Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Aaron Taylor, AccessLex), The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision Has Caused An Unprecedented Shift In Law School Admissions Inside Higher Ed, As Trump's DEI Crackdown Escalates, Law Faculty Choose Between Silence And Resistance Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), The Top 100 Legal Scholars Of 2024…

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Legal Education:  MPR News, Minnesota Law School Cancels Search For Assistant Dean Of DEI Due To Trump's Executive Order Honolulu Civil Beat, FIRE Blasts University Of Hawaii For Censoring Law Prof's PowerPoint Presentation New Orleans Times-Picayune, Appeals Court Blocks Order Requiring LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Who ‘Used Vulgar Language To Criticize Gov. Landry And…

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Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education, Trump Targets 131 Colleges (74 With Law Schools) With Endowments Over $1 Billion For Possible DEI Investigations WAFB, Tenured Law Prof Sues LSU For Removing Him From Teaching After Allegedly Saying ‘F*** Trump’ In Class Reuters, Trump’s Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands Of Law Students (And Some Law Schools’ Employment…

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Legal Education:  ABA Journal, Stanford Law Prof Fires Meta As Client, Citing Platform's ‘Descent Into Toxic Masculinity’ Louisiana Illuminator, LSU Law Prof Removed From Classes Amid Investigation Into Political Comments Wall Street Journal, 23% Of Harvard MBAs Are Struggling To Land Jobs Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Steven Lubet, Northwestern), No, Columbia Did Not Fire…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools Nathan Fleming (Wake Forest), After Affirmative Action: Contextual Admissions and the Future of African American Law School Enrollment Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God Houston Law Review Symposium,…

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Legal Education:  Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings New York Times, Black Student Enrollment At Harvard Law Drops By More Than Half Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God The Atlantic, The Two-Body Problem: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education National Law Journal, Attorneys, Law Professors Flock From X To…

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Legal Education:  Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman), First-Gen In The Field Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up An ‘Unnatural’ 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 39%) The Setonian, Former Assistant Dean Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Seton Hall Law School Grand…

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Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Peter Arcidiacono (Duke) & Tyler Ransom (Oklahoma)), Are Elite Colleges (And Law Schools) Circumventing The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision? AALS, The American Law School Faculty Study InspireMore, Students Pull Wholesome Prank On Law Prof On Last Day Of Class Reuters, California Bar Will Consider Campus Protests In Moral…

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Legal Education:  Above the Law, BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $251k For 1st Years, $575k For 8th Years Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Breaking The Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring And Portability For NextGen Examinees Washington Post, After Outcry, Georgetown Law School Says Student Due To Give Birth Soon Can Defer Final…

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Legal Education:  New York Times, Did Ben Sasse Resign As UF President Because Of U.S. News Rankings Decline Of University And Law School? New York Times Op-Ed (David W. Blight), Universities Like Yale Need A Reckoning Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation and the NextGen Bar Open Opportunities for Law Student and Law School…

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Legal Education:  Chronicle of Higher Education, Cheating Has Become Normal. What Can Faculty Do? New York Times, Professors Are Uniquely Powerful. That May Be Is Changing. Chronicle of Higher Education, What Professors Actually Earn Thomas Telfer & Emily Nielsen (Western University) et al., The Impact Of Mindfulness Education On Law Students Michael Madison (Pittsburgh), The…

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Legal Education:  Vanity Fair, What JD And Usha Vance Learned From Their ‘Tiger Mom’ At Yale Law School Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pittsburgh), Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems The Atlantic, What Law Schools Can Learn From Medical Schools: Tuition-Free: No. Two-Year JD: Yes. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Alex Morey), Defending Academic Freedom Means…

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Legal Education:  Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Recent Trends In Law School Lateral Hiring, 2019-2024 Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Richard Amesbury (Arizona State) & Catherine O'Donnell (Arizona State)), Stop Defending Amy Wax: Academic Freedom Doesn’t Authorize Unprofessional Conduct American Enterprise Institute, College President Rankings Kris Franklin (New York Law School) & Catherine Martin Christopher (Texas…

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Legal Education:  Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 15% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 45%) Wall Street Journal, Suspended Penn Law Professor Says She Has No Regrets Bloomberg Law, Law Firm Drops Columbia Law Prof As Client Over Israel-Gaza Speech Bloomberg Law, Conservative Federal Judge Urges…

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Legal Education:  NY Times, The University Of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? Amy Levin (Loyola-L.A.), Law Students Aren’t Alright California Supreme Court, No Alternative Path To Attorney Licensure; Bar Exam May Test CA Law On All Subjects (Not Just CivPro & Evidence) Virginia State Bar, July 2024 Bar Exam Results: Liberty Is…

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Legal Education:  New York Times Op-Ed (John McWhorter), Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished. George Mason University News, Statement On Scalia Law School Finances: ‘Most Law Schools Would Run Deficits If They Relied Only On JD Revenue’ The Recorder, California Bar Examiners Endorse Switch To Kaplan Exam; Ball Is Back In…

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Legal Education:  Jewish News of Northern California, Protesters Force UC-Berkeley FedSoc Event On Judicial Reform in Israel To Shift Online; Dean Chemerinsky To Pursue Disciplinary Action Against Disruptive Students ABA, Guidance Memo On Standard 208: Academic Freedom And Freedom Of Expression Law360, King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit By Straight, White Female Over Summer Associate…

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Legal Education:  New York Times, Penn Law Suspends Tenured Prof Amy Wax For One-Year With Half-Pay For Making Racist Remarks Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), How Penn Law Tried To Buy Amy Wax’s Silence Jewish News of Northern California, UC-Berkeley Law Prof Targeted As ‘Zionist McCarthyist’ Outside Of His Antisemitism Course Law360, George Mason Law…

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Legal Education:  Inside Higher Ed, Female Law Deans, Faculty, And Students Across The Country Are Getting Unsettling Texts Judicial Council for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 11th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks Chronicle of Higher Education, These 90-Something Professors Are…

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