Report shows increased voting from college students

October 7, 2024

THE HECHINGER REPORT — Bethany Blonder and her friends lined up at the voter information table in the student union before organizers had even finished setting it up in time for lunch.

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Opinion: Reform needed in college disability accommodations

October 7, 2024

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Disability accommodations in American higher education are skyrocketing. In the past decade, the proportion of colleges with more than 10 percent of students registered as disabled has quintupled, and accommodation requests have followed the same pattern.

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Opinion: Why graduate schools should encourage public scholarship

October 7, 2024

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Deborah J. Cohan offers seven reasons why grad schools should help students cultivate the ability to write for a larger audience.

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California Bar Examiners endorse new California Bar Exam plan

October 7, 2024

LAW.COM — A state bar committee on Monday endorsed plans to use a Kaplan-written multiple choice test on the February 2025 bar exam, paving the way for the California Supreme Court to give the proposal a fresh review.

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Study: Workplace bullying affects one in four lawyers 

October 7, 2024

REUTERS — Nearly a quarter of lawyers were victims of workplace bullying within the past year, according to a large-scale survey, opens new tab of Illinois attorneys released Tuesday.

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Harvard Law reports that enrollment of students of color dropped following US Supreme Court decision on affirmative action

October 7, 2024

REUTERS — The percentage of students of color in Harvard Law School’s new class fell to 43% from 51% in 2023, according to new data the school posted to its website, opens new tab.

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Law professors discuss how approach to teaching has changed following recent US Supreme Court decisions

October 7, 2024

BLOOMBERG LAW — After the US Supreme Court upended the Chevron doctrine this summer, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor Daniel B. Rodriguez says the ruling will likely make the topic of judicial deference more interesting, not less, in his upcoming administrative law course.

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Opinion: William & Mary Law dean A. Benjamin Spencer advises law student protesters to seek common ground

October 7, 2024

BLOOMBERG LAW — Students returning to law school this fall, and to university campuses more generally, must navigate a challenging political environment.

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University of Pennsylvania sanctions and suspends law professor Amy Wax

October 7, 2024

INSIDE HIGHER ED — In what may be the end of a years-long case over whether traditions of academic freedom protect speech that’s widely deemed racist or otherwise demeaning to students and others, a controversial law professor who has publicly declared that “our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites” is being punished.

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Podcast: University of Utah Law dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner discusses how to support Native American students

October 7, 2024

THE ASPEN LEADING EDGE — Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner, University of Utah College of Law, shares her excitement on entering her sixth year as dean.

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