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Legal Education: Joshua Kastenberg (New Mexico), Will Federal Judge Who Gave Award To Racist Paper As University Of Florida Adjunct Professor Need To Recuse Himself In Certain Future Cases? America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Prof Obtains ‘Full Reinstatement And Complete Vindication’ In Settlement With University NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High:…

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Legal Education: New York Times, Turmoil At University Of Florida Law School After Adjunct Professor Federal Judge Gives Book Award To White Nationalist Antisemitic Student For His Racist Paper Merritt McAlister (Interim Dean, Florida), Response To New York Times Article Reuters, ABA Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Its Race-Based Law School Scholarship Program Derek…

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Legal Education: Symposium, Texas And The Future Of Legal Education Barry Currier, Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern) & Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), The ABA And Law School Accreditation NPR, Law Clerks Describe Toxic Work Culture In Some Federal Judges’ Chambers Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Rejects 85% Of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Including Article By Asian-American…

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Legal Education: Chronicle of Higher Education, UC-Berkeley Faculty Ask: Do Trump And His Allies Have A Point About Higher Education? Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Retaliates Against Former Editor Working In Trump Administration Who Alleged Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination Wall Street Journal, Jeopardy! Champion Skips LSAT For Dream Job For Young Men: Stay-At-Home-Son…

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Legal Education: Reuters, Trump’s International Student Ban Would Decimate Harvard Law School's 1-Year LL.M. Program ($81,760 Tuition Generates $11 Million/Year) Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), & Donald Gifford (Maryland) et al., AI Gets Its First Law School A+s (And An A In Tax) New York Times, Inside Trump’s Attack On The Harvard Law Review Wall Street Journal,…

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Legal Education: New York Magazine, Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. What Happens When They Get To Law School? Jeff Sovern (Maryland), What Could A Hostile Federal Government Do To Law Schools? Wall Street Journal, The Solution To Cheating On Exams With ChatGPT Is Painfully Old-School: Blue Books Samantha A. Moppett (Suffolk), Preparing Law…

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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Projected 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall New York Times, 89-Year Old Retired Florida Professor Left Bulk Of Her $2.8 Million Estate To 31 Former Students Adam Bonica (Stanford), Adam Chilton (Chicago), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Maya Sen (Harvard), Law Professors Have Become More Liberal, But They Also…

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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview of the 2026-2027 U.S. News Law School Rankings:  First-Time Bar Passage Ultimate Bar Passage Employment The Intercept, NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests Or Be Barred From Final Exams The Recorder, California Supreme Court Lowers Passing Score on February Bar Exam, Orders Return to Multistate Exam in July…

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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By First-Time Bar Passage Rate (2024) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2022) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By 10-Month Employment Rate (2024) Washington Free Beacon (Aaron Sibarium), Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination At Harvard Law Review Los…

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Legal Education: U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings Legal Writing Trial Advocacy Omnibus Specialty Rankings Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings Los Angeles Times, California Bar Allowed Non-Lawyers To Use AI To Draft February Exam Questions, Will Ask Supreme Court To Lower Cut…

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