Legal Education
Law school culture, curriculum reform, access to legal education, and professional formation.
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Business Associations: Law in Theory and Practice
The Aspen treatise is title-locked and structurally complete: sixteen chapters, nineteen deal-document excerpts, thirty-eight verbatim statutory boxes, ten tables, and a hypothetical that runs through every chapter.
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Restoring Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
The 1921 text that gave us the distinction between risk and uncertainty exists in the public domain but in poor digital editions. The BA companion site now hosts a crowdsourced restoration.
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Why CLE Doesn't Work (and How to Fix It)
Continuing legal education measures hours watched, not learning achieved. The social value is likely negative.
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Teaching IP as a System
Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are interconnected. Teaching them in silos fails students.
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Judgment Proof: When Compliance Replaces Wisdom
Modern institutions have engineered out the faculty of judgment. When no one judges, no one can be held to account for the assessments that were never made.
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Welcome to the Blog
A brief introduction to this blog—what it is, who it is for, and what kinds of ideas will find a home here.
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The Socratic Method at Its Best—and Worst
The Socratic method remains the dominant pedagogical form in American law schools, but it is widely misunderstood—both by its defenders and its critics.