Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• Above the Law, Yale Law School Sued For Jerking Around Students In Amy Chua Dust-Up
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Lawyerly Letter
• Jeff Baker (Pepperdine), Clinics In The Age Of Covid And Beyond
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), Conservative and Libertarian Law Students At Yale Law School Should Transfer Out En Masse
• California Bar, Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls As Bar Adjusts Scores Of 31% Of Examinees Impacted By ExamSoft Tech Issues
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 2.3%, But Down In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-11.2%)), Except 150-159 (+11.4%)
• Benjamin Carpenter (St. Thomas), A Letter to Students on the Meaning of Work and Professional Formation

• Shih-Chun Steven Chien (American Bar Foundation), Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern) & Xiangnong Wang (J.D. 2020, Yale), Sociolegal Research, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships
• Shahrokh Falati (New York Law School), The Makings of a Culturally Savvy Lawyer: Novel Approaches For Teaching and Assessing Cross-Cultural Skills in Law School
• Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Spring 2020)
• Just the News, Yale Law dean's reappointment in doubt following alleged threats to nonwhite students
• Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), Yes, This Is a Witch-Hunt
• David Lat, Doe v. Gerken: A Lawsuit Against Yale Law
• David Lat, Yale Law School And the Federalist Society: Caught In A Bad Romance?
• David Lat, The Yale Law School Scandals: Dean Heather Gerken Speaks
• Simon Lazarus, Where YLS Has Gone Off The Rails, And What Is Needed To Get Back On Track
• Scott Norberg & Stephanie Garcia (Florida Int'l), Reducing Debt and Increasing Access to the Profession: An Empirical Study of Graduate Debt at U.S. Law Schools
• Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee), Students Suing Yale Law Show America’s Elites Have a Low Opinion of Minorities
• J.B. Ruhl, Michael Vandenbergh & Sarah Dunaway (Vanderbilt), Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals
• Tax Analysts, Call For Student Tax Papers: 2022 Chris Bergin Award For Excellence In Writing
• Frances Tung (American Bar Foundation) & Elizabeth Mertz, Table of U.S. Law School Mission Statements, 2019 & 2021
• Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The Allegations in the New Lawsuit Against Yale Law School
• Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Yale Law School Dean's Response to TrapHouseGate Controversy
• Washington Free Beacon, ‘Deplorable’: Top Yale Law Professor Rips Administration Over Handling of ‘Trap House’ Incident
• Washington Free Beacon, Yale Law Dean Admits Error, Stops Short of Apologizing to Targeted Students
• Yale Daily News, Two students sue Yale Law administrators for alleged retaliation in Amy Chua case