dean Daniel J. Steinbock said he believes tuition costs, the resulting debt, and the less-than-promising job market for new lawyers have combined to create an overall decline in people interested in law school. ... Mr. Steinbock dismissed the idea that UT's ranking as No. 140 in U.S. News and World Report's annual law school ratings for 2014 played a part in its declining enrollment. ...
All nine of Ohio's law schools have seen applications and enrollment drop since law school enrollments peaked in 2010.
September 21, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (6)
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Harvard Law School Debate: Save the World by Working in BigLaw?
The Harvard Law Record: Want to Save the World? Do BigLaw!, by Bill Barlow:
For people systematically chosen for being able to root out and analyze the rationality of arguments, lawyers are pitifully bad at being reasonable. Let us look, for instance, at the current theories about what to do with your law degree. ...
If you really want to do good by law, consider becoming a corporate lawyer, making a lot of money, and donating a substantial sum to charity. This is by far the greatest utility maximizing option you have. Let's consider the following different scenarios:
So there you have it—be a corporate lawyer, donate 25% of your post tax income to charity, and save 150 lives a year, or deworm 25,000 kids. Alternatively, go into Public Interest, Government, or Academia, and feel warm and fuzzy about yourself. Sadly, when people at this school talk about public service, they mean the latter, rather than the former. If only people applied the same amount of cognitive skill used in just one LSAT logic game to the most critical question of what to do with their law degree, hundreds of lives could be saved.
Harvard Law Record: In Response to "Want to Save the World? Do BigLaw!", by Sima Atri:
I am not responding to this article because I think the arguments merit the time and energy I will spend writing this up. I am writing because I want students, but most especially ILs, to know that there are incredibly critical, thoughtful, committed, intelligent people at Harvard Law School who have made the choice not to go into corporate law for very important reasons.
Yes, it is true that some students are going into non-corporate work for self-interested reasons. I know I love my work and being engaged with causes I care about makes me happier. This does not reduce or demean the impact of the work I am involved in. For those who have all the choices of employment at their fingertips, we should all graduate into employments we love. With all the choices in the world, I also hope we'll choose well – taking seriously the power society has handed us because of our degrees and profession.
However, even where my work gives me meaning, the emotions I feel while engaging with the world are far from the "warm and fuzzies" the author assumes adequately compensate me (an equally qualified, intelligent, hardworking classmates) for my work. In fact, in my opinion, when you work with marginalized communities, you are reminded every day how unjust and unfair and disempowering our system is. This does not make me feel warm and fuzzy, but rather pretty angry and upset. Through critical engagement with big societal problems, I find that I've found communities of people working through effective and empowering strategies that give me moments of hope. But deep down, I realize that the systems that currently exist are set up to marginalize certain populations and to maintain the status quo for those of us who have made it. Not warm and fuzzy realizations.
The article entitled Want to Save the World – Go into Big Law is self-aggrandizing at its best and naïve and unrealistic at worst. Because, I can bet that almost no one going into corporate law next year is donating 30% of their post-tax income to charity. Because, even if they did, charity is not going to deal with the inequality and marginalization that is deeply structural and complex. ...
If you disagree with the way I've chosen to do my work, engage with me, and your other classmates. I love to talk about strategies to confront our unequal society and can readily speak to the trade-offs I've chosen to make by not making hundreds of thousands of dollars. All I ask is that you are equally honest with yourself, and that you engage with me with respect.
Harvard Law Record: Fellow Law Students, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, by Michael Shammas:
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was thinking of death and old age when he wrote his famous refrain: "Do not go gentle into that good night … Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Yet this line is applicable to many twenty-something students here at Harvard Law School. Because, quite frankly, a lot of us are, well, dying. ...
Resist the tide. Leave law school not as an attorney, but rather as a human being who happens to be an attorney. Graduate as a more interesting person than you were when you first started your Harvard Law application. It is easy to become complacent and to follow the tide, but too much of value is lost if you surrender to law school's various conforming pressures. If you wish to judge real people in the future, if you wish to help real people, then you must be a real person—not a mechanical legal automaton.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
September 20, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (7)
S&P Lowers Thomas Jefferson Law School's Junk Bond Rating to CC (3 Notches Lower Than Venezuela's); Default Is Expected
Following up on Wednesday's post, Thomas Jefferson Law School Defaults on $133m of Junk Bonds, Hopes to Restructure Debt and Remain Open: Standard & Poor's, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, CA Rating Lowered To 'CC' From 'B+', On Watch Neg; Failure To Make Loan Payments Cited:
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its long-term rating to 'CC' ["default imminent with little prospect for recovery"] from 'B+' [highly speculative"] on the California Statewide Communities Development Authority's series 2008A tax-exempt revenue bonds and series 2008B taxable revenue bonds issued for Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL). At the same time, Standard & Poor's placed the rating on CreditWatch with negative implications.
"The rating action reflects our view of TJSL's failure to make payments in full to the trustee of its June 26 loan payment, which secures the series 2008 bonds, and our anticipation that it will not make its Sept. 26 loan payment in full either," said Standard & Poor's credit analyst Carlotta Mills. We understand the school has made partial payments toward debt service, though we were unable to confirm from the trustee or the school if the debt service reserve has been drawn upon to pay bondholders.
"The CreditWatch designation reflects our understanding that the school has had multiple forbearance agreements with its bondholders and that it is working toward a restructuring of the debt, due to be in place by Oct. 17," continued Ms. Mills. We expect that the bonds will default once the restructuring is completed.
September 20, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (5)
Details Emerge in Murder of Dan Markel
[Continually Updated] More details are emerging in the July 18 murder of Dan Markel, D'Alemberte Professor of Law at Florida State and founder of PrawfsBlawg, as the result of a shooting in his home:
- Tallahassee Democrat, Technical Glitches Contributed to Delay in Markel Case (Sept. 26, 2014)
- WTXL, Internal Review Shows How Consolidated Dispatch Agency Failed in Markel Response (Sept. 25, 2014)
- National Jurist, A Murder Mystery (Sept/Oct 2014)
- First Coast News, Loved Ones Remember Slain FSU Law Professor, Still No Arrest (Sept. 17, 2014)
- Wall Street Journal, FSU Law School to Hold Memorial Service for Murdered Professor Dan Markel (Sept. 16, 2014)
- WJXT, No Answers in Law Professor's Death 2 Months Later (Sept. 16, 2014)
- The Ledger, Reward Increase for Info on Death of Law Professor (Sept. 14, 2014)
- Local 10, Reward Increased to $25,000 for Info on the Killing of Florida State Law Professor Dan Markel (Sept. 14, 2014)
- WJCB, New Reward in FSU Professor's Death (Sept, 14, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Reward in Markel Case Increases to $25,000 (Sept. 11, 2014)
- WTXL, Crime Stoppers Increases Reward to $25,000 in Dan Markel Murder Case (Sept. 11, 2014)
- WCTV, First Day of Classes Without Dan Markel (Aug. 25, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel's FSU Colleagues Seek Closure (Aug. 22, 2014)
- ABA Journal, Still No Suspects Named in Fatal Shooting of Law Prof (Aug. 19, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, One Month Later, FSU Professor Investigation Continues (Aug. 19, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Dispatch Agency Audit Moves Forward (Aug. 14, 2014)
- WXTL, EMS Response Time Reviewed After Dan Markel 911 Call (Aug. 14, 2014)
- Vos Iz Neias, Police Exploring Murdered Florida Law Professor's Possible Ties To New Jersey "Get" Ring Rabbis (Aug. 10, 2014)
- Chaptzem Blog, Police Probe Dan Markel Link to 'Get' Extortion Rabbis (Aug. 8, 2014)
- Global Legal Post, Mystery Surrounds Law Professor Murder (Aug. 8, 2014)
- Jewish Daily Forward, Police Probe Dan Markel Link to 'Get' Extortion Rabbis (Aug. 8, 2014)
- Law Fuel, Who Killed the Law Professor? (Aug. 8, 2014)
- ABA Journal, Speculation Abounds in Law Prof's Slaying; Delayed Response to His Shooting Questioned (Aug. 7, 2014)
- Jewish Daily Forward, Dan Markel Killing Leaves Behind Puzzling Questions — and Wrenching Grief; No Shortage of Theories in Murder of Florida Law Professor (Aug. 7, 2014)
- College Insurrection, New Details in Murder of Law Professor Dan Markel (Aug. 6, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Dispatch Center Audit Sought After Delay in Markel Case (Aug. 6, 2014)
- Above the Law, The Latest Information On The Investigation Into The Murder Of Professor Dan Markel (Aug. 5, 2014)
- The College Fix, More Details in the Killing of FSU's Dan Markel (Aug. 5, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Attorney Requests Privacy for Markel's Ex-wife (Aug. 4, 2014)
- ABC News, Fatally Shot FSU Professor Waited 19 Minutes for Ambulance to Arrive (Aug. 1, 2014)
- Capitol News Service, Two Weeks and No Answers (Aug. 1, 2014)
- Jewish Daily Forward, Dying Dan Markel Waited 19 Minutes for Ambulance — Call Given Low Priority (Aug. 1, 2014)
- Toronto City News, Florida Officials Say 911 Operator Made 'Error' After Toronto Man Fatally Shot (Aug. 1, 2014)
- Daily Mail, Florida Law Professor Targeted for Murder Feared For His Safety After Menacing Anonymous Threats to Use 'All Means Necessary to Shutting People Like YOU Down' (July 31, 2014)
- Jewish Daily Forward, Are Hostile Blog Posts Clues to Dan Markel Murder Mystery? (July 31, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Ambulance Arrived at Markel's Home 19 Minutes After 911 Call (July 31, 2014)
- Tallahassee News, Was Markel a Victim of Road Rage or Some Kind of Nasty Argument the Day He Was Shot? (July 30, 2014)
- Tallahassee Police Department, Audio of 911 Call
- Village Voice, Legal Consultant on Divorce Extortion Cases Murdered in Florida (July 30, 2014)
- Gawker, 911 Call Logs, Past Legal Cases Add New Details to Professor's Killing (July 29, 2014)
- New York Daily News, Killer Waited in FSU Professor's Driveway, Shot Him in Head in Tallahassee Garage (July 29, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Reward in Markel Case Increased (July 30, 2014)
- Toronto City News, Toronto-born Lawyer Killed in Florida Working on Kidnap Conspiracy Case (July 29, 2014)
- ABA Journal, Friends Remember Slain Law Prof; Redacted Report Says He Was Killed in His Garage (July 28, 2014)
- ABC News, FSU Professor Was Talking on Cell Phone When Shooting Happened (July 28, 2014)
- Above the Law, Updates on the Investigation Into the Killing of Professor Dan Markel (July 28, 2014)
- Boston Globe, Harvard Law Grad Shot in Head, and Nobody Knows Why (July 28, 2014)
- Gawker, Popular Professor Was on Cell Phone When He Was Ambushed by His Killer (July 28, 2014)
- Nancy Grace, Who Murdered Harvard-educated Law Professor? (July 28, 2014)
- Jewish Daily Forward, Dan Markel Talking on Cell Phone When Shot as He Pulled Into Driveway
- Miami Herald, Slain FSU Law Professor Was Found Bleeding in His Car (July 28, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee Police Department Hopes to Piece Together Markel's Final Day (July 28, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee Police Department Releases Portion of 911 Call From the Morning Dan Markel Was Fatally Shot (July 28, 2014)
- Jewish Daily Forward, Dan Markel Slain in His Garage — Keys in Car Cops Hunt Silver Prius in Florida Law Prof Slay (July 27, 2014)
- Daily Mail, Baffling Murder of the Harvard Law Scholar: Professor Killed in 'Hit' Was Targeted Two Days After Writing Impassioned Essay on the Death Penalty and Getting a New Girlfriend (July 26, 2014)
- Leiter's Law School Reports, More on the Murder of Dan Markel (july 26, 2014)
- Miami Herald, Tallahassee Police: FSU Professor Shot in Garage (July 26, 2014)
- Toronto Star, New Info About Death of Dan Markel Suggests Ke Knew His Attacker (July 26, 2014)
- Daily Mail, $50,000 Raised in Just Three Days for the Children of Harvard-educated Law Professor Who Was Shot in the Head on His Own Doorstep (July 25, 2014)
- Gawker, Who Killed a Nationally Renowned Blogging Law Professor in His Home? (July 25, 2014)
- Miami Herald, Questions Remain in Shooting Death of FSU Professor (July 25, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Neighbor Saw Prius-type Car in Area of Markel's Home (July 25, 2014)
- Tampa Bay Times, Legal Community Rocked by FSU Law Professor's Killing (July 25, 2014)
- ABC News, Grim Details Emerge in FSU Professor's Shooting Death (July 24, 2014)
- New York Daily News, Cops Hunt Mystery Killer of Renowned FSU Law Professor Dan Markel as Car of Interest Identified (July 24, 2014)
- ABA Journal, FSU Law Prof Dan Markel Died From Gunshot Wound to the Head; Police Pursue Leads From Tip Line (July 23, 2014)
- New York Daily News, Gunman Targeted Top FSU Law Professor Fatally Shot in Head: Police (July 23, 2014)
- WTXL Tallahassee, Tallahassee Police Release Picture of "Vehicle of Interest" Connected to Murder of FSU Professor (July 23, 2014)
- ABA Journal, Law Prof's Shooting Wasn't a Burglary Gone Bad; He Was 'Intended Victim,' Police Say (July 22, 2014)
- CBS, Police Declare Florida Law Professor Dan Markel "Intended Victim" in Shooting (July 22, 2014)
- Globe and Mail, Slain Canadian Law Professor a Victim of Targeted Attack, Florida Police Say (July 22, 2014)
- Miami News Blog, FSU Professor Dan Markel's Mysterious Murder Shocks Law Community (July 22, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel Died From Gunshot Wound to the Head (July 22, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel 'Intended Victim' of Fatal Shooting (July 22, 2014)
- ABA Journal, Shooting Death of Law Prof Who Founded PrawfsBlawg Is Investigated as Homicide (July 21, 2014)
- Above the Law, A Prominent Law Professor Is Shot At Home And Killed (July 21, 2014)
- CTV, Toronto-raised Law Professor 'Intended Victim' of Florida Shooting (July 21, 2014)
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Florida State U. Prof Dan Markel Slain in Home Shooting (July 21, 2014)
- National Law Journal, Slain FSU Law Professor Mourned as Police Investigate (July 21, 2014)
- New York Times, Police Seek Clues in Fatal Shooting of Widely Known Criminal Law Professor in Florida; Dan Markel's Death Reverberates Among Legal Scholars (July 21, 2014)
- Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee Police Department Chief DeLeo Calls Markel Shooting a 'Murder' (July 21, 2014)
- WFSU Tallahassee, FSU Law Professor's Shooting Death Not Random: 'He Was The Intended Victim' (July 21, 2014)
- Toronto Star, Toronto-born Law Professor Dan Markel Gunned Down at His Florida Home (July 20, 2014)
- Tallahassee Police Department, Police Report on Shooting of Daniel Markel (July 18, 2014)
I have collected links to the many tributes to Dan here.
Dan Markel Memorial Fund To Benefit His Sons, Benjamin Amichai Markel and Lincoln Jonah Markel:
September 20, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (3)
Friday, September 19, 2014
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- ABA Journal, Suspended Law Student Sues Penn State Dickinson, Says Law School Denied Her a Fair Hearing
- Above the Law, Charleston Law Finds a New Suitor
- Shaun Archer, James Eyster (Ave Maria), James Kelly (Notre Dame), Tonya Kowalski (Washburn) & Colleen Shanahan (Georgetown), Reaching Backward and Stretching Forward: Teaching for Transfer in Law School Clinics, 64 J. Legal Educ ___ (2014)
- David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), Educational Goals Combining Strategic Awareness and Technical Skill
- Susan Brooks (Drexel), Using a Communication Perspective to Teach Relational Lawyering, 15 Nev. L.J. ___ (2014)
- BU Today, Elbow Room and More: Redstone Building to be Dedicated Today
- Ray Campbell (Peking University School of Transnational Law), Practical Law Teaching in an Age of Specialization
- Ray Campbell (Peking University School of Transnational Law), Specialization and the Occupation(s) of Law
- Charleston Post and Courier, Charleston School of Law Founder Westbrook Launches Nonprofit Group as Alternative to InfiLaw
- Margaret Costello, Andrew Moorem & Cara Warren (all of Detroit-Mercy), The Globalization of Legal Education
- Daily Wildcat, Meet Richard Garnett, Leading Expert in Seperation Between Church and State
- Linda Edwards (UNLV), The Good Lawyer: Seeking Quality in the Practice of Law
- George Washington Hatchet, Law School Focuses on Innovation as Accreditation Review Looms
- Inside Higher Ed, Thomas Jefferson: A Troubled Law School
- Rosalie Jukier (McGill) & Kate Glover (McGill), The Role of Graduate Legal Education in the Future of the Law Faculty, 51 Alberta L. Rev. 761 (2014)
- Iselin Magdalene Gambert (George Washington), Karen Thornton (George Washington) & Amy Stein (Hofstra), The World Is Not Flat: Conference Planning and Presentation as Part of a Multidimensional Understanding of Scholarship
- Dan Lear, The AltLegal Career Path
- Matt Leichter, Japan's Law Schools Should Take Lessons From Their American Counterparts
- Stephen Newman (New York Law School), Discussing Advocacy Skills in Traditional Doctrinal Courses
- Dan Rodriguez (Dean, Northwestern), On Specialization and the Future of Lawyering
- San Diego Free Press, Is San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law Going Under?
- Alex Steel (University of New South Wales), Clarifying Assessment: Developing Typologies for Forms of Assessment in Law
- Texas Lawyer, The Secret Is Out: Texas Is Good for Women in Law
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St. Thomas Hosts Conference Today on Religious Identity in a Time of Challenge for Law Schools
The University of St. Thomas School of Law hosts the annual Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Conference on Religious Identity in a Time of Challenge for Law Schools today in Minneapolis:
- Keynote Address: Robert Cochran (Pepperdine) & David VanDrunen (Westminster Seminary), Justice and Mercy
- Deans' Panel: Jeff Brauch (Regent), Mike Simons (St. John's), Deanell Tacha (Pepperdine), Robert Vischer (Dean, St. Thomas)
- Employment & Student Well-Being: Judith McMorrow (Boston College), Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Amy Uelman (Georgetown)
- Faculty Scholarship: John Breen (Loyola-Chicago), Howard Lesnick (Penn), Nekima Levy-Pounds (St. Thomas), Brett Scharffs (BYU)
- The Changing World: Pope Francis and Religious Freedom: Janet Epps-Buckingham (Trinity Western), Susan Stabile (St. Thomas), Michael Scaperlanda (Oklahoma)
September 19, 2014 in Conferences, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Georgia Dean Finalists
University of Georgia Provost, Four Finalists for Dean of UGA Law School to Visit Campus:
- Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge (Georgia) (cover letter)
- Michael J. Gerhardt (North Carolina) (cover letter)
- Lonnie T. Brown Jr. (Georgia) (cover letter)
- Mark P. McKenna (Notre Dame) (cover letter)
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Cassidy: Reforming the Law School Curriculum from the Top Down
R. Michael Cassidy (Boston College), Reforming the Law School Curriculum from the Top Down, 64 J. Legal Educ. ___ (2014):
With growing consensus that legal education is in turmoil if not in crisis, law schools need to take advantage of industry upheaval to catalyze innovation in the way they train their students. Curriculum reform, long the "third rail" of faculty politics, is now essential if some law schools are going to survive the present tsunami of low enrollments and stagnant hiring. One cautiously optimistic note within this doomsday symphony is that law school deans are now in extremely strong bargaining positions with their faculties and boards of trustees with respect to curriculum innovation.
In this essay, the author proposes a pivotal reform to the third year curriculum involving team-taught "Advanced Legal Problem Solving" workshops in subject specific areas, and describes the precise structure, content and staffing of such capstone courses. He argues that such workshops would significantly enhance the preparation of law students for entry into the profession, and would create an efficient and cost-effective route for law schools to satisfy rigorous new ABA accreditation standards regarding experiential learning and outcomes assessment.
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NY Times Debate: Should the ABA Allow Paid Externships for Law Students?
New York Times Room for Debate: Getting Pay and Credit for a Legal Education:
The American Bar Association prohibits law students from receiving pay for internships and externships that grant them academic credit. Critics have pressured the organization to reverse this standard, as law students face mounting debt and a slow job market.
Should law students be compensated for internships that count toward graduation?
- Michael Cardozo (Partner, Proskauer Rose, New York), Don't Deny Credit When Credit Is Due: "Government and nonprofit offices provide part-time work and academic credit, which would be denied if the students were paid."
- Olympia Duhart (Professor, Nova Law School), Money Changes Everything: "Yes, law students need money but rolling back the prohibition on allowing them to receive pay and credit for the same work ignores some key realities."
- Aaron Sohaski (Student, Cooley Law School), Let Us Get Paid: "Before granting credit, law schools could still evaluate paid externship opportunities on a case-by-case basis to ensure they meet stringent educational requirements."
September 18, 2014 in Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Philadelphia Trial Lawyer Gives $50 Million to Drexel Law School; 4th Largest Gift to a U.S. Law School
Philadelphia Inquirer, Trial Lawyer Kline Gives $50M to Drexel Law School:
In one of the largest gifts ever to a U.S. law school, Drexel University said Wednesday that Philadelphia trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline will give the eight-year-old institution $50 million to bolster its effort to reach the top ranks of legal education.
Drexel president John A. Fry said the money will be used to fund scholarships, add faculty and to expand the law school's trial advocacy program, which provides training for lawyers who plan to focus on courtroom practice.
Included in the gift is the former Beneficial Saving Fund Society building at 12th and Chestnut Streets, an imposing classical revival style structure that has been vacant since 2001 and that will house the law school's Institute for Trial Advocacy.
In recognition of the gift, the law school will be named the Thomas R. Kline School of Law. ...
Kline's gift is the fourth-largest ever to a U.S. law school, Drexel said. The largest was a $130 million contribution to the University of Arizona law school in 1999 from broadcasting executive James Rogers; next is a $100 million gift from Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan to the law school of Ave Maria University in Florida; in third place is a $55 million gift to the Chapman University law school from real estate developer Dale E. Fowler and his wife, Sarah Ann.
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Since he began leading the Rays in 2006, Joe Maddon has been known as one of the more progressive MLB managers… He's even spoke out publicly against sac bunting in the past… [yet] The Tampa Bay Rays have attempted 58 non-pitcher sacrifice bunts this season, by far the highest mark in the major leagues. No other team has even 50… Just 35 of those 58 attempts have turned into "successful" sacrifice bunts… ...
With a 5-0 shutout win over the Yankees tonight, the Rays at long last returned to .500 at 61-61. As the Rays' Twitter notes, they have become the fourth team in baseball history to reach .500 after falling at least 18 games below .500, joining the 1899 Louisville Colonels, the 2004 Devil Rays, and the 2006 Marlins.
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With the loss of four key seniors from their backcourt of a season ago, the Memphis Tigers have some questions to answer on the perimeter this summer. Fortunately for head coach Josh Pastner the program has a summer trip to Canada to help with the on-court chemistry of a group that doesn't have a lot of experience at the Division I level.
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"Damien is in good academic standing at the University, but he shared with me that he'd like a fresh start," Pastner said in the release. "We support Damien and wish him all the best."
In two seasons at Memphis the Atlanta native played in 41 games, with 15 of those coming in his sophomore year. Last season Wilson played 19 minutes in the Tigers' season-opening win over Austin Peay and 20 in a loss at Oklahoma State, a game in which he scored eight points. But he would play in just 13 games the remainder of the season, reaching double digits in minutes just once.
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Trading in gold bullion fell more than 25 percent to 43 trillion rupees in the year to March 2014, from 78 trillion rupees in the same period last year. Metals volumes fell 46 percent to 17 trillion rupees, and volumes in agricultural commodities fell 25 percent to 16 trillion rupees.
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The world's second-biggest buyer of gold and second-biggest producer of wheat, India allowed commodities futures trading only in 2003. But enthusiasm has dried up since a scam was unearthed last July at the National Spot Exchange owned by Financial Technologies India, which also owns the largest exchange, the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCEI.NS).
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Feb 23, Jaffna: The High Commissioner of India, Ashok K. Kantha Saturday paid tribute to the IPKF Memorial located at Palaly in Sri Lanka's Northern Province city of Jaffna.
The High Commissioner accompanied by his wife Mrs. Sharmila Kantha is on a two-day visit to the Northern Province on February 23 and 24.
Upon his arrival in Jaffna Kantha placed a wreath at the IPKF Memorial in Palaly. Consul General of India in Jaffna V. Mahalingam and Defence Adviser at High Commission of India in Colombo Captain Sumeet Kapoor also laid wreaths.
The IPKF Memorial at Palaly is in memory of the soldiers of the 10 Para Regiment of Indian Army who lost their lives during the IPKF (Indian Peace Keeping Force) operation in Northern Province between 1987 and 1989. The Memorial consists of seven structures and has the names of 33 soldiers engraved.
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Sri Lankan Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Douglas Devananda and Governor of Northern Province G.A. Chandrasiri also participated in these events.
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