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The Cardinal Lawyer: Law school deans' blogs: The view from Arkansas

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Relatively few law school deans maintain blogs. One who does, and with extraordinary grace, is Cyndi Nance of Arkansas. Her blog, called simply The Dean's Blog, documented this informal gathering of law school deans of color at Sanctuary Camelback Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona, in January 2009. In attendance were Cyndi Nance (Arkansas), Athornia Steele (Nova Southeastern), Don Lewis (Hamline), Freddie Pitcher (Southern), JoAnne Epps (Temple), John White (UNLV), Linda Ammons (Widener), Peter Alexander (Southern Illinois), Jim Chen (Louisville), Beto Juárez (Denver), McKen Carrington (Texas Southern), and Dan Bernstein (president of the Law School Admissions Council). The post-dinner picture of our group appears at right.

Dean Nance visited Louisville in 2007 as a contributor to one of our Law School's signature CLE events, the annual Warns Institute on Labor and Employment Law. She invited me to visit Arkansas in November 2007. During my visit, in addition to making presentations on agricultural law and the role of technology in contemporary legal education, I helped cheer the Razorbacks to a crushing defeat of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. Wooooooooo, Pig Sooie!

This post has a dual purpose. In addition to lauding my good friend Cyndi Nance, I also write in praise of her approach to communicating with her law school's constituents. Dean Nance's blog, like The Cardinal Lawyer, aims to bring law school life closer to the people who matter most in legal education: students, graduates, friends, faculty, staff, community. Dean Nance is even on Twitter, a microblogging platform that I also use. These electronic platforms represent the essential ingredients of what I call Law 2.0, or legal education in our interconnected and interactive world. As a law school dean who also uses a blog, Twitter, and other social networking tools to stay in touch with his community, I'm pleased to be in Cyndi Nance's esteemed company.

Full post as published by University of Louisville Law Faculty on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).