Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports

News and views about law school and law

  • Merrill on Kelo (the Eminent Domain case from last term)

    You presumably knew that Thomas Merrill at Columbia Law School (whom Chicago, Texas, Penn, and others all tried to hire when it became clear he would leave Northwestern a couple of years ago)  was a first-rate legal scholar.  Here’s an illuminating example of his work, which corrects a variety of misunderstandings that have swirled around…

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  • On the History of the Socratic Method

    Interesting remarks posted by my colleague Emily Kadens in an earlier thread deserve a wider audience: [T]he Socratic method as it has been used since about the 1940s is not how it was originally designed by Langdell and James Barr Ames. Originally, the professor used Socratic method to get the students to test whether the…

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  • In Memoriam

    M. David Gelfand (1949-2005) This message from Tulane Dean Lawrence Ponoroff reports the information presently available about this tragic loss to the Tulane and wider academic communities.

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  • U.S. News to Resume Using Medians, Instead of Mid-Points, on LSAT and GPA Data

    In the rankings published last Spring, U.S. News used the mid-point of the 75th/25th LSAT and GPA for each school, rather than the median that the school reported.  This had the virtue of being public and thus reliable information, since the ABA also collects that data, but not the medians.  However, the mid-point approach produced…

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  • AALS Annual Meeting Moving from New Orleans to Washington, D.C.

    Information here.  Hopefully, the AALS will have the decency to put the 2007 annual meeting back in New Orleans.

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