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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, Bar Admission Denied For Applicant Who Won’t Take Constitutional Oath Culture Map, Pop icon Beyoncé donates $100,000 to University of Houston Law School David Lat, How AI Is Transforming Legal Writing Mike Spivey, The Future of Legal Education, AI, & Admissions with Dean Megan Carpenter (UNH) preLaw, Touro Law Launches Health Care Law
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, Bar Admission Denied For Applicant Who Won’t Take Constitutional Oath Culture Map, Pop icon Beyoncé donates $100,000 to University of Houston Law School David Lat, How AI Is Transforming Legal Writing Mike Spivey, The Future of Legal Education, AI, & Admissions with Dean Megan Carpenter (UNH) preLaw, Touro Law Launches Health Care Law
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Miranda Stewart Named Director Of NYU International Tax Program
Miranda Stewart LLM ’98 to head International Tax Program: Miranda Stewart LLM ’98, a professor at University of Melbourne Law School, will join NYU Law as a visiting professor of law in Fall 2025 for a three-year term, during which she will serve as the director of the International Tax Program. [She will succeed H.
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Miranda Stewart Named Director Of NYU International Tax Program
Miranda Stewart LLM ’98 to head International Tax Program: Miranda Stewart LLM ’98, a professor at University of Melbourne Law School, will join NYU Law as a visiting professor of law in Fall 2025 for a three-year term, during which she will serve as the director of the International Tax Program. [She will succeed H.
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Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn For Race Discrimination, Breach Of Contract; 3L Defends Her ‘Unpopular Truth Telling’
Aaron Sibarium, (Washington Free Beacon), Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn for Race Discrimination, Breach of Contract: Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was disciplined by the University of Pennsylvania for making controversial remarks about race and gender, told Penn on Thursday that she will sue the university for race discrimination if it does
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Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn For Race Discrimination, Breach Of Contract; 3L Defends Her ‘Unpopular Truth Telling’
Aaron Sibarium, (Washington Free Beacon), Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn for Race Discrimination, Breach of Contract: Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was disciplined by the University of Pennsylvania for making controversial remarks about race and gender, told Penn on Thursday that she will sue the university for race discrimination if it does
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The Two-Body Problem: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education
The Atlantic, How to Marry Into Academia: According to a Stanford Study [Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know], about 36 percent of academics at research universities are married or partnered with another academic. It’s so common, in fact, that professors have a name for it: the “two-body problem.” And the problem has only
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The Two-Body Problem: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education
The Atlantic, How to Marry Into Academia: According to a Stanford Study [Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know], about 36 percent of academics at research universities are married or partnered with another academic. It’s so common, in fact, that professors have a name for it: the “two-body problem.” And the problem has only
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Robert George: The Future Of Conservatives In Academia
Aaron M. Renn (American Reformer), The Future of Conservatives in Academia: I’m very honored this week to have as my podcast guest Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. Academia is almost entirely dominated by the left. But Professor George has thrived in it as a strong, conservative Catholic. Is it possible for conservatives
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Robert George: The Future Of Conservatives In Academia
Aaron M. Renn (American Reformer), The Future of Conservatives in Academia: I’m very honored this week to have as my podcast guest Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. Academia is almost entirely dominated by the left. But Professor George has thrived in it as a strong, conservative Catholic. Is it possible for conservatives
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Pepperdine Academic Freedom Colloquium: Faith And The Academy
Academic Freedom at Faith-Based Institutions of Higher Education:A Colloquium on Faith and the AcademyMarch 6-8, 2025Malibu, CaliforniaRegistration In March of next year, Pepperdine will welcome representatives from faith-based institutions to join in an intimate 2.5-day colloquy on academic freedom. Apart from the plenary events, participants will be organized in seminar-sized groups of 12-18 led by
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Pepperdine Academic Freedom Colloquium: Faith And The Academy
Academic Freedom at Faith-Based Institutions of Higher Education:A Colloquium on Faith and the AcademyMarch 6-8, 2025Malibu, CaliforniaRegistration In March of next year, Pepperdine will welcome representatives from faith-based institutions to join in an intimate 2.5-day colloquy on academic freedom. Apart from the plenary events, participants will be organized in seminar-sized groups of 12-18 led by
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Rodriguez: Law School Applications Are Way Up — Let’s Wait On The Parade
Daniel B. Rodriguez (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Law School Applications Are Way Up! Let's Wait on the Parade: Let the bells ring out during this holiday season . . . for American law schools. Especially those schools who fret about enrolling a sufficient number of students and, further, students whose hard and soft measures promise that they
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Rodriguez: Law School Applications Are Way Up — Let’s Wait On The Parade
Daniel B. Rodriguez (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Law School Applications Are Way Up! Let's Wait on the Parade: Let the bells ring out during this holiday season . . . for American law schools. Especially those schools who fret about enrolling a sufficient number of students and, further, students whose hard and soft measures promise that they
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North Dakota Law School Dean Proposes Increased Enrollment And Tuition To Close $2.1 Million Budget Deficit
Grand Forks Herald, UND School of Law Faces $2.1 Million Deficit by 2028: The dean of UND’s law school says he is bringing forward a proposal to increase tuition for current and future students in a bid to stave off a projected deficit. The School of Law is also considering increasing its class size from
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North Dakota Law School Dean Proposes Increased Enrollment And Tuition To Close $2.1 Million Budget Deficit
Grand Forks Herald, UND School of Law Faces $2.1 Million Deficit by 2028: The dean of UND’s law school says he is bringing forward a proposal to increase tuition for current and future students in a bid to stave off a projected deficit. The School of Law is also considering increasing its class size from
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University Of Michigan Eliminates Diversity Statements In Faculty Hiring, Promotion & Tenure And Recommits To DEI Goals
Following up on my previous posts: New York Times, The University Of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? (Oct. 17, 2024) New York Times, University Of Michigan Weighs Changes To Its Diversity Program (Dec. 5, 2024) Chronicle of Higher Education, U. of Michigan Bans Use of Diversity Statements, Recommits to Broader DEI Goals:
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University Of Michigan Eliminates Diversity Statements In Faculty Hiring, Promotion & Tenure And Recommits To DEI Goals
Following up on my previous posts: New York Times, The University Of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? (Oct. 17, 2024) New York Times, University Of Michigan Weighs Changes To Its Diversity Program (Dec. 5, 2024) Chronicle of Higher Education, U. of Michigan Bans Use of Diversity Statements, Recommits to Broader DEI Goals:
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Death Of Dean & Tax Prof Richard Gershon (Mississippi)
I. Richard Gershon, former Dean at Texas Wesleyan (2000-2003), Charleston (2003-2010), and Mississippi (2010-2015) passed away Monday night. He previously was on the tax faculty at Ohio Northern (1983-1984), Stetson (1984-1998), and Texas Wesleyan (1998-2000), and returned to the Mississippi tax faculty in 2015. From his Mississippi faculty page: Richard Gershon is a faculty member
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Death Of Dean & Tax Prof Richard Gershon (Mississippi)
I. Richard Gershon, former Dean at Texas Wesleyan (2000-2003), Charleston (2003-2010), and Mississippi (2010-2015) passed away Monday night. He previously was on the tax faculty at Ohio Northern (1983-1984), Stetson (1984-1998), and Texas Wesleyan (1998-2000), and returned to the Mississippi tax faculty in 2015. From his Mississippi faculty page: Richard Gershon is a faculty member
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Former Law School IT Director Admits To $80,000 Theft
Law360, Former Law School IT Director Admits To Thefts: A former IT director for New England School of Law in Boston pled guilty Monday to using the school's Amazon account to purchase more than $80,000 worth of musical equipment and Apple products, state prosecutors announced. Gareth Flanagan, 52, of Medford was also sentenced to a
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Former Law School IT Director Admits To $80,000 Theft
Law360, Former Law School IT Director Admits To Thefts: A former IT director for New England School of Law in Boston pled guilty Monday to using the school's Amazon account to purchase more than $80,000 worth of musical equipment and Apple products, state prosecutors announced. Gareth Flanagan, 52, of Medford was also sentenced to a
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40% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up An ‘Unnatural’ 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 39%)
We are now 40% of the way through Fall 2025 law school admissions season. The number of law school applicants reported by LSAC is up 25.1% compared to last year at this time: 188 of the 196 law schools are experiencing an increase in applications. Applications are up +40% or more at 62 law schools:
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40% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up An ‘Unnatural’ 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 39%)
We are now 40% of the way through Fall 2025 law school admissions season. The number of law school applicants reported by LSAC is up 25.1% compared to last year at this time: 188 of the 196 law schools are experiencing an increase in applications. Applications are up +40% or more at 62 law schools:
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Former Assistant Dean Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Seton Hall Law School
The Setonian, Former Assistant Dean of Seton Hall Law School Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Embezzlement: The former assistant dean of Seton Hall Law School and her co-conspirators were sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 5 to three years in prison for a 13-year embezzlement scheme that defrauded the school of more than $1.3 million.