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Imagine it’s the midnight on the Thursday before finals start. Your first exam is on Monday. And to use one of my favorite words from one of my favorite internet celebrities, you’ve got this dicked. Maybe two of your four outlines are done and the other two are nearing completion. Maybe you’ve already looked at [...]
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A week ago, Above the Law gathered a choir, incense, and candles, and gave praise to the kind lord and preached the good word. It had nothing to do with Jesus, but rather the American Bar Association’s announcement that the ABA is in the middle of a review of law school accreditation criteria. The big [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I saw on Unclutterer an article from the New Yorker about a study that occurred long ago but the implications of which are just being understood today. It involved a Stanford study where children were told that if they could hold off eating a marshmallow or similar treat for 15 [...]
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If the stakes are high enough, someone will always cheat. Maybe I sound like Dr. Gregory House or Dr. Cal Lightman (this post brought to you by Fox apparently)—although they would say everyone lies—but if you get 100 law students taking a test, it’s harder to argue that every single one of them is honest [...]
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It’s always great when a throwaway line in a blog post creates another throwaway comment, which then creates a lot of teeth gnashing that can’t be thrown away. So why not join in? When discussing wisdom vs. smartness and which is better when picking a Supreme Court Justice, Dave Hoffman of Concurring Opinions made a [...]
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Along with layoffs, start date deferrals, and associate salary cuts, there has been an increase in another indicator of economic woes: stories about lawyers’ depression. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal Law Blog commented on a National Law Journal story about rising depression among lawyers. Last week there was the shocking suicide of Mark Levy, a [...]
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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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I linked to this on Tumblr a few days ago, but I wanted to come back to it since it’s such a rich topic of discussion right now. The Legal Satyricon posted about the Worthlessness of American Legal Education. The post went up on the occasion of UCLA’s new LL.M. program for recent graduates that [...]
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