Posts by Bridget J. Crawford

The New York Times Magazine featured a story by Joshua Foer about his experience training for and competing in the U.S.A. Memory Championship.  In Secrets of a Mind-Gamer: How I…

Here's what readers had to say makes for a "good" teacher's manual, in rank order.  Detailed Condorcet results after the fold. 1.  Very detailed answers to casebook problems. 2.  Thought-questions ...

Here's my list, in rank order, of professors with number of law review publications during the period 2005-2009  listed in parenthesis after school affiliation (US News ranked programs only).  Methodology ...

I'm finishing up reviewing page proofs for a new Estate & Gift Taxation casebook, co-authored with the excellent Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) and Joseph Dodge (FSU), to be published by Aspen…

I have several colleagues -- at my home institution and nationally -- on whom I count for "early stage" reads of my works-in-progress. These are people whom I trust to…

Most of us never encountered the word "coif" before law school graduation.  The Order of the Coif as an academic honor society.  Law schools where there is a "chapter" of…

Today I asked my students to tweet me their questions and live feedback during class.   It was an experiment that I'm willing to repeat.  Here's how it unfolded. My Wills,…

A faculty scholarship prize is a low- (or no-) cost way of encouraging and recognizing faculty members who are doing great work.  For each of the last 6 years, my…

Above is a short video (approx. 3 minutes) that I made today for my Wills, Trusts & Estates students.  We're now covering the laws of intestacy.  I set out to…

If a faculty member isn't writing as much as he or she "ought" to be (define that as you will), what incentives might help move the faculty member toward scholarly productivity?  Of…