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After Richmond Law School Removed Slave-Owner Benefactor From Its Name, Family Demands Return Of His Donations ($3.6 Billion With 132 Years Of Interest)
Washington Post, A School Took His Family Name Off a Building. He’s Demanding $3.6 Billion.: Robert C. Smith is not happy with the University of Richmond. Smith, a Richmond lawyer who graduated from the university’s law school, is the great-great grandson of T.C. Williams, one of the school’s early and prominent benefactors. Until last year,
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Section Seeks Council Nominations ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For Aba-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain In Place For Now ABA Journal, Law School Named In Honor Of Black Attorney In What May Be Second Time In History Albany Times-Union, Ohio State Law Professor Named Next President at Albany Law School
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Section Seeks Council Nominations ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For Aba-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain In Place For Now ABA Journal, Law School Named In Honor Of Black Attorney In What May Be Second Time In History Albany Times-Union, Ohio State Law Professor Named Next President at Albany Law School
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Students Threaten To Sue St. Thomas For Renaming Law School To Honor Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump
The Floridian Press, Florida's St. Thomas University Could Face Civil Suit(s) for Changing its Law School's Name After Controversial Attorney: St. Thomas University in Miami-Dade County, which just renamed its law school after prominent and controversial civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, may have opened itself up to civil litigation by doing so. For years, the
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Students Threaten To Sue St. Thomas For Renaming Law School To Honor Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump
The Floridian Press, Florida's St. Thomas University Could Face Civil Suit(s) for Changing its Law School's Name After Controversial Attorney: St. Thomas University in Miami-Dade County, which just renamed its law school after prominent and controversial civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, may have opened itself up to civil litigation by doing so. For years, the
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Police Are Asking: Who Secretly Recorded A Faculty Meeting At New Hampshire Law School?
Following up on my previous post, Christian Student Group Threatens Lawsuit To Obtain Formal Recognition By UNH Law School: New Hampshire Public Radio, Police Are Asking: Who Secretly Recorded a Faculty Meeting at UNH Law School?: A small group of faculty and administrators met last November inside a classroom at the University of New Hampshire
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Police Are Asking: Who Secretly Recorded A Faculty Meeting At New Hampshire Law School?
Following up on my previous post, Christian Student Group Threatens Lawsuit To Obtain Formal Recognition By UNH Law School: New Hampshire Public Radio, Police Are Asking: Who Secretly Recorded a Faculty Meeting at UNH Law School?: A small group of faculty and administrators met last November inside a classroom at the University of New Hampshire
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Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.5%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
We are now 67% of the way through Fall 2023 law school admissions season. The number of law school applicants reported by LSAC is down -3.5% compared to last year at this time: 119 of the 198 law schools are experiencing a decrease in applications. Applications are down -10% or more at 10 law schools
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Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.5%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
We are now 67% of the way through Fall 2023 law school admissions season. The number of law school applicants reported by LSAC is down -3.5% compared to last year at this time: 119 of the 198 law schools are experiencing a decrease in applications. Applications are down -10% or more at 10 law schools
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Should Law Schools Offer A Course On ‘Becoming You’: Crafting The Authentic Career You Want And Need?
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Are You There, M.B.A.? It’s Me, Industry, by Suzy Welch: Business-school graduates usually go into consulting, finance or tech. But there’s a whole world of other opportunities out there. … I teach a class called “Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Career You Want and Need” [at New York University’s Stern School
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Should Law Schools Offer A Course On ‘Becoming You’: Crafting The Authentic Career You Want And Need?
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Are You There, M.B.A.? It’s Me, Industry, by Suzy Welch: Business-school graduates usually go into consulting, finance or tech. But there’s a whole world of other opportunities out there. … I teach a class called “Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Career You Want and Need” [at New York University’s Stern School
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Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For ABA-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain in Place For Now Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Bad Math Bar Sauce and the ABA as a Shill for the NCBE Baylor News, Dean Brad Toben to Return to Baylor Law School Faculty Lea Bishop (Indiana-McKinney), Can ChatGPT 'Think
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Weekly Legal Education Roundup
ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For ABA-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain in Place For Now Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Bad Math Bar Sauce and the ABA as a Shill for the NCBE Baylor News, Dean Brad Toben to Return to Baylor Law School Faculty Lea Bishop (Indiana-McKinney), Can ChatGPT 'Think
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Will The Boycott Actually Strengthen The U.S. News Rankings?
Chronicle of Higher Education, How Criticism Actually Strengthens Rankings: Why do college rankings endure? In a paper published last month, two German sociologists, Julian Hamann and Leopold Ringel, put forth a provocative hypothesis: that criticism ultimately strengthens rankers, who respond by modifying their work rather than abandoning it, which ends up reinforcing their legitimacy [The
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Will The Boycott Actually Strengthen The U.S. News Rankings?
Chronicle of Higher Education, How Criticism Actually Strengthens Rankings: Why do college rankings endure? In a paper published last month, two German sociologists, Julian Hamann and Leopold Ringel, put forth a provocative hypothesis: that criticism ultimately strengthens rankers, who respond by modifying their work rather than abandoning it, which ends up reinforcing their legitimacy [The
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Brad Toben, America’s Longest Serving Law School Dean, To Return To Baylor Faculty After 31 Years
Baylor News, Dean Brad Toben to Return to Baylor Law School Faculty: Bradley J. B. Toben, J.D. ’77, has decided to transition as dean of Baylor Law School and return to the faculty, effective July 1, 2023, Baylor University Provost Nancy Brickhouse, Ph.D., announced today. Dean since 1991, Toben will continue to serve as The M.C. and
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Brad Toben, America’s Longest Serving Law School Dean, To Return To Baylor Faculty After 31 Years
Baylor News, Dean Brad Toben to Return to Baylor Law School Faculty: Bradley J. B. Toben, J.D. ’77, has decided to transition as dean of Baylor Law School and return to the faculty, effective July 1, 2023, Baylor University Provost Nancy Brickhouse, Ph.D., announced today. Dean since 1991, Toben will continue to serve as The M.C. and
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NY Times: The Road To A Supreme Court Clerkship Starts At Three Ivy League Colleges; ‘You Can’t Scrub Your Undergraduate Degree With An Elite Law Degree’
New York Times Sidebar: The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges, by Adam Liptak: When Ted Cruz attended Harvard Law School, he liked to study with people who had undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown,” one of
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NY Times: The Road To A Supreme Court Clerkship Starts At Three Ivy League Colleges; ‘You Can’t Scrub Your Undergraduate Degree With An Elite Law Degree’
New York Times Sidebar: The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges, by Adam Liptak: When Ted Cruz attended Harvard Law School, he liked to study with people who had undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown,” one of
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ABA House Of Delegates Rejects Proposal To Make The LSAT Optional; ABA Council To Consider Next Steps At Feb. 17 Meeting
Following up on this morning's post: ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For ABA-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain in Place For Now: A proposed revision to a law school accreditation standard that removes an entrance exam requirement was rejected Monday by the ABA House of Delegates, at the organization’s midyear meeting in New Orleans. Resolution 300
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ABA House Of Delegates Rejects Proposal To Make The LSAT Optional; ABA Council To Consider Next Steps At Feb. 17 Meeting
Following up on this morning's post: ABA Journal, Admissions Test Requirement For ABA-Accredited Law Schools Will Remain in Place For Now: A proposed revision to a law school accreditation standard that removes an entrance exam requirement was rejected Monday by the ABA House of Delegates, at the organization’s midyear meeting in New Orleans. Resolution 300
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, After Theft Charges, Former Law School Dean Accused Of Sexual Conduct With Minor ABA Journal, Developing An Identity: Zachariah Demeola Created A Holistic Way For Law Students To Find Where They Fit Into The Profession ABA Journal, Federal Sentence Includes Law School, And Attorneys Wonder Why ABA Journal, Law Prof Curses Student On
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, After Theft Charges, Former Law School Dean Accused Of Sexual Conduct With Minor ABA Journal, Developing An Identity: Zachariah Demeola Created A Holistic Way For Law Students To Find Where They Fit Into The Profession ABA Journal, Federal Sentence Includes Law School, And Attorneys Wonder Why ABA Journal, Law Prof Curses Student On
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ABA To Vote Today On Making LSAT Optional Beginning With Fall 2026 1L Class
Reuters, Judgment Day Looms for ABA’s Hotly Debated LSAT Requirement: The American Bar Association’s policy-making body is slated on Monday to decide whether to drop the longstanding requirement that law schools use the Law School Admission Test or another standardized test when admitting students. If the ABA’s House of Delegates approves the change when it
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ABA To Vote Today On Making LSAT Optional Beginning With Fall 2026 1L Class
Reuters, Judgment Day Looms for ABA’s Hotly Debated LSAT Requirement: The American Bar Association’s policy-making body is slated on Monday to decide whether to drop the longstanding requirement that law schools use the Law School Admission Test or another standardized test when admitting students. If the ABA’s House of Delegates approves the change when it