Stanford Law dean Jenny Martinez named provost of Stanford University
STANFORD REPORT — Jenny S. Martinez, dean of Stanford Law School and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law, has been named Stanford’s 14th provost, incoming President Richard Saller announced today.
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THE QUINNIPIAC CHRONICLE — Jennifer Brown, dean of the Quinnipiac University School of Law, is slated to step down next June, Provost Debra Liebowitz announced in a university-wide email Wednesday morning.
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CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — The Charleston Southern University Board of Trustees unanimously approved and announced the appointment of B. Keith Faulkner, JD, LLM, MBA, as CSU’s fourth president. Faulkner, a 1998 Charleston Southern alumnus, will begin in early October 2023.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Bar exams moved online during the pandemic, fueling attention to issues under discussion, such as widely varying bar pass rates from state to state, and large costs to graduates of prep courses needed even after three years of law school.
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ABA JOURNAL — The national mean scaled score for the July 2023 Multistate Bar Examination, which consists of 200 multiple-choice questions, is 140.5, the National Conference of Bar Examiners announced Thursday.
Read More about July bar exam multiple choice scores see slight increaseUS Department of Education settles with five law schools over financial aid violations
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The U.S. Department of Education has settled with five free-standing law schools after an investigation showed that those institutions “improperly disbursed” federal financial aid to students enrolled in unaccredited master of laws programs.
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THE ASPEN LEADING EDGE PODCAST — The Aspen Leading Edge Podcast features timely interviews with Aspen Authors as well as other legal thought-leaders sharing expert opinions on teaching, learning science, and the current and future state of legal education.
Read More about Podcast: How law schools can support lawyer mental health and emotional intelligenceNew law schools open across the US with smaller classes than anticipated
REUTERS — The nation’s newest law school kicked off classes on Monday in Delaware with 20 inaugural students — fewer than a third of the 65 students Wilmington University School of Law officials initially planned to enroll.
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REUTERS — Among the 38,000 or so first-year law students nationwide who are kicking off their studies this month are 51 who didn’t quite make the cut when they applied two years ago.
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ABA JOURNAL — It’s time for The Modern Law Library‘s summer recommendations episode, in which host Lee Rawles shares her pop culture picks with you, plus a re-airing of one of our older episodes with current relevance.
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