Editor's Corner

• Date: 01 June 2014
• Published date: 01 June 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.12013

Editor’s Corner

This issue marks the completion of the Journal of Legal Studies Education’s

(JLSE) thirty-first year of publication. It also marks the end of my tenure on

the editorial board and the welcoming of new articles editor Sandra Benson

of Middle Tennessee State University. Sandy will serve with senior articles

editor Stephanie Greene of Boston College and incoming editor in chief

Debra Burke of Western Carolina University. I have had the honor to work

closely with the new board during my six years on the editorial board. The

JLSE has an outstanding leadership team that will continue to guide the JLSE

into its fourth decade publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed pedagogical

research in the legal studies discipline.

Continuing in the JLSE’s standard of excellence, this issue has five

exceptional articles. The first two pieces address thorny and prevalent is-

sues confronted by legal studies’ professors. Professors Peter Prescott, Hilary

Buttrick, and Deborah Skinner address the difficult issue of academic dishon-

esty in the classroom. Professor Patricia M. Sheridan considers the problem

faced by virtually all lawyer professors: avoiding the pitfalls of providing le-

gal advice to students. The next three pieces provide practical guidance to

enhance classroom teaching. Professor Diane May discusses and provides

a framework to employ “scaffolding” in the legal environment course. In

the next piece, Professor Corey Ciocchetti gives readers the necessary tools

to incorporate the recent Supreme Court same-sex marriage case of United

States v. Windsor. The final article is a detailed treatment of consumer price

discrimination. Professor Matthew A. Edwards’s comprehensive treatment of

this topic will be of use to both junior and senior faculty members.

This issue also includes Professor Robert Prentice’s piece, “Teaching

Behavioral Ethics,” the winner of the 2013 Charles M. Hewitt Master Teacher

Competition. Finally, Professors Laurie Lichter-Heath and Beth K. Whitten-

bury’s “Perspectives on Teaching” provides insight and valuable information

on how instructors can write and publish their own books to enhance the

classroom experience.

This issue would not be possible without the devotion of the JLSE’s edi-

torial board, including the advisory editorial board. Dozens of reviewers and

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