Friday, June 2, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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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
June 2, 2023 in Legal Ed News, Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, May 26, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
May 26, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, May 19, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- 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
May 19, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, May 12, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
May 12, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, May 5, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
May 5, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, April 28, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
April 28, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, April 21, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
April 21, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, April 14, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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?
April 14, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, April 7, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
April 7, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, March 31, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
March 31, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, March 24, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
March 24, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, March 17, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
March 17, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, March 10, 2023
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
March 10, 2023 in Legal Ed Scholarship, Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, March 3, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
March 3, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, February 24, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
February 24, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, February 17, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
February 17, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, February 10, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
February 10, 2023 in Legal Ed News, Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, February 3, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
February 3, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, January 27, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
January 27, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, January 20, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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?
January 20, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, January 13, 2023
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
January 13, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, January 6, 2023
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
January 6, 2023 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, December 30, 2022
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
December 30, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, December 23, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
December 23, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, December 16, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
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
December 16, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, December 9, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Bloomberg Law, Law School Boycott of U.S. News Ranking Is a Big Nothing Burger
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Impact Of The U.S. News Rankings Boycott On Individual Law Schools
- Chronicle of Higher Education, A Rankings Revolution? Hardly.
- Drake Law Review, Legal Education Symposium
- E. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Legal Reasoning for Paralegals: The Key to Professional Success
- James Goodnow (CEO & Managing Partner, Fennemore Craig (Phoenix)), Has Yale Changed The Law School Rankings Game?
- Inside Higher Ed, What Will Happen to ‘U.S. News’ Rankings?
- Kansas City Star, KS Supreme Court Justice Stegall Leaves KU, Cites Uproar Over Conservative Campus Speaker
- Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect), The End of College Rankings?: Maybe Law Schools Will Start an Overdue Stampede
December 9, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, December 2, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
AALS, UC Davis Dean Kevin R. Johnson Awarded Inaugural Olivas Award from Five AALS Sections
- Nicholas Allard (Founding Dean, Jacksonville Law School), Law Schools Are Right To Steer Clear Of US News Rankings
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Can We Finally Topple The Tyranny of Rankings?
- The Daily Caller, Dropping The LSAT Requirement For Law School Admission Could Hinder Racial Diversity Efforts, Experts Say
- The Daily Caller, ‘Writing On The Wall’: Here’s Why Top US Universities May Be Pulling Out Of High-Profile Ranking System
- Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley) & Daniel Tokaji (Dean, Wisconsin), Ending Standardized Law School Tests Could Diminish Diversity
- The Daily Pennsylvanian, ABA Panel Votes to Drop LSAT Requirement for Law School Admissions
December 2, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, November 25, 2022
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?
November 25, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, November 18, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Josh Blackman (South Texas), Judge Ho Boycotts Yale. Yale Boycotts U.S. News Rankings
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Fundraising After Our Naming Gift
- Chronicle of Philanthropy, Renaming Calif.’s Hastings Law School Sparks $1.7 Billion Legal Fight That Shows How Hard It Is to Ditch Donors’ Names
- Decision to Withdraw from the U.S. News Law School Rankings:
- Heather Gerken (Dean, Yale)
- John Manning (Dean, Harvard)
- Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Berkeley)
- Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), Taxonomizing Professional Identity Formation: The Soul of Legal Education
- Law.com, Readers' Poll Results: Lawyers Who Had to Pay Off Their Student Debt Think You Should, Too
- Law360, U. Of Texas Settles Second Gender Pay Suit With Law Prof
- Brian Leiter (Chicago), The End of the LSAT Is Coming
November 18, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, November 11, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
California Bar, July 2022 Bar Exam Pass Rate For First-Time Takers From ABA-Accredited In-State Law Schools Falls Eight Percentage Points
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -11%, With Biggest Decline (-21%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Premier League And Championship League Rankings
- Chronicle of Higher Education, A Conference Says Academic Freedom Is in Danger. Critics Say the Event Is Part of the Problem
- Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
November 11, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, November 4, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
AL.com, Samford University Denies Student Application to Form LGBTQ Group
- James Allen (Queensland), A Law School Lacked and Lost
- Josh Blackman (South Texas), Justice Kagan Asks About Racial Preferences For Law Clerk Hiring
- Elizabeth Bloom (Northwestern), Book Review of Improving Student Learning in the Doctrinal Law School Classroom: Skills and Assessment
- Lee Bollinger (President, Columbia) & Geoffrey Stone (Chicago), The End of Affirmative Action Would be a Disaster
- David French (The Dispatch), Racial Discrimination Is Not the Path to Racial Justice: Why Harvard Is Wrong
- Emily Grant (Washburn) & Elisabeth Wilder (Washburn), I Quit: Lessons for Educators from The Great Resignation
- Joan Howarth (UNLV), The Professional Responsibility Case for Valid and Nondiscriminatory Bar Exams
November 4, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, October 28, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Bridget Crawford (Pace), Tax Prof Twitter Census (2022-23 Edition)
- Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto; Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed), No, Berkeley Isn’t Discriminating Against Jews
- Kris Franklin (New York Law School), Meditations on Teaching What Isn't
- William Hubbard (Dean, South Carolina), Building the Next Generation of Rule of Law Leaders
- Inside Higher Ed, Yale Law Once Again in Conservative Crosshairs
- James Ho (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), Agreeing to Disagree: Restoring America by Resisting Cancel Culture
- David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Is Yale Law School Turning Over A New Leaf?
October 28, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, October 21, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Bloomberg Law, Law School Shredding of Bias Probe Notes to be Shared With Jury
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Prof Bemoans His Experience Publishing An Article In The Iowa Law Review
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions, U.S. News Rankings, And 'Splitters'
- Christine Charnosky (Law.com), Ahead of the Curve: Exploring Recent Law School Diversity Initiatives
- Christine Charnosky (Law.com), 2022-23 Law School Admission Cycle Starts Out With a Whisper
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (UCLA, Columbia), This Is Not A Drill: The War Against Antiracist Teaching in America
- Steven Lubet (Northwestern; Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed), A Free-Speech Scandal at Berkeley Law
- Isaac Mamaysky (Albany), Happiness And The Law: Lifelong Learning As A Path To Meaning And Purpose
October 21, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, October 14, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Scott Altman (USC), Using Cancel Culture’s Tools to Dismantle Cancel Culture?
- David Bernstein (George Mason), Berkeley Law's "Jew-Free Zone" Controversy
- Some Berkeley Law "Jew Free Zone" Updates Mason),
- Bloomberg Law, Tweedy Law School Deans Break Out Calculators
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 14% Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Down -14%, With Biggest Decline (-25%) Among The Top 160-180 LSAT Band
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School And Tuskegee University Launch 3+3 Accelerated BA|BS-JD Degree Program
October 14, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, October 7, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Examining the Bar: Should Law Grads Need to Pass the Bar to Practice? Some Say There Is a Better Way
- David Bernstein (George Mason), Why Are Constitutional Law Professors Angry at the Supreme Court?
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Judge Ho's Proposed Boycott Of Yale Law School Grads For Judicial Clerkships
- Inside Higher Ed, Pepperdine Law School Dean Is Now Speaking Openly About His Lifelong Stutter
- Orin Kerr (UC-Berkeley), Boycotting Law Schools in Clerk Hiring As a Way to Influence Law School Culture
- Law360, Ex-Rutgers Law Fundraising Exec Launches Equal Pay Suit
- The Recorder, State of California Sued Over UC Hastings Name Change by Descendants of Namesake, Alumni
- Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), Citing Concern for Free Speech, 12 Federal Judges Say They Won’t Take Clerks from Yale Law School
- Slate, The Supreme Court Is Blowing Up Law School, Too: Inside the Growing Furor Among Professors Who Have Had Enough
October 7, 2022 in Legal Ed News, Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, September 30, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABC 8 News, University of Richmond Renames Law School
- Arkansas Democrat Gazette, UALR Law Professor Files Claim With State Claims Commission over Named Professorship
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Celebrating 50 Years Of Pepperdine's Malibu Campus
- Andrea Anne Curcio (Georgia State) & Alexis Martinez (Georgia Tech), Are Discipline Code Proceedings Another Example of Racial Disparities in Legal Education?
- Alex Erwin (Florida International), So You Want to be an Environmental Law Professor …: An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Law Hiring Market from 2011 - 2022
- Chancellor & Dean David Faigman, Statement on Governor Signing AB 1936
- Christina John (New Jersey Appellate Division), Russell Pearce (Fordham), Aundray Jermaine Archer (Legal Aid Society of Westchester County), Sarah Medina Camiscoli (Public Counsel, Peer Defense Project, Yale) & Aron Pines (PEN America Writing for Justice), Subversive Legal Education: Reformist Steps Toward Abolitionist Visions
September 30, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, September 23, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, 2 of Puerto Rico's 3 Law Schools Will Get More Time to Meet Bar Pass Standard
- Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), Where Have All the (Aspiring) Law Profs Gone?
- Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU), The Ethicist: Is It OK to Take a Law-Firm Job Defending Climate Villains?
- BC Law Magazine, Early Decision Added to Admission Options
- Beth Brennan (Montana), Explicit Instruction in Legal Education: Boon or Spoon?
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2022 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 8th Year In A Row
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2020-23
- Cleveland State University, Committee Votes Unanimously To Remove John Marshall From Law School Name
- Daily Pennsylvanian, Amy Wax Submits Memorandum For Dismissal of Disciplinary Proceedings, Citing Cancer Treatment
September 23, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, September 16, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ student club as state court review continues
- Rory D. Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Reexamining Relative Bar Performance as a Function of Non-Linearity, Heteroscedasticity, and a New Independent Variable
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), September 11th At Pepperdine
- Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Teaching Professional Identity to Law Students: The Value-Centric Approach
- Elayne Greenberg (St. John's), High Anxiety: Racism, the Law, and Legal Education
- Inside Higher Ed, 'U.S. News' Makes Modest Tweak in Methodology
- Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman), Second Time’s the Charm: An Empirical Examination of the Benefits and Potential Drawbacks of Repeat Legal Externships
September 16, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, September 9, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA, Over 100 Comments Submitted On Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
- ABA Journal, Sick of Meetings That Go Off the Rails? 'Robert's Rules of Order' Can Help
- ABA Journal, Which Law Schools Have the Highest Percent of Full-Tuition Scholarships?
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Top 50 Law Schools: Percentage Of Students Receiving At Least 50% Tuition Scholarships
- Steven Chung ( Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), Are Contributions To Amy Wax's Legal Defense Fund Tax Deductible?
- Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), Taxonomizing Professional Identity Formation: The Soul of Legal Education:
September 9, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, September 2, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Ballooning student loans become an albatross; ex-NYU law student, 91, owes $329K on initial $29K loan
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning While Stuttering
- Stephen Carter (Yale), That Online Test Just May Be Unconstitutional
- Joseph Castro (J.D. Pepperdine, 2022), Comment, Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence in Law School Admissions Through a Filipino-American Paradigm
- Federalist Society, Do University Diversity Statement Requirements Violate the Constitution?
- Higher Ed Dive, Mixed Reactions as ABA Considers Tossing LSAT Mandate
- John Inazu (Washington University), Confident Pluralism in Law School
- Letter, Sixty Deans Oppose The ABA's Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
September 2, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, August 26, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Fewer People Are Interested in Becoming Law Professors, New Data Shows
- Kevin Ashley (Pittsburgh), Teaching Law and Digital Age Legal Practice with an AI and Law Seminar: Justice, Lawyering and Legal Education in the Digital Age
- Chronicle of Higher Education, More Colleges Are Adding Diversity to Tenure Standards. But the Debate’s Not Settled.
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education, University of Idaho Law School Discrimination Case Will Go to Trial
- Elizabeth Katz (Washington University), Kyle Rozema (Washington University) & Sarath Sanga (Northwestern), Women in U.S. Law Schools, 1948-2021
- Press Release, AFA Calls for An End to Required Diversity Statements
- Reuters, '$10K Doesn't Make a Big Difference.' Law Grads Lukewarm on Debt Forgiveness Plan
August 26, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, August 19, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Seeks To Hire A Dispute Resolution Professor
- Ashley Krenelka Chase ((Stetson), ed. 2021), Millennial Leadership in Law Schools: Essays on Disruption, Innovation, and the Future
- Greg Crespi (SMU), Pre-Publication Publications
- Fortune, Stanford Law School vs. Stanford Graduate School of Business—Here’s a Look at Their Paychecks
- David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua C. Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?
- Lawrence Krieger (Florida State), Book Review and Essay
- Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Number of FAR Forms in First Distribution Over Time - 2022
- Law.com, Self-Care, Time Management and Typing Skills: How (and How Not) to Prepare for Law School
August 19, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, August 12, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
- Bloomberg, College Endowments Post Biggest Losses Since Financial Crisis
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ABA Loosens Distance Learning Accreditation Standard; Council Withdraws Diversity Proposal After Public Criticism
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index All (Google Scholar)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index Since 2017 (Google Scholar)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2025
- Angelique EagleWoman (Mitchell|Hamline), Trailblazing and Living a Purposeful Life in the Law: A Dakota Woman’s Reflections as a Law Professor
- Law.com, After Multiple Revisions, ABA House of Delegates Withdraws Diversity and Inclusion Resolution
August 12, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, August 5, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABC News, Why Yale Law’s Dean Says Eliminating Tuition for Students in Need Benefits the Legal Profession:
- Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data
- Nick Burns (New York Times Op-Ed), Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 12%, The Most Among Whites (-14%) And The Highest LSAT Bands (-14%)
- Stephen Carter (Yale; Bloomberg Op-Ed), Oh, You've Got Tech Woes? Try Taking the Bar
- Florida Times Union, $6 Billion Loan Settlement Could Spare Grads of Florida Coastal School of Law, Business Schools
- Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), The Advantages of Being A Critical Thinker
August 5, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, July 29, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, ExamSoft: New Windows Laptops Won't Work On This Week's Bar Exams
- ABA Press Release, Distance Education Survey: 3L Student Quantitative Responses
- Bloomberg, Do You Need A Tax LL.M. To Land A Great Job Right Now?
- Bridget Crawford (Pace), Information for Submitting to Online Law Review Companions
- Bridget Crawford (Pace), Menstruation and the Bar Exam: Unconstitutional Tampon Bans
- ComplianceNet, Jeremy Bearer-Friend Wins Article Award For 'Colorblind Tax Enforcement'
- Dana Neacsu (Columbia) & James Donovan (Kentucky), Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking
July 29, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, July 22, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Judge Dismisses Harvard Grad's Lawsuit Claiming Bar Examiners Derailed Her BigLaw Career When She Failed Bar Twice After Denial Of Disability Accommodation
- ABA Journal, Law Student's First Fictional Work Wins ABA Journal's 2022 Ross Writing Contest
- ABA Journal, Weil Takes a Different Tack By Funding 'Zero L' Public Service
- The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law Dean Requests Faculty Senate Impose ‘Major Sanction’ Against Amy Wax
- E. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Critical Thinking: An Essential Skill for Law Students, Lawyers, Law Professors, and Judges (2022)
- Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas) & Jerome Organ (St. Thomas), Learning Outcomes that Law Schools Have Adopted: Seizing the Opportunity to Help Students, Legal Employers, Clients, and the Law School
July 22, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, July 15, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
AALS, Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue
- ABA Journal, 11% Of Law Students Had Suicidal Thoughts In 2021. What Can Law Schools Do?
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Michigan Law School Hires SIXTEEN New Faculty
- Stephen Carter (Yale; Bloomberg Law Op-Ed), RIP to the LSAT? Let’s Kill the Bar Exam, Too
- Danielle Conway (Penn State-Dickinson), A Black Woman Law Dean Speaks About The Precarity of Leadership
- Meera Deo (Southwestern), Progress and Backlash in our Unequal Profession
- David Frakt (The Faculty Lounge), An Inauspicious Start for America's Newest Law School
- Laura Padilla (California Western), The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure Of Latinas: See Women Law Deans Of Color
July 15, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, July 8, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Vivia Chen (Bloomberg Law), Killing the LSAT in the Name of Diversity Won’t Cure the Problem
- Danielle Conway (Dean, Penn State-Dickinson), Antiracist Lawyering in Practice Begins with the Practice of Teaching and Learning Antiracism in Law School
- 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
- Paul Horwitz (Alabama), An Important Step ... Sideways ... in Legal Education
- David Jaffe (American), Katherine Bender (Bridgewater State) & Jerome Organ (St. Thomas-MN), 'It is Okay to Not Be Okay': The 2021 Survey of Law Student Well-Being
- Law.com, 'This Is a Life Decision': Will Abortion Bans Affect Law School Applications?
July 8, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, July 1, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's), Get Out: Structural Racism and Academic Terror
- Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, Group Files ABA Complaint Over Law School Faculty's Unanimous Adoption Of BDS Resolution Against Israel
- Chronicle of Higher Education, A University Is Investigating 8 Law-School Students Who Criticized a Peer After ‘Roe’ Leak
- Alyson Drake (Fordham) & Christine Park (NYU), Hard-Wired for Distractions: Increasing Attention in Legal Research Classrooms
- GW Hatchet, Supreme Court Justice to Remain at GW Law After Thousands Call For His Removal
- Paul Horwitz (Alabama), An Important Step...Sideways...in Legal Education
- David Lat, Free Speech And Cancel Culture: A Tale Of Two Law Schools
July 1, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink
Friday, June 24, 2022
Weekly Legal Education Roundup
Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty-Pay Survey Records the Largest One-Year Drop Ever
- Houston Chronicle, TSU Replaces Law School Dean After Continued Troubles, Low Bar Scores
- John Lande (Missouri), Introversion, the Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution
- Law360, Strong Rebound In Post-Pandemic Law School Graduate Hiring
- Law.com, So Far, Public Comments Largely Support ABA Proposal to Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
- Ruth Markel, The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life (2022)
- Missoulian, University of Montana Law School Names Interim Dean After Search Comes Up Short
- Roundup, Legal Ed News
June 24, 2022 in Legal Education, Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Ed Roundup | Permalink