Opinion: Law school rankings create “trickle down” effect in admissions
FORBES – Law professors love to hate on the U.S. News law school rankings. Lower-ranked schools in particular find it very difficult competing for an important segment of applicants who are intent on simply going to the highest ranked school possible. But these rankings may have been responsible for keeping dozens of lower and unranked…
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BLOOMBERG BNA – At a panel titled “Preparing Professionals: Higher Education’s Responses to the Demands of a Global Marketplace,” panelists, most of whom had discussed the future of the law school model, the need — and best ways — to innovate, and whether schools should be business-oriented in the first place.
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BLOOMBERG BNA – “[A]t the American Association of Law Schools’ annual meeting in New York, the AALS’s Section for the Law School Dean hosted a panel on law school rankings.”
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – Speaking to a crowd of law professors at a conference in Manhattan of the Association of American Law Schools, Justice Breyer said he believes the purpose and consequence of a decision are just as valid as considering the history, tradition and precedent underlying a case.
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UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAM & MARY – William & Mary Law School Professor Paul Marcus was selected as president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) on Jan. 9 during the association’s annual meeting in New York.
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UW TODAY – Kellye Y. Testy, dean of the University of Washington’s law school, will give her inaugural address as president of the Association of American Law Schools tomorrow night in Washington, D.C.
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ORANGE COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL – University of California-Irvine School of Law was admitted to the American Association of Law Schools. Membership in the 116-year-old group requires screening and a vote by the association.
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DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Duquesne University has appointed Nancy Perkins interim dean of its School of Law, confirmed Kenneth Gormley, law school dean who will become Duquesne’s president on July 1. She is the first woman to lead the school in its 105-year history, Gormley said via email.
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THE DES MOINES REGISTER – University officials announced Friday that Jerry Anderson, the Richard M. and Anita Calkins Distinguished Professor of Law, will be dean of Drake University Law School, effective July 1. Anderson succeeds Ben Ullem, who is currently serving a two-year term as dean.
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CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS – Case Western Reserve University School of Law launched a new video podcast series and speakers bureau in an effort to make its faculty expertise available to a wider audience.
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