Putting the cool back into law school
From the category archives:
Useless Dicta, one of the best law bloggers and someone who has been at it since 2006, hadn’t posted since February. Her last post described the troubles moving around after she injured her knee in a skiing accident. The night after that post, according to a comment on her blog, Useless passed away unexpectedly from [...]
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For a few years now, the battle over laptops in classrooms has largely been fought in law school meetings and on legal blogs. Now a couple articles are bring the fight to the mainstream. First there’s a Washington post article profiling Georgetown Law professor David Cole, who has banned laptops in his classroom since 2006. [...]
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Hidden away inside of the Heath Care Reform reconciliation bill is another major reform. While it’s raised some opposition among Republicans who site is as another liberal entitlement program, it will hopefully be a big win for students and efficiency. Like health care reform, student loan reform is another example of President Obama following through [...]
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While I will be standing right next to Above the Law when it comes time for the revolution that will start cutting down the number of law schools, I try to stay away from banging on individual schools. In a competitive, free market economy, new schools must come and innovate to push the industry forward. [...]
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One thing that throws just how contrived law school can be into sharp relief is when a law student sees real lawyering in action. That’s what happened to Jansen: Unlike the raging husband, the Moot Court clients aren’t standing next to me. There’s no sobbing wife, angry mother, or threat of jail time. The lack [...]
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Adam Vella over at Legal Geekery has two informative posts about taking your textbooks from 1000-page back breaking behemoths to weightless, useful digital copies, then to books that read themselves. Digitizing your textbooks is a process of cutting off the bindings and scanning the pages in. Adam’s tips are all dead on and highlight the [...]
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I would really like to see the rates of voluntary attrition at law schools. It’s hard to get a gauge based on anecdotal evidence. On the one hand, reading law student blogs and listening to law students, you would think everyone was one bad day away from quitting. On the other hand, law students don’t [...]
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The lack of consistency in law school grading is one of the top reasons law school is so stressful. The law student whose grades correlate perfectly with the time spent and his or her understanding of the class simply hasn’t been delighted or screwed by a grade they feel they didn’t deserve. Unless you are [...]
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