Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• ABA Journal, More top law schools boycott US News rankings, but some lower-ranked institutions are reluctant to withdraw
• ABA Press Release, ABA Panel Takes First Step to Revise the Requirement for Law School Admission Tests
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  One-Third Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -7.5%, With Biggest Decline (-21%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Is Thankful For Greg Ogden
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings, ABA Optional LSAT, And Harvard Affirmative Action Supreme Court Case
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The U.S. News Rankings Dominance?

• Daniel Crane (Michigan), Antitrust Concerns on Firing U.S. News & World Report
• Colin Diver (Former Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Former President, Reed College), New York Times Op-Ed:  Are the U.S. News College Rankings Finally Going to Die?
• Lee Fisher (Dean, Cleveland State), Law School Name Change: Cleveland State University (CSU) College of Law
• Bill Henderson (Indiana), The Dollars and Math Behind Yale Law’s Withdrawn From USN Rankings
• David Lat & New York Times, Why Law Schools Outside The T14 (Like UCLA, Wash U, George Mason, Boston University, Pepperdine) May Refuse To Join The U.S. News Rankings Boycott
• Law Schools Boycotting U.S. News Rankings:
• Yale
• Stanford
• Harvard
• Columbia
• UC-Berkeley
• Michigan
• Duke
• Northwestern
• Georgetown
• UCLA
• UC-Irvine
• Law Schools Not Boycotting U.S. News Rankings:
• Chicago
• Cornell (Maybe)
• Legal Ed News Roundup
• Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News), U.S. News Best Law Schools Rankings Will Continue to Inform Prospective Students
• New York Times, Tax Prof Cruciverbalist
• Daniel Solove (George Washington), Slaying the US News Law School Rankings Dragon
• Tallahassee Democrat, Could Katherine Magbanua Get an 'Unusual' Deal in Dan Markel Murder Case? Attorneys Weigh In
• Wall Street Journal Editorial, Yale and Harvard Law Unrank Themselves