2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low
TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares news that the February multistate bar exam pass rate has fallen to an all-time low.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (by Erica Sylvia) — Professor Sylvia (UMass Law) offers advice on transitioning from law school to studying for the bar exam.
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Legal Skills Prof Blog (by Scott Fruehwald) — The author shares a Mitchell Hamline Law Review article by Samantha A. Moppett (Suffolk Law) on how to prepare students for the use of artificial intelligence in the legal profession.
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Legal Skills Prof Blog (by Scott Fruehwald) — The author shares a Fordham Law Review article by Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn Law) discussing how law professors can maintain scholarly integrity as innovations like artificial intelligence make it easier to cheat on assignments.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by Andrew Blair-Stanek (University of Maryland Law) and Benjamin Van Durme (Johns Hopkins University) that analyzes how language learning models are unable to create consistent answers to legal questions.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by multiple authors examining two new artificial intelligence innovations that could be used by lawyers.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Minnesota Law Review article by multiple authors that studies the effect of artificial intelligence assistance on human legal analysis.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (by Marsha Griggs) — Professor Griggs (Saint Louis University Law) discusses how academic support professionals are helping law schools prepare for the NextGen Bar Exam.
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MSNBC — In spring 2024, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that found a government official could not use her position to punish a disfavored political organization by going after the third parties that did business with it.
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Excess of Democracy (by Derek Muller) — Professor Muller (Notre Dame Law) argues that the method law schools use to evaluate LSAT scores in has not been updated despite changes to the exam over the past two decades. The author suggests that law schools should think more creatively about how to use LSAT scores in order…
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