ABA Journal, Another Law School Dinged on Diversity Standard Regarding Faculty and Staff ABA Journal, Which Law Schools Are Choosiest? Washington University Is In Top Five, While Yale Is Mostly No. 1 AALS, Symposium on Continuing Legal Education and the Professional Education of Lawyers Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina), Democratizing Administrative Law…

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ABA Journal, Legal Ed Will Consider Increasing Distance Ed Credits ABA Journal, Legal Ed Will Resubmit Proposed Elimination of Admissions-Test Standard Raymond Brescia (Albany), Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence Mary Lu Bilek (CUNY) & Deborah Merritt (Ohio State): Bloomberg Law Op-Ed, ChatGPT Almost Passed the Bar, But Competent…

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Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School Dinner With President Bush Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 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 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Connecticut And Pittsburgh, 42 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings…

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W. David Ball (Santa Clara) & Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara), The Case Against Commercial Casebooks Bloomberg Law, Law School’s Covering of Slavery Murals Probed by 2nd Cir. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), With Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Tulane, And Creighton, 40 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings David Lat (Boston Globe Op-Ed),  Big Law’s Cancel Culture…

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ABA Journal, US News Extends Rankings Survey Deadline; Which Law Schools Will File? Benjamin Alarie (Toronto; CEO, Blue J Legal), The Rise of the Robotic Tax Analyst Lolita Buckner Inniss (Dean, Colorado), Should I Stay or Should I Go? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2022 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),…

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Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Law Announces Top 10 Law School Innovators Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Resources For Authors Submitting Law Review Articles In The Spring 2023 Cycle Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Summary Of Changes To The Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Maryland, USF, And South Texas, 28 Schools Are Now Boycotting…

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Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Charter School Case Quoted in Wall Street Journal Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Scorecard Daily Montanan, University of Montana Names Law School Dean Finalists Patrick Gaughan (Akron), The Global Benefits of the Law & Economics Framework in…

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ABA Journal, Top 10 Legal News Stories Of 2022 Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC-Irvine) & Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice Josh Blackman (South Texas), Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -4%, With Biggest Decline (-9%) In…

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Best Legal Education Articles of 2022 William Carney (Emory), Curricular Change In Legal Education Harmony Decosimo (Suffolk), Taxonomizing Professional Identity Formation: The Soul of Legal Education Neil Hamilton (St Thomas) & Louis Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals (Cambridge University Press 2022) Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas)…

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ABA Journal, Law Students and Professor Who Oppose Same-Sex Marriage Settle Speech Case With School ABA Journal, 3 Law Schools Dinged For Low Bar Pass Rates ABA Website Updates Data on Fall 2022 Law School Admissions, Tuition and Other Matters (overview) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Holiday Message From Dean Paul Caron Paul Caron (Dean,…

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Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Catherine Bramble (BYU), Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity in the Law School Classroom Bloomberg Law Op-Ed:  U.S. News Ranking Protest Is a Chance to Rethink Legal Education Campbell University News, Campbell Law School Withdraws From U.S. News Best Law Schools Ranking Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions…

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Bloomberg Law, Law School Boycott of U.S. News Ranking Is a Big Nothing Burger Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Impact Of The U.S. News Rankings Boycott On Individual Law Schools Chronicle of Higher Education, A Rankings Revolution? Hardly. Drake Law Review, Legal Education Symposium E. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Legal Reasoning for Paralegals: The…

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AALS, UC Davis Dean Kevin R. Johnson Awarded Inaugural Olivas Award from Five AALS Sections Nicholas Allard (Founding Dean, Jacksonville Law School), Law Schools Are Right To Steer Clear Of US News Rankings Chronicle of Higher Education, Can We Finally Topple The Tyranny of Rankings? The Daily Caller, Dropping The LSAT Requirement For Law School…

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ABA Journal, More top law schools boycott US News rankings, but some lower-ranked institutions are reluctant to withdraw ABA Press Release, ABA Panel Takes First Step to Revise the Requirement for Law School Admission Tests Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  One-Third Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -7.5%,…

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Josh Blackman (South Texas), Judge Ho Boycotts Yale. Yale Boycotts U.S. News Rankings Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Fundraising After Our Naming Gift Chronicle of Philanthropy, Renaming Calif.’s Hastings Law School Sparks $1.7 Billion Legal Fight That Shows How Hard It Is to Ditch Donors’ Names Decision to Withdraw from the U.S. News…

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California Bar, July 2022 Bar Exam Pass Rate For First-Time Takers From ABA-Accredited In-State Law Schools Falls Eight Percentage Points Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -11%, With Biggest Decline (-21%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Premier League And Championship…

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AL.com, Samford University Denies Student Application to Form LGBTQ Group James Allen (Queensland), A Law School Lacked and Lost Josh Blackman (South Texas), Justice Kagan Asks About Racial Preferences For Law Clerk Hiring Elizabeth Bloom (Northwestern), Book Review of Improving Student Learning in the Doctrinal Law School Classroom: Skills and Assessment Lee Bollinger (President, Columbia)…

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Bridget Crawford (Pace), Tax Prof Twitter Census (2022-23 Edition) Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto; Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed), No, Berkeley Isn’t Discriminating Against Jews Kris Franklin (New York Law School), Meditations on Teaching What Isn't William Hubbard (Dean, South Carolina), Building the Next Generation of Rule of Law Leaders Inside Higher Ed, Yale Law…

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Bloomberg Law, Law School Shredding of Bias Probe Notes to be Shared With Jury Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Law Prof Bemoans His Experience Publishing An Article In The Iowa Law Review Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions, U.S. News Rankings, And 'Splitters' Christine Charnosky (Law.com), Ahead of the Curve: Exploring Recent Law School Diversity…

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Scott Altman (USC), Using Cancel Culture’s Tools to Dismantle Cancel Culture? David Bernstein (George Mason), Berkeley Law's "Jew-Free Zone" Controversy David Bernstein (George Mason), Some Berkeley Law "Jew Free Zone" Updates Bloomberg Law, Tweedy Law School Deans Break Out Calculators Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 14% Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions…

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