Legal Education: Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), The Impact Of The One Big Beautiful Bill's Federal Student Loan Limits On Law Schools Business Insider, Law.com & Derek Muller (Notre Dame), More On The Impact Of The New Federal Student Loan Limits On Law School ABA Journal, Partner At 300+ Lawyer Firm Overcame Poor Fall…

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Legal Education: Joshua Kastenberg (New Mexico), Will Federal Judge Who Gave Award To Racist Paper As University Of Florida Adjunct Professor Need To Recuse Himself In Certain Future Cases? America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Prof Obtains ‘Full Reinstatement And Complete Vindication’ In Settlement With University NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High:…

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Legal Education: New York Times, Turmoil At University Of Florida Law School After Adjunct Professor Federal Judge Gives Book Award To White Nationalist Antisemitic Student For His Racist Paper Merritt McAlister (Interim Dean, Florida), Response To New York Times Article Reuters, ABA Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Its Race-Based Law School Scholarship Program Derek…

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Legal Education: Symposium, Texas And The Future Of Legal Education Barry Currier, Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern) & Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), The ABA And Law School Accreditation NPR, Law Clerks Describe Toxic Work Culture In Some Federal Judges’ Chambers Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Rejects 85% Of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Including Article By Asian-American…

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Legal Education: Chronicle of Higher Education, UC-Berkeley Faculty Ask: Do Trump And His Allies Have A Point About Higher Education? Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Retaliates Against Former Editor Working In Trump Administration Who Alleged Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination Wall Street Journal, Jeopardy! Champion Skips LSAT For Dream Job For Young Men: Stay-At-Home-Son…

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Legal Education: Reuters, Trump’s International Student Ban Would Decimate Harvard Law School's 1-Year LL.M. Program ($81,760 Tuition Generates $11 Million/Year) Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), & Donald Gifford (Maryland) et al., AI Gets Its First Law School A+s (And An A In Tax) New York Times, Inside Trump’s Attack On The Harvard Law Review Wall Street Journal,…

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Legal Education: New York Magazine, Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. What Happens When They Get To Law School? Jeff Sovern (Maryland), What Could A Hostile Federal Government Do To Law Schools? Wall Street Journal, The Solution To Cheating On Exams With ChatGPT Is Painfully Old-School: Blue Books Samantha A. Moppett (Suffolk), Preparing Law…

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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Projected 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall New York Times, 89-Year Old Retired Florida Professor Left Bulk Of Her $2.8 Million Estate To 31 Former Students Adam Bonica (Stanford), Adam Chilton (Chicago), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Maya Sen (Harvard), Law Professors Have Become More Liberal, But They Also…

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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview of the 2026-2027 U.S. News Law School Rankings:  First-Time Bar Passage Ultimate Bar Passage Employment The Intercept, NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests Or Be Barred From Final Exams The Recorder, California Supreme Court Lowers Passing Score on February Bar Exam, Orders Return to Multistate Exam in July…

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Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By First-Time Bar Passage Rate (2024) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2022) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By 10-Month Employment Rate (2024) Washington Free Beacon (Aaron Sibarium), Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination At Harvard Law Review Los…

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Legal Education: U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings Legal Writing Trial Advocacy Omnibus Specialty Rankings Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings Los Angeles Times, California Bar Allowed Non-Lawyers To Use AI To Draft February Exam Questions, Will Ask Supreme Court To Lower Cut…

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Legal Education:  U.S. News, 2025-26 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings) Donald Tobin (Maryland), XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase) Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings Business Law Clinical Training Tax Law Wall Street Journal, Students At…

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Legal Education:  Reuters, 2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low Josh Blackman (South Texas), Harvard Law School v. Vermeule Yale Daily News, Yale Law School Terminates Scholar Amid Terrorist Link Allegations, Refusal To Cooperate, And Pressure From Trump Administration Reuters, Closure Of U.S. Department Of Education Imperils Law School Finances, Deans Say Jonathan…

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Legal Education:  Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law School Admissions Practices Continue To Look At The LSAT Like It's 2005 ABA Section of Legal Education, St. Thomas Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard The Atlantic, The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants To Stop Arresting People For Domestic Violence John Bliss (Denver), Teaching…

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Legal Education:  Bloomberg Law, California Bar Recommends Provisional Licensure For All Who Failed And Withdrew From The February Bar Exam The Recorder, California Bar Blocked Law School Deans And Professors From Vetting Troubled Bar Exam Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 80% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 20% (Black Applicants Are…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings ABA Journal, Attorney General Bondi Threatens ABA If It Does Not Eliminate DEI Law School Accreditation Standard Bloomberg Op-Ed (Stephen Carter (Yale)), Legal Experts Agree: Georgetown Law Dean Gave Master Class On How To Fight Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade Press Release, New ABA Bar…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources ABA Journal, The California Bar Exam Fiasco: Is Provisional…

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Legal Education:  Reuters, February California Bar Exam Is In Disarray; Refunds Offered To All 5,600-Test Takers Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Does The FTC's ABA Ban Portend Revocation Of Its Law School Accreditation Power? Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of…

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