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The Economics of It All (with some funny numbers)

April 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Ok. So Michael’s gone to the heart of this business: what’s going to happen with the legal profession and how will that affect law schools? (I was going to write how will law schools respond, but I think that implies more agency on our part than we’ll have. The profession is going [...]

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Tags: A Mobblog on Legal Education · Academia

A Focus on Quality of Scholarship, Rather than Placement

April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Ann Bartow has one solution to the obsessive focus on placement of articles: have faculty publish in their schools’ law journals. Pretty interesting idea–and that’s sort of the way things used to be, where the a review published the work of the school’s faculty and students (and some others, too). Reviews from the [...]

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A Mini University?

April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Thanks to Michael and Devan and the rest of the crew here for inviting me to join the conversation on “What kind of institution do we want a law school to be?”
The institution I’d like is, well, perhaps pretty close to the ones we already have–something like a mini university, or maybe it’s better analogized [...]

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Tags: A Mobblog on Legal Education · Academia · Law School