Law School Entry-Level Faculty Hiring Is Flat; FAR Applicants Are Down 17% (68% From 2011)
(TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares data and graphics from Sarah Lawsky’s (Northwestern Law) hiring report for entry level law school faculty.
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(Excess of Democracy) by Derek Muller — Professor Muller (University of Iowa Law) provides additional analysis on the latest edition of the US News law school rankings.
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(Empirical Legal Studies) by Michael Heise — Professor Heise (Cornell Law) shares a call for papers for the 2023 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies to take place at University of Chicago Law in October.
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(TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a Pace Law Review article by Stephanie Hunter McMahon (University of Cincinnati Law) that outlines different methods law schools can use teach transactional law concepts to students.
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(Georgetown Legal English Blog) by Yi Song — Adjunct Professor Song (Georgetown Law) shares the latest video in her Master of Laws Interviews project.
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(TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by several University of Maryland Carey Law professors that looks at how generative artificial intelligence platform GPT-4 performed on several law school final exams.
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares three articles reporting on the ABA legal education section’s recent decision to pause progress on their proposal to remove the admissions test requirement for law schools.
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PrawfsBlawg (by Sarah Lawsky) — Professor Lawsky (Northwestern Law) shares data and graphics comparing law school entry-level tenure-track faculty hiring trends from the past few years.
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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (by Brian Leiter) — Professor Leiter (University of Chicago Law) analyses Northwestern Law professor Sarah Lawsky’s 2023 entry-level hiring report.
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PrawfsBlawg (by Howard Wasserman) — Professor Wasserman (Florida International University Law) shares thoughts on viewpoint diversity in law faculty blogs and asks readers if ‘PrawfsBlawg’ meets the ideal of civil political discourse.
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