Four Leading Law Schools Together With UnitedLex Launch Groundbreaking Legal Residency Program http://www.unitedlex.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2015/pr_052815.php
C|M|LAW Library Blog | Westlaw Printing Enhancements: Dropbox and Star Pagination
C|M|LAW Library Blog | Westlaw Printing Enhancements: Dropbox and Star Pagination http://cmlawlibraryblog.classcaster.net/2015/05/19/westlaw-printing-enhancements-dropbox-and-star-pagination/
Latest Draft of “Best Practice Recommendations of Distance Learning for Legal Education 2.0 (2015-16)” | Working Group for Distance Learning in Legal Ed http://www.wgdlle.org/2015/03/08/latest-draft-of-best-practice-recommendations-of-distance-learning-for-legal-education-2-0-2015-16/
CSALE 2013-14 Survey of Applied Legal Education – by Mary Lynch – Best Practices for Legal Education http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2015/02/23/csale-2013-14-survey-of-applied-legal-education-by-mary-lynch/
LSN Captures How Law Schools Respond to USN&WR Rankings
Over on the Law School News site the release earlier this week of the US News & World Report law school rankings has triggered the collection of many press releases and blog posts about the rankings. Typically schools that placed well in the rankings are letting the world know about it, while others remain silent.
You can track the news yourself with this saved search: rank | Law School News.
Law School News (LSN) is a hobby site I run that aggregates news feeds from about 100 US law schools and makes the feeds searchable.Preview
2013 Guide to Running an Open Education Hackathon
Education and open science hackathon guide | opensource.com. – This article is from March 2013 and it provides some good ideas for organizing and running an open education hackathon. A course sprint that bring s subject matter experts together with tech and design people sounds like a good way to jump-start an open education resource project.
New Drake Law School And Iowa State University Program Lets Students Complete Undergrad, Law Degrees in 6 Years
Students at Iowa State University will be able to earn their undergraduate and law degrees in six, rather than seven, years under an innovative new partnership between Iowa State and the Drake Law School. Developed and managed by the ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the program allows students to enter Law School in their fourth year and use the credits earned in their first year of Law School to complete their undergraduate studies.
via Drake Law School – News & Events.
This represents a great opportunity for students headed to Iowa State with an eye towards getting a JD. While students are not guaranteed acceptance in Drake Law, those that make it will receive a $5000 annual renewable scholarship. The goal is to provide more lawyers to serve rural Iowa.
More law schools should be looking at programs like this not only as a way to help students control costs but also as a way to help those interested in serving under served communities.
St. John’s Law Highlights Blogging Faculty
St. John’s is home to a dedicated faculty of engaging teachers and accomplished scholars. In the classroom, they foster our students’ analytical ability and practical skills. Outside the classroom, many of our professors are outstanding researchers and thought leaders who have “written the book” in their areas of interest and expertise.
A little over a year ago, the Law School launched the Faculty Scholarship Blog to showcase faculty activities and achievements, including their books and articles, speaking engagements, and media appearances. Produced and regularly updated by Professor Janai S. Nelson − the Law School’s Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship − and Professor Jeff Sovern, the blog offers a detailed snapshot of the faculty’s timely and important work.
via St. John’s Law Bloggers Offer Virtual Tour of Today’s Legal Landscape.
It’s great to see a law school acknowledge faculty who blog and highlight the areas they are blogging in. This sort of thing will help make writing for a blog or website more acceptable as a form of scholarly writing. Certainly not every utterance that lands on the Internet is scholarly, but we are moving to a place where well thought out and researched articles on a blog or website are going to be considered scholarly products alongside more traditionally published law review articles. And that is a Good Thing.
MC Law Launches Deans Database
This site provides information about law school deans. Ever wondered who is the longest serving dean? Which current dean has held the most deanships? How many deans were former law professors or judges? What schools a dean attended? Who were the former deans at a particular law school?
The RDD is designed to answer these questions and to provide information to those who take an interest in law school deanships. This database may be used by dean search committees, university officials, or members of the public and is available without charge.
via Rosenblatt’s Deans Database.
Rosenblatt’s Deans Database (RDD) a new and interesting resource for those interested in keeping up with the world of Law School Deans. It aims to provide profiles of current deans as well as historical data for each law school. Data is provided by the law schools. I hope it stays up to date since it is kind of handy to have all that data in one place.
Boston University School of Law Offers Students $250 to Blog
The Communications Office is looking for J.D. students with strong writing skills to blog about their experiences for In their own words: BU Law Student Blogs. These online journals give prospective students a better idea of day-to-day life at the School. Your posts may also be read by prospective employers, alumni, faculty, the media, and anyone who visits the site, so this is an opportunity to showcase your writing as well as your approach to law school and the legal profession in general.
via BU Law | News | Earn $250/semester as a BU Law student blogger.
This is a great idea that gives a voice to law students and provides the rest of us with some insight into what drives law students these days. This is a program that other law schools should copy. A network of school sponsored student written blogs where students write about their law school experiences would be wonderful.
If you’re at a law school and you don’t have access to a local blogging system, you could do this sort of thing on CALI Classcaster.