Following up on my previous posts (links below):  New York Times, A New Name for California’s Oldest Law School? It’s Not Easy.: When a New York Times article last year detailed the involvement of the founder of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in state-sponsored massacres of Indigenous Californians, an outcry ensued.…

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Law.com, LSAC Announces Pilot Program That May Allow Students to Apply to Law School Without an Admissions Test: The Law School Admission Council announced today an initiative that aims to offer undergraduate students a new, holistic pathway to law school. LSAC’s new Legal Education Program is intended to help students develop the skills necessary for…

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Update: David Lat, Is Free Speech in American Law Schools a Lost Cause? (Mar. 18, 2022) Derek Muller (Iowa), Federal Judges Have Already Begun To Drift Away From Hiring Yale Law Clerks (Mar. 21, 2022) Wall Street Journal & David Lat, The Right And Left Agree: It Is Time For Yale Law School To Stand Up…

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ABA Journal, Is Interest in Law School Waning? ‘This Year Is Not Going To Be As Red-Hot Off the Charts’ ABA Journal, Yale Law Grad, a ‘Survivor’ Contestant, Says Career Can’t Rule Out ‘Lifelong Dreams That You’ve Had For Decades’ Above the Law, ‘Any Lawyers In The Room? Wait, Why Is Your Hand Up?’ Above…

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Following up on my previous post, Duke Law School Kerfuffle Over Publication Of Article In Symposium On Sex In The Law (more here):  Chronicle of Higher Education, The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt: Kathleen Stock’s essay in the latest issue of Law and Contemporary Problems was controversial before she even wrote it. Last summer eight student editors resigned from the…

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Boston Globe, Black Law Student Says Rhode Island Deputy Mistook Her For a Defendant: A Black student at the Roger Williams University School of Law says a white sheriff’s deputy mistook her for a defendant when she tried to enter a courtroom to represent a client as part of the school’s criminal defense clinic. Third-year…

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Inside Higher Ed, Appeals Court Revives COVID Lawsuits Against American, George Washington Universities: Two separate lawsuits against American University and George Washington University have new life after an appeals court revived cases that allege both institutions violated contractual obligations to students when they shifted to online instruction in early 2020 at the onset of the…

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Florida Politics, Florida Grandparents Score Major Win, With Assist From Johnston & Stewart: The issue: expanding the rights of Florida grandparents to connect with their grandchildren following tragedy — an effort inspired by the 2014 murder of FSU law professor Dan Markel that left his two young children estranged from his grieving parents, even after his ex-wife Wendi…

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Steven Zhou (PhD Student in Organizational Psychology, George Mason), The Academic Bait-And-Switch: Do Professors Make Good Administrators?: Academics sometimes have a bit of an unfortunate reputation of being big picture thinkers, with our heads in the clouds (or ivory tower) and disconnected from the realities of everyday life. … Why, then, do we expect people…

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Greensboro News & Record, High Point University Announces Plans for Law School, Three Other Schools Greensboro News & Record, HPU Announces Law School, Other Programs HPU Blog, Three Families Give HPU $100 Million Winston-Salem Journal, New Law School at High Point University Could Open As Early As 2024, President Says WXII, High Point University Announces…

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Inside Higher Ed, Mizzou Defends President's Right to Cut Faculty Pay 25%: In the COVID-19–induced chaos of spring 2020, the University of Missouri system quietly added a section to its rules and regulations that allows for individual tenured faculty salaries to be cut by up to 25 percent. This could be for productivity, enrollment or…

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Texas A&M Law School is hosting a free Pop-Up Class on The Situation in Ukraine at noon CT (Zoom link): Professors Charlotte Ku and Cynthia Alkon will address this timely topic from the perspective of International Law, human rights concerns, and experiences living and working in the region (Poland and Belarus) for several years. Background…

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Bloomberg Law, Location Tops the List for Law School Decision Factors: Location, Location, Location. A recent Bloomberg Law survey revealed location to be the most-considered factor in the law school decision process, besting several others, including ranking, tuition, financial aid, university prestige, and campus culture.

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New York Times Op-Ed:  I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead., by Emma Camp: I went to college to learn from my professors and peers. I welcomed an environment that champions intellectual diversity and rigorous disagreement. Instead, my college experience has been defined by strict ideological conformity. Students of all political…

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ABA Journal, Former Chapman Law Prof Who Wrote 'Coup Memo' Faces Ethics Probe, State Bar Confirms Above the Law, Is This The Future Of Law School?  Above the Law, Law School 2Ls Are Sitting Pretty Above the Law, Outlining Crisis in Law Schools Above the Law, To Do Good Or Be Paid Well? Above the…

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Following up on Saturday's post, Cravath Fires Latest Shot In Salary War: $400,000 For 7th Year Associates:  Legal Evolution, #BadData, Part II: As the War for Talent Rages On, Let the Sorting Begin: Cravath & Davis Polk associates are raking it in, and everyone’s got an opinion. Here’s some data to explain how & why…

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Law.com, Cravath Tops Davis Polk Salary Scale for 4th Years and Above:

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Tallahassee Democrat, 'The Grief Is Like a Life Sentence': Ruth Markel, a Search For Justice and a Fight For Rights: Ruth Markel believes that closure is just a word in the dictionary. Since her son, 41-year-old Florida State law professor Dan Markel, was brutally killed in July 2014, painful words like murder and trial and…

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Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Applications for Substantive Change: The Council acquiesced in the application of Vermont Law School to establish a part-time hybrid distance education J.D. program. The Council acquiesced in the application of South Texas College of Law-Houston to establish a part-time hybrid/online J.D. program.

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University of North Texas-Dallas College of Law, College of Law Receives Full Approval From American Bar Association: The University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law (UNTD COL) has been fully approved by the American Bar Association (ABA). The College of Law received notification late Friday that the Council of the ABA’s Section of…

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Chronicle of Higher Education, Right Now, Your Best Employees Are Eyeing the Exits: To stay, they need better pay, reasonable hours, and an end to mission-based gaslighting. Two years of pandemic life have left campus staff members beyond burned out. They are done. And they are leaving or thinking about it in droves. I know…

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Following up on my previous post, ABA Finds Western New England Law School Out Of Compliance With Bar Passage Accreditation Standard:  Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Decision: Notice of Law School Demonstrating Compliance With Section 316 (Western New England University School of Law) (Feb. 2022): At its…

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