Putting the cool back into law school
From the monthly archives:
Cynthia over at The Shark has an excellent bit of investigative reporting. At a professional development event, Cynthia heard something that should strike fear into the hearts of many law students: What I thought was the best nugget from the event, though, was something that might be a little less encouraging to you all. Theodora [...]
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On the midst of law school exams, we might as well talk grades. Yesterday The Shark summarized three posts from PrawfsBlawg about grading, particularly in the upper level courses. The three posts talked about the effect of three nontraditional grading schemes: uncurved seminar courses, “flex courses”, and professors changing grades based on subjective measures. Brian [...]
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First off, to those who have noticed in only two posts that there’s a Mac focus to these reviews, good job. I use a Mac at home, I don’t have an occasion to use much PC-based software that’s targeted at or helpful to students. That said, I can think of a few products with PC [...]
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Chere over at Teasingly Diverse offered up a great idea for law students to reduce stress and gain a bit of perspectives: take a sabbath. Maybe it’s Sunday, maybe it’s Saturday, maybe it’s a weekeday. Maybe you actually do nothing, and maybe you work hard at something. The bigger idea is to take a day [...]
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Penn State’s student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, is reporting that a Kaplan survey of over 1000 takers of the February LSAT found that 40% were applying to law school at least partly to wait out the economic troubles. 67% were partly there for the potential earning power and 54% are considering running for office. An [...]
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Data goof blamed for Neb. law school ratings drop – KTIV NewsChannel 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and Sports I’ll believe this when US News acknowledges it.
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One of the bigger bees in my bonnet regarding law school has to do with the fact that law schools are at a crossroads. Either they need to embrace their academic roots and stop pitching themselves as a type of trade school, or they need to go the trade school route. It seems Gonzaga has [...]
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This isn’t law school-related, but I needed to chime in on something that’s been getting a bit of play. A little while back, I posted something I wrote for my day job that answered the question: can college coaches could use Twitter? Or more precisely, how can they use Twitter. That article is from December. [...]
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