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Professor Leiter is conducting a study of law faculty scholarly productivity (methodology here). The goal (or one goal) is… "…what is the most effective and efficient way to measure the scholarly impact of a law faculty…" What if you replace the word "scholarly" with "teaching"? If you have seen this video… …then you can imagine […]

I ran across Lee Arnold’s video explaining the Bush Tax Cut some months ago and felt that it conveyed a complex topic with extreme clarity in a very short amount of time. I was gratified to see that Arnold has a series of videos on YouTube that you can access from here. What is particularly […]

I have compiled the results from the 2007 Survey of Law Students who were in podcasted courses. First, the number of students responding was a less than half from last year (120 in 2007 vs. 300 in 2006). A couple of interesting trends are noticable. More students knew about podcasting this time around. More students […]

I visit law school websites all the time and I have come to the conclusion that they fall into the following categories… The "Where in the World" website where you cannot find a mailing address to save your life and thus cannot google-map or ship anything to anyone at the school. At best they have […]

The Internet Bar Organization is sponsoring a contest for law students (and other qualified grads) where the prize if all expenses paid to Hong Kong to attend the International Online Dispute Resolution GroupForum in Hong Kong. Dan Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services at the National Mediation Board says… …The InternetBar.org […]

The Free Software Foundation is doing research (look under April 12, 2007 New Flash) on when the term "Intellectual Property" first started to be used and as part of that research they are asking folks to send them copies of the pages in old (1970’s-80’s) course catalogs where the term was first used in a […]

Gene Koo of the Harvard Berkman Center has published a white paper titled "New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology". The research was sponsored by LexisNexis and the results are both insightful and cogent. I had several conversations with Gene about the project and he did a marvelous job pulling together […]

Social Software or Web 2.0 are buzz phrases much overused and ill-defined these days, but I ran across an explanation by Gene Smith that helps to evaluate social software/web 2.0 websites. Here are Gene’s definitions… Identity – a way of uniquely identifying people in the system Presence – a way of knowing who is online, […]

The theme for this year’s Conference for Law School Computing … Legal Education and IT:Mirage or Oasis? I fear that this choice of theme may be mis-interpreted, so let me provide some thoughts. As conference themes go, it’s a little ambiguous – which is good. By leaving wide latitude for interpretation, the speakers can riff […]

An interesting article at the SocialText wiki blog got to me to thinking about the post-blog/wiki-web, when these blogs and wikis and tags and RSS feeds are not artifacts in themselves, but are embedded into …. everything else. The two common themes I find to measure all applications of the read/write web … by which […]