Alas, I seriously doubt any such reform will by mandated by the ABA’s review of accredition standards since not interfering with the how the legal academy should produce “pratice ready” grads beyond aspirational goals for “outcomes” appears to be the…
Archive for the ‘Law School News & Views’ Category
Law Grad Jobs, The ABA, And U.S. News
01
Sep
Two stories on the law student job market caught my eye today. One is from the Associated Press via Google News. It’s called Law Schools Lure Fewer Students As Jobs Dry Up. It relates how law schools in Missouri are…
Dateline, August 31, 2011, 2:00 PM: Public Safety Alert at Albany Law School Library
01
Sep
For details, see ATL’s Watch Out: There’s a Wanker in the Library! Isn’t it awfully early in the academic year for this? All joking aside, ATL’s David Lat reports that security at the Albany Law School Library is a serious…
Even More Law School Unhappiness
26
Aug
Law schools are easy targets for lawsuits these days, what with students suing their schools for fraud or faculty suing their administrators when collegiality is replaced by bad blood. One of the latest comes against the University of Pittsburgh, which…
Girls (Strike out that) Law Profs Gone Wild
26
Aug
The once anonymous “LawProf” blogger of Inside the Law School Scam has identified himself. As most readers of LLB know, Mark Giangrande reported that he is Colorado Law prof Paul Campos. I don’t know if the WSJ Law Blog broke…
Law Faculty Highest Paid on Average in Academia
22
Aug
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published its latest survey on academics and wouldn’t you know it, law faculty members are the highest paid of all the disciplines listed. The average salary of a full professor is $134,162. The next…
Law Faculty Highest Paid on Average in Academia
22
Aug
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published its latest survey on academics and wouldn’t you know it, law faculty members are the highest paid of all the disciplines listed. The average salary of a full professor is $134,162. The next…
Is the Teaching Law Firm a Way to Produce "Practice Ready" Law School Grads?
22
Aug
The teaching law firm is a proposal offered by Bradley T. Borden, (Brooklyn Law School) and Robert J. Rhee (Univ. of Maryland School of Law) in The Law School Firm [SSRN] 63 South Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2011). The authors…
