Editor's Corner

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1722.2009.01065.x
• Author: John Norwood
• Published date: 01 August 2009
• Date: 01 August 2009

Editor’s Corner

It is my continuing honor to serve the Academy of Legal Studies in Busi-

ness (ALSB) as editor in chief of the Journal of Legal Studies Education

(JLSE). The JLSE is now in its twenty-sixth year of publishing cutting-edge

scholarly articles on the subject of legal studies education in schools of

business and management.

All articles in the JLSE are blind reviewed by either the senior articles

editor or the articles editor, along with at least two other reviewers. I wish

to express my sincere thanks to Tonia Murphy of the University of Notre

Dame, who is serving as the senior articles editor, and Rob Landry of

Jacksonville State University, who is serving as articles editor. I also wish to

thank the staff editors and reviewers, all of whom are experienced mem-

bers of the ALSB, and without whose efforts this volume of the JLSE could

not have been produced. Not only have these individuals thoughtfully

evaluated the overall quality of submitted manuscripts, but they have pro-

vided the authors with numerous ideas of ways to improve the final version

of an article, and their efforts are reflected in the high quality of the articles

appearing in this volume of the JLSE.

In this issue we are pleased to present seven outstanding articles on a

wide variety of subjects that I believe will be of great interest to members of

our discipline. First is an article written by William J. McDevitt explaining

the possibilities of engaging students in active learning through an appel-

late simulation case study. Next is an article by Carol Bast (former editor in

chief of the JLSE) and Linda Samuels that presents the results of an ex-

haustive research project in which the authors attempt to determine what

qualifies as scholarship for the legal studies professor and what is the stan-

dard for excellence regarding such scholarship. The article by Tonia Hap

Murphy discusses an ethics topic seldom addressed in legal studies classes:

the ethical considerations involved in reneging on a contract. Roger J.

Johns has expanded on his presentation at the 2008 ALSB Master Teacher

Symposium in his article in which he offers educators a system whereby

legal analysis skills can be self-diagnosed. Next is an article by Konrad Lee

involving employee blogging and a method of teaching the legal implica-

tions of these kinds of activities. Regina Robson offers readers an oppor-

tunity to utilize a case study (‘‘the Ice Cream Project’’) in their classes.

Among other things the case study requires students to draft a complete

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