Welcome back to  Ahead of the Curve . I'm  Karen Sloan , legal education editor at Law.com, and I'll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.  Today I'm talking to  Cat Moon, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School , about how legal education can break out of its silo. I've also got a rundown on a new report from  AccessLex Institute  detailing which undergraduate campuses  produce the most law applicants  per capita. Lastly, I'm catching up with a controversy at the  University of Virginia School of Law  involving a high-profile white supremacist and access to the law library.  Please share your thoughts and feedback with me at [email protected] or on Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ. Would you like to receive Ahead of the Curve as an email? Sign up here.

Breaking Down the Silos

Cat Moon silos Summit on Law and Innovation  fostering collaborations across different corners of the legal profession. here legal players face many of the same problems and are attempting to tackle those issues independently instead of collaboratively. legal problem solving course My take:

From Whence Law Applicants Come<

new report AccessLex Institute  which universities produce the most law school applicants highest concentration of undergrads who later applied to law school. Morehouse College, Spellman College, and Hampton University Saint Mary's University, in San Antonio, Yale University Amherst College; Georgetown University; Harvard University; the University of Chicago; and Princeton University. The Law School Admission Council  UCLA, the University of Texas, and Florida State University median concentration of law applicants among the top 240 feeder schools dropped from 5.5 percent in 2011 to 3.8 percent in 2016. looking up The takeaway: 

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When a Noted White Supremacist Shows up in the Law Library…

University of Virginia School of Law Jason Kessler, Unite the Right this story Risa Goluboff according to this account Kessler was eventually escorted out of the library under police protection. My Two Cents: Question for readers: [email protected]

Extra Credit Reading:

University of California, Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley debated the recall Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky this story Gillian Lester at Columbia; Kerry Abrams at Duke; and Kimberly Yuracko Charlotte School of Law InfiLaw Corp. dismissed most of the claims

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