All posts by Akil Alleyne
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Akil Alleyne | January 22, 2014
Law Firms Take Note: Law Reviews Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be
Somehow, I only recently encountered Adam Liptak’s scornful treatise of American law reviews in the New York Times...
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Akil Alleyne | January 9, 2014
Are Law Schools to Blame for Graduates’ Struggles?
I spent much of this past holiday season mulling over a sob story about a JD who got...
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Akil Alleyne | December 20, 2013
Law School and the Unexamined Life
Shame on me. I only just stumbled upon the paper published in the Journal of Legal Education by...
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Akil Alleyne | December 6, 2013
Applying to Law School: This is How You Do It
Remember the advice I always give younger friends and acquaintances of mine about whether they should go to...
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Akil Alleyne | November 28, 2013
Law School Classes and Their Discontents
Leave it to an actual lawyer to give decent advice to young people thinking of applying to law...
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Akil Alleyne | November 20, 2013
Why Constitutional Interpretation Matters
My most recent assignment at my current think-tank internship was to write a report on the 2008 book,The...
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Akil Alleyne | November 7, 2013
So What If Law Schools Can’t Produce “Practice-Ready” Graduates?
Seeing as how I’ve already argued that law schools should put more emphasis on teaching law students how...
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Akil Alleyne | November 3, 2013
We Need to Educate Non-Lawyers in the Law, Too
This morning, I opened up my Facebook account only to be swamped by a flood of bar-exam-passage-celebrating statuses...
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Akil Alleyne | October 30, 2013
Should Law School Be More Like Trade School?
About four years ago, one of the professors who gave me recommendations for my applications to law school...
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Akil Alleyne | October 21, 2013
Law School Daze
As luck would have it, the nonprofit work I’ve done since graduating from law school last spring has...