Ahead of the Curve

Ahead of the Curve

Christine Charnosky examines transformation in legal education, spotlighting innovation and separating fact from flash as law schools prepare their students for a rapidly changing industry.

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Christine Charnosky

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    Ahead of the Curve: Law School Unbundled

    By Karen Sloan | March 26, 2019

    Hamilton Chan, who founded Loyola Law School, Los Angeles' new executive education program LLX, discusses what makes it different from other law school initiatives to teach non-lawyers.

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    Ahead of the Curve: Penn Law Goes to War

    By Karen Sloan | March 19, 2019

    A unique partnership between the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the U.S. Army War College gives law students some practice in high-stakes diplomacy and conflict resolution.

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    Ahead of the Curve: Legal Ed in the Absence of U.S. News Rankings

    By Karen Sloan | March 12, 2019

    We've asked some experts what law schools would look like without the annual U.S. News rankings looming over them.

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    Ahead of the Curve: Don't Go, Foreign LL.M.s

    By Karen Sloan | March 5, 2019

    Fordham University Law Dean Matthew Diller discusses the slowdown in international students coming to the U.S. for LL.M.s and what that means for law schools.

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    Ahead of the Curve: Loan Forgiveness Lifeline

    By Karen Sloan | February 26, 2019

    This weeks's Ahead of the Curve looks at what a court decision on eligibility for Public Service Loan forgiveness means for law schools, as well as a "Lost Boy of Sudan's" journey to law school and Mark Zuckerberg's recent visit to Harvard Law School.

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    Ahead of the Curve: The Law Job Hustle

    By Karen Sloan | February 12, 2019

    Southwestern Law School graduate and former Jones Day associate Rachel Gezerseh discusses how law students can take the job search into their own hands and find the right career fit.

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    Ahead of the Curve: Talking Tenure

    By Karen Sloan | February 5, 2019

    A new law review article concludes that elite law schools are too generous in granting tenure. Meanwhile, Regent University has snagged the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court for its next dean, and donors have been lining up to write checks to law schools.

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    Ahead of the Curve: When Disruption Gets Disrupted

    By Karen Sloan | January 28, 2019

    A New law review article explores what happens when reform on the law campus doesn't go as expected, plus a University of Chicago law professor gives back to her school and Georgetown University Law Center hires the first computer scientist without a J.D. for a tenure-track position.

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    Ahead of the Curve: LRAP Arms Race

    By Karen Sloan | January 14, 2019

    A trio of elite law schools have recently improved their Loan Repayment Assistance Programs for graduates in public interest and other low-paying jobs, and Syracuse University College of Law's brand new hybrid J.D. program offers a glimpse of legal education's future.

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    Ahead of the Curve: Dispatches from the AALS Annual Meeting

    By Karen Sloan | January 8, 2019

    At the largest annual gathering of legal academics in the nation, the atmosphere was sunnier than it has been in years, women took center stage, and the academy honored a rick star law professor.

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