Adjusting to the Bar Prep Life

June 10, 2025

Law School Academic Support Blog by Erica Sylvia — Professor Sylvia (UMass Law) offers advice to recent law school graduates as they adjust to studying for the bar exam.  

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Cultivating Lawyers Without Borders In the Global Law Classroom

June 10, 2025

Legal Writing Matters by Rosa Kim — Professor Kim (Suffolk Law) discusses a global law course she helped develop that is taught simultaneously to law students across the world.  

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AI and Dispute Resolution: Why You’ll Need It Sooner Than You Think

June 10, 2025

Indisputably by John Lande — Professor Lande (University of Missouri Law) discusses how artificial intelligence can be used to teach dispute resolution in law schools.  

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Step into the Unknown: Why Academic Success Professionals Should Take Risks

June 10, 2025

Law School Academic Support Blog by Dayna Smith — Professor Smith (Vermont Law and Graduate School) discusses her experience teaching a course that was out of her comfort zone. 

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Scholarship on Law Review Scholarship Cited in SCOTUS Opinions

June 10, 2025

Empirical Legal Studies by Michael Heise — Professor Heise (Cornell Law) shares data on how frequently US Supreme Court justices cite law review articles when drafting opinions and argues that the findings demonstrate the importance of legal scholarship. 

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Does Federal Civil Rights Law Forbid Race-Based and Sex-Based Affirmative Action by the Harvard Law Review?

June 10, 2025

Dorf on Law by Michael C. Dorf — Professor Dorf (Cornell Law) analyzes whether federal civil rights law affects Harvard Law Review’s ability to consider race and gender in its editorial board selections as the journal faces federal scrutiny. 

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Do Bar Exam Waivers Hurt Lawyer Quality?

June 10, 2025

TaxProf Blog by Paul Caron — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a research paper by multiple authors that examines how bar exam waivers might negatively impact the quality of the legal profession. 

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The 2024 1L Class and How They Paid for Their First Year of Law School

June 10, 2025

Law:Fully by Elizabeth Bodamer — The author shares data relating to how first-year law students in 2024 paid for their legal education.   

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Sharing Our Predictive Validity Studies for 2020-2024

June 10, 2025

Law:Fully by Anna Topczewski — The author shares a report compiling five years of data showing the predictive validity of the LSAT for law student success.  

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LSAC Reports On The 2024 1L Class

June 10, 2025

TaxProf Blog by Paul Caron — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a list of reports the Law Student Admission Council has released containing data about students who started law school in 2024. 

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