Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• ABA Journal, Several States Push Ahead With In-Person July Bar Exams, Despite COVID-19 Health Risks
• Michael Abramowicz (George Washington), Predictive Test Scores and Diploma Privilege
• California Supreme Court, California To Give Online Bar Exam On Oct. 5-6, Permanently Lower Cut Score, Provide Provisional Licensure For Class Of 2020 Grads
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Applicants Are Up 0.1%, With Biggest Increases Among Southeast, 165-180 LSATs, And Those Who Declined To Reveal Their Ethnicity
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Hosts A Virtual Conversation On Race Today

 

• Chronicle of Higher Education, With Latest Layoffs, U. of Akron Has Lost Almost a Quarter of Its Faculty Since Pandemic Began
• Concord Monitor, Law Faculty Vote For Removal of Pierce Name
• Jessica Erickson (Richmond), A New Series of Posts on Remote & Physically Distanced Teaching – Preparing for the Fall and Famous Last Words, For the other posts in the series, see here.
• Andrew Guthrie Ferguson (University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law) & Jonathan Yusef Newton (J.D. 2019, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law), The Law of Law School: The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students (NYU Press 2020)
• John Hasnas (Georgetown), Why I’ll Be Teaching On Campus At Georgetown This Fall
• GW Hatchet, Black Law Students Launch Petition For ‘Institutional Change’ at Law School
• Peter H. Huang (Colorado) & Debra S. Austin (Denver), Unsafe At Any Campus: Don’t Let Colleges Become The Next Cruise Ships, Nursing Homes, And Food Processing Plants
• JURIST editorial, The Diploma Privilege Manifesto
• Los Angeles Times editorial, Coronavirus Has Made It Unsafe to Take the California bar. So Put New Lawyers to Work Without It
• NALP, Pandemic Clobbers Job Starts For Law School Class Of 2020 Graduates
• NCBE, July 2020 Bar Exam Update
• NCBE, Louisiana, New Jersey Shift Gears On Bar Exam; Montana Stays The Course
• New York Times, Trump Administration Rescinds Plan To Strip Visas From International Students In Online Classes, But New International Student Enrollment Is Projected To Fall Up To 98%
• Karen Sloan (Law.com), Proposed Bill Would Grant Emergency Diploma Privilege in New York
• New York Court of Appeals, New York Cancels September Bar Exam, Provides Provisional Licensure For All First-Time Takers
• TNCourts.gov, Supreme Court Orders Cancellation of The Fall 2020 Bar Examination And Approves Administration Of Online Examination (July 13, 2020)
• Valley News, Vermont Law School To Paint Over Mural Celebrating State's Role In The Underground Railroad And Abolitionist Movement Because Depiction Of Blacks 'Made Some People Uncomfortable'
• Washington Post op-ed:  Why This Pandemic Is a Good Time to Stop Forcing Prospective Lawyers to Take Bar Exams
• Christopher Williams (Chicago), Gatekeeping The Profession