The National Law Journal previewed Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers, which is set to officially launch on August 22, 2011.

Law school once set the pattern for modern professional education. In his study of Christopher Columbus Langdell, originator of the case method of...

With this post, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers begins a series of reports on legal education: the what, who, and how of innovation. These reports will document the range of current innovations in the areas of curriculum, teaching and learning, faculty, and assessment. They will draw on a number of sources of data, including the American Bar Association/Law School Admissions Council (ABA/LSAC) Official Guide, but the primary source will be the results of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ new survey of innovations currently underway.

This article, which we discovered here, looks at the opportunities in teaching a real estate class "from the dirt" and discusses a class in which...

"Delegates approved a series of resolutions pertaining to the financing and curriculum of legal education, although the ABA's legislative body lacks...

"The ABA House of Delegates voted Tuesday to adopt a resolution to urge law schools to more adequately prepare law students for the real-life...

LawWeek Colorado interviewed Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Director Bill Sullivan about the initiative's goals: “It will give people some models and examples and a community of people to talk to,” Sullivan said. “That’s what’s been missing. It’s not so much there’s no one doing these kinds of comprehensive changes, it’s that no one’s sure who’s doing it.”

This is a survey of deans and associate deans conducted at the 2011 Conference on the Future of the Law School Curriculum by Franklin A. Gevurtz, of...

Douglas G. Scrivner is former General Counsel of Accenture, where he worked for 31 years, 14 of which as General Counsel. In his Voices from the Field interview, Scrivner outlines the shift in the legal profession away from providing on-the-job training, and how law schools can and should embrace this shift by changing the way they teach students. Scrivner also talks about the kinds of innovation that law schools need and that law schools deans would be wise to incorporate.

Rich Baer is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Liberty Media Corporation, where he is responsible for overseeing the company’s legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. Baer recently sat down with Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers to talk about legal education and how law schools can better prepare students with the practical skills they need upon graduation.

This article cites Educating Lawyers in its discussion of law schools turning to experiential models for ethics courses. This year, Yale Law School...

This article argues that instead of scholar-driven casebooks, we need learning-centered casebooks that engage students in the three Carnegie...