
Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Legal Education: New York Times, Tenured Columbia Law Professor Says She Was Pushed To Retire Because Of Her Pro-Palestine Activism Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), Yale Law School's ‘Tiger Mom’ Roars Back Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup ABA Journal, What Do We Really Know About The 19 Online Law Schools? Michael Smith
Legal Education: New York Times, Tenured Columbia Law Professor Says She Was Pushed To Retire Because Of Her Pro-Palestine Activism Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), Yale Law School's ‘Tiger Mom’ Roars Back Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup ABA Journal, What Do We Really Know About The 19 Online Law Schools? Michael Smith
Legal Education: Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Scholarship Of 2024 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 50% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 24% (Black Applicants Are Up 36%) Jonathan Skrmetti et al., 21 State AGs Rebuke ABA For Walking Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity
Legal Education: Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Scholarship Of 2024 Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 50% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 24% (Black Applicants Are Up 36%) Jonathan Skrmetti et al., 21 State AGs Rebuke ABA For Walking Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity
Legal Education: Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), Rankings Without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach to Evaluating Law Schools Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation And The NextGen Bar Open Opportunities For Law Student And Law School Success David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the
Legal Education: Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), Rankings Without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach to Evaluating Law Schools Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation And The NextGen Bar Open Opportunities For Law Student And Law School Success David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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