Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Commentary On The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Harvard Crimson Op-Ed (Randall L. Kennedy):  Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
• Law.com, Preliminary US News Law School Rankings Release Raises Questions
• Law.com, 'We're Literally Dying': Addressing Mental Health in the Legal Profession Needs to Start in Law School
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), Not An April Fool's Joke: Yale Law School Hires an Experienced and Talented Lawyer to the Regular Faculty
• Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Did U.S. News Change Its Law School Rankings Methodology To Avoid A Steeper Fall For Cornell And NYU?

• Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law Schools That Don't Double The Size Of Their Career Development Departments In Response To U.S. News Are Committing 'Academic Malpractice'
• Reuters, Discrimination Lawsuit Prompts Wisconsin Bar to Modify Diversity Program
• Roundup, Legal Ed News
• David H. Schraub (Lewis & Clark), They Managed a Protest: Prohibitory, Ethical, and Prudential Policing of Academic Speech
• TaxProf Blog Op-Ed (Donald Tobin): The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings
• U.S. News, 2024-25 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings
• U.S. News, 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
• U.S. News, 2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings
• Washington Free Beacon, Anti-Israel Agitators Derail Dinner at Home of UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
• Washington Free Beacon, Incentives on Campus Start To Change
• Mitchell Zamoff (Minnesota), The Seven Essential Law School Simulation Courses