Friday, January 29, 2021
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- ABA Journal, While Many Jurisdictions Had Few or No Online Bar Exam Testing Violations, California Had Many
- Mark Edwin Burge (Texas A&M), Repealing the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy in Legal Education
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 22%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Ted Lasso, Law School Deaning, And The Power Of Forgiveness
- Jason Dykstra (Idaho), Teasing the Arc of Electric Spark: Fostering and Teaching Creativity in the Law School Curriculum
- Phyllis Goldfarb (George Washington), Examining Our Experiential Experiments
- Katerina Lewinbuk (South Texas), Taci Villarreal (J.D. 2020, South Texas) & Elena Bolonina (J.D. 2020, South Texas), The Voice of the Gods Is Crippling: Law School for Helicoptered Millennials
- NCBE, Board of Trustees Approves Complete Overhaul Of The Bar Exam
- NYU Law News, The New Tax Law Center at NYU Law Aims to Protect and Strengthen the Tax System
- The Recorder, California Supreme Court OKs Law Licenses To 2,000 Applicants Who Failed The Bar Exam Since July 2015 And Scored 1390+ If They Complete 300 Hours Of Supervised Practice
- Karen Sloan (Law.com), 'A Dream Come True Instead of a Nightmare': Will the Bar Exam Revamp Go Far Enough?
- Karen Sloan (Law.com), Florida State Will Try—for the Third Time—to Oust Segregationist Namesake From Its Law School Building
- Karen Sloan (Law.com), Lin Wood Wants His $1 Million Donation Back If Mercer Law School Removes His Name From Courtroom
- Karen Sloan (Law.com), McGeorge Law and Sacramento Legal Employers Join Forces to Improve Lawyer Diversity
- Vancouver Sun, Black Law Students Push For Increased Diversity at UBC Law School
Off-topic: New book: E. Scott Fruehwald, Why President Trump Wouldn’t Concede, Why Robinson Cano Took PEDs, and How Advertisers and Social Media Manipulate Us: Cognitive Biases
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