Category: Law Students

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 newspaper said, broke the rules most often, with 62 percent admitting that they had plagiarized.” In response to the story, …

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.” Access Group will select the ten finalists based on “creativity, humor, quality, realism and overall appeal” and and then open …

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 May of 2007 CALI surveyed law students who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the …

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 May of 2007 CALI surveyed law students who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the …

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 law schools. That’s because Wisconsin is the only state in the country that still allows graduates of its two law …

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 some obscure case in some far-off jurisdiction. Instead, the diatribes focus on the social aspect of the law, law school, …

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 Law Foundation will be available at the Central Library with information about general legal issues. The law students can 1) …

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, Who Needs Books? This Handy Computer Will Give Me a Case On Point If I ask you to help with …

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 lectures. The results are quite interesting. Here are some of the findings: 38.4% of students listened to most or all …

“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 time. From the Innocence Project press release: “Facing Life” documents Zimmerman’s decision to face the possibility of life in prison …