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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks to my subscribers! derektmuller.substack.com

Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"ABA Council on Legal Education ignores critics, offers no substantive responses, and says 'full speed ahead' with disrupting legal education at most of the nation's law schools" leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2025/...

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Law faculty are now "required" "to participate every three years in educational activities that promote effective teaching."

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Full-time faculty "absent extraordinary circumstances" "shall teach at least 80 percent" of the credit hours (it was previously "substantially all").

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Schools must now review "learning outcomes at least every five years."

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"All courses" in the first year "shall include at least one formative assessment" that includes "feedback" along with "academic support" for students who "fail to attain a satisfactory level of achievement.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sections of a course must now have "the same minimum learning outcomes."

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

In 2014, the ABA "Task Force on the Future of Legal Education" suggested lessening programmatic requirements on law schools in an effort to lower costs and improve innovation.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We're now at the point where we are observing the 10-year anniversary of incredibly bad takes.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I wonder why Vox changed the lede of this piece. www.vox.com/politics/403...

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Google's NotebookLM is impressive. I uploaded the opinion in Glossip v. Oklahoma, and in minutes it had a 10-minute podcast with very realistic hosts discussing the case. First minute (sorry, Bluesky has strict limits) here:

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hard to think of a weaker yellow flag than this.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Full house here at Notre Dame Law for this faculty workshop to hear @williambaude.bsky.social present his great work in progress, "Fear of Balancing."

A group of law faculty attending an academic workshop.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Professor Tara Leigh Grove kicks off the Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 100 Federal Courts symposium on the Judiciary Act of 1925.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Great turnout & lively Q&A when @hoffprof.bsky.social came to Notre Dame today to present "Contracts for Everyone."

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

SCOTUS denies cert in Legislature Thereof Clause case challenging MT SCt ruling on voter laws; Steve King loss over copyright violation in campaign meme; NAACP appeal re undated ballots under the Civil Rights Act.

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Derek T. Muller @derektmuller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pennsylvania Supreme Court in divided 4-3 per curiam opinion exercises extraordinary jurisdiction, instructs local election boards "SHALL COMPLY with the prior rulings of this Court." (Dissent focused on extraordinary nature of jurisdiction, didn't touch merits.) www.pacourts.us/news-and-sta...

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