Andrew Blair-Stanek, Patricia Campbell, Donald Gifford, Guha Krishnamurthi, Robert Percival, Jeff Sovern, Maureen Sweeney, Donald Tobin & Liza Vertinsky (Maryland), GPT Gets Its First Law School B+ Grades Courthouse News Service, Students And Alumni Association Sue Golden Gate For Closing Its JD Program Katya Cronin (George Washington), The Intentional Pursuit of Purpose: Nurturing Students’ Authentic Motivation…

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ABA Journal, Generative AI Already Is Making an Impact on Legal Research and Writing ABA Journal, These Four Law School Graduates Had Their Student Loan Balances Forgiven Under The Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Steven Calabresi (Northwestern), Donald Trump is the Victim of Selective Prosecution Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions…

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ABA Journal, ABA Approves Several Accreditation Standards Changes ABA Journal, Law Prof Presses Male Sex-Bias Allegations in New Suit After Federal Judge Tosses His Title IX Claim Bloomberg, Harvard Faces New Threat Of State Tax On Its $51 Billion Endowment Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2024-25 Edition) Columbia Spectator & Washington Free Beacon,…

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ABA Journal, Head of the Class: Law Schools Consider Post-ChatGPT Coursework ABA Tax Section, Applications Are Open For Two ABA Tax Section Fellowships America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Professor Sues University, Claims He Was Fired For Opposing DEI Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2023 Inside Edition,…

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ABA Journal, Half of Law Schools Worry About Creating Diverse Student Body, New Kaplan Study Says ABA Section on Legal Education, ABA Seeks Comments On Proposal To Allow Accreditation Of Fully Online Law Schools AccessLex, “If You’re On Time, You’re Late”: Law School Application Timing Among Historically Underrepresented Applicants AccessLex Institute, 2023 Legal Education Data…

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American Lawyer, Law Students Sue Harvard, A 'Bastion Of Antisemitism' Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Civility as Morally Justified Oppression Boise Dev, Three LGBTQ Students File Discrimination Lawsuit Against Idaho Law School Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh (St. Mary's), The Next Generation Professional: An Opportunity to Reframe Legal Education to Center Student Wellness Jeremy Fogel (Berkeley Judicial Institute), Mary…

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Bloomberg Law, Sturm Law School Trial Advocacy Director Loses His Title IX Suit Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Hosts Junior Tax Scholars Writing Retreat Annette Clark (Dean Emerita, Seattle), “What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle University William Jacobson (Cornell), SUNY Buffalo…

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ABA Journal, Profs Trade Notes as Law Schools Write Generative AI Policies Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +3.3%, With Biggest Decline (-4.3%) In The 170-180 LSAT Band Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Please Join Us: Pepperdine Caruso Law AALS Reception (Friday, Jan. 5) Paul Caron (Dean,…

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ABA, ABA Website Updates Data on Fall 2023 Law School Admissions, Tuition and Other Matters ABA Journal, NextGen Bar Exam Is Gaining Steam The Atlantic:  The Moral Decline of Elite Universities, by Ben Sasse (President, University of Florida) Raymond Brescia (Albany), Teaching To The Tech: Law Schools And The Duty Of Technology Competence California Bar,…

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ABA Journal, UIC Law Prof Appeals After Dismissal of Civil Rights Lawsuit ABA Journal, SCOTUS Decision Not Dissuading Students of Color From Applying to Law School, New LSAC Data Shows Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40% Through Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +2.9%, With Biggest Decline (-5.2%) In The 170-180 LSAT Band…

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ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Golden Gate University School of Law Teach-Out Plan ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Finding Of Significant Noncompliance With Standard 202, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), Nils Holzenberger…

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Bloomberg Law, UC Berkeley, Law School Sued Over ‘Unchecked’ Antisemitism David Brooks (New York Times Op-Ed), Universities Are Failing at Inclusion Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $240k for 1st Years, $550k For 8th Years Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Kristin Hickman Will Not Join The Texas Faculty In January 2024 And Will Remain…

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ABA Journal, Columbia Law Prof Banned From 2 Depositions After Allegations of Verbal Abuse, Intimidating Presence David Bernstein (George Mason), Racial Classification in Higher Education Admissions Before and after SFFA Eric Boos (Idaho), Moral Imperative—Legal Requirement: Why Law Schools Should Require Poverty Law and International Human Rights California Bar, Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls To 51.5%,…

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Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2023-24 Edition) Deseret News, Part of BYU Law’s 50-Year Story Is Giving Young Lawyers Courage to be Religious in Their Profession John Inazu (Washington University), Learning From Failure  Inside Higher Ed, AI Med School Rankings Tool Offers Alternative to Traditional Metrics Los Angeles Times Op-Ed:  Nothing…

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Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Could Yale's Hiring Of Princeton's Keith Whittington Signal A Shift In Legal Ed's Alleged Hostility Toward Conservative Professors? William Hubbard (Dean, South Carolina): TaxProf Blog op-ed, Stalled U.S. Rule of Law Recovery Demands Systemic Change Law360, Ex-Rutgers Law Fundraising Exec Drops Equal Pay Suit Law.com, Mitchell Hamline Law Professor Resigns, Claiming…

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Stephen Carter (Yale), Is Silence on Israel Support for Hamas? Harvard, NYU Critics Say Yes Federalist Society, Cultivating Controversy: Proposed ABA Standard Would Link Freedom of Expression to Law School Accreditation Florida Politics, Dan Markel Murder Case Sees Several Big Developments This Week John Inazu (Washington University), The Pitfalls and Perils of Faculty Hiring Orin…

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ABA Journal, Winston & Strawn Rescinds NYU Law Student's Job Offer Over 'Inflammatory' Israel Comments Benjamin Barton (Tennessee), The Case For (and Against) ABA Regulation of Non-J.D. Programs Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Should Law Schools Weigh In On Political Matters? Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), A Taxonomy of Professional Identity Formation Brian Frye (Kentucky), Should Using an…

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David Bernstein (George Mason), Students for Fair Admissions and the End of Racial Classification as We Know It Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), After Adding Graduate Debt And Salaries, And Faculty Research, To Its College Rankings, Will U.S. News Overhaul The Law School Rankings Methodology Yet Again? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Parable Of The Prodigal…

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Michigan Supreme Court, Amendment of Rule 1.109 of the Michigan Court Rules Press Release, Maryland Carey Law Launches Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law Press Release, Southwestern Law School Launches First-of-Its-Kind Online J.D. Program The Recorder, State Bar Raises Cost of Bar Exam, Fees for Out-of-State Lawyers Reuters, California Could Be Next State to…

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ABA Journal, New law school targeting part-time students planned for Charlotte, North Carolina Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2023 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 9th Year In A Row Robert Kuehn (Washington University), David A. Santacroce (Michigan), Margaret Reuter (UMKC), June T. Tai (Iowa) & G.S. Hans (Cornell), 2022-23 Survey of…

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Bloomberg Businessweek, How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Elite Parents Enabled His Crypto Empire Steven Boutcher (Law & Society), Jason Houle (Dartmouth), Anna Raup-Kounovksy (Penn State) & Carroll Seron (UC-Irvine), A Faustian Bargain? Rethinking the Role of Debt in Law Students' Career Choices Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Shane Claiborne At Pepperdine Caruso Law: 'We Belong And Pursue Truth As…

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ABA Journal, If Law Schools Prohibit ChatGPT in Writing, Can They Back It Up? Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis), Is Higher Education Spending Excessive? In Some Ways Maybe Yes, in Others Perhaps Not Nicola Boothe (Dean, Illinois-Chicago), Black and BarRed: The Bar Examination's History of Exclusivity and the Threat of Further Exclusion Posed by ABA Standard 316…

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