Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• Leonard Baynes (Dean, Houston), 5 Steps Law School Deans Can Take to Improve Diversity and Inclusion
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Projections For Fall 2021 Law School Applicants: +28% (+53% In 160-180 LSAT Band)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, The Faux Righteousness Of Test-Optional Admissions: Increasing U.S. News Rankings, Not Diversity, Is The Motivation
• Sabrina DeFabritiis (Suffolk) & Kathleen Elliott Vinson (Suffolk), Under Pressure: How Incorporating Time-Pressured Performance Tests Prepares Students for the Bar Exam and Practice
• Yvonne Dutton (Indiana-Indianapolis) & Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indianapolis), Law School Pedagogy Post-Pandemic: Harnessing the Benefits of Online Teaching

• Michael Froomkin (Miami), Thoughts on L’Affaire Ravicher
• Anahid Gharakhanian (Southwestern), Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman) & Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti (Chapman), Achieving Externship Success: An Empirical Study of the All-Important Law School Externship Experience
• Emily Janoski-Haehlen (Akron) & Sarah Starnes (Akron), The Ghost in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence in Law Schools
• James Levy (Nova SE), How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zoom - my embrace of online teaching (with pics!) - Part 1.
• James Levy (Nova SE), How teaching with Zoom is like "The Hollywood Squares"
• Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law School Applicants Are Way Up. Is It an 'RBG Moment'?
• Devin Stone (Legal Eagle) & Mikhail Varshavski (Doctor Mike), Law School vs. Med School: Which Is Harder?
• Jeff Thomas (Kaplan), Is The Projected Large Increase In Fall 2021 Law School Applicants A COVID-19 Illusion? First-Time LSAT Test-Takers Are Down 3%
• Washington University Law Review, Response To Michael McConnell's Use Of The N-Word In His Stanford Class