New law student enrollment jumps 12%, risking job market glut
REUTERS — The pandemic-driven surge in law school enrollment is real. The number of first-year law students nationwide increased nearly 12% this fall, according to data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association. It said there are 42,718 new Juris Doctor students at the 196 law schools accredited by the ABA, up 4,516 from 2020. That jump follows…
Read More about New law student enrollment jumps 12%, risking job market glutU.S. News to Compile Research on Law Schools’ ‘Scholarly Impact’
LAW WEEK COLORADO — U.S. News & World Report has established itself as a well known arbiter of measuring how colleges and universities stack up against each other. And now it’s in the process of developing a method for evaluating law schools based on their “scholarly impact” — how often faculty members publish scholarly articles and…
Read More about U.S. News to Compile Research on Law Schools’ ‘Scholarly Impact’Bar exam officials to offer make-up for states that can’t hold Feb. test
REUTERS — It’s too late to move the nationwide components of the February bar exam online, the National Conference of Bar Examiners said Monday. But the organization, which designs the multistate portions of the state attorney licensing exams, said it will makeup exam materials in late March should local health regulations prohibit giving the Feb. 23 and…
Read More about Bar exam officials to offer make-up for states that can’t hold Feb. testNational Conference of Bar Examiners says new bar exam is on track for 2026 at AALS Annual Meeting session
REUTERS — A five-year overhaul of the bar exam is gaining momentum, with officials close to detailing the legal knowledge and skills that the new attorney licensing test will assess. That information is due to be released within the first quarter of 2022, officials with the National Conference of Bar Examiners said Thursday during the Association of…
Read More about National Conference of Bar Examiners says new bar exam is on track for 2026 at AALS Annual Meeting sessionUniversity of Nebraska Law professor Ryan Sullivan honored by AALS for management of pro bono program
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR — University of Nebraska law professor Ryan Sullivan has been named the 2022 Access to Justice Award recipient for his work with the Tenant Assistance Project, launched in April 2020 as the state’s first moratorium on evictions was set to expire. The Association of American Law Schools’ award honors those who manage…
Read More about University of Nebraska Law professor Ryan Sullivan honored by AALS for management of pro bono programUCLA and Columbia Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw honored by AALS for lifetime achievement
THE REPOSITORY — Canton native Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University, has received the Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession from the Association of American Law Schools. The award was established in 2006 to recognize career contributions by an outstanding faculty member at a U.S. law school. Crenshaw…
Read More about UCLA and Columbia Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw honored by AALS for lifetime achievementNorthwestern Law professor Alyson Carrel honored by AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — Alyson Carrel, Harry B. Reese Teaching Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Center on Negotiation and Mediation, was awarded the 2022 Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). She was presented the award during the AALS Annual Meeting, which took…
Read More about Northwestern Law professor Alyson Carrel honored by AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal EducationRutgers Law co-dean Kimberly Mutcherson and Penn State Dickinson Law dean Danielle Conway honored by the Society of American Law Teachers
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) has awarded the M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award to the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project, a project co-created by Rutgers Law School Co-Dean Kimberly Mutcherson and others. Mutcherson shares the award with Danielle M. Conway of Penn State Dickinson Law, Danielle Holley-Walker of Howard University…
Read More about Rutgers Law co-dean Kimberly Mutcherson and Penn State Dickinson Law dean Danielle Conway honored by the Society of American Law TeachersCatholic University Law professor Veryl Miles offers advice to new law teachers at 2022 AALS Annual Meeting
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA COLUMBUS SCHOOL OF LAW — On January 7, 2022, Catholic Law Professor Veryl Miles spoke at the 2022 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting. Miles spoke at a program held by the Section on New Law Professors entitled, “The Delicate Dance: Balancing Competing Interests in Making Decisions as a…
Read More about Catholic University Law professor Veryl Miles offers advice to new law teachers at 2022 AALS Annual MeetingPepperdine Law professor Naomi Goodno presents on questions of equality related to remote learning at AALS Annual Meeting
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Naomi Harlin Goodno spoke on “Are Remote Learning Technologies Bridges or Barriers to Legal Educational Equity?” at the 2022 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting. The meeting, titled “Freedom, Equality, and the Common Good,” was held remotely on January 5-9.
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