Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• ABA Journal, ABA Council Votes To Nix Accreditation Requirement That Law Libraries Have A Physical Collection
• ABA Journal, Legal Ed Council Votes to Send Academic Freedom Proposal to ABA House of Delegates
• ABA Tax Lawyer, Exclusive Article Submission Window
• Rachel Kincaid (Baylor), Law Schools: Want To Help Bend The Arc Of The Moral Universe Toward Justice? Hire Law Professors With Public Service Experience.
• David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Judicial Notice (11.18.23): Will Donna Adelson Plead Guilty In Dan Markel's Murder To Save Wendi From Prosecution?
• Law.com, Proposal to Allow Fully Online Schools to Apply for ABA Accreditation Sent to Notice and Comment
• Reuters, Law School Free Speech Proposal Moves Forward After ABA Vote

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• ABA Journal, Columbia Law Prof Banned From 2 Depositions After Allegations of Verbal Abuse, Intimidating Presence
• David Bernstein (George Mason), Racial Classification in Higher Education Admissions Before and after SFFA
• Eric Boos (Idaho), Moral Imperative—Legal Requirement: Why Law Schools Should Require Poverty Law and International Human Rights
• California Bar, Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls To 51.5%, Bucking Upward National Trend
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.7%, With Biggest Decline (-10.2%) In The 170-180 LSAT Band
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Ed Larson, Tom Stipanowich, And Ahmed Taha Win Pepperdine University Faculty Awards
• Catholic University Symposium, Free Speech And Civility in American Law Schools

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• ABC13, Texas Southern Law Students Stage Walkout After Associate Dean Resigns
• Ben Alarie (Toronto), Presentation of The Impact Of AI On Legal Education And Law Practice at Pepperdine
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A Look at the U.S. News Law School Rankings From NYU to Touro
• Florida Bar Tax Section, Moot Court Competition
• Florida Politics & Tallahassee Democrat, Week 2 Of Charlie Adelson's Trial In Dan Markel's Murder: Both Sides Rest Their Case
• Paula Franzese (Seton Hall), Eugene Mazo (Seton Hall), & Lawrence Spinelli (Drew University), The Lawyer-Hero: Lessons in Leadership for Lawyers from Watergate to the Present Day
• T. Markus Funk (Perkins Coie), Andrew Boutros (Dechert) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The Hidden Life of Law School Adjuncts: Teaching Temps, Indispensable Instructors, Underappreciated Cash Cows, or Something Else?

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2023-24 Edition)
• Deseret News, Part of BYU Law’s 50-Year Story Is Giving Young Lawyers Courage to be Religious in Their Profession
• John Inazu (Washington University), Learning From Failure 
• Inside Higher Ed, AI Med School Rankings Tool Offers Alternative to Traditional Metrics
• Los Angeles Times Op-Ed:  Nothing Has Prepared Me for the Antisemitism I See on College Campuses Now, by Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley)
• Michigan Law School, Call For Papers: 10th Annual Junior Scholars’ Conference
• Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist. U.S. News), Corrections to the 2024 Best Colleges Rankings
• New York Times, Law Firms Warn Universities About Antisemitism on Campus
• New York Times, Who Decides Penn’s Future: Donors or the University?

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Could Yale's Hiring Of Princeton's Keith Whittington Signal A Shift In Legal Ed's Alleged Hostility Toward Conservative Professors?
• William Hubbard (Dean, South Carolina): TaxProf Blog op-ed, Stalled U.S. Rule of Law Recovery Demands Systemic Change
• Law360, Ex-Rutgers Law Fundraising Exec Drops Equal Pay Suit
• Law.com, Mitchell Hamline Law Professor Resigns, Claiming School Supports Antisemitism
• LSSSE, Focus on First-Generation Students
• National Law Journal, Former Convict Who Became Respected Law Professor Faces Domestic Violence Charge
• National Conference of Bar Examiners, NCBE Announces Update to NextGen Exam Content, Extends Availability of Current Bar Exam
• Reuters, Conservative Group Sues NYU, Claiming Selection of Law Journal Student Staff Discriminates

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• Stephen Carter (Yale), Is Silence on Israel Support for Hamas? Harvard, NYU Critics Say Yes
• Federalist Society, Cultivating Controversy: Proposed ABA Standard Would Link Freedom of Expression to Law School Accreditation
• Florida Politics, Dan Markel Murder Case Sees Several Big Developments This Week
• John Inazu (Washington University), The Pitfalls and Perils of Faculty Hiring
• Orin Kerr (UC-Berkeley), LSAT to Drop the "Logic Games" Section
• Law.com, 2 Law Schools Are No Longer ABA-Accredited
• NALP, Despite a Record Job Market for Class of 2022 Law Graduates, Outcomes Remain Unequal for Graduates of Color, First-Gen College Students

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• ABA Journal, Winston & Strawn Rescinds NYU Law Student's Job Offer Over 'Inflammatory' Israel Comments
• Benjamin Barton (Tennessee), The Case For (and Against) ABA Regulation of Non-J.D. Programs
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Should Law Schools Weigh In On Political Matters?
• Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), A Taxonomy of Professional Identity Formation
• Brian Frye (Kentucky), Should Using an AI Text Generator to Produce Academic Writing Be Plagiarism?
• David Lat, Biglaw Firm Rescinds Job Offer Over 'Inflammatory' Anti-Israel Email
• James Leipold (Senior Advisor, Law School Admission Council), There Are No Shortcuts, But the Road Is Getting Shorter 
• Stephanie Hunter McMahon (Cincinnati), What Law Schools Must Change to Train Transactional Lawyers

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• David Bernstein (George Mason), Students for Fair Admissions and the End of Racial Classification as We Know It
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), After Adding Graduate Debt And Salaries, And Faculty Research, To Its College Rankings, Will U.S. News Overhaul The Law School Rankings Methodology Yet Again?
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Parable Of The Prodigal Son: Justice, Mercy, And Humility
• Mark Herrmann (Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Aon; Former Partner, Jones Day), Why Doesn't Anyone Want To Teach Law Any More?
• Inside Higher Ed, Biden Administration Puts Grad Schools in the Hot Seat
• Law.com, ABA Grants 32 Variances for JD-Next Law School Admission Test

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• Michigan Supreme Court, Amendment of Rule 1.109 of the Michigan Court Rules
• Press Release, Maryland Carey Law Launches Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law
• Press Release, Southwestern Law School Launches First-of-Its-Kind Online J.D. Program
• The Recorder, State Bar Raises Cost of Bar Exam, Fees for Out-of-State Lawyers
• Reuters, California Could Be Next State to Bypass the Bar Exam
• Reuters, Law Professors 'Cold Calls' Spur Heated Debate
• Justine Rogers (New South Wales), Legal Ethics Education: Seeking--and Creating--a Stronger Community of Practice
• Roundup, Legal Ed News
• Debra Moss Vollweiler (Nova), Return of the Sage (on the Stage)?

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• ABA Journal, New law school targeting part-time students planned for Charlotte, North Carolina
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2023 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 9th Year In A Row
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University), David A. Santacroce (Michigan), Margaret Reuter (UMKC), June T. Tai (Iowa) & G.S. Hans (Cornell), 2022-23 Survey of Applied Legal Education
• Law.com, In Wake of Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Ex-Law Professor, GMU Bans Intimate Relationships With Students
• New York Times, Temple University’s Acting President Dies After Becoming Ill Onstage
• preLaw (Winter 2023), Do Devout Law Schools Take A Hit In The U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings?
• Reuters, Idaho Law School Settles Discrimination Case With Professor For $750,000

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• Bloomberg Businessweek, How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Elite Parents Enabled His Crypto Empire
• Steven Boutcher (Law & Society), Jason Houle (Dartmouth), Anna Raup-Kounovksy (Penn State) & Carroll Seron (UC-Irvine), A Faustian Bargain? Rethinking the Role of Debt in Law Students' Career Choices
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Shane Claiborne At Pepperdine Caruso Law: 'We Belong And Pursue Truth As One'
• Connecticut Law Tribune, After Nearly 2 Years of Litigation, Law Students Drop Suit Against Yale
• Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Law Schools Demonstrating Compliance With Standard 206 (University of Kentucky and University of Oregon)
• Meghan Dawe (Harvard Center On The Legal Profession), The Black-White Student Debt Gap Among Law School Graduates

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• ABA Journal, If Law Schools Prohibit ChatGPT in Writing, Can They Back It Up?
• Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? In Some Ways Maybe Yes, in Others Perhaps Not
• Nicola Boothe (Dean, Illinois-Chicago), Black and BarRed: The Bar Examination's History of Exclusivity and the Threat of Further Exclusion Posed by ABA Standard 316
• Michael Dorf (Cornell), Diversity, Racial Balancing, and the Experience of Race
• Michael Dorf (Cornell), Does Diversity Have a Future?
• David Grenardo (St. Thomas), Debunking the Major Myths Surrounding Mandatory Civility for Lawyers Plus Five Mandatory Civility Rules That Will Work
• Lindsey P. Gustafson (Ark. LR), Aric Short (Texas A&M), & Robin Thorner (St. Mary's), Breaking Down Siloes and Building Up Students: The Transformational Possibilities of Professional Identity Formation

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• Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, ABA Memorandum From Bridget Mary McCormack (Council Chair) & William Adams (Managing Director of Accreditation and Legal Education)
• Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Compliance and Removal of Baylor Law School's Requirements of Specific Remedial Actions Standard 206(b), Part-Time Faculty
• Florida Politics, Attrition Warfare in the Dan Markel Case — Charlie Adelson’s Lawyer Foreshadows Longer Trial
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog),  How Minority Law Students Can Become Self-Regulating (Self-Directing) Students
• David S. Kemp (The Verdict), Abandoning Precedent: The Case for Bringing ChatGPT into Law School
• Jeffrey S. Kinsler (Belmont), Ultimate Bar Passage Rates: Which Law Schools Are Overperforming and Underperforming Expectations

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• Bloomberg Law, Law School Can Cover Underground Railroad Murals, 2nd Cir. Says
• Jonathan Choi (USC) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota), AI Assistance in Legal Analysis: An Empirical Study
• Jessica Findley, Adriana Cimetta, Heidi Burross, Katherine Cheng, Matt Charles, Cayley Balser, Ran Li & Christopher Robertson (Arizona), JD-Next: A Valid and Reliable Tool to Predict Diverse Students’ Success in Law School
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Blog), How Minorities Can Succeed in Law School
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Blog), How Minority Law Students Can Develop Better Study Habits
• Honolulu Civil Beat, UH Law School Instructor Says He Was Banned For Criticizing ‘Nice Racism’
• Law.com, ABA: Students Can Now Earn Up to 50% of Credits Remotely for JD

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• Abdi Aidid (Toronto; Blue J Legal) & Benjamin Alarie (Toronto; CEO, Blue J Legal), The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
• Colin Black (Suffolk), The Rise and Fall of the Mental Health Inquiry for Bar Admission
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2023 Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 1.9%, As Law Schools May Reduce Enrollment Due To Dramatic Changes In U.S. News Rankings Methodology
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2026
• Chronicle of Higher Education, West Virginia Law School Faces Major Cuts As Part Of University's 'Unprecedented' Budget Retrenchment
• L. Joe Dunman (Louisville), Religion In The Law: An Open Access Casebook

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• ABA Journal, Doing Their Homework: These Incoming Law Students Relied Less on School Rankings and More on Other Factors—Including Comfort Level
• ABA Journal, Will the Prestige of Purdue University Help Concord Law?
• Bradley A. Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data
• Bloomberg Law, The Future of Legal Is Female—But It Comes With a Cost
• Bridget J. Crawford (Pace), Information for Submitting to Online Law Review Companions
• Jacksonville Daily Record, Jacksonville University Law School Grows ‘Brick By Brick’
• Law.com, Columbia Law Is Taking Heat, But Law Schools Accepting Video Submissions Isn't New

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• ABA Journal, Golden Gate Law Students With Free Tuition Plan to Stay at the School Despite Concerns
• Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), Boycotts, Race, Rankings, and Howard Law School's Peculiar Position
• Nyamagaga Gondwe (Wisconsin), TaxProf Blog op-ed:  The Legal Academic Job Market: 5 Tips for Screening Interview and Job-Talk Prep
• Law.com, ASU Law School Welcomes Use of AI Tools on Admission Applications
• Law.com, Can Law School Rankings Predict Future Career Satisfaction?
• Law.com, ONU Seeks to Dismiss Tenured Professor Accused of Bullying
• Legal Tech News, Are Legal Research Costs Tempting Lawyers to Turn to ChatGPT

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• Announcement, Phyllis Taite Leaves Oklahoma City For University Of Oklahoma
• Bradley A. Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data
• Sam Barder (J.D. 2023, Illinois) & Jennifer K. Robbennolt (Illinois), Optimistic Overconfidence: A Study of Law Student Academic Predictions
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), A Former Law Examiner Comments On the NextGen Bar Exam
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Bar Exam Lunches
• Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2023 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
• Gregory S. Crespi (SMU), How To Grade Law Students Taking 'Paper Classes' Given Student Access to Artificial Intelligence Programs: Some Preliminary Thoughts

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• Announcement, Blaine Saito Leaves Northeastern For Ohio State
• John G. Browning (Spencer Fane LLP), Righting Past Wrongs: Posthumous Bar Admissions and the Quest for Racial Justice
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanford Law’s Diversity Dean Departs After Campus-Speaker Controversy
• Climate Defiance, We Shut Down Harvard Climate Event And Demanded That Law Prof Jody Freeman Be Fired For Serving On CononcoPhillips Board
• Michael Dorf (Cornell), The Verdict Op-Ed:  Is Resistance to AI in the Law School Classroom Futile?
• David Grenardo (St. Thomas-MN), Marianist Law Schools: Demonstrating the Courage to be Catholic
• Joseph Landau (Fordham) & Ron Lazebnik (Fordham), National Law Journal Op-Ed:  Law Schools Must Embrace AI

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• David Bell (Princeton): Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed, Where Does Your Department Stand on Abortion? Antiracism? Immigration?
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), NextGen Bar Exam MC Questions Only Require Takers To Spot Issues, And Not Apply the Rules
• Chronicle of Higher Education, ‘U.S. News’ Took a Hit on Rankings. Its Competitors Say They’re Doing Just Fine.
• Law.com, Judge Cuts Counts From Professor's Discrimination Suit Against Michigan Law
• National Conference of Bar Examiners, NCBE Publishes First Samples of New Question Types for NextGen Bar Exam
• New York Post, SUNY Buffalo Law School Faces Discrimination Complaint Over ‘Students Of Color’ Program
• Keerthana Nunna (J.D. 2021, Michigan; Brooklyn District Attorney's Office), W. Nicholson Price II (Michigan) & Jonathan Tietz (J.D. 2019, Michigan; Perkins Coie, Washington, D.C.), Hierarchy, Race & Gender in Legal Scholarly Networks

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• AALS, Conference on Affirmative Action (July 10) 
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Legal Education Reaction To The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decisions
• Matthew Diller (Dean, Fordham): National Law Journal Op-Ed,  Problem Not Solved: A Closer Look at the New US News Law School Ranking Formula
• Fordham Colloquium, In Memory of Deborah Rhode
• Tal Fortgang (J.D. 2023, NYU; City Journal), Hollow Words
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Why Law Schools Need to Emphasize Professional Identity Development
• George Mason, Scalia­–Ginsburg Colloquy: A Balanced Discussion of Both Sides of the Affirmative Action Decision (July 11)
• Georgetown, Lilian Faulhaber Named Vice Dean
• Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Student Professional Identity Formation and the Foundational Skill of Building a Tent of Professional Relationships to Support the Student

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• Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Law School Rankings and The Impossibility of Anti-Racism
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Education's Reaction To The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decisions
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Michael McConnell (Stanford) & Marcus Cole (Dean, Notre Dame), Receive Religious Liberty Awards
• Chronicle of Higher Education, An Outspoken Law Professor Criticized His University and His Field. Now He’s Suing for Discrimination
• Dealbreaker, Compensation Watch ’23: Go To Law School, Young Man
• Journal Of Legal Education, New Issue
• KCBS, This Historic Law School Is In Debt, But Trustees Are Rallying to Keep It Open
• Derek Muller (Iowa), USNWR Should Considering Incorporating Academic Attrition Rates to Offset Perverse Incentives in New Methodology

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• Robert George (McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University; Nootbaar Honorary Distinguished Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso Law School), The Atlantic:  Universities Shouldn’t Be Ideological Churches
• Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas), Student Professional Identity Formation and the Foundational Skill of Building a Tent of Professional Relationships to Support the Student
• Houston Chronicle, Texas Southern University Settles Lawsuit With Former Law School Dean
• Law360 Pulse, Summer Associate Survey
• John McGinnis (Northwestern), Law, Betrayed: Identity’s Triumph Over Argument in Legal Education Undermines Democracy
• Benjamin Ogilvie (J.D. 2025, Chicago), Wall Street Journal Op-Ed:  Chicago Lives Up to the Principles

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• AALS Institutional Advancement Conference, Making a Difference in a Changing World
• AAUP, Inflation-Adjusted Faculty Salaries Continue To Plummet
• ABA Journal, As Culture Wars Continue, City University of New York School of Law Is Latest Target
• Doris Del Tosto Brogan (Villanova), Stories of Leadership, Good and Bad: Another Modest Proposal for Teaching Leadership in Law Schools
• Edward Cantu (Missouri-Kansas City) & Lee Jussim (Rutgers), Microaggressions, Questionable Science, and Free Speech
• Jason Chin (Australian National), Alexander Holcombe (Sydney), Kathryn Zeiler (Boston University), Patrick Forscher (Busara Center) & Ann Guo (Melbourne), Metaresearch, Psychology, and Law: A Case Study on Implicit Bias
• Tracey George (Vanderbilt), Mitu Gulati (Virginia) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), Gender, Credentials, and M&A
• Inside Higher Ed, Resilience Skills Curriculum Gets Ahead of Student Crisis

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• ABA Council, Notice of Finding of Significant Noncompliance With Standards 501(a) and 501(b) 
• ABA Journal, These Law Schools Did Best in Blog's 'Omnibus Specialty Rankings' Based on US News Data
• Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Chat Gpt-4 Understands Academic Attrition's Impact on Bar Passage But Does Anyone Else?
• Jeffrey Baker (Pepperdine) & Tanya Asim Cooper (Pepperdine), Open Conversations: Building Culture, Developing Discourse, Nurturing Democracy
• Corporate Counsel, Study Reveals How Pedigree of Law Schools, Law Firms Influence In-House Pay
• Daily Caller, NYC Law School Slapped With [ABA] Complaint Over Anti-Israel Policy
• Richard W. Garnett (Notre Dame), True Campus Diversity

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• 2024 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
• ABA Journal, Some Law Schools Already Are Using ChatGPT to Teach Legal Research and Writing
• John Bliss (Denver) & David Sandomierski (Western), Learning without Grade Anxiety: Lessons from the Pass/Fail Experiment in North American J.D. Programs
• ETS Press Release, ETS Reduces GRE From 4 Hours to 2 Hours (LSAT Is 3 Hours)
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), A Companion to Torts: Learning to Think Like a Torts Lawyer by Doing Exercises: Chapter Three

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• 2024 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News International Law Rankings
• Prentiss Cox (Minnesota), 1L Curricula in the United States: 2023 Data and Historical Comparison
• Daniel Judge (Notre Dame), Catholic Legal Education and the Formation of Conscience
• Law360 Op-Ed (Markus Funk (Partner, Perkins Coie; Adjunct Professor, Colorado), Andrew Boutros (Dechert; Lecturer, Chicago) & Eugene Volokh (Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA)), Time For Law Schools To Rethink Unsung Role Of Adjuncts
• Law.com, Ohio Northern U Is Seeking the Dismissal of a Tenured Law Professor. He Alleges It's Because of His Views on DEI

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• 2024 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings
• 2024 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings
• ABA, Winners Of The 22nd Annual Law Student Tax Challenge
• ABA Journal, Law schools should take on students' mental health and substance use from day one
• AccessLex Institute, 2023 Legal Education Data Deck
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  ABA Pauses Move To Eliminate LSAT Requirement For Admission To Law School
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Natalie Fortner (J.D. 2023, Arkansas), Comment, Mental Health, Law School, and Bar Admissions: Eliminating Stigma and Fostering a Healthier Profession

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Impact Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott On Peer Reputation
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Methodology Changes In The New 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Law Schools Most Impacted By The Methodology Changes In The 2024 U.S. News Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine’s Place In The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024 U.S. News Tax Rankings
• Robert L. Jones (Northern Illinois), After Twenty-Five Years, Academic Reputation Scores for Law Schools Remain Below Their 1998 Levels

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• Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Schools Face An Inflection Point With Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law's New Religious Clinic Engages Its First Direct Representation Of Clients: Two New Jersey Churches Denied County Historic Preservation Funds
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Is Causing The 3+ Week Delay In The U.S. News Law School Rankings?
• Larry Cunningham (Dean, Charleston), Dividing Law School Faculties into Academic Departments: A Potential Solution to the Gendered Doctrinal/Skills Hierarchy in Legal Education
• E. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Second Edition: A Companion to Torts: Learning to Think Like a Torts Lawyer by Doing Exercises
• Law.com, UArizona Law Classes, Exams Go Remote Due to Alleged Threats

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• ABA Journal Op-Ed, The ABA Needs Ideological Diversity to Ensure Its Future
• ABA Section of Legal Education, Employment Data for Graduating Law Class of 2022
• Neil Buchanan (Florida), A Public Statement About Law Students (and Others) Acting Like Children, from a Fictional University President— Or, the Stanford Incident is Not What You Think
• BYU, ChatGPT Bombs Accounting And Tax Exams: 47% v. 77% For Students
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service
• Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), Examining the Bar Exam: An Empirical Analysis of Racial Bias in the Uniform Bar Examination

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• ABA Journal, Stanford Law's Black Law Students Association Pulls Out of Recruiting Activities After Federalist Society Event
• Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series, Part II
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  U.S. News Delays Release Of Law School Rankings Due To 'Unprecedented Number Of Inquiries,' Including From Schools That Are Ostensibly Boycotting The Rankings
• Michael Colatrella Jr. (Pacific), Leading Law Schools: Relationships, Influence, and Negotiation
• Deseret News, Sen. Mike Lee Responds to Campus Free Speech Issues at Stanford, BYU Law Schools
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Commentary: How to Help Blacks and Other Minorities Improve their Bar Passage Rates

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• ABA, First-Time Bar Pass Rates: 83% For Whites, 57% For Blacks
• ABA Journal, How Can Law Schools Comply With Faculty Diversity Accreditation Standards? Some Deans Have Questions
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 90% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.7%, With Biggest Decline (-8.0%) In The 150-154 LSAT Band
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Will Law Schools With Strong Tax Programs Get A Boost In The 2024 U.S. News Rankings?
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Will U.S. News Refuse To Count Votes From Deans, Faculty, Lawyers, And Judges From Boycotting Law Schools In Reputation Metric In 2024 Rankings?
• Indiana Lawyer, ‘Radical Turn Away’ From Admissions Tests? Deans Say Claims of Increased Diversity May Be Unfounded
• Law.com, What Happens When ChatGPT Gets It Wrong?

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The Disruption Of A Federal Judge's Speech At Stanford Law School (Part 5)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, A Plagiarism Detector Will Try to Catch Students Who Cheat With ChatGPT
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Why I Wrote Think Like A Lawyer
• Milan Markovic (Texas A&M), Protecting the Guild or Protecting the Public? Bar Exams and the Diploma Privilege
• Deborah J. Merritt (Ohio State), GPT-4 on Legal Education and Licensing
• NCBE Announces National Mean for February 2023 MBE
• New York Sun, Tenured Professor Amy Wax, Under Siege for ‘Truth Telling’ on Race, Makes Her Case
• Press Release, ChatGPT LSAT Score Falls Short of Getting Into Top Law Schools

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• David Bernstein (George Mason), More Elite Law Student Foolishness, This Time at Columbia
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Law Schools Most Impacted By The Methodology Changes In The Projected 2024 U.S. News Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The Disruption Of A Federal Judge's Speech At Stanford Law School (Part 3)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The Disruption Of A Federal Judge's Speech At Stanford Law School (Part 4)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Celebrates $50 Million Naming Gift At Annual Dinner With President George W. Bush
• Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley): Sacramento Bee Op-Ed,  Stanford Students Violated Free Speech by Shouting Down a Conservative Speaker

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ChatGPT Thinks I Am Way More Interesting Than I Am
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Dean Martinez's 10-Page Letter To The Stanford Community About The Disruption Of Judge Duncan's Speech
• Chicago Sun-Times Op-Ed:  When a Professor Makes Obnoxious Remarks on Race and Culture, Is It a Matter of Academic Freedom?
• The Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanford Law’s Diversity Dean Is ‘on Leave’ as Controversy Boils Over a Disrupted Speech
• Stuart Kyle Duncan (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit): Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School

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• David Bernstein (George Mason), New Law School "Mismatch" Data from UCLA Lawprof Richard Sander
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), Is The DEI Juice Worth The Squeeze?
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), March Madness Law School Bracket: Duke, Northwestern, Texas, Virginia in Final Four
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Religious Liberty Clinics At Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Texas, And Yale File Supreme Court Amicus Briefs: Post Office Must Accommodate Employee's Sabbath Observance
• Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Finding of Significant Noncompliance With Standard 206, University of Oregon School of Law

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Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• ABA Journal, Does ChatGPT Produce Fishy Briefs?
• ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Council Decision, Notice of Finding Significant Noncompliance With Standard 202 (University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law) (Feb. 2023)
• Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Some Thoughts on the Recent Controversies Concerning Law (and Med) School Rankings: Part I in a Series
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ABA Finds 4 Law Schools Back In Compliance With Accreditation Standards: Hofstra (Faculty Diversity), Ave Maria, UDC & Vermont (2-Year Bar Passage)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, ChatGPT Is Everywhere
• Florida Politics, Trial Delayed; Proffer Stays Sealed: Paradoxical Evidence That Justice Is Afoot in Dan Markel Murder Case
• Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University) & David A. Santacroce (Michigan), An Empirical Analysis of Clinical Legal Education at Middle Age

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• ABA Journal, Another Law School Dinged on Diversity Standard Regarding Faculty and Staff
• ABA Journal, Which Law Schools Are Choosiest? Washington University Is In Top Five, While Yale Is Mostly No. 1
• AALS, Symposium on Continuing Legal Education and the Professional Education of Lawyers
• Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina), Democratizing Administrative Law
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By 2022 First-Time Bar Passage Rate
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2020)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band

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• ABA Journal, Legal Ed Will Consider Increasing Distance Ed Credits
• ABA Journal, Legal Ed Will Resubmit Proposed Elimination of Admissions-Test Standard
• Raymond Brescia (Albany), Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence
• Mary Lu Bilek (CUNY) & Deborah Merritt (Ohio State): Bloomberg Law Op-Ed, ChatGPT Almost Passed the Bar, But Competent Lawyers Do Much More
• Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Median LSAT Scores
• Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Median UGPAs
• Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Acceptance Rate
• Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School Dinner With President Bush
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.5%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Connecticut And Pittsburgh, 42 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
• Kim Diana Connolly (SUNY-Buffalo) & Elisa Lackey (SUNY-Buffalo), The Buffalo Model: An Approach to ABA Standard 303(c)'s Exploration of Bias, Cross Cultural Competency, and Antiracism in Clinical & Experiential Law
• The Floridian Press, Florida's St. Thomas University Could Face Civil Suit(s) for Changing its Law School's Name After Controversial Attorney

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• ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For ABA-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain in Place For Now
• Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Bad Math Bar Sauce and the ABA as a Shill for the NCBE
• Baylor News, Dean Brad Toben to Return to Baylor Law School Faculty
• Lea Bishop (Indiana-McKinney), Can ChatGPT 'Think Like a Lawyer?' A Socratic Dialogue
• Lea Bishop (Indiana-McKinney), A Computer Wrote this Paper: What ChatGPT Means for Education, Research, and Writing
• Bloomberg Law, Well-Being in Law School: Law Students Aren’t OK
• Chronicle of Higher Education, How Criticism Actually Strengthens Rankings

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• W. David Ball (Santa Clara) & Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara), The Case Against Commercial Casebooks
• Bloomberg Law, Law School’s Covering of Slavery Murals Probed by 2nd Cir.
• Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), With Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Tulane, And Creighton, 40 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
• David Lat (Boston Globe Op-Ed),  Big Law’s Cancel Culture
• David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), A Controversial Speaker Returned To Yale Law—You Won't Believe What Happened Next
• Law.com, Columbia Law Professor's 'F--k You' to Student Question Caught on Video
• Los Angeles Times Editorial, A Welcome Revolt Against the Flawed College Ranking System

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• ABA Journal, US News Extends Rankings Survey Deadline; Which Law Schools Will File?
• Benjamin Alarie (Toronto; CEO, Blue J Legal), The Rise of the Robotic Tax Analyst
• Lolita Buckner Inniss (Dean, Colorado), Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2022
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Gonzaga, Quinnipiac, Rutgers, And Seattle, 36 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
• Daily Pennsylvanian, Facing Major Sanctions, Amy Wax Files Grievance Against Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger
• David Grenardo (St. Thomas-Minnesota), How A Person of Faith Can Address Imposter Syndrome in Law School

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• Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Law Announces Top 10 Law School Innovators
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Resources For Authors Submitting Law Review Articles In The Spring 2023 Cycle
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Summary Of Changes To The Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Maryland, USF, And South Texas, 28 Schools Are Now Boycotting The U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Fordham Law News, U.S. News & World Report Participation: A Message from Dean Matthew Diller
• Harvard Medical School, HMS Withdraws From U.S. News & World Report Rankings
• Lolita Buckner Innis (Colorado), Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• Inside Higher Education, Sea Change or Small Step Toward Interreligious Inclusion?

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Weekly Legal Education Roundup

• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Charter School Case Quoted in Wall Street Journal
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Scorecard
• Daily Montanan, University of Montana Names Law School Dean Finalists
• Patrick Gaughan (Akron), The Global Benefits of the Law & Economics Framework in Legal Education: Overview (Part 1)
• Inside Higher Ed, Avoiding ‘The Big Quit’ in the New Year
• Goldburn Maynard Jr. (Indiana-Kelley Business School), Killing the Motivation of the Minority Professor
• Derek Muller (Iowa), Which Law Schools Are Affected the Most by the USNWR Dropping at-Graduation Employment Rates?
• Laura Padilla (California Western), The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure of Latinas: See Women Law Deans of Color

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• ABA Journal, Top 10 Legal News Stories Of 2022
• Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine) & Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam?
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -4%, With Biggest Decline (-9%) In The 160-169 LSAT Band
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Coverage Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology Changes
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2022
• Alexa Chew (North Carolina) & Rachel Gurvich (North Carolina), Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud: Teaching Students How Law School Works

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Weekly Legal Education Roundup: The Year-In-Review

Best Legal Education Articles of 2022

• William Carney (Emory), Curricular Change In Legal Education
• Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), Taxonomizing Professional Identity Formation: The Soul of Legal Education
• Neil Hamilton (St Thomas) & Louis Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals (Cambridge University Press 2022)
• Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas) & Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Learning Outcomes that Law Schools Have Adopted: Seizing the Opportunity to Help Students, Legal Employers, Clients, and the Law School
• Lawrence Krieger (Florida State), Book Review and Essay (The Law Student’s Guide To Doing Well And Being Well)
• Harold Anthony Lloyd (Wake Forest), Balancing Freedom and Restraint: The Role of Virtue in Legal Analysis

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• ABA Journal, Law Students and Professor Who Oppose Same-Sex Marriage Settle Speech Case With School
• ABA Journal, 3 Law Schools Dinged For Low Bar Pass Rates
• ABA Website Updates Data on Fall 2022 Law School Admissions, Tuition and Other Matters (overview)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Holiday Message From Dean Paul Caron
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2022 California Bar Exam Results
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2022 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Please Join Us: Pepperdine Caruso Law AALS Reception (Friday, Jan. 6)
• Clinical Legal Education Association, Statement on US News Rankings for Clinical Programs

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• Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Catherine Bramble (BYU), Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity in the Law School Classroom
• Bloomberg Law Op-Ed:  U.S. News Ranking Protest Is a Chance to Rethink Legal Education
• Campbell University News, Campbell Law School Withdraws From U.S. News Best Law Schools Ranking
• Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Finding of Significant Noncompliance With Standard 206, Hofstra University Maurice A. Dean School of Law
• The Dig, Howard University to Offer its Undergraduate and Graduate Students Free Comprehensive Prep for Admissions and Licensure Exams Through New Partnership with Kaplan
• Elizabeth Emens (Columbia), Law’s Contributions to the Mindfulness Revolution

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