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Legal Education: Above the Law, BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $251k For 1st Years, $575k For 8th Years Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Breaking The Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring And Portability For NextGen Examinees Washington Post, After Outcry, Georgetown Law School Says Student Due To Give Birth Soon Can Defer Final…
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Legal Education: New York Times, Did Ben Sasse Resign As UF President Because Of U.S. News Rankings Decline Of University And Law School? New York Times Op-Ed (David W. Blight), Universities Like Yale Need A Reckoning Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation and the NextGen Bar Open Opportunities for Law Student and Law School…
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Legal Education: Chronicle of Higher Education, Cheating Has Become Normal. What Can Faculty Do? New York Times, Professors Are Uniquely Powerful. That May Be Is Changing. Chronicle of Higher Education, What Professors Actually Earn Thomas Telfer & Emily Nielsen (Western University) et al., The Impact Of Mindfulness Education On Law Students Michael Madison (Pittsburgh), The…
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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 15% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 45%) Wall Street Journal, Suspended Penn Law Professor Says She Has No Regrets Bloomberg Law, Law Firm Drops Columbia Law Prof As Client Over Israel-Gaza Speech Bloomberg Law, Conservative Federal Judge Urges…
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Legal Education: NY Times, The University Of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? Amy Levin (Loyola-L.A.), Law Students Aren’t Alright California Supreme Court, No Alternative Path To Attorney Licensure; Bar Exam May Test CA Law On All Subjects (Not Just CivPro & Evidence) Virginia State Bar, July 2024 Bar Exam Results: Liberty Is…
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Legal Education: New York Times Op-Ed (John McWhorter), Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished. George Mason University News, Statement On Scalia Law School Finances: ‘Most Law Schools Would Run Deficits If They Relied Only On JD Revenue’ The Recorder, California Bar Examiners Endorse Switch To Kaplan Exam; Ball Is Back In…
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Legal Education: Jewish News of Northern California, Protesters Force UC-Berkeley FedSoc Event On Judicial Reform in Israel To Shift Online; Dean Chemerinsky To Pursue Disciplinary Action Against Disruptive Students ABA, Guidance Memo On Standard 208: Academic Freedom And Freedom Of Expression Law360, King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit By Straight, White Female Over Summer Associate…
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Legal Education: New York Times, Penn Law Suspends Tenured Prof Amy Wax For One-Year With Half-Pay For Making Racist Remarks Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), How Penn Law Tried To Buy Amy Wax’s Silence Jewish News of Northern California, UC-Berkeley Law Prof Targeted As ‘Zionist McCarthyist’ Outside Of His Antisemitism Course Law360, George Mason Law…
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Legal Education: Inside Higher Ed, Female Law Deans, Faculty, And Students Across The Country Are Getting Unsettling Texts Judicial Council for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 11th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks Chronicle of Higher Education, These 90-Something Professors Are…
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Legal Education: Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (Baltimore) & Charlie Amiot, Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity And Building An Inclusive Future Harvard Gazette, If You Want To Be Dean, You Probably Won’t Be Good At It AccessLex, Predicting Bar Success — The Mediating Effects Of 1L Law School GPA On Undergraduate GPA And LSAT Steven Calabresi (Northwestern),…
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Legal Education: Patrick Lynch (Law & Liberty), Yale Law School's Keith Whittington: ‘A Conservative Free-Speech Rock Star’ ABA Journal, St. Thomas College of Law Reinstates Fired Tenured Professor, Will Start Termination Hearings Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Noah Feldman, Harvard), Radical Legal Academics May Regret Their Attacks On The Constitution Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los…
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Legal Education: USA Today Op-Ed (John Yoo, UC-Berkeley), The Leftward Ideological Slant Of Law Schools Will Degrade American Law And Erode Fundamental Rights Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +5.7%, With Smallest Increase Among White Applicants Chronicle of Higher Education, Nearly 20% Of University Of Florida Faculty…
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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2024-25 Edition) ABA Legal Ed Counsel Changes to Proposed Accreditation Standards On Diversity, Rights Of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Proposed Accreditation Standards On Learning Outcomes, Assessment, And 1L Faculty Sent To ABA House Of Delegates Summary Of Actions Taken At August 16 Meeting Gregory Sisk…
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Legal Education: Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews ABA Resolution 514 & Resolution 515, ABA ‘Urges’ Law Schools To Permit Paid Externships And Encourage Pay Transparency In OCI Derek Muller (Notre Dame), When Should Law Students Decline A Judicial Clerkship? ABA Journal, 900-Lawyer Duane Morris Sued For Misclassifying Non-Equity Partners…
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Legal Education: Todd Zywicki (George Mason), How Law School Got Woke The Princeton Review, 2024 Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Wall Street Journal, Merit, Excellence And Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On In Companies — Is Higher Ed Next? Steven Dean (Boston University), The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities Washington Post, Wait, Is…
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