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Cleveland State Law School Seeks Comments On Removing Chief Justice John Marshall From Its Name
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Dear Member of the CSU Cleveland-Marshall community,I am writing to strongly encourage you to provide feedback on the very important issue of whether our Law School should continue to be named after Chief Justice John Marshall, who, in addition to being the fourth Chief Justice of the…
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The Top 10 Legal News Stories Of 2021
The ABA Journal has an article on the Top 10 News Stories From 2021, which includes three legal education stories covered on TaxProf Blog: 5. US News Releases Its 2022 Law School Rankings; Which Schools Had Lowest Student Debt? (March 30)7. Law Dean Reveals Retirement Was Due to ‘Slaveholder’ Comment; Remark Followed Tenure Controversy (March…
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Omicron Forces Law Schools To Change Spring Semester Plans: Stay Home, Get Booster Shot
Reuters, Stay Home, Get Boosted, Law Schools Tell Students During New Virus Phase: It’s back to remote learning for some law schools—at least temporarily. A growing number of universities in recent days have announced they're reverting to online classes for the first several weeks of January in hopes of minimizing the spread of COVID-19, which…
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WSJ: NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni And Parents Struggle To Repay
Wall Street Journal, NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni and Parents Struggle to Repay: By many measures, [NYU] is the worst or among the worst schools for leaving families and graduate students drowning in debt. Many of its graduate-school alumni earn low salaries, despite their expensive degrees. At its core, the debt burden among NYU…
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Organ: The 2021 Law School Transfer Market
This blog posting updates my blog postings over the last several years regarding what we know about the transfer market (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). With the ABA’s posting of the 2021 Standard 509 Reports, we now have several years of more detailed transfer data from which to glean insights about the transfer…
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Quinn Emanuel Is First BigLaw Firm To Allow Its Lawyers To Work From Home Indefinitely From Anywhere In The U.S.
Quinn Emanuel Tells Its Lawyers: ‘Work From Anywhere’: While most AmLaw 100 firms are wrestling with return-to-office policies, minimum in-person days, hybrid arrangements and other challenges, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP today announced that all U.S. lawyers – from first-year associates to partners — can work from wherever they want. The litigation powerhouse said…
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ABA Finds Golden Gate And Western New England Law Schools Out Of Compliance With Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has sent notices to Golden Gate and Western New England law schools that they are not in compliance with Accreditation Standard 316 ("At least 75 percent of a law school’s graduates in a calendar year who sat for a bar examination…
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University Of Tennessee Professor Put Clues To A Cash Prize In His Syllabus. No One Noticed.
New York Times, Professor Put Clues to a Cash Prize in His Syllabus. No One Noticed.: Kenyon Wilson, a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, wanted to test whether any of his students fully read the syllabus for his music seminar. Of the more than 70 students enrolled in the class, none apparently…
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University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School Reassigns Jason Kilborn’s Spring Classes While He Undergoes Mandatory Diversity Training
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Brian Leiter reports [Univ of Illinois-Chicago Has Gone Crazy: The Latest on the Kilborn Case] that the University of Illinois Legal Counsel sent this letter last Thursday informing tenured law professor Jason Kilborn that his Spring 2022 will be assigned to other faculty while he undergoes "individualized…
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University Of Iowa Ordered To Pay $2m To Christian Student Groups Denied Recognition For Rejecting Gay Students In Leadership Roles
The Gazette, University of Iowa Ordered to Pay Nearly $2M in Faith-Based Student Org Lawsuits: Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization by punishing it for barring an openly gay member from becoming a leader of the group, the state will pay the law firm…
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The Use Of The GRE In Law School Admissions After The ABA’s Green Light
Following up on my previous post, ABA Permits Law Schools To Accept GRE Scores In Lieu Of The LSAT: Law.com, ‘Murkiness’ of ABA Data Could Slow Law Schools’ Adoption of the GRE: The American Bar Association released law schools’ 509 Reports for 2021 on Wednesday, and while it’s no shock that enrollment for 2021 far exceeded…
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Lat: Will Heather Gerken Be Reappointed As Dean of Yale Law School?
Following up on my previous posts (links below): David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), A Quick Update On Yale Law School: Will Heather Gerken Be Reappointed as Dean of YLS?: The last episode of The Dean, a riveting television series based on the abundant drama at Yale Law School, ended with a cliffhanger: would the…
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ABA Releases Data On Law School Admissions And Tuition
Update: ABA Journal, Overall, Law Schools See Increase in 1Ls and Decrease in Non-JD Students: There is an 11.8% increase in first-year law students for the 2021 admissions cycle, compared to 2020. … [T]he data showed a 1.2% decrease in students enrolled in LLM, masters and certificate programs. Law.com, Law School Enrollment Is Way Up—But…
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Treasury Department Plans First Analysis of U.S. Tax Benefits By Race
Bloomberg, Treasury Plans First Analysis of U.S. Tax Benefits by Race: The U.S. Treasury is launching an effort to examine the distribution of federal benefits and taxation by race, starting with a look at the pandemic relief payments that were due to most American households. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, along with Lily Batchelder, the…
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July 2021 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
Following up on yesterday's post on the July 2021 California Bar Exam results for in-state law schools: the state bar has released comparable data for out-of-state law schools. Overall, 52.6% of all applicants passed the California bar exam. Among graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, first-time takers from in-state law schools passed at a higher rate…
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July 2021 California Bar Exam Results
The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2021 California Bar Exam. Here are the results for first time test takers for the 18 California ABA-accredited law schools, along with each school’s U.S. News ranking (California and overall): Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School US News Rank CA (Overall) 1 (95.5%) UC-Berkeley…
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More On The Jason Kilborn Controversy At The University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School
Following up on last week’s post, Academic Freedom Alliance And Brian Leiter Weigh In On How The University Of Illinois-Chicago Has Handled Student Complaints Against A Tenured Law Professor: ABA Journal, Exam Question Wasn’t Only Offensive Behavior of UIC Law Professor, According to Internal Investigation: Over the past year, various academics have expressed support for a…
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Furor Over Conservative Judges. Silence Over Left-Leaning Law Schools.
Teresa R. Manning (National Association of Scholars), Furor Over Conservative Judges. Silence over Left-Leaning Law Schools.: Commentary about Dobbs has noted the Court’s so-called conservative Justices, though they’re probably more accurately described simply as those appointed by Republican Presidents. On one side are Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and John…
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Law Schools: A Time Of New Burdens And New Beginnings
Sundaresh Menon (Supreme Court of Singapore), 2018 James P. White Lecture on Legal Education. Law Schools: A Time of New Burdens and New Beginnings, 53 Ind. L. Rev. 49 (2020): ConclusionMore than half a century ago, when delivering his inaugural address as the founding dean of the law school at the then University of Malaya,…
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CUNY Law Students War With Faculty Over Anti-Israel Resolution
New York Post, CUNY Law Students Warring With Faculty Members Over Anti-Israel Resolution: The student government of CUNY’s law school passed a resolution ripping the Jewish state last week — prompting an enraged rebuttal from a group of faculty members. The Law Student Government Association demanded that CUNY sever ties with Israel and accused the school of being…
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Can A Student Sue His Law School For $750,000 When It Profits Off His Name, Image, And Likeness?
Texas Lawyer, Can a Law Student Sue Their Law School When It Profits Off The Student’s Name, Image, and Likeness?: In what is going to be a remarkably interesting case involving a new law school and a student who is suing them for $750,000 in a human rights complaint, we are going to find out…
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AccessLex Partners With Ten Law Schools To Offer One Year Deferred Admission And At Least 20% Scholarships To Diverse Applicants Who Agree To Attend Boot Camp
Reuters, New Law School Diversity Program Has a Twist: Guaranteed Admission: Ten U.S. law schools have agreed to offer one-year deferred admission and scholarship money to promising, underrepresented candidates whose initial applications don't make the cut, according to AccessLex Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for access and affordability in legal education. To keep their place…
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More Colleges Turn To Law Schools To Find Their Next President
Reuters, More U.S. Colleges Turn to Law Schools to Find Their Next President: Law deans are in demand when it comes to filling vacant college and university presidencies. Memphis’ Rhodes College on Monday named Southern Methodist University law dean Jennifer Collins as its next president, making her at least the fifth legal educator to follow…
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Yale Law Faculty Meets Today With Dean Review Advisory Committee To Discuss Reappointment Of Heather Gerken
Following up on my previous posts (links below): David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), In Defense Of Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken: Here's why NOT to drop the dean. Ask and you shall receive. Ahead of the big faculty meeting tomorrow to discuss giving Heather Gerken another five-year term as dean of Yale Law School,…
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Female Lawyers Work 100 More Hours Per Year Than Their Male Counterparts; Young Lawyers Are The Most Unhappy
Thomson Reuters, Stellar Performance: Skills and Progression Mid-Year Survey — Summary of Findings For Law Firms (Nov. 2021): Our findings reveal that the majority (53%) of lawyers surveyed are satisfied with their total working hours. Further, 17% said they desired more working hours, leaving 30% who would like to work fewer hours. Collectively, these differing perspectives…