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“Law Students Leave Torts Behind (for a Bit) and Tackle Accounting” in the New York Times (@nytimes) is a jumbled… Read More »What’s Old is New Again, Legal Education Edition

What’s the point of “experiential” legal education?  Anecdotes and a bit of data are surfacing. Note:

• “Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?,” a new manuscript from Jason Yackee that looks at some of the impact of law school clinics. Mike Risch at Villanova has some interesting reactions.
• “Ahead of the Curve,” a new report from the team at IAALS, evaluates the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire.
• “Young lawyers take flight after incubator programs,” a short piece in the new ABA Journal, which uses results from CUNY’s incubator program to promote the virtues of incubator programs in general.

The same batch of messages that brought these to my attention also brought me a link to the upcoming ABA Techshow, which struck me as being enormously important to the future of lawyers but not much in the sights of the bulleted experiential legal education programs.Read More »Innovation and Experience in Legal Education