University of Montana Law professor Anna Conley recognized for excellence in writing in comparative law
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA — The Association of American Law Schools recently awarded University of Montana faculty member Anna Conley the 2023 Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law. This prestigious award is given for the year’s best article on comparative law.
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YAHOO! — Professor Russell Engler, Director of Clinical Programs at New England Law | Boston, has received the 2023 Pro Bono & Public Service Opportunities Section Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).
Read More about New England Law professor Russell Engler honored by the AALS Section on Pro Bono & Public Service OpportunitiesUniversity of Virginia Law professors Douglas Laycock and Bertrall Ross honored for scholarship at 2023 AALS Annual Meeting
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professors Douglas Laycock and Bertrall Ross of the University of Virginia School of Law are being recognized by the Association of American Law Schools for their scholarship. Laycock won the remedies section’s Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, and Ross was runner-up in the election law section’s Distinguished Scholarship category.
Read More about University of Virginia Law professors Douglas Laycock and Bertrall Ross honored for scholarship at 2023 AALS Annual MeetingABA report: Law schools see decline in first-year enrollment in fall 2022
REUTERS — New U.S. law student enrollment plummeted 11% in the fall, returning to earth after a surge last year, the American Bar Association reported on Monday. The number of first-year J.D. students jumped nearly 12% in 2021, and many schools were caught off guard by larger-than-expected incoming classes.
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REUTERS — This year’s crop of new law students is the most diverse on record by a significant margin, new data from the American Bar Association show. Nearly 37% of U.S. first-year law students are racial or ethnic minorities, up from 28% a decade ago, according to an analysis of the ABA data by the Law School…
Read More about ABA report: Law schools see increase in diversity of studentsUS News shares planned changes to its law school ranking methodology
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — In recent weeks, we have had conversations with more than 100 deans and representatives of law schools – well more than half of this academic leadership group. Based on those discussions, our own research and our iterative rankings review process, we are making a series of modifications in this…
Read More about US News shares planned changes to its law school ranking methodologyABA releases fall 2022 law school admissions data
ABA — Information about fall 2022 admissions and other consumer matters reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools to the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is now available. The information is required to be made public under Standard 509 of the Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.
Read More about ABA releases fall 2022 law school admissions dataLaw professors share concerns over the AI program ChatGPT and cheating
REUTERS — The artificial intelligence program ChatGPT came up short last month on the multiple choice portion of the bar exam. Law professors are among those both alarmed and delighted by ChatGPT since its November release.
Read More about Law professors share concerns over the AI program ChatGPT and cheatingHow developments in AI could impact law school curricula
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION — The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou.
Read More about How developments in AI could impact law school curriculaFrederick G. Slabach named dean of University of Mississippi Law
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI LAW — Frederick G. Slabach has been chosen as the new dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law following a national search. Slabach will join the university July 1, pending approval by the board of trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.
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