Several stories and articles over the last week focus on the changing legal education landscape, law school admissions, and accreditation. Among some of the notable recent news:
- Admissions. Julianne Hill, LSAC President Sudha Setty Reflects on Dynamic Landscape of Law School Admissions, ABA Journal, November 9, 2026 (wide ranging interview of Sudha Setty); Staci Zaretsky, The Next Law School Admissions Crisis Could Be About Loans, Above The Law, November 9, 2026; Hillary Mantis, Law School Applications are Up Again: How to Navigate a More Competitive Admissions Cycle, The National Jurist, November 5, 2026.
- Accreditation. Several informative pieces about the latest around national accreditation, including: Julianne Hill, Texas’ Chief Justice-elect Wants to Bring Back ABA Accreditation, ABA Journal, November 10, 2026; and What Is the Future of Law School Accreditation? A Conversation with the Outgoing Chair of the ABA Accreditation Council, Marquette Today, November 10, 2026.
- ABA and Antitrust. An analysis on the new DOJ investigation of the ABA Council. See Bill Ojile & Samantha Hollinshead, DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny of ABA Law School Accreditation: What Law Schools Need to Know, Snell & Wilmer, November 9, 2026. Also available on JDSupra.
Following TaxProfBlog may be the easiest way to keep up on information important to law schools. You can also find recent news about legal education from, among other places, AALS Lens (and the Legal Education News Digest), Law.com (Legal Education news and Christine Charnosky’s writings), the ABA Journal (Law Schools topic and Julianne Hill’s writings), Reuters (Legal section and Karen Sloan’s writings), the National Jurist, Above the Law, and others.
