ABA Journal, Alumnus gives law school $15M for full-tuition scholarships Patrick Barry (Michigan), Good with Words: Speaking and Presenting Boston Globe, Black 3L Says White Deputy Mistook Her For A Criminal Defendant When She Tried To Enter Courtroom To Represent Client Of Law School's Clinic Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), March Madness Law School Bracket: Duke,…

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ABA Journal, Is interest in law school waning? 'This year is not going to be as red-hot off the charts' Megan Bess (UIC), Transitions Unexplored: A Proposal for Professional Identity Formation Following the First Year Bloomberg Law, Location Tops the List for Law School Decision Factors Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Death Of Two Villanova Tax…

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ABA Journal, Law school recently dinged for bar passage rate comes into compliance Sarah Boonin (Suffolk) & Luz Herrera (Texas A&M), From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics David Case (Mississippi), A Pedagogical Rationale for the Law Professor as Moot Court Coach Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% Through The Fall…

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ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Section Plans to Send Another Diversity Standard, Revisions For Remote Learning Requirements to HOD ABA Journal, Former Chapman Law Prof John Eastman Resists House Jan. 6 Committee's Subpoena, Says Former Dean Knew Of His Work For Trump Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA), Citation Counts By Field: Is Con Law 5 Times More…

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ABA Journal, Loan Counseling and Cross-Cultural Competency Programing Will Be Required From ABA-accredited Law Schools Jonathan Adler (Case Western), SSRN Removes Academic Paper Due to Defamation Claim Jonathan Adler (Case Western), SSRN Restores Paper By Ann Lipton (Tulane) Previously Removed Due To Defamation Claim; Law Review Has Not Withdrawn Its Publication Offer Benjamin Alarie (Toronto)…

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AALS, Journal Of Legal Education Call For Papers: Scholars At Risk ABA Journal, Subpoena For Trump Lawyer John Eastman's Documents On Chapman's Server Highlights Risk Of Faculty Use Of Law School Accounts For Personal Email ABA Legal Rebels, Acing the Exam: Kellye Testy Made Sure the Pandemic Wouldn’t Disrupt Law School Admissions Process Megan Bess…

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Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Catherine Bramble (BYU), Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity in the Law School Classroom William Carney (Emory), Curricular Change In Legal Education Christine Charnosky (Law.com), Ilya Shapiro, On Heels Of Georgetown Law Hiring, Faces Uproar Over Tweeting That Biden's SCOTUS Pick Will Be A 'Lesser Black Woman' Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine…

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ABA Journal, As the Pandemic Drags On, Law Professors Are Making Changes Bloomberg Law, Law School Ethics Becomes ‘Real,’ Tackles Covid, Social Justice Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Standup Comedy And Deaning Have In Common Christine Charnosky (Law.com), Ilya Shapiro, On Heels Of Georgetown Law Hiring, Faces Uproar Over Tweeting That Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Will…

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ABA Journal, Penn Law dean will seek university sanctions against law prof for her 'derogatory public statements' Teneille Brown (Utah), Stereotypes, Sexism and Superhuman Faculty Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning And Tsunamis Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), What Yale Law School Teaches — Inadvertently — About The Appropriate Role Of…

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Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's), From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Professor Affirmed David Bernstein (George Mason), The ABA's Problematic Proposed 'Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion' Rules For Law Schools Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2021 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),…

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ABA, Proposed Changes To Distance Learning Accreditation Standard ABA, Proposed Changes To Diversity And Inclusion Accreditation Standard Tiffany Atkins (Elon), #Fortheculture: Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education I. Bennett Capers (Fordham), The Law School as a White Space Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2021 Paul Caron (Dean,…

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Quote of the Year: “Whether or not we act responsibly sometimes crucially depends on whether we believe responsibly and, thereby, shows the relevance of responsible belief.” Rik Peels Here is my annual list of the best legal education articles of the year. Best Legal Education Articles of 2021 Edward Cantu (UMKC) & Lee Jussim (Rutgers),…

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ABA, Golden Gate And Western New England Law Schools Are Out Of Compliance With Bar Passage Accreditation Standard ABA Journal, The Top 10 Legal News Stories Of 2021 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Acceptance Rate Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School Reassigns Jason Kilborn's Spring Classes While…

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ABA, 509 Report Data On Law School Admissions And Tuition ABA Journal, Exam Question Wasn’t Only Offensive Behavior of UIC Law Professor, According to Internal Investigation ABA Journal, Overall, Law Schools See Increase in 1Ls and Decrease in Non-JD Students ABA Journal, Which law school has best quality of life? Best career prospects? Princeton Review…

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ABA Journal, Exam question wasn’t only offensive behavior of UIC law professor, according to internal investigation Jamie Abrams (Louisville), Legal Education's Curricular Tipping Point Toward Inclusive Socratic Teaching Bloomberg Law, Big Law’s Talent Shortage Raises Vexing Questions on ‘Quality’ Noah Chauvin, The Banality of Law Journal Rejections Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Letterhead Bias and Blind…

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Jamie Abrams (Louisville), Legal Education's Curricular Tipping Point Toward Inclusive Socratic Teaching Academic Freedom Alliance & Brian Leiter (Chicago), The University Of Illinois-Chicago's Response to Student Complaints Against A Tenured Law Professor Deborah Archer (NYU), Caitlin Barry (Villanova), Lisa Bliss (Georgia State), G.S. Hans (Vanderbilt), Vida Johnson (Georgetown), Wilkes Kaas (Quinnipiac), Lynnise Pantin (Columbia), Kele…

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ABA Journal, Some law schools outside T14 still send many grads to the nation's top-grossing firms The American Bazaar, Indian American Yale law professor blasts school over ‘trap house’ Incident Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), In Response To Criticism, ABA Releases Revised Proposed Diversity Accreditation Standard For Notice And Comment Chronicle of Higher Education, The Review:…

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Above the Law, Yale Law School Sued For Jerking Around Students In Amy Chua Dust-Up Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Lawyerly Letter Jeff Baker (Pepperdine), Clinics In The Age Of Covid And Beyond Josh Blackman (South Texas), Conservative and Libertarian Law Students At Yale Law School Should Transfer Out En Masse California Bar, Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls…

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ABA Journal, More law school applicants with high LSAT scores are getting rejected, admissions officers say Katherine Benson (UBC), In Favour of Universal Design: The Argument for Continued Hybrid Online/In-Person Courses in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Focus on Students with Disabilities Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Rick Cupp Receives Pepperdine University's Highest…

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Ty Alper (UC-Berkeley), Third-Party Sexual Harassment: The Challenge of Title IX Obligations for Law School Clinics Peter Berkowitz (J.D. 1990, Yale; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution), An Open Letter to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken Charleston Regional Business Journal, Reinvestment Brings Charleston School of Law Back From the Brink Laura Graham (Wake Forest), 'Safe Spaces'…

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ABA Journal, Jurisdictions Are Switching Back To In-Person Bar Exam Starting in February ABA Journal, Moot Court Teacher Claims Her Law School Position Was Terminated Following Complaints to the ABA Above the Law, Yale Law School Students Ask ‘What The Actual F***!’ And It’s A Very Good Question The Atlantic, A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale…

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15th Deans' Leadership in Legal Education Symposium Bloomberg Law, Vermont Law School Thwarts Claim It Can’t Hide Slavery Murals David Brooks (New York Times), What Does a University Owe Democracy? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Twitter Census (2021-22 Edition) Florida Politics, Ron DeSantis Says Three Years of Law School Is a ‘Waste’ Andrew Koppelman…

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Douglas E. Abrams (Missouri), Eleven Observations About Legal Writing AccessLex, Leading Nonprofit AccessLex Institute Launches New Bar Review With Donation of $5 Million in Free Courses American University Law Review, My Favorite Law Review Article Video Series Peter D. Burdon (Adelaide), 'Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste': The Impact of COVID-19 on Legal Education…

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Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 9% Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 11.5%, With Biggest Increase (21.6%) Among The 150-159 LSAT Band Benjamin Carpenter (St. Thomas), A Letter to Students on the Meaning of Work and Professional Formation Daily Montanan, Montana Law School Dean, Associate Dean Resign Following…

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ABA Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Consultant’s Evaluation of ETS’s 2018 Report on the Validity of the GRE Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Quantifying the Impact of Matriculant Credentials & Academic Attrition Rates on Bar Exam Success at Individual Schools Bill Henderson (Indiana), Turf, Hierarchy, and Evolving Professional Norms…

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