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The senate passed a bill that would make the Tennessee Plan—which calls for merit selection, retention elections, and performance evaluation of appellate judges—constitutional. If the measure is approved by the house, it must then be approved by a… MORE
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Numbers may prevent a disciplinary complaint against Justice David Prosser from going any further. Prosser formally requested that two justices recuse themselves from consideration of the complaint against him, and he asked personally that two other… MORE
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Frank Bowman guest blogs on Concurring Opinions and offers some thoughts on how law schools outside the top 30 can sustain themselves while meeting the needs of their students. His suggestions?
Reverse the trend toward competing for faculty… MORE
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Professor Ben Madison explores how students develop their “professional identities,” –as recommended by the Carnegie report—through journaling assignments. Journals, he observes, help students appreciate the need for mentorship,… MORE
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The Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers survey, carried out last year, provides an unparalleled overview of what is happening in legal education today, giving an update of the findings of the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers. In… MORE
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The California bar’s task force is set to issue recommendations in December 2013 regarding whether to impose a practical skills training requirement on lawyers applying for admission. Whether the country’s largest bar decides to adopt… MORE
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The University of California Hastings College announced that it will reduce enrollment by 20% over the next three years.
"The critics of legal education are right," Dean Frank Wu said in a telephone interview on April 30. "There are too many law… MORE
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The general assembly opted not to elect a judicial candidate who would have been the state’s first openly gay judge. Opposition to his election focused on his positions on gay marriage and the military’s now-repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
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Two of the three supreme court justices up for reelection face challengers in the Republican primary. One justice’s opponent is running to “expose the corrosive influence of big business on the court,” while the other justice’s opponents “want to… MORE
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A New York Times commentary discussed the reforms recommended by the Michigan Judicial Selection Task Force, which included better disclosure requirements, open primaries, and campaign oversight committees. The piece closed by calling for replacing… MORE