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Legal practice, legal education

David B. Wilkins (Harvard): Making Global Lawyers: Legal Practice, Legal Education, and the Paradox of Professional Distinctiveness. Rebecca Roiphe (New York): Redefining Professionalism. Deborah Freeland (Stanford): Recovering the Lost Lawyer. Radek Goral (Stanford): Blurred Lines: A Study of Law-Firm Funding. Eli Wald (Denver) and Russell G. Pearce (Fordham): What's Love Got to Do with Lawyers? Thoughts on Relationality, Love, and Lawyers’ Work. Adam S. Chilton and Eric A. Posner (Chicago): An Empirical Study of Political Bias in Legal Scholarship. Eric M. Adams (Alberta): Back to the Future of Law School. Margaret Thornton (ANU): The Changing Gender Regime in the Neoliberal Legal Academy. Sara Star and Bruce M. Price (USF): The Elephant in the Admissions Office: The Influence of U.S. News & World Report on the Rise of Transfer Students in Law Schools and a Modest Proposal for Reform. Emily Grant (Washburn): The Pink Tower Meets the Ivory Tower: Adapting Montessori Teaching Methods for Law School. Meera E. Deo (Thomas Jefferson): The Ugly Truth About Legal Academia. Ray Worthy Campbell (Peking): The End of Law Schools. Gregory C. Sisk, Valerie Aggerbeck, Debby Hackerson, and Mary Wells (St. Thomas): Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2012: Applying Leiter Scores to Rank the Top Third. An excerpt from Dear J.D.: What to Do with Your Law Degree by Nelson P. Miller. Jeffrey Toobin on the legal one per cent: Among lawyers, as across the country, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer — and the education system isn’t helping. Barbara K Gotthelf on the lawyer's guide to “um”.