On Reforming Legal Education: Cheatsheets, Required Readings, etc.

It's a hot topic again, meaning in the long but sporadic history of law school reform talk therapy, legal education reform is being discussed again. The PowerPoint presentation Judith Wegner (UNC-Chapel Hill) used to review Educating Lawyers (the Carnegie report which she co-authored) at the Dean's Section at the 2008 AALS annual meeting can be downloaded from Law School Innovation. Here's the PPT link and accompanying post by Gene Koo, The Carnegie Report Cheatsheet for Deans. Update: Hat tip to CALI for posting the podcast of the AALS plenary session, Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century.

A sampling of posts on law school reform from this blog include:

• Carnegie Report Implementation Concerns
• Spanning the Academic-Real World Divide to Prepare Competent Lawyers
• The Complete Lawyer on Law School Reform
• Old School, New School

Required Reading List. There's no cheatsheets yet for two other books on my required reading list: (1) Roy Stuckey’s Best Practices for Legal Education (pdf) and (2) Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-First Century (taking a UK perspective). Perhaps the books' web destinations, listed below, can serve this purpose.

Supplemental Reading Materials. Law School Leadership Strategies and Commission of Civil Rights' Affirmative Action in American Law Schools Report (should the Commission's report really be supplemental? Well no, of course not.) ... and the following blogs:

• Best Practices for Legal Education Blog
• Law School Innovation
• UK's Transforming Legal Education Initiative Blog and Wiki

[JH]