Weekly Legal Education Roundup

The big legal education news for the past few months is that the Council of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has proposed significant modifications of and additions to Standards 205, 206, 303, 507, and 508.  The second round of comments on these proposals closed earlier this week.  You can find the comments here.  Some of the more interesting comments were by Adam Lamparello, Scott Fruehwald, Yale Law School, CLEA, Various Law Professors.  (Note: the fact that I call them interesting does not mean that I agree with all of them.)  Everyone in legal education should be aware of these proposals because they could produce major changes in legal education.  The Council should next consider these matters in August.

• Above the Law, Student Staff Resign After Duke Law School Faculty Try To Force Anti-Trans Article Into Journal
• Vikram D. Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jennifer K. Robbennolt (Illinois), The Role of Lawyers and Law Schools in Fostering Civil Public Debate
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Flap Over 'Clinton' Change
• Bloomberg Law, On Amy Chua, Yale Law and the Cauldron of Nonsense
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Monday Is The Last Day To Submit Comments On ABA's Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Training At All Law Schools
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Wedding

• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tony Varona Takes The High Road In His Farewell Message After Being Fired Less Than 2 Years Into His Deanship
• Matthew Diller (Dean, Fordham) & Joseph Landau (Associate Dean. Fordham), Law Schools Must Implement Meaningful Adjustments
• Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University), Implementation of the ABA's New Experiential Training Requirement: More Whimper Than Bang
• Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman), Just Compensation: An Empirical Examination of the Success of Legal Externships for Pay and Credit
• Letter From Richard Peltz-Steele (Massachusetts), Richard Sander (UCLA), Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA) (June 27, 2021)
• Hon. Kenneth L. Marcus (Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law), Legal Scholars Castigate the American Bar Association’s Proposed Diversity Standards
• Miami Herald, Frenk Appoints Acting UM Law Dean, As Faculty Demands Investigation Into Varona’s Firing
• Richard Peltz-Steele (Massachusetts), Law profs fault vague, empty ABA 'diversity' proposal
• Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Gets an Earful Over Proposed Diversity Training Mandate for Law Students
• Meredith Stange (Northern Illinois), Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me