Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:04 AM
If you have not stopped by Madisonian.net recently, you may want to take a moment to do so. Penned by a collection of law professors and guests, this blawg continues to deliver intriguing posts loosely focused on and around the topic of legal education.
For example, Washington and Lee Law School Dean Rodney Smolla recently posted an overview of the "new model" of legal education being developed at the school.
We are in a period of ferment in which law schools are beginning to experiment, and I think this will enrich all of us in the world of legal education, and be good for the profession and the public at large.
As Dean of Washington and Lee I am proud that we have committed to a bold program to quite radically revamp our third-year of law school, adding to the national conversation about the mission and character of “the law school of the future,” to borrow a phrase from my friend, former colleague, and dean-in-waiting Erwin Chemerinsky.
What follows is a bulleted list of key items in the new model for third years at Washington and Lee; you can read all about it here: Washington and Lee’s New Model and here, Washington and Lee School of Law Announces Dramatic Third Year Reform.
In selecting the weblog platform for Madisonian.net, its founders have also allowed for other interested persons to quickly respond and add their own comments to topics presented in its posts. Which makes the posts even more interesting and worthwhile; see, for example, the post and responsive commentary on the subject Some Musings About Possible Ways To Improve Law Reviews And Law Schools Simultaneously.
Other recent posts at Madisonian include the following:
Too Many Law Schools? Learning How to Learn Institutes of Excellence and the Global, Departmentalized Law School Law School As Community Washington and Lee’s New Model The Perfect Law School A Focus on Quality of Scholarship, Rather than Placement Are attorneys generalists or specialists? Good stuff.