Ep 074: Legal Education In A Lockdown, with UCLA Law Dean Jennifer Mnookin

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The coronavirus crisis has created turmoil for legal education and bar admissions, as law schools have shut down their campuses and states have put off bar exams. One proposal, advocated by</span> <a href= "https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jennifer-l-mnookin/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennifer L. Mnookin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, dean of</span> <a href="https://law.ucla.edu/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">UCLA Law School</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and</span> <a href= "https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/erwin-chemerinsky/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Erwin Chemerinsky</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, dean of</span> <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">UC Berkeley Law School</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, in</span> <a href= "https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/04/08/making-the-case-for-provisional-bar-licenses-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic/"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The National Law Journal</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is for states to provisionally license law school graduates for two years, without a bar exam. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, bar admission is only one of the many difficult challenges facing law school deans as they wrestle with online courses, uncertainty about student internships and placements, disrupted admissions, and enormous questions about planning for the coming academic year and beyond. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of LawNext, Dean Mnookin joins host Bob Ambrogi to share her thoughts and experiences on legal education in a lockdown and beyond.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dean of UCLA Law since 2015, Mnookin is also the Ralph and Shirley Shapiro professor of law and faculty co-director of</span> <a href= "https://law.ucla.edu/centers/interdisciplinary-studies/pulse/about/"> <span style="font-w