Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve. I’m Karen Sloan, legal education editor at Law.com, and I’ll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.

This week I’m chatting with Villanova Law Dean Mark Alexander about his student-driven election law course, and why election law is having a moment. Next, I’ll highlight two interesting initiatives from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Vanderbilt University Law School that are finding new ways to bring legal education to unconventional audiences. And finally I pen a short love letter to the University of Virginia School of Law’s student-run publication Virginia Law Weekly, which manages to be informative while not taking itself too seriously.