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.
For those of you living under a rock, last week was a big one for legal academics, with four law profs sharing their views of whether President Trump’s Ukraine dealings constitute impeachable offenses. But there’s a dark side to taking on such a prominent and politically charged duty, which Stanford’s Pamela Karlan, Harvard’s Noah Feldman, UNC’s Michael Gerhardt, and George Washington’s Jonathan Turley discovered firsthand. Next up is a look at the Ohio’s Expedited Pardon Project, which calls on law students from Ohio State and Akron to help ex-felons find a quicker path to pardons.
