ABC 8 News, University of Richmond Renames Law School Arkansas Democrat Gazette, UALR Law Professor Files Claim With State Claims Commission over Named Professorship Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Celebrating 50 Years Of Pepperdine's Malibu Campus Andrea Anne Curcio (Georgia State) & Alexis Martinez (Georgia Tech), Are Discipline Code Proceedings Another Example of Racial Disparities in…

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ABA Journal, 2 of Puerto Rico's 3 Law Schools Will Get More Time to Meet Bar Pass Standard Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), Where Have All the (Aspiring) Law Profs Gone? Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU), The Ethicist: Is It OK to Take a Law-Firm Job Defending Climate Villains? BC Law Magazine, Early…

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ABA Journal, Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ student club as state court review continues Rory D. Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Reexamining Relative Bar Performance as a Function of Non-Linearity, Heteroscedasticity, and a New Independent Variable Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), September 11th At Pepperdine…

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ABA, Over 100 Comments Submitted On Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional ABA Journal, Sick of Meetings That Go Off the Rails? ‘Robert’s Rules of Order’ Can Help ABA Journal, Which Law Schools Have the Highest Percent of Full-Tuition Scholarships? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition) Paul Caron…

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ABA Journal,  Ballooning student loans become an albatross; ex-NYU law student, 91, owes $329K on initial $29K loan Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning While Stuttering Stephen Carter (Yale), That Online Test Just May Be Unconstitutional Joseph Castro (J.D. Pepperdine, 2022), Comment, Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence in Law School Admissions…

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ABA Journal, Fewer People Are Interested in Becoming Law Professors, New Data Shows Kevin Ashley (Pittsburgh), Teaching Law and Digital Age Legal Practice with an AI and Law Seminar: Justice, Lawyering and Legal Education in the Digital Age Chronicle of Higher Education, More Colleges Are Adding Diversity to Tenure Standards. But the Debate’s Not Settled.…

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Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Seeks To Hire A Dispute Resolution Professor Ashley Krenelka Chase ((Stetson), ed. 2021), Millennial Leadership in Law Schools: Essays on Disruption, Innovation, and the Future Greg Crespi (SMU), Pre-Publication Publications Fortune, Stanford Law School vs. Stanford Graduate School of Business—Here’s a Look at Their Paychecks David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu…

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Bloomberg, College Endowments Post Biggest Losses Since Financial Crisis Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ABA Loosens Distance Learning Accreditation Standard; Council Withdraws Diversity Proposal After Public Criticism Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index All (Google Scholar) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index Since 2017 (Google Scholar) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),…

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ABC News, Why Yale Law’s Dean Says Eliminating Tuition for Students in Need Benefits the Legal Profession: Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data Nick Burns (New York Times Op-Ed), Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2022…

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ABA Journal, ExamSoft: New Windows Laptops Won’t Work On This Week’s Bar Exams ABA Press Release, Distance Education Survey: 3L Student Quantitative Responses Bloomberg, Do You Need A Tax LL.M. To Land A Great Job Right Now? Bridget Crawford (Pace), Information for Submitting to Online Law Review Companions Bridget Crawford (Pace), Menstruation and the Bar…

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ABA Journal, Judge Dismisses Harvard Grad's Lawsuit Claiming Bar Examiners Derailed Her BigLaw Career When She Failed Bar Twice After Denial Of Disability Accommodation ABA Journal, Law Student's First Fictional Work Wins ABA Journal's 2022 Ross Writing Contest ABA Journal, Weil Takes a Different Tack By Funding 'Zero L' Public Service The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn…

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AALS, Journal Of Legal Education Publishes New Issue ABA Journal, 11% Of Law Students Had Suicidal Thoughts In 2021. What Can Law Schools Do? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Michigan Law School Hires SIXTEEN New Faculty Stephen Carter (Yale; Bloomberg Law Op-Ed), RIP to the LSAT? Let’s Kill the Bar Exam, Too Danielle Conway (Penn State-Dickinson),…

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Vivia Chen (Bloomberg Law), Killing the LSAT in the Name of Diversity Won’t Cure the Problem Danielle Conway (Dean, Penn State-Dickinson), Antiracist Lawyering in Practice Begins with the Practice of Teaching and Learning Antiracism in Law School Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), Examining the Bar Exam: An Empirical Analysis…

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Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's), Get Out: Structural Racism and Academic Terror Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, Group Files ABA Complaint Over Law School Faculty's Unanimous Adoption Of BDS Resolution Against Israel Chronicle of Higher Education, A University Is Investigating 8 Law-School Students Who Criticized a Peer After ‘Roe’ Leak Alyson Drake (Fordham)…

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Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty-Pay Survey Records the Largest One-Year Drop Ever Houston Chronicle, TSU Replaces Law School Dean After Continued Troubles, Low Bar Scores John Lande (Missouri), Introversion, the Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution Law360, Strong Rebound In Post-Pandemic Law School Graduate Hiring Law.com, So Far, Public Comments Largely Support ABA Proposal to Make Law…

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ABA Journal, Federal District Court Allows Linda Mullenix's Gender Discrimination Equal Pay Claim To Proceed Against The University Of Texas Law School Timothy Casey (California Western), Reflections on Legal Education in the Aftermath of a Pandemic Adam Chilton (Chicago), Justin Driver (Yale), Jonathan Masur (Chicago) & Kyle Rozema (Washington University), Assessing Affirmative Action's Diversity Rationale…

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AccessLex Institute & Gallup, Law School Pandemic Year 2: Student Perspectives On Distance Learning Bloomberg, Kim Clausing Leaves Treasury Department To Return To UCLA Law School Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Journey Continues … CBN News, ‘The Christian Faith Is Flourishing At Harvard Law School’ Bobby Chesney (Dean-Designate, Texas), Susan Morse Named Associate Dean For…

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Christopher Birdsall (Boise State) & Seth Gershenson (American), The Pro Bono Penalty: Extracurricular Activities and Demographic Disparities in Bar Exam Success Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pittsburgh), Survey Says—How to Engage Law Students in the Online Learning Environment Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legally Blonde Dean David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Law School To Change Its Name In…

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ABA Journal, Are More Law Schools Needed in Areas Where InfiLaw Campuses Closed? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles For The Class Of 2022 Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed:  What Is the Real Cost of Academe’s Fixation on Productivity? David Frakt (Independent), Law Schools Miss the Mark on Bar Passage – Will the…

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ABA Journal, Are more law schools needed in areas where InfiLaw campuses closed? Claudia Angelos (NYU), Mary Lu Bilek (Former Dean, CUNY, Massachusetts) & Joan Howarth (UNLV; Dean Emerita, Michigan State), The Deborah Jones Merritt Center for the Advancement of Justice Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 8th Annual Parris Awards At Pepperdine Caruso Law School Robert…

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AccessLex Institute, 2022 Legal Education Data Deck Alliance Defending Freedom, Idaho Law Students File Suit After University Punishes Them For Their Religious Beliefs Kevin Brown (Indiana) & Ken Dau-Schmidt (Indiana), Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of the Nation’s Black Law Students: An Analysis of Data From The LSSSE Survey Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine Caruso Law), The…

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Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Top 15 Law Schools For Jobs Contain Some Surprises Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service Carol Chomsky (Minnesota), Andrea Anne Curcio (Georgia State) & Eileen Kaufman (Touro), A Merritt-Orious Path for Lawyer Licensing Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Measuring The Conservative Penalty And Liberal Bonus With Updated…

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ABA, Legal Education Section Releases Employment Data for Graduating Law Class of 2021 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 90% Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 11.0%, The Most Among Whites And The Highest LSAT Bands Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget, Recent Law Grads Have Had $30,000 Of Their Student Loan…

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David Bernstein, A Remarkable Outbreak of Antisemitism at NYU Law School Bloomberg Law, Experiential Legal Education: An Antidote to Law Student Stress Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Harvard Journal Of Sports And Entertainment Law Honors…

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