Guest Post on Law School Budgeting Guide It’s no secret that most students find law school expensive and grueling — tuition rates are skyrocketing, and student debt is at an all-time high. So how can you keep some of your hard-won cash while you pursue your studies? It’s going [...] Read more »
Turning Law Students Into Lawyers
A ccording to the recently published Report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, “Educating Lawyers—Preparation for the Profession of Law,” it is time for significant reform in legal education. This report reinforced what many in the legal academy believe about the traditional curriculum in American law schools: [...] Read more »
Reconsider the ways in which you treat clients with mental disabilities
Before becoming a professor, I spent 13 years as a practitioner, mostly representing criminal defendants with mental disabilities and persons subjected to involuntary civil commitment or committed to psychiatric hospitals. I have taught mental disability law for 24 years, and in the past 17 of those years, my research and [...] Read more »