2024 Law Review Symposium
Embracing the Past, Enhancing the Future: Exploring the Evolution of Legal Education
Friday, September 20, 2024
Join the Arkansas Law Review from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, September 20, 2024, for an exciting symposium discussing the evolution of legal education. The conference will include discussions and presentations by a range of nationally recognized thought leaders in legal education and the profession.
Panels include:
- The History of Legal Education
- Evolution of Bar Admittance
- Emerging Issues: NextGen Bar, Artificial Intelligence, Distance and Remote Learning
- Growing and Serving Diversity in Legal Education
- The Future of Legal Education
The symposium has been approved for free continuing legal education credit. Admission is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.
Sponsored by the University of Arkansas School of Law and the Arkansas Law Review.
Schedule of Events
8:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.
Check-In
Pastries and coffee will be provided.
9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Blake Morant
9:15 a.m.- 10:15 a.m.
History of Legal Education
Panelists: Benjamin Barton, David Cleveland, and Camille deJorna
10:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Evolution of Bar Admittance
Panelists: Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Brian Gallini and Gordon J. MacDonald
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Lunch and panel discussion - View from Bench and Bar Conversation
Panelists: Dan Kemp, Kristin Pawlik, and Paulette Brown
Lunch will be provided for all registered attendees.
12:45 p.m.- 1:45 p.m.
Emerging Issues: NextGen Bar, AI, Distance/Remote Ed
Panelists: Judith Gundersen, Daniel Schwarcz, and Adrien Wing
1:45 p.m.-2 p.m.
Break
2 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Growing and Serving Diversity in Legal Education
Panelists: Katherine Silver Kelly, Nathan Bennett Fleming and Juan Carlos (J.C.) Polanco
3:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
Keynote Address, Future of Legal Education
Keynote Speaker: Rachel F. Moran
3:45 p.m.– 4 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Contact
For more information about the symposium, contact:
Lindsay Mast
Symposium Editor, Arkansas Law Review
lm077@uark.edu
Speakers
Rachel F. Moran
Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University Law School, former Dean of the UCLA School
of Law, and Past President of the Association of American Law Schools
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law at the S.J.
Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah
Alternatives to the bar exam for admission to practice
Brian Gallini
Dean & Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law
Alternative approaches to legal education and bar admissions
Gordon J. MacDonald
Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and Chair of the Committee on Legal
Education and Admissions Reform (CLEAR)
The work of the CLEAR – Bar Admissions Working Group
Benjamin Barton
Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee
School of Law
Examination of the background of Supreme Court Justices and the need to reboot legal education to increase access to justice.
Camille deJorna
former Deputy for Legal and Global Higher Education at the Law School Admission Council
(LSAC)
Continuing challenges facing women trailblazers, some of the contributions they bring and some solutions to address institutional racism
Judith Gundersen
President of the National Conference of Bar Examiners
The development and promulgation of the NextGen Bar exam
David Cleveland
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Research and writing at the University of
Minnesota Law School
A long-view context for emerging issues, as well as the historical periods of change in legal education and the legal profession
Adrien Wing
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs and Bessie Dutton Murray
Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law
Proposed updates to the accreditation standards on distance/remote education
Kristin Pawlik
Partner at Miller Butler Schneider Pawlik & Rozzell PLLC and President of the Arkansas
Bar Association
Katherine Silver Kelly
Clinical Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
How law schools can better meet the needs of neurodivergent
Nathan Bennett Fleming
Assistant Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law
His research on the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision’s impact and appropriate response
Blake Morant
Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law and former Dean at the George Washington University
Law School and Past President of the Association of American Law Schools
Juan Carlos (J.C.) Polanco
President and CEO of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) and Managing
Attorney and Founder of Polanco Law PLLC
CLEO’s work and the importance of continuing to provide access to law school for underrepresented communities
Dan Kemp
Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
Paulette Brown
Past President of the American Bar Association
Daniel Schwarcz
Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor
at the University of Minnesota Law School
The use of Artificial Intelligence in legal education and the profession