Welcome Medium and Substack readers. Looking for the sample Course Compass? Scroll all the way down to the bottom. Virtually every consumer-facing industry requires some form of disclosure. From your mortgage to your Meat Lover’s® pizza, we live in a world where some statute, regulation, or ordinance requires vendors to disclose certain key facts about the products and services we buy every day. Some businesses have even started adopting practices from other industries, such as Apple’s...

In 1870, Christopher Columbus Langdell was appointed dean of Harvard Law School, where he was “called upon to deal with was the construction of a new curriculum for the School, divided into first and second year courses.”¹ He did so initially by “appointing eminent lawyers at the bar or bench to give instruction on special subjects in relatively short courses.”² But Langdell was skeptical that success as a legal practitioner would necessarily translate into success as a legal educator. Rather,...

In my recent article, Reimagning Legal Education: Insights from UNH Franklin Pierce's First 50 Years, I finally wrote down something that I have long said on panels and in discussions with students: That the process of becoming a lawyer can be best characterized by a Venn diagram where three circles only barely grade each other — law school, the bar exam, and then actually learning how to be a lawyer. Upon reflection, my thinking has evolved somewhat. It's not so much that they barely graze...