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1. Judicial Performance Evaluation

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   We have accomplished this by serving, in a number of contexts, as a convener of JPE program administrators, judges, lawmakers, and scholars who are committed to promoting and ensuring effective judicial performance evaluation in states around the country.

   IAALS’ JPE Working Group provides an essential forum for this convening. Founded in 2007 with JPE program administrators and scholars from seven states, the group now ... MORE

2. Connecting the Academy & the Profession

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   Asking the Right Questions

   The oldest advice in the world is that the trick is not in knowing the answers—rather it is in knowing the right questions to ask. In legal education today, we find ourselv... MORE

3. Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System: The Way Forward

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   Over the past year, at the behest of our Board of Advisors, IAALS has examined the public’s trust and confidence in the American legal system. Many observers had already established that the public’s trust in the system is too low(1), and IAALS sought to understand why, in hopes of eventually proposing what ca... MORE

4. Many Achievements of ETL Consortium Noted in preLaw Magazine

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   preLaw Magazine's 2013 Back to School issue highlights numerous achievements from our Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Consortium schools.

   In an article discussing some of the more recent and important deve... MORE

5. Family Bar Summit: Shaping the System for the Families We Serve

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   Family law attorneys play a fundamentally important role in helping families through the process of divorce and separation. Given their unique role in the family justice system, they are well positioned to identify and speak to the systemic obstacles they encounter in serving clients in a timely, efficient, and affordable manner, and facilitating a process that enables better outcomes for children; they witn... MORE

6. Voice Lessons: What We Can Learn by Listening to People Who've Been to Court

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   The Iowa farmer had some questions. Letter in hand, he called our number and got right down to business: “Is this legitimate? Is this for real?” It was a question I had heard numerous times before, but the tone varied between the callers—often skeptical or incredulous... MORE

7. IAALS Panel Discusses Achieving Racial Justice and Closing the Justice Gap through Educational and Regulatory Reform

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   On August 20, IAALS and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law co-hosted a virtual panel discussion on how regulatory reform can help address issues of racial injustice, featuring legal industry leaders and access to justice advocates Roh... MORE

8. Expert Opinion: The Legal Profession's Leaky Pipeline Is Leaving Black Americans Behind

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   In the wake of ceaseless and unjustifiable deaths of Black men and women at the hands of police across the country, a long-suppressed outrage has erupted into a demand for justice. Our willingness as a society to allow racial inequity to persist for centuries is ... MORE

9. Keynote Address: New England Law Review Symposium on State Court Funding

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   University of New Hampshire School of Law Dean John Broderick delivered this keynote address at the New England Law Review’s fall symposium, "Crisis in the Judiciary.” The symposium addressed the deep fiscal challenges faced by American state court systems and the impact of strained budgets on the administration... MORE

10. About Foundations

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    Most law students graduate thinking they have the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for practice, but that opinion is not shared by the profession they hope to enter or their future clients. Indeed this gap reflects that legal education does not s... MORE