Posts by Michael Risch

My colleague Michele Pistone is the founder of LegalEd, a nonprofit dedicated to using new ideas and technology to improve legal teaching. Its 2015 Igniting Law Teaching conference is this…

In honor of the impending US News Rankings release (and in the alternative to discussing them, which I don't plan to do), I wanted to pose a question. I think ...

My last post generated some spirited and thoughtful comments. Some of those comments seemed to miss my point, so I thought I would expand here. Several of the comments were…

I was going to comment on Profs. Harrison's & Mashburn's draft Citations, Justifications, and the Troubled State of Legal Scholarship: An Empirical Study, but Al Brophy beat me to it. ...

For those who followed my posts on law professor use of Twitter, I thought this recent article, called "The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting," at The Atlantic was illuminating. The gist ...

An article in my SSRN feed caught my eye this week: Where Have All the Patent Lawyers Gone? Long Time Passing... by Kenneth L. Port, Lucas Hjelle, and Molly Rose ...

For this final post in my series on social media, I'd like to mention LinkedIn. Much about the site is either creepy or bizarre. For example, alleged spamming from email ...

A couple weeks ago, Eugene Mazo wrote about academic centers over at PrawfsBlawg. I had some thoughts for the comments there, but decided to respond here in a more complete…

Continuing my series of posts on professors and social media, I thought I would write a few words about Facebook. I have less to say about Facebook than Twitter, in…

In Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?, by Jason Yackee (Wisconsin). Takes on the question of whether clinics help increase employment in law schools. The abstract follows: This short ...