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Last week the AP had this story, headlined "SoCal law school tempts students with free tuition," about the efforts by UC-Irvine to get a flying start with top students in its first class. Here are snippets from the story: A...

In my last post, I reflected a bit on Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and the formation of law professors. Having finished the book, I have a few more thoughts, which suggest that the way we select law professors is to the...

Malcom Gladwell's book Outliers contains a fascinating theory: That the most successful people in a field tend to be those who met a certain threshold of intelligence or talent, and then practiced their skills for at 10,000 hours before attaining...

Professor Nan Hunter has this helpful post compiling information on all the law professors who are playing formal roles in the Obama transition. As of this writing, the post is headlined "Law professors in the Obama administration: 35 and counting."...

The National Law Journal has this interesting article, headlined "Fla. law school takes 'naming rights' concept to a new level." The piece discusses one law school's innovative approach to naming rights. Here are some excerpts: While all law schools seem...

I was both extraordinarily excited and quite surprised to discover that LSI has won a place on the ABA's latest and greatest list of the best legal blogs. This post on the ABA's blog, titled "50 New Sites Make 2nd...

As regular readers on my home blog know, I find the debate and litigation surrounding the Second Amendment after Heller to be fascinating (and also incomplete and stunted in various ways). For this reason and others, I have been lately...

I keep getting e-mail telling me about the soon-to-be published new magazine pictured here. The magazine's website provides this information about the publication: Introducing a brand new publication designed specifically for women professionals in the litigation practice specialty. Demolishing stereotypes....

Though law school grading and modern grade inflation are hardly an innovative topic, the news of more big schools altering or raising their grading system seems worthy of bloggy reflection. This week the news of revised (and inflated) grading curvescome...

It is something most law teachers have come across at least once: You are working your way through some kind of a doctrine or point of legal history, and a student comes up with a brilliant and compelling question. It...

At his law school blog, Brian Leiter has this notable post, titled "Will Other Schools Follow the Yale/Harvard/Stanford Lead of Effectively Eliminating Grades?". Here is how it starts: There are rumors aplenty that Columbia and NYU may move to something...

Having worked with the ISP for the last few years, I encourage applicants for this program that combines interest in law and information policy. A law degree is not required, though of course lawyers are welcome into the program. --...

Like Doug, I have been reflecting on the number of law professors involved in the Obama transition, and wondering what that will mean. I don't think many of them will bring radical change, for good or bad, despite the fact...

A helpful reader pointed me to this news of a seemingly important ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Here are the basics: The state supreme court has ordered that a graduate of an online law school be allowed to...

The title of this post might be the title of a mission statement for just about every law school ranked somewhere in the top 50. But, in fact, it is the headline of this interesting local article discussing the goals...