Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• AAUP, Statement on the Proposed Closure of the University of North Carolina Law School Poverty Center
• ABA Journal, ABA to Fund Startup Projects to Hire New and Underutilized Lawyers
• ABA Journal, Law School Clinics Join to Help Battle Patent Trolls
• Jamie Abrams (Louisville), Reframing the Socratic Method, 64 J. Legal Educ ___ (2015)
• Jennifer Bard (Texas Tech), The 2016 U.S.News Rankings Are Still Not Out Yet--Getting Ahead on the Methodology of the Law (and Business) Rankings

• Daily Trojan, USC Law Grad Chases Finish Line on CBS' Amazing Race
• Des Moines Register, LSAT Gone for Certain Iowa Law School Applicants
• Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas), A Professional Formation/Professionalism Challenge: Many Students Need Help with Self-Directed Learning Concerning Their Professional Development Toward Excellence, 27 Regent L. Rev. ___ (2015)
• Rick Hills (NYU), Do Law School Exams Encourage Bad Legal Writing?
• Rick Hills (NYU), Real-Life Exam Questions: Do They Require a "Flipped" Class?
• Iowa Business Record, Drake Law School to Offer Evening Courses
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University) & David Santacroce (Michigan), 2013-14 Survey of Applied Legal Education
• Legal Ethics Forum, Death of Legal Ethics Scholar Monroe Freedman (Rutgers)
• News & Observer, UNC Governors Vote to Close 3 University-based Centers
• News & Observer, Gene Nichol’s Statement on Closing of UNC Poverty Center
• Jeff Redding (St. Louis), Non-Contiguous Law School Mergers
• Yale Daily News, Yale Law School Alters Grading Policies