Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• AALS, Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
• ABA Journal, ABA Requires Law Schools To Disclose Student Loan And Diversity Data
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Abandons Plan To Issue Citations Ranking Of Law Faculty
  
• Adam Chilton (Chicago), Jonathan Masur (Chicago) & Kyle Rozema (Washington U.), Rethinking Law School Tenure Standards
• Trent England (Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs), Is CRT coming to Oklahoma law schools?
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), ABA Council Approves Addition of Bias, Cross-Cultural Competency and Racism Training Requirement to Law School Accreditation Standards

• Harvard Law Today, Harvard Law School Unveils New Shield
• NALP, Overall Median Salaries Rise and Private Practice Employment Remains Strong for the Class of 2020, Even as Other Key Employment Metrics Decline Due to the Pandemic
• National Review, The American Bar Association Attacks Academic Freedom
• Reuters, Deep Applicant Pool Yields Record-Breaking Diversity At Top Law Schools
• Gary Simson, Mark Jones, Cathren Page & Suzianne Painter-Thorne (Mercer), It's Alright, Ma, It's Life and Life Only: Have Universities Been Meeting Their Legal Obligations to High-Risk Faculty During the Pandemic?
• Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third
• Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties
• Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The Most-Cited Deans At The 68 Most-Cited Law Schools
• WCTV, Seven Years After Dan Markel's Murder, Katherine Magbanua's Attorneys Seek Delay In October Trial Due To COVID Concerns

Comment: A few years ago, I posted a short essay on SSRN concerning how to brief a case.  You can find it at A More Rigorous Approach to Teaching the Reasoning Portion of Case Analysis: A Key to Developing More Competent Law Students.  Abstract:

The first skill that law schools teach their students is case briefing or, as I prefer to call it, case analysis. However, law schools often teach this skill superficially. In this paper, I present a more rigorous approach to case analysis, by including in the reasoning section the types of reasoning (rule-based reasoning, reasoning by analysis, distinguishing cases, policy-based reasoning, synthesis) a judge is using and how the judge employs these types of reasoning to obtain the holding.