Deseret News National, Can America’s Faith-Based Law Schools Restrict Sexual Activity to Heterosexual Marriage?: The travails of a Canadian Christian university’s quest to establish a law school may reverberate in the United States as conflicts over legalizing same-sex marriage continue, some educators say. At issue is whether religiously affiliated law…

Following up on my coverage of the controversy surrounding former Case Western Dean Lawrence Mitchell (links below): The Observer, A Land Purchase CWRU Would Like to Forget: One of Case Western Reserve University’s newest building isn’t on campus. There are no classrooms, lab space or conference rooms, but it is…

National Law Journal, This is Not the Attention Law Schools Want: Scandals Put Law Schools in Damage Control Mode: Clockwise, from top left: Mark Sargent (Villanova), Lawrence Mitchell (Case Western), Ronald Murphy (Connecticut), John Dwyer (UC-Berkeley), John Patrick Shannon (Florida), Donald Marvin Jones (Miami), Barry Freundel (Georgetown), and John Attanasio…

Paul L. Caron (Pepperdine) presents Faculty Scholarship Rankings and Law School Success at Pepperdine today: In What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004), Rafael Gely and I argued that legal education must use technology to develop more sophisticated measures…

David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), A University President’s Frank Look at Law Schools: Not too long ago I had an intriguing and frank conversation with a university president who had once served as a law school dean. He leads a university that is home to a middle-rung law school that is…

Following up on my previous post, Marquette Suspends Tenured Professor for Blogging, Orders Him Off Campus: Inside Higher Ed, Firing a Faculty Blogger: A controversial professor on Wednesday revealed that Marquette University is trying to revoke his tenure and fire him for statements he made about a graduate instructor, with…

Steven M. Eisenstat (Suffolk), A Game Changer: Assessing the Impact of the Princeton/UCLA Laptop Study on the Debate of Whether to Ban Law Student Use of Laptops During Class, 90 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. ___ (2015): In this Article I discuss the impact on legal education of a recent…

Deborah A. Maranville (University of Washington), Ruth Anne Robbins (Rutgers-Camden) & Kristen Konrad Tiscione (Georgetown), Faculty Status and Institutional Effectiveness: Legal education has expanded to incorporate practice-oriented topics and courses over the past several decades, and student academic support services have multiplied in response to changing student populations. As a…