Author: William M. Sullivan and Stephen Daniels , Survey Team, Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers

The Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers survey, carried out last year, provides an unparalleled overview of what is happening in legal education today, giving an update of the findings of the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers.  In previous posts, we have reported on aspects of the survey. For example...

Author: Stephen Daniels and William Sullivan, Survey Team, Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers

In the wake of the recent economic downturn and its aftermath, law schools and legal education are again the focus of intense scrutiny. Unfortunately, there is often more rhetoric than constructive discussion. A key prerequisite for fostering any kind of critical and creative thinking and activity is having a reasonably...

Author: Stephen Daniels, Visiting Lecturer, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

This is part three of a series discussing and analyzing the results of a survey sent by Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers to 210 U.S. and Canadian law schools to explore innovations in legal education. As described in an earlier post, Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers initiated a unique, far-reaching survey of 210...

Author: Stephen Daniels, Visiting Lecturer, Sturm College of Law

In the first blog for Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Bill Sullivan argued that legal education is more than meritocracy – that while academic merit is essential in the training of lawyers as professionals it is not enough. It is necessary, but not alone sufficient for professional excellence. This is...