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?