Legal Education:  U.S. News, 2025-26 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings) Donald Tobin (Maryland), XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings Business Law Clinical Training Tax Law Wall Street Journal, Students At…

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Legal Education:  Reuters, 2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low Josh Blackman (South Texas), Harvard Law School v. Vermeule Yale Daily News, Yale Law School Terminates Scholar Amid Terrorist Link Allegations, Refusal To Cooperate, And Pressure From Trump Administration Reuters, Closure Of U.S. Department Of Education Imperils Law School Finances, Deans Say Jonathan…

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Legal Education:  Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law School Admissions Practices Continue To Look At The LSAT Like It's 2005 ABA Section of Legal Education, St. Thomas Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard The Atlantic, The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants To Stop Arresting People For Domestic Violence John Bliss (Denver), Teaching…

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Legal Education:  Bloomberg Law, California Bar Recommends Provisional Licensure For All Who Failed And Withdrew From The February Bar Exam The Recorder, California Bar Blocked Law School Deans And Professors From Vetting Troubled Bar Exam Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 80% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 20% (Black Applicants Are…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings ABA Journal, Attorney General Bondi Threatens ABA If It Does Not Eliminate DEI Law School Accreditation Standard Bloomberg Op-Ed (Stephen Carter (Yale)), Legal Experts Agree: Georgetown Law Dean Gave Master Class On How To Fight Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade Press Release, New ABA Bar…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources ABA Journal, The California Bar Exam Fiasco: Is Provisional…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The…

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Legal Education:  Reuters, February California Bar Exam Is In Disarray; Refunds Offered To All 5,600-Test Takers Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Does The FTC's ABA Ban Portend Revocation Of Its Law School Accreditation Power? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of…

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Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Aaron Taylor, AccessLex), The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision Has Caused An Unprecedented Shift In Law School Admissions Inside Higher Ed, As Trump's DEI Crackdown Escalates, Law Faculty Choose Between Silence And Resistance Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), The Top 100 Legal Scholars Of 2024…

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Legal Education:  MPR News, Minnesota Law School Cancels Search For Assistant Dean Of DEI Due To Trump's Executive Order Honolulu Civil Beat, FIRE Blasts University Of Hawaii For Censoring Law Prof's PowerPoint Presentation New Orleans Times-Picayune, Appeals Court Blocks Order Requiring LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Who ‘Used Vulgar Language To Criticize Gov. Landry And…

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Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education, Trump Targets 131 Colleges (74 With Law Schools) With Endowments Over $1 Billion For Possible DEI Investigations WAFB, Tenured Law Prof Sues LSU For Removing Him From Teaching After Allegedly Saying ‘F*** Trump’ In Class Reuters, Trump’s Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands Of Law Students (And Some Law Schools’ Employment…

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Legal Education:  ABA Journal, Stanford Law Prof Fires Meta As Client, Citing Platform's ‘Descent Into Toxic Masculinity’ Louisiana Illuminator, LSU Law Prof Removed From Classes Amid Investigation Into Political Comments Wall Street Journal, 23% Of Harvard MBAs Are Struggling To Land Jobs Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Steven Lubet, Northwestern), No, Columbia Did Not Fire…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools Nathan Fleming (Wake Forest), After Affirmative Action: Contextual Admissions and the Future of African American Law School Enrollment Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God Houston Law Review Symposium,…

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Legal Education:  Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings New York Times, Black Student Enrollment At Harvard Law Drops By More Than Half Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God The Atlantic, The Two-Body Problem: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education National Law Journal, Attorneys, Law Professors Flock From X To…

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Legal Education:  Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman), First-Gen In The Field Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up An ‘Unnatural’ 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 39%) The Setonian, Former Assistant Dean Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Seton Hall Law School Grand…

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Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Peter Arcidiacono (Duke) & Tyler Ransom (Oklahoma)), Are Elite Colleges (And Law Schools) Circumventing The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision? AALS, The American Law School Faculty Study InspireMore, Students Pull Wholesome Prank On Law Prof On Last Day Of Class Reuters, California Bar Will Consider Campus Protests In Moral…

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