Month: March 2015

The good news about this current wave of board diversity advocacy is that it appears to be achieving at least some results.  Survey data reveals that boards pinpoint diversity as…

So I don’t have much to add to Darren’s very able discussion of Scott Page’s work on diversity.  I will say that the interview responses we got raise the real…

Kim pushed us on the real value of diversity, and I relish that she is interested in pushing this line of thought.  I share this skepticism about the presumption that…

John Conley is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina. John's principal research and teaching interests have been in law and social science,…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 3/20/15, there are 291,241 fall 2015 applications submitted by 43,197 applicants. Applicants are down 2.9% and applications are down 5.6% from 2014."…

In my wrap-up post yesterday, I pressed all of the bloggers to clarify, defend, or elaborate on the underlying assumption that board diversity is good for business – an assumption…

Folks – we’re starting off Day 2 of our mini-symposium with the following post from Lisa Fairfax. Diversity advocates have pointed out (here and here) that one clear stumbling block…

The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has posted a Notice and Comment for proposed changes to the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of…

This just in from the AALS Section on Teaching Methods: The AALS Section on Teaching Methods is building its 2015 newsletter around your creativity and innovation for introducing practical skills…

In this post, I’m going to put on my moderator hat in order to tease out some common themes and differences across today’s posts and to press the contributors (including…