In this Kosmos podcast, newly-appointed professor Josh Blackman runs me through the process of applying for, interviewing, and hopefully accepting a position as a law professor.
Jeanne Hoffman talks to Josh Blackman about using social media effectively as an academic. Blackman is a law clerk for the Honorable Kim R. Gibson, US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, a teaching fellow at Pennsylvania State University Dickenson School of Law, and President of the Harlan Institute.
Josh can be found online at:
Twitter: @joshbtweets
In an article that is getting significant coverage, Gillian Hadfield at Miller-McCune talks about the future of legal innovation, and how lawyers might play a minimal part. It's quite lengthy, but also insightful.
For a more condenced version, Josh Blackman takes key passages and adds some commentary.
Law professor Josh Blackman has written a lot about using technology in the classroom as a teaching aid. In this blog post, he outlines a proposed experiment for building a law class around student blogs:
An awesome post by Josh Blackman examines the ruling of Connick v. Thompson, where Ginsburg says that law school, the bar, and CLE doesn't teach you to be a lawyer, and lawyers can't learn on their own.