Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve. I’m Karen Sloan, legal education editor at Law.com, and I’ll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.

This week, I’m chatting with Cleveland-Marshall College of Law professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich about the new class he’s creating around the current season of the popular Serial podcast, the program developed by This American Life which explores the inner workings of the criminal justice system. Next up is a look at the slow demise of Arizona Summit Law School, which administrators say is poised to close for good. Lastly, I’m using the occasion of the retirement of the University of Virginia School of Law’s longtime copy services director to hail all the staffers who work behind the scenes at law school to keep them running.