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Like or hate them, the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings include lots of information. Here are the US News Top 10 Best Part-Time Law Programs for 2026:

1. Georgetown 

2. George Washington

3. Fordham

4. Temple University (Beasley)

5. University of Houston Law Center

6. TIE

George Mason University (Scalia)

Loyola Law School (Los Angeles)

University of San Diego

9. American University

10. Northeastern University

It seems like a good mix of law schools. Part time programs fill a niche serving working professionals interested in a law degree.

It seems fair to say that the Trump administration is not a big fan of Critical Race Theory, which over the years became a standard part of most law school curricula. Some states have banned the teaching of CRT. Consequently, I listened with great interest to NPR’s discussion of the subject with Law Professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. Her latest book is Backtalker: An American Memoir. (Jeremy Paul named the book the Book of the Week a short while back). The publisher’s pitch for the book states, in part, that

“Backtalker is the powerful and intimate story of how a little girl from Canton, Ohio, came up with a new way to look at the world. Crenshaw’s memoir traces the way her lived experience made her see things others didn’t as the daughter of a strong-minded teacher and a pathbreaking public servant, and as the sister of a protective, yet bullying older brother. She starts to talk back, and that backtalking has continued throughout her life. It happens when she is denied a role in the kindergarten school play. When she is escorted to the back door of a private club. When Anita Hill is exiled for testifying against Clarence Thomas. When OJ Simpson goes on trial. When Obama launches My Brother’s Keeper, a movement focused on boys of color only. When the movement against police violence overlooks Black women. Crenshaw is there for all of it.”

Professor Crenshaw is a pathbreaker — and backtalker! And the NPR interview was interesting.

How Equality WIns: A New Vision for an Inclusive America by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow (Simon & Schuster 2026). Could this book be more timely? We do live in challenging times. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become bad words. Corporations, law firms, law schools, and other institutions (including the American Bar Association) are under intense scrutiny by an administration aggressively challenging DEI policies.

Here is the publisher’s pitch for the book:

“The renowned legal experts behind Say the Right Thing return with this clarion call for reimagining the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in a divided nation.

Equality in America is under siege. Corporations and universities are abandoning the DEI programs they previously championed. The tools Americans had for advancing fairness are facing a relentless political and legal assault. So how do we build a more just nation when the old playbook is no longer viable?

In this groundbreaking manifesto, Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, founders of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law, candidly unpack where DEI went wrong and offer a roadmap to rebuild equality for the new era.