Friday, April 2, 2021
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- Josh Blackman (South Texas), In Defense of CUNY Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek
- Josh Blackman (South Texas), Will Law Schools Require Students to be Vaccinated?
- Brian L. Frye (Kentucky), It's The End Of Citation As We Know It & I Feel Fine
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Issues THIRD Version Of Law School Rankings In Advance Of Their Public Release On Tuesday (12:01 AM ET)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Update On San Diego Law School's Investigation Of Tenured Professor's Blog Post
- Law360, GWU Beats Students' COVID-19 Tuition Refund Suit
- Derek Mueller (Iowa), The USNWR law school rankings are deeply wounded--will law schools have the coordination to finish them off?
- New York Times, Why Did the Dean of the Most Diverse Law School in the Country Cancel Herself?
- Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Temple Dean Faces Criminal Charges For Submitting False Data To Inflate U.S. News Ranking
- Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie A. Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston): TaxProf Blog op-ed, U.S. News Ranking Metrics Stifle Law Libraries, Tie Hands of Law Schools
- Adam Shapiro (Ph.D. History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Chicago): Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed, Legal Theorists Have Much to Learn From Other Fields
- Rob Willey (George Mason) & Melanie Knapp (George Mason), How To Juice Your Citations In The HeinOnline/U.S. News Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Business/Corporate Law Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Clinical Training Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Constitutional Law Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Criminal Law Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Dispute Resolution Rankings
- U.S. News, 2022 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
- U.S. News, 2022 Tax Rankings
Comment: The Mueller article is an important critique of the U.S. News Law School Rankings. Derek Mueller (Iowa), The USNWR law school rankings are deeply wounded--will law schools have the coordination to finish them off?
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