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• ABA & AccessLex, Student Debt Impacts Well-Being And Life Decisions Of Young Lawyers
• AccessLex, Predicting Bar Success: The Mediating Effects of Law School GPA
• Steven Calabresi (Northwestern), Academic Tuition and Student Loan Relief
• Chronicle of Higher Education, The Professoriate's Political Problem
• Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman), Should You Have Kids In Law School?
• Fordham Conference, Forming Lawyer-Stewards: The Special Role Of Religious Law Schools
• Harvard Gazette, You Want to be Boss. You Probably Won’t Be Good At It
• Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (Baltimore) & Charlie Amiot, Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity and Building an Inclusive Future

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• ABA Journal, St. Thomas College Of Law Reinstates Fired Tenured Professor, Will Start Termination Hearings
• ABA Legal Rebels Podcast, Tests Into And Out Of Law Schools—What’s Changing And Why
• Sara Berman (USC) & Chance Meyer (New England), Major Reform With Minor Risk: Implementation Of Change Initiatives As A Learning Challenge
• Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Noah Feldman, Harvard),  Radical Legal Academics May Regret Their Attacks On The Constitution
• Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), The Announcement Of Golden Gate School Of Law's Closing Puts Its Students And Graduates In A Bind
• Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, Compounding Inequities In Law School Are Not Insurmountable
• G. Patrick Lynch (Law & Liberty), Yale Law School's Keith Whittington: ‘A Conservative Free-Speech Rock Star’

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• ABA Journal, New Metric Inspired by Baseball Stats Aims to Measure Real Value of Lawyers' Work
• ABA Legal Education Section, Law School Accreditation News
• Nikita Aggarwal (Miami), Survey of Law Fellowships and VAPs
• Alabama Symposium, Legal Education: Our History, Our Future
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +5.7%, With Smallest Increase Among White Applicants
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Most-Cited Deans At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Most-Cited Tax Faculty At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Why U. of Florida Professors Decry ‘Chaotic’ Post-Tenure Review That Failed Nearly a Fifth of Those Evaluated

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• ABA Journal, Legal Ed Council Broadens Proposed Accreditation Standard Addressing Diversity
• ABA Journal, Tenured Professor Sues St. Thomas College of Law After Firing
• ABA Legal Ed Council, Summary Of Actions Taken At August 16 Meeting
• Berkeley Law, UC-Berkeley Is First Law School To Offer AI-Focused Degree
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2024-25 Edition)
• Harlan Grant Cohen (Fordham), A Short History of the Early History of American Student-Edited International Law Journals
• Law.com, Kamala Harris Would Only Be the Second Lawyer-President With a Non-T14 Law Degree
• Chance Meyer & Nicole Noël (New England), The Gray Box Of Legal Analysis: Disentangling Knowledge And Skill

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• ABA Journal, Is the National Conference of Bar Examiners Losing Power?
• ABA Journal, Students, Alums, Race To Court To Keep Golden Gate Law School Open
• AccessLex Institute, 2024 Legal Education Data Deck
• Barnes Law Firm, The Best State for Entry-Level Lawyers to Begin Their Careers: California
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2027
• Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Mark Moyar), A Conservative Professor on Academe’s Political Conformity
• Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Ashley London (Duquesne), Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Taylor Israel (Thomas Jefferson), Questioning the Inevitability of the NextGen Bar Examination
• Patricia Montana (St. John's), Peer Review in Advanced Legal Writing Course

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• ABA, Job Opening: Senior Law School Accreditation Counsel ($158,000 - $196,000)
• ABA Journal, Duane Morris Bestows Partner Title on Powerless Attorneys to Shift Tax and Business Costs, Suit Alleges
• ABA Journal, Is This a Key Moment for the Bar Exam?
• ABA Resolution 514 & 515, ABA ‘Urges’ Law Schools To Permit Paid Externships And Encourage Pay Transparency In OCI
• Samuel Beswick (British Columbia) & Maddison Zapach (British Columbia), The Open Casebook Revolution
• Angela Harris (UC-Davis) & Monika Kashyap (Seattle), From Trauma to Transformation: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Law School
• William Jacobson (Cornell), Racially-Exclusionary Mentorship Program At Mitchell Hamline Law School Challenged By Equal Protection Project

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• American Lawyer, Formerly Frothy Job Market Cooling For Class of 2024
• Bloomberg Law, Tech Advances Inspire Curriculum Changes in Law School
• Jenny Carroll (Texas A&M), Law Review and Finding a Place in the Academy
• Steven Dean (Boston University), The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities 
• Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Study Of The Bar Examination’s Disparate Impact On Applicants From Communities Of Color
• Inaugural Issue, The Journal Of Law Teaching And Learning
• NALP, Class of 2023 Shatters Records in Historic Year as NALP Celebrates 50 Years of Employment Reporting
• New York Times, Ralph Nader Rips Sullivan & Cromwell For Refusing To Hire Students Who Participated In Anti-Israel Campus Protests

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• ABA Journal, New Paths for Licensure: California Confirms Kaplan Bar Exam, Arizona Launches Second Chance Program
• Bloomberg Law, Law Firms Chosen for DEI Framework Rise Above the Rest
• Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News Replaces Ordinal Ranking Of Medical Schools With Tiers Due To Boycott. Are Law Schools Next?
• Noah Feldman (Bloomberg Op-Ed), Why Yale Law Is So Good at Producing Reactionaries Like JD Vance
• Florida Politics, CourtTV & Tallahassee Democrat, Former Students, Friends, And Family Remember Dan Markel On The 10th Anniversary Of His Murder; Justice For Dan Launches Markel Award For Criminal Law Theory Scholarship
• Matt Lawrence (Emory), One Professor’s Best Practices for Writing and Revising the Introduction to a Law Review Article
• Law360, 2nd Circ. Upholds Ax Of Ex-Ropes & Gray Clerk's Bar Exam Suit

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• AccessLex, Measuring “Up”: The Promise of Undergraduate GPA Growth in Law School Admissions
• American Lawyer Editorial, $20M and Climbing: Is There a Ceiling for Elite Partner Pay?
• Susan Arenella et al., Law Moms: Juggling Motherhood, Ambition and Personal Fulfillment 
• Marni Goldstein Caputo & Kathleen Luz (Boston University), Beyond "Hard" Skills: Teaching Outward—and Inward—Facing Character-Based Skills to 1Ls in Light of ABA Standard 303(B)(3)'s Professional Identity Requirement
• Harvard Center On The Legal Profession, Building Legal Careers
• Harvard Symposium, Latinas in the Legal Academy
• Inside Higher Ed, Columbia’s President Denounced Her Before Congress. Firing Could Be Next

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• ABA Journal, Law School Academic Support Group Slams NCBE For 'Scattershot' NextGen Bar Exam Rollout
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), John Roberts and the Professoriate
• Becket, UCLA Defends Facilitating Antisemitic Encampments On Campus 
• Bloomberg Law, Which Law School Year Is Worst for Students’ Health?
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Tenure-Track Professors Are Walking Away From Their 'Dream Jobs'
• Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Steven Teles), Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors?
• Scott Devito (Jacksonville), As The Percentage Of Accommodated Students In A Law School Increases, Its First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases

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• ABA Journal, Online Purdue Global Law School To Add Full-Time JD Program
• Brooklyn Law School, Jon Endean Joins Tax Faculty
• Brooklyn Law School, Richard Winchester Joins Tax Faculty
• Sherley Cruz (Tennessee) & Karen  Tokarz (Washington University) et al., ABA Standard 303(C) and Divisive Concepts Legislation and Policies: Challenges and Opportunities
• Joan MacLeod Heminway (Tennessee) & Brian Kingsley Krumm (Tennessee), Teaching Transactional Business Law through Campus and Community Partnerships
• Inside Higher Ed, ABA Legal Ed Council To Vote In August On Proposed Revisions To Diversity Accreditation Standard
• David Kenny (Trinity College Dublin), Reencountering Texts: James Boyd White, Legal Reading, and Bringing Back the Human

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• ABA Journal, George Mason To Comply With Congressional Request For Information On Sexual Allegations Against Former Law Prof Joshua Wright
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Robert Chang's Lateral Move From Seattle To UC-Irvine Sparks Dispute Over Funding Of Korematsu Center For Law & Equality
• Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed:  A Harvard Dean's Assault on Faculty Speech, by Keith Whittington (Princeton)
• Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, A Law Degree Is No Sure Thing: Some Law School Graduates Earn Top Dollar, but Many Do Not
• Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Press Release: At Nearly 1 in 5 Law Schools, Graduates Earn Less Than $55,000 Net of Debt Four Years After Graduation, Georgetown University Report Says

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• ABA Business Law Section, Roger Colinvaux (Catholic) Receives 2024 ABA Outstanding Nonprofit Academic Award
• ABA Journal, LSAC President Reflects on Challenges Facing Legal Ed as She Shifts to Lead Association of American Law Schools
• City Journal,  Columbia Smuggles Activism Into the Law, by Tal Fortgang (Manhattan Institute)
• Adam Eckart (Suffolk), Transactional Skills For Tomorrow
• The Federalist, After Indiana University Implemented DEI Standards in its Law Curriculum, Professor John Lawrence Hill Took His Concerns to the State Legislature
• Jennifer Gundlach & Jessica Santangelo (Hofstra), An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Metacognitive Skills, Performance in a Bar Prep Course and Bar Passage
• Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow) et al.,  ChatGPT Is Bullshit

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• David Bernstein (George Mason), The Real Story Behind Columbia’s Controversial Law Review Article—And Why It Matters
• Paul Gowder (Northwestern), An Old-Fashioned Bluebook Burning
• Intercept, Student Editors Vote 20-5 To Reject Board's Offer To Bring Columbia Law Review Back Online
• John Lande (Missouri-Columbia), Preparing Law Students for Real-World Practice
• David Lat (Bloomberg Law Op-Ed), U.S. News Law School Rankings Aren’t Useful Anymore To Applicants
• Legal Tech News, Updated Stanford Report Finds High Hallucination Rates on Westlaw AI
• Liberty University, Morse Tan Steps Down As Liberty Law School Dean After 2 1/2 Years; Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Interim Dean

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• ABA, Former Dean And Tax Prof Leo Martinez Receives 2024 ABA Kutak Award
• ABA Journal, Former DePaul Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea Begins Her New Job Today As ABA Managing Director Of Legal Education
• Michael Dorf (Cornell), The Power Struggle at the Columbia Law Review
• Paul A. Gowder (Northwestern), An Old-Fashioned Bluebook Burning
• Paul Horwitz (Alabama), Again With the Law Review Nonsense
• Inside Higher Ed, New ChatGPT Version Aiming at Higher Ed
• Intercept, Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website
• Intercept, Student Editors Vote 20-5 To Reject Board's Offer To Bring Columbia Law Review Back Online

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• Bloomberg Law, Foley Sued for Revoking Job Over Israel-Palestine Comments
• Marni Goldstein Caputo & Kathleen Luz (Boston University), Beyond "Hard" Skills: Teaching Outward — and Inward-Facing Character-Based Skills to 1Ls in Light of ABA Standard 303(B)(3)'s Professional Identity Requirement
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Happy Memorial Day From Pepperdine
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Celebrates The Class Of 2024
• Chronicle of Higher Education, After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit
• Anna Conley (Montana), Legal Education's Role in Combating Automation Bias and Complacency with Generative AI in the Practice of Law

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• ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Council Gives Its Blessing to Alternative Licensing
• ABA Journal, Journey Toward Fully Online Law Schools Inches Forward After ABA Legal Ed Council Vote
• ABA Journal, Straight, White Female Alleges BigLaw Firm’s Job Ad For Diversity Program Violated Title VII
• ABA Journal Op-Ed (Kent Halkett:) A BigLaw Suicide Survivor's Prescription for the Legal Profession's Mental Health Crisis
• Josh Blackman (South Texas), Judicial Boycotts of Non-Elite Schools
• Journal Of Legal Education, International Perspectives On Legal Education
• Derek Muller, (Notre Dame), Projecting the 2025-2026 USNWR Law School Rankings (To Be Released March 2025 Or So)
• National Law Journal, Big Law Recruiting Confronts Rising Student Activism

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• ABA Journal, Cash-Strapped California Bar Weighs Cutting Ties With NCBE, Teaming With Kaplan on Test-Writing
• ABA Journal, Mississippi College School Of Law Professor Killed In Triple Homicide
• Bloomberg Law, Big Law Recruiting Rush Puts More Pressure on Diverse Students
• Bloomberg Law Op-Ed (William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown) & Amy Mattock (Assistant Dean of Career Strategy, Georgetown)), Early Big Law Recruiting Is Ruining The First Year Of Law School
• Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Preface: How To Teach Legal Writing
• Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Lawsky Entry Level Hiring Report 2023
• Miami & Texas A&M, The Family Plan: Parents Attend Law School With Their Children 

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• ABA Journal, Lowered Bar Pass Cut Scores Raised Bar Pass Rates in Four States
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Prof Commentary On The Campus Protests
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Should Adjunct Faculty Be Paid Based On Class Enrollment?
• Robert George (Princeton) & John Inazu (Washington University), Antisemitism And The Campus Protests
• Law.com, 'Dean Developments': Several Deans Move Long Distance
• Law360 & NBC News, UC-Berkeley Law Student Dinner Leads To Lawsuit By Jewish Advocacy Group Over Alleged Antisemitic Campaign Against Dean And University Civil Rights Investigation Of Alleged Harassment Of Muslim Student By His Law Professor Wife
• Law360, The Law School Legal Industry Job Tracker: Class Of 2023
• Pepperdine Caruso Law Surf Report, April 2024 Spotlight: Religious Diversity

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• ABA Journal, Increased Interest in LSAT Forces Additional Test Date
• ABA Journal, Tenured Law Prof Takes Buyout, Becomes Stand-Up Comic
• The Atlantic (Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley)):  No One Has a Right to Protest in My Home
• Michael Blasie (Seattle), The Unkillable Learning Styles Myth
• Bloomberg Law, Columbia Law School Offers Pass/Fail Grading Amid Gaza Protests
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 90% Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +5%
• Vivia Chen, A Lawyer Dies. Is Big Law To Blame?
• GW Hatchet, GW Law to Relocate Students for Final Exams As Cease-Fire Protest Swells
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University), The Fallacy Of 'We Can't Afford More Clinical Legal Education For Our Students'
  

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• ABA, Legal Education Section Releases Employment Data For Graduating Law Class of 2023
• ABA Journal, Law Schools Examine Pedagogy As NextGen Bar Exam Looms
• Bloomberg Law, Big Law Skips Ahead of On-Campus Recruiting in Race for Talent
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service
• E. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Blog), First-Year Torts Supplement Helps Students Prepare for NextGen Bar Exam
• Harvard Law Today, A Show of Faith: Harvard Law Professor Ruth Okediji Explains Why She Believes Music — and Faith — Foster Hope in Difficult Times
• David Lat, An Exit Interview With A Top Law School’s Dean: Risa Goluboff

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• Above the Law, U.S. News Law School Rankings Makes Its Smartest Methodological Change: Telling Holdout Schools To Suck It
• Bloomberg Law, Northwestern, 78-Year-Old Law Professor Will Settle Bias Suit
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 20-Year Anniversary Of TaxProf Blog
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Celebrates Founding Dean Ron Phillips
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Rankings Potpourri: Waning Influence, Penalizing 53 Boycotting Law Schools, And Declining T14 Lawyer|Judge Reputation Scores
• Charleston Gazette-Mail, 'My Hand Was Forced': WVU Law School Faculty Depart Amid 'Academic Transformation' Fallout
• Timothy Fisher (Dean, Connecticut (2013-2020)), Lessons Learned: The Experiences of Non-Traditional Law Deans and the Law Schools That Hire Them

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• 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?

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• ABA Journal, Law Student's Suit Alleges Chicago Bears Didn't Hire Him as 'Legal Diversity Fellow' Because He Is White Man
• Algemeiner, Harvard Law School Passes Resolution Accusing Israel of Genocide, Calling For Divestment
• Bloomberg Law, Law School Israel Protest Culture Is ‘Cancer,’ Eleventh Circuit Judge Says
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Delayed Release Of Embargoed 2024-25 Law School Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Updates Embargoed Law School Rankings, Impacting Overall Ranking Of 80 Schools
• CUPA-HR, Tenure-Track Faculty Salary Increases Trailed Inflation For 8th Year In a Row; Median Salary Is 9.7% Lower Than Five Years Ago
• Law360, Law Firm Lateral Hiring Plummets 35% To Lowest Level Since 2010

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• 2025 AALS Annual Meeting,  Call for Papers
• The Atlantic, The War at Stanford
• Will Baude (Chicago), Teaching Constitutional Law in a Crisis of Judicial Legitimacy
• Richard Brooks (NYU), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Sarath Sanga (Yale), Affirmative Action and Racial Diversity in U.S. Law Schools, 1980-2021
• Chronicle of Higher Education, How To Find Meaning, Purpose, And Joy In Your Asynchronous Online Courses
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanford Math-Education Expert Has ‘Reckless Disregard for Accuracy,’ Complaint Alleges
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Teaching Evaluations Are Broken. Can They Be Fixed?
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Your Pay Is Terrible? You’re Not Alone. Higher Education Has a Compensation Problem

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• AALS Annual Meeting 2025, Call For Papers
• ABA, Notice And Comment On Proposed Law School Accreditation Standards On Learning Outcomes, Processing Complaints Against Law Schools 
• Jonathan Adler (Case Western), The Ethics of Law Professor Amicus Briefs Revisited
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Reading The U.S. News Law School Rankings Tea Leaves
• Journal of Legal Education, New Issue
• Law.com, ABA Finds George Mason Law School Back In Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard

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• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Denver Post, After Settling Lawsuit For $160,000, University Of Colorado Investigation Finds Law School Dean Retaliated Against Tenured Professor
• Jon Garon (Nova), Ethics 3.0—Attorney Responsibility in the Age of Generative AI
• Law.com, Penn Law Prof Amy Wax Speaks Out About Sanctions Imposed On Her: 'The Woke Catechism Is Contrary To Every First Amendment Principle'

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• ABA, Approval Of Golden Gate Law School's Teach-Out Plan
• ABA Journal, Newer Law School in Florida Gets Provisional Accreditation from the ABA
• ABA Journal, Some Taking California Bar Exam Say Cow Palace Venue Was So Cold It May Have Affected Their Test Results
• Arbitrator's Findings & Award, Arbitrator Upholds Firing Of Ann Bartow, Tenured IP Professor At UNH Law School
• Patrick Barry (Michigan), Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 80% Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +5.1%, With Smallest Increase In White Males
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-2025 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage

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• Will Baude (Chicago), Teaching Constitutional Law in a Crisis of Judicial Legitimacy
• Darren Bush (Houston), Why the FTC Needs to Intervene in Law School Rankings
• Call for Papers, 115th Annual Society of Legal Scholars Conference
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
• Pauk Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
• Katya Cronin (George Washington), The Intentional Pursuit of Purpose: Nurturing Students’ Authentic Motivation for Practicing Law

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• Andrew Blair-Stanek, Patricia Campbell, Donald Gifford, Guha Krishnamurthi, Robert Percival, Jeff Sovern, Maureen Sweeney, Donald Tobin & Liza Vertinsky (Maryland), GPT Gets Its First Law School B+ Grades
• Courthouse News Service, Students And Alumni Association Sue Golden Gate For Closing Its JD Program
• Katya Cronin (George Washington), The Intentional Pursuit of Purpose: Nurturing Students’ Authentic Motivation for Practicing Law
• Inside Higher Ed, Colorado Settles Discrimination And Retaliation Lawsuit By Paying Senior Tenured Law Prof $60,000 Plus $100,000 Attorney's Fees
• David Lat (Bloomberg Law), New ABA Rule Is a Step Forward for Free Speech at Law Schools
• Law.com, ABA Consultant: JD-Next Is Reliable Predictor Of Law School Performance And Can Be Used In Lieu Of LSAT/GRE

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• ABA Journal, Generative AI Already Is Making an Impact on Legal Research and Writing
• ABA Journal, These Four Law School Graduates Had Their Student Loan Balances Forgiven Under The Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
• Steven Calabresi (Northwestern), Donald Trump is the Victim of Selective Prosecution
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +4.3%, With Smallest Increase In White Males
• The Center Square, The Only Higher Ed Employee To Give $1,000 Or More To Trump's 2024 Campaign: A Tax Professor
• Colorado College, After Three Years As President, L. Song Richardson Will Return To UC-Irvine Law School In June
• Tracey George (Vanderbilt), Mitu Gulati (Virginia) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), The Power Five: The Making of Newsworthy Deal Teams

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• ABA Journal, ABA Approves Several Accreditation Standards Changes
• ABA Journal, Law Prof Presses Male Sex-Bias Allegations in New Suit After Federal Judge Tosses His Title IX Claim
• Bloomberg, Harvard Faces New Threat Of State Tax On Its $51 Billion Endowment
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2024-25 Edition)
• Columbia Spectator & Washington Free Beacon, Columbia Law Student Senate Denies Approval Of Students Against Antisemitism Group; Yale Law Students Protest IDF Soldier On Campus
• Harvard Law News, Harvard Is Fourth Law School To Go Tuition-Free For Students In Need, Joining Yale, Stanford, And WashU

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• ABA Journal, Head of the Class: Law Schools Consider Post-ChatGPT Coursework
• ABA Tax Section, Applications Are Open For Two ABA Tax Section Fellowships
• America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Professor Sues University, Claims He Was Fired For Opposing DEI
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2023
• Inside Edition, Professor Surprises Entire Class With Trip to Paris Olympics
• Martin Kwan (OBOR Legal Research Centre), Students' Right to Free Inquiry vs. A.I. Usage Policy at Schools and Universities
• Law.com, Lawyer Employment Outlook Looks Good, Though Bar Passage Rates Decline
• Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report Sues S.F. City Attorney Over Hospital Ranking Subpoenas

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• ABA Journal, Half of Law Schools Worry About Creating Diverse Student Body, New Kaplan Study Says
• ABA Section on Legal Education, ABA Seeks Comments On Proposal To Allow Accreditation Of Fully Online Law Schools
• AccessLex, “If You’re On Time, You’re Late”: Law School Application Timing Among Historically Underrepresented Applicants
• AccessLex Institute, 2023 Legal Education Data Deck
• Jeff Baker (Pepperdine), 2023 Update From the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law Program of Clinical Education
• Susan L. Brooks (Drexel), Reimagining Lawyering: Supporting Well-Being and Liberation
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index All
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index Since 2019

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• American Lawyer, Law Students Sue Harvard, A 'Bastion Of Antisemitism'
• Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Civility as Morally Justified Oppression
• Boise Dev, Three LGBTQ Students File Discrimination Lawsuit Against Idaho Law School
• Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh (St. Mary's), The Next Generation Professional: An Opportunity to Reframe Legal Education to Center Student Wellness
• Jeremy Fogel (Berkeley Judicial Institute), Mary Hoopes (Pepperdine) & Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court), Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals
• Jim Gash (Pepperdine), To Revitalize Higher Ed, Colleges Should Care About Character
• Harvard Law Review, Alienation in Law School

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• Bloomberg Law, Sturm Law School Trial Advocacy Director Loses His Title IX Suit
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Hosts Junior Tax Scholars Writing Retreat
• Annette Clark (Dean Emerita, Seattle), “What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle University
• William Jacobson (Cornell), SUNY Buffalo Law School Will “No Longer Grant a Preference Based on Race or Color” After Equal Protection Project Civil Rights Complaint
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Who’s Minding the Clinical Legal Education Store?
• Law.com, Women in Academic Leadership Still Face Systemic Barriers
• Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC), Spring 2024 Law Review Article Submission Guide
• National Jurist, The 20 Most Influential People in Legal Education

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• ABA Journal, Profs Trade Notes as Law Schools Write Generative AI Policies
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +3.3%, With Biggest Decline (-4.3%) In The 170-180 LSAT Band
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Please Join Us: Pepperdine Caruso Law AALS Reception (Friday, Jan. 5)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts of 2023
• Fox News, California Law Students Provide Pro Bono Help to Struggling Maui Residents After Wildfires
• Law.com, ABA Proposal to Accreditate Fully Online Law Schools Draws Overwhelming Support
• Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Hard Questions About Experiential Learning and Legal Education

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• Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine), Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession
• California Bar, 2023 Bar Exam Results For California Law Schools
• California Bar, 2023 Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine): Merry Christmas From Pepperdine University
• Orin Kerr (UC-Berkeley), Has The Law Professoriate's Shift From Lawyers To Academics Accelerated Since Posner's 2007 Essay?
• David Larson (Mitchell|Hamline) & Linda Hanson (Former President, Hamline University), Crossing the Cultural Chasm and the Power of Listening: How We Wrote a New Tenure Code
• Law.com, Is Edward Blum Done Suing Law Firms?
• Law.com, Law Schools Neglecting Desperate Need for Tech Training
• Law360, 1st-Gen Law Students Have 'No Safety Net'
• New Jersey Law Journal Editorial, Protecting Free Speech in Law School
• Reuters, Affirmative Action Ban Shook Up Law School Admissions in 2023
• Reuters, Conservative Group Sues Wisconsin Bar to Block Diversity Clerkship Program
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• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed:  Harvard Should Pay Its Fair Share, by Richard Vedder (Ohio University)

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• ABA, ABA Website Updates Data on Fall 2023 Law School Admissions, Tuition and Other Matters
• ABA Journal, NextGen Bar Exam Is Gaining Steam
• The Atlantic:  The Moral Decline of Elite Universities, by Ben Sasse (President, University of Florida)
• Raymond Brescia (Albany), Teaching To The Tech: Law Schools And The Duty Of Technology Competence
• California Bar, July 2023 California Bar Exam Results By Law School
• Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Memorandum On Proposal To Increase Number Of Experiential Credits Required Of Law Students From 6 To 9 Or 12
• Crime Online, ‘We Could Do It Together. Leave a Note’: Donna Adelson Jail Call to Killer Son Revealed, Following Murder of Florida Professor Brother-in-Law

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• ABA Journal, UIC Law Prof Appeals After Dismissal of Civil Rights Lawsuit
• ABA Journal, SCOTUS Decision Not Dissuading Students of Color From Applying to Law School, New LSAC Data Shows
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40% Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +2.9%, With Biggest Decline (-5.2%) In The 170-180 LSAT Band
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Why Faculty Members Are Fleeing Florida
• E. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), How To Teach Legal Writing (2023)
• Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine University), Universities Must Preserve American Values (The Messenger Op-Ed)
• Law360, NY Telework Tax Applies To Conn. Tax Professor, ALJ Rules

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• ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Golden Gate University School of Law Teach-Out Plan
• ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Finding Of Significant Noncompliance With Standard 202, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
• Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), Nils Holzenberger (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) & Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins), BLT: Can Large Language Models Handle Basic Legal Text?
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law At The Supreme Court
• Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Howard Law School, Race, and Peer Rankings: The Increasing Correlation Between Racial Salience and Preferential Rankings

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• Bloomberg Law, UC Berkeley, Law School Sued Over ‘Unchecked’ Antisemitism
• David Brooks (New York Times Op-Ed), Universities Are Failing at Inclusion
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $240k for 1st Years, $550k For 8th Years
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Kristin Hickman Will Not Join The Texas Faculty In January 2024 And Will Remain At Minnesota
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), One-Third Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Black (+3%), Hispanic (+2%) & Asian (+1%) Applicants Are Up; White (-3%) & 170-180 LSAT (-8%) Applicants Are Down
• CBC, Former Manitoba Law School Dean Can't Be Trusted as Lawyer and Should Be Disbarred, Law Society Lawyer Says

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• 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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