Gary J Simson

March 20, 2017 | National Law Journal

OPINION: Merrick Garland would have made a great U.S. Supreme Court justice, but it's time to move forward.

By Gary J. Simson

9 minute read

April 14, 2014 | National Law Journal

Attributing laws to deep animus is inaccurate — and makes them more difficult to defeat.

By Gary J. Simson

5 minute read

May 09, 2013 | Daily Report Online

I have a simple message for you as you look ahead to life after law school: Don't be discouraged by the doomsday talk about law jobs that keeps appearing in the popular press.

By Gary J. Simson, Special to the Daily Report

3 minute read

July 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

As almost all, if not all, law school deans now take for granted, the U.S. News & World Report law school ranking methodology is susceptible to manipulation and remarkably poor as a measure of a school's quality of education and contribution to the healthy development of the law. Gary Simson, dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, proposes that law school faculties and administrations everywhere finally say "enough" and stop participating in a ranking system that has done substantial harm and little, if any, good to legal education in the United States.

By Gary J. Simson / Special to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

February 14, 2001 | Law.com

In criticizing the abstinence-only approach, proponents of comprehensive sex education do not dispute that teens should be taught the benefits of abstinence but argue that the courses endanger sexually active teens' physical and psychological well-being. It may be even worse, say law professor Gary J. Simson and attorney Erika Sussman: Abstinence-only sex education is probably unconstitutional.

By Gary J. Simson and Erika Sussman

6 minute read

July 29, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Many law school deans are upset about the recent announcement by U.S. News & World Report that it is seriously considering revising its law school rankings methodology to treat part-time students' entering credentials (LSAT score and undergraduate grade-point average) no differently than full-time students'. To date, U.S. News has excluded part-timers' credentials from its rankings calculus.

By Gary J. Simson

5 minute read

July 29, 2008 | Law.com

Many law school deans are upset about the recent announcement by U.S. News & World Report that it is seriously considering revising its law school rankings methodology to treat part-time students' entering credentials (LSAT score and undergraduate grade-point average) no differently from full-time students. Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Gary Simson proposes law schools say "enough" to the magazine because of its "shortcomings in its methodology" among other things.

By Gary J. Simson

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