Leading Edge Prize for Educational Innovation
Announcing the winners of the Second Annual Leading Edge Prize for Educational Innovation:
The Underrepresented Experience: How Low Income and Minority Students Successfully Navigate the First Year of Law School
Carla D. Pratt, Dean and Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law
Camille deJorna, Deputy for Legal and Global Higher Education at the Law School Admission Council
This project seeks to better understand the Council on Legal Education's CLIC program, a group admission model for underrepresented students from non-traditional backgrounds that provides scholarship funding and continued academic support for students in the program. The team will interview CLIC students and use these interviews to analyze how navigating legal education with a small cohort of students with similar backgrounds contributed to their law school success.
How Can We Educate 2L and 3L Students to be Better Equipped for Practice?
John Pierre, Chancellor of the Southern University Law Center
Hari Osofsky, Dean of Penn State Law
This project aims to educate, empower, and equip law students about the impact of artificial intelligence, legal process automation, data analytics, e-discovery, design thinking, and other technological innovations on the delivery of legal services. The team will develop a webinar series, "Tipping the Scales," to equip law students for a future in legal practice that is increasingly shaped by technology and innovation. This training will also help future lawyers address the access to justice gap and support diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.