AALS issues statement on efforts to ban Critical Race Theory
INSIDE HIGHER ED — We must take these dangers to our democracy seriously and combat them at local, state and national levels. Educators, parents, teachers and concerned citizens must come together to oppose these dishonest and often illegal efforts at every level. Historians, humanists and social scientists must lead by applying our knowledge to this common…
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REUTERS — Laws that ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools are setting a “dangerous precedent” by turning the government into an arbiter of ideas, according to the nation’s largest organization of legal educators.
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REUTERS — The number of people applying for admission to law school this fall surged nearly 13%, making it the largest year-over-year percentage increase since 2002, according to the latest data from the Law School Admission Council. And they were an impressive bunch. The number of people applying with LSAT scores in the highest band of 175…
Read More about Law schools see a large increase in applicantsLaw class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemic
NATIONAL JURIST — The Class of 2020 had better first-time bar exam results than the previous, non-pandemic class. It passed at an 82.83% clip, compared to the 79.64% passing rate notched by the Class of 2019, according to American Bar Association statistics.
Read More about Law class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemicAlmost 50 percent of law schools will mandate vaccines for staff and students
REUTERS — Students at nearly half of the law schools in the nation will need to provide proof that they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 if they want to set foot on campus this fall, including at all the so-called T-14 elite schools, according to a higher education publication’s list of vaccine mandates at universities and colleges.
Read More about Almost 50 percent of law schools will mandate vaccines for staff and studentsCalifornia Western Law establishes unitary tenure track policy for faculty
CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW — The California Western School of Law is pleased to announce that the faculty and Board of Trustees have voted to adopt a unitary tenure track. This change to the institution’s Faculty Bylaws creates opportunities for its clinical, Legal Skills, and other skills professors who were hired as full-time faculty to…
Read More about California Western Law establishes unitary tenure track policy for facultyOpinion: Law school enrollment growth will test the legal job market
ABOVE THE LAW — It is a hot time to be a lawyer with a little experience (at least if you have the right kind of experience). Salaries are up, and top firms are enticing laterals with perks that would have sounded comedic 10 years ago, including huge signing bonuses and indefinite work-from-home.
Read More about Opinion: Law school enrollment growth will test the legal job marketBar examiners plan return to in-person exams after July administration
REUTERS – The National Conference of Bar Examiners last month announced it does not plan to give jurisdictions the option to give the two-day attorney licensing test online again, and will return to only providing an in-person exam starting with the next test in February 2022.
Read More about Bar examiners plan return to in-person exams after July administrationLaw graduates report technical difficulties taking the remote July Bar Exam
BLOOMBERG LAW — The newest reports echo those from exams last February and October, also held remotely in response to the pandemic. Test takers then reported rejected file attachments, the deletion of online essay notes and even being kicked off the test completely because of facial recognition technology that didn’t work properly. This time around, test takers…
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Calls for eliminating bar exams to improve fairness and diversity in the legal profession are increasing, but A. Benjamin Spencer, dean of William & Mary Law School, argues that eliminating them is not the answer. They should be transformed into a more effective gauge of professional readiness, which, he contends, can be achieved…
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