Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• ABA Journal, Are more law schools needed in areas where InfiLaw campuses closed?
• Claudia Angelos (NYU), Mary Lu Bilek (Former Dean, CUNY, Massachusetts) & Joan Howarth (UNLV; Dean Emerita, Michigan State), The Deborah Jones Merritt Center for the Advancement of Justice
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 8th Annual Parris Awards At Pepperdine Caruso Law School
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University), The Economic Value Of Law Clinic Legal Assistance
• Law.com, 'Arbitrary and Unfair': Dispute Over Limited Seating, Preferential Treatment for DC Bar Exam Continues—But Court Isn't Budging
• Lynn M. LoPucki (UCLA), The PowerPoint Channel
• New York Times, American Bar Association May Eliminate Standardized Tests for Admissions

• Roundup, Legal Ed News
• Sandra Simpson (Gonzaga), Law Students Left Behind: Law School's Role in Remedying the Devastating Effects of Federal Education Policy
• David I. C. Thomson (Denver), What We Do: The Life and Work of The Legal Writing Professor
• Henry Webb (Palm Beach Atlantic University), Patrick Baker (Tennessee) & Kaleb Byars (J.D. 2021, Tennessee), Accreditation Information Produced by United States Law Schools to the American Bar Association Should be Made Available to the Public From Both Law and Policy Perspectives

Article of the Week: David I. C. Thomson (Denver), What We Do: The Life and Work of The Legal Writing Professor.  I think this is one of the most important articles ever written on legal writing.  It explains exactly what legal writing professors do, and the value they add to their law schools.

Reminder: Important new book on professional identity development: Neil Hamilton (St Thomas) & Louis Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals (Cambridge University Press 2022).  You can download this book for free here.