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  • New Empirical Study in Comparative Law: “The Reasons Highest Courts Give: England, France, Germany; 1880–89 and 2007–16”
  • Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist
  • Law School Reforms to the 1L Experience and Academic Probation

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

New Empirical Study in Comparative Law: “The Reasons Highest Courts Give: England, France, Germany; 1880–89 and 2007–16”

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realclearpolitics.com /1 month ago

Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist

Louis Brandeis believed that facts could change lives and break excessive power where it accumulated.

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taxprofblog.aals.org /4 weeks ago

Law School Reforms to the 1L Experience and Academic Probation

Do law faculty committees need something to do? Here are detailed possibilities for reform: The First Year Experience Prentiss Cox (Minnesota), Kill 1, 20 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev....

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taxprofblog.aals.org /1 month ago

Law clinic students working to bring workplace protections to federal courts

Over the last few years, the workplace abuse by federal judges of law clerks has been in the news (and here). This law school clinic at Emory University School of Law (and here) is...

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taxprofblog.aals.org /3 weeks ago

LSAC on the NALP Class of 2025 Report

 In a cautionary fashion, James Leipold for the Law School Admission Council writes that “the employment outcomes for the law school class of 2025 tell a nuanced story, as the Nati...

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unomaha.edu /2 weeks ago

Turning Research Into Purpose

In Professor Destynie Sewell’s legal studies research course, UNO students tackle complex questions at the intersection of law, technology, and policy.

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taxprofblog.aals.org /2 weeks ago

Law Schools With Biggest Substance Abuse Problems

We all know that law students and lawyers frequently have significant rates of substance abuse. Because AI knows everything, I decided to see what it might tell me. This is what a...

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everlaw.com /2 weeks ago

New Ways to Practice Law in the Face of Growing Market Pressure

New Ways to Practice Law in the Face of Growing Market Pressureby Everlaw ...

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taxprofblog.aals.org /1 month ago

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog — Where U.S. law professors earned their law degree (2008)

Brian Leiter really pulls together some great data. “This study is based on the educational credentials of all tenure-track and tenured law faculty as of Spring 2008.  . . . This e...

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taxprofblog.aals.org /3 weeks ago

Does Legal Education Ignore Class?

In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay, Jon A. Shields (Claremont McKenna, Dept. Govt.) and Corey Tazzara (Scripps Coll., Dept. Hist.) ask whether universities teach about...

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webwire.com /2 weeks ago

Do alumni relationships between judges and lawyers affect court rulings?

Using Florida medical malpractice cases with randomly assigned judges, investigators found that sharing a law school with the presiding judge boosted a plaintiff's attorney's proba...

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reason.com /1 month ago

AI "Combines the Illusion of Thorough Review and Analysis with the Temptations of Speed and Low Cost"

"Attorneys now have the power to violate Rule 11 in embarrassing ways within minutes."

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law360.com /1 month ago

Law School Paths Emerge For Navigating Students' AI Use

The University of Chicago Law School and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law have laid out two approaches for regulating student AI use, charting divergent paths w...

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natlawreview.com /1 week ago

Controls in Litigation Surveys: Measuring Survey Noise and Improving Reliability

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abovethelaw.com /1 month ago

Lawyers Should Spend More Time Studying Legal History

Many underlying challenges have remained remarkably similar from one generation to the next. The post Lawyers Should Spend More Time Studying Legal History appeared first on Above...

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wisbar.org /1 month ago

Technology | The GenAI Governance Gap in Law Firms: Why Current Policies Fall Short and How to Govern Where it Matters

Law firms have shifted from restricting generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to mandating it. Neither phase has told rank-and-file lawyers what they need to know: when AI del...

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reason.com /1 month ago

Call for Papers on Policymaker Responses to the "Revolution" in Administrative Law

The GWU Regulatory Studies Center is seeking papers addressing recent changes to administrative law.

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taxprofblog.aals.org /3 weeks ago

Most Improved Law Schools for Employment

On the heels of the rankings of the “Top Law Schools for Technology Law,” (see Kevin Johnson’s post last week), the National Jurist recently released their analysis of most improve...

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taxprofblog.aals.org /1 week ago

Health Law Rankings

PreLaw Magazine is out with its honor roll of schools with thriving health law programs. It’s exciting to see so many schools doing such innovative and valuable work. Of course, I’...

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reason.com /6 days ago

An Essay on How to Get Top Grades On Law School Exams

Now up on SSRN.

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taxprofblog.aals.org /1 week ago

Who Finds the Facts

Duncan Hosie, Fellow at Stanford Law School,, offers this powerful critique in the Atlantic of the Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow President Trump’s Administration to p...

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feeds.feedblitz.com /1 week ago

Left Brain, Right Brain, and Reading Precedent

While lawyering is more art than science, science—specifically neuroscience—has something to say about professional development. Its insights into the brain can help lawyers apply...

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taxprofblog.aals.org /1 month ago

Law Schools Are Asking the Wrong Question About AI

In an article last week from Inside Higher Ed, James Finkelstein comments on how some law schools are responding to AI. “The more interesting is not about academic integrity. It’s...

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