Journal of Legal Education (Association of American Law Schools)

Paul, Jeremy

Woo, Margaret Y.K.

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From the Editors 
Congratulations to our readers completing the first full semester of 
teaching during the COVID19 pandemic. Forthcoming issues of our Journal 
will address the marvelous innovations across the country necessitated by the 
switch to remote teaching.
In the meantime, we are proud to present you with this issue that traverses 
timeless challenges confronting the legal academy and the profession. We open 
with a series of articles, skillfully assembled by Kristen Tiscione and Melissa 
Weresh, written by accomplished women in legal education who participated 
in a robust discussion at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of 
American Law Schools. These scholars, Sahar Aziz, Mary Bowman, Leslie 
Culver, Meera Deo, Darby Dickerson, Susan Duncan, Deborah Jones Merritt 
(joined here by Kyle McEntee) and Kristen Tiscione applaud the gains made 
in gender diversity by the legal academy and at the same time highlight the 
persistent inequities that continue to disadvantage female faculty and students, 
particularly those of color. Chris Guthrie and Emily Lamm offer their own 
powerful addition to this theme, with their article that uncovers how gender 
differences in the willingness to negotiate over scholarship offers have created 
an “Aid Gap,” with more generous awards going to male law students. Their 
article contains a set of ideas for how to redress this imbalance.
Andrew Hayashi and Gregory Mitchell give life to the old adage that 
not everything that counts can be measured and not everything that can be 
measured should count. They explain how the burgeoning efforts to provide 
quantitative comparisons of legal scholarship among law schools are subject 
to error both in the representativeness of the samples chosen and as a result 
of potential manipulation by participants in the system. In “Maintaining 
Scholarly Integrity in the Age of Bibliometrics” they offer potential remedies 
to these twin challenges.
Jennifer Gundlach and Jessica Santangelo contribute an excellent study 
explaining how law schools can benefit enormously from enlisting students to 
focus on how they learn the law as well as on what law they are learning. Their 
work in “Teaching and Assessing Metacognition in Law School,” built on 
an empirical study of first year students at one law school, reveals promising 
results concerning the value of incorporating exercises that guide students to 
consider their own learning styles and approaches.
Steven Winter was a featured speaker at a conference co-hosted by the 
Journal of Legal Education and Northeastern University School of Law in 
March 2017, entitled “The Syntax of Justice,” aimed at exploring certain 
aspects of law and linguistics, including putting more plain language into jury 
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instructions. While plans to publish the entire proceedings fell through, we 
could not resist publishing Professor Winter’s provocative essay.
As customary, we close with book reviews, this time from our own Stephanie 
Roberts Hartung, who assesses a diverse collection of essays on the law school 
experience “Beyond One L: Stories About Finding Meaning and Making 
a Difference in Law,” edited by Nancy Levit and Allen Rostron, and from 
Neil Hamilton, who examines “The Formation of Professional Identity: The 
Path from Student to Lawyer,” written by Patrick Emery Longan, Daisy Hurst 
Floyd, and Timothy W. Floyd. Enjoy.
Jeremy R. Paul
Margaret Y.K. Woo


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From the Editors

Dickerson, Darby

Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Negotiating Your First Employment Offer in Legal Academia

Pappas, Brian A.

Abuse of Freedom: Balancing Quality and Efficiency in Faculty Title IX Processes

Winston, Andrew

Roudik, Peter

Bavis, Barbara

Sokol, Donna

The Law Library of Congress: A Global Resource for Legal Education

Kim, Rosa

Globalizing the Law Curriculum for Twenty-First-Century Lawyering

Hanley Duncan, Susan

They’re Back! The New Accreditation Standards Coming to a Law School Near You— A 2018 Update, Guide to Compliance, and Dean’s Role in Implementing

Hess, Gerald F.

Schwartz, Michael Hunter

Levit, Nancy

Fifty Ways to Promote Teaching and Learning by Gerald F. Hess, Michael Hunter Schwartz

Kaiser-Jarvis, Theresa

Preparing Students for Global Practice: Developing Competencies and Providing Guidance

Norberg, Scott F.

J.D.s and Jobs: The Case for an ABA Accreditation Standard on Employment Outcomes

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