The Chronicle of Higher Education blog reports that “Half the students at the University of Cambridge have plagiarized, according to results of a survey by Varsity, a student newspaper at the university…. Law students, the …
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Video Contest Wants Law Schools to Tell Their Worries
From Law Librarian Blog: Student lender Access Group has announced a contest entitled “One Less Worry.” The contest will award $10,000 to the most deserving video posted on YouTube describing “what law students worry about.” …
CALI Survey of Law Student Use of Faculty Podcasts
The results of the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey are now available. (Well, ok – they’ve been available for a while now and I’m just getting around to posting about them.) Between March and …
CALI Survey of Law Student Use of Faculty Podcasts
The results of the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey are now available. (Well, ok – they’ve been available for a while now and I’m just getting around to posting about them.) Between March and …
Article on the Diploma Privilege Debate
The ABA Journal E-report has an interesting article on the debate surrounding the diploma privilege in Wisconsin. Would-be lawyers who intend to practice in Wisconsin would be well-advised to attend one of the state’s two …
Consortium: The Journal of Legal Nonsense
Consortium is a new law journal that “aims to explore the less-than-scholarly side of the law in an entertaining and hopefully humorous way. You’re not going to find long diatribes about the recent disposition of …
UW Law's Public Interest Law Foundation Students Reach Out at the Library
Spotted on the Madison Public Library What’s New blog: Law School Students Reach Out to People at the Library On Saturday, November 11 from 9:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m., law students from the UW Public Interest …
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law on How to Fail as a New Associate
Highly recommended for law students is The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law. This funny guide is dead-on with its tips for new associates. From Chapter Two, How to Fail as a New Associate: Pt 6, …
Thinking of Podcasting a Course? Find Out What Law Students Think
John Mayer of CALI has posted the end-of-semester survey results for the Legal Education Podcasting Project. The survey is on the perceptions of law students enrolled in courses in which the professor also podcast the …
"Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman" Premiers Monday on A&E
“Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman,” a new true-crime documentary involving the University of Wisconsin Innocence Project will be broadcast on the A&E cable television network on Monday, June 5 from 8-10 p.m. central …