Six Yale Law students named Skadden Fellows
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom named six Yale Law School students as 2023 Skadden Fellows. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation awarded Rubin Danberg Biggs, Raymond Fang, Michelle Fraling, Liz Jacob, Lily Novak, and Heather Zimmerman two-year fellowships to pursue the practice of public interest law full-time.
Read More about Six Yale Law students named Skadden FellowsABA legal ed section votes to end law school admissions test requirement starting in 2025; ABA House of Delegates to take up measure in February
REUTERS — The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits U.S. law schools on Friday voted to eliminate the longstanding requirement that schools use the Law School Admission Test or other standardized test when admitting students. But under a last-minute revision, the rule change will not go into effect until the fall of 2025—giving…
Read More about ABA legal ed section votes to end law school admissions test requirement starting in 2025; ABA House of Delegates to take up measure in FebruarySurvey: Many law schools will keep admissions test requirements
REUTERS — A new survey suggests that a significant number of law schools will continue to use the Law School Admission Test even if the American Bar Association, which accredits them, no longer requires it.
Read More about Survey: Many law schools will keep admissions test requirementsOpinion: UC Berkeley and University of Wisconsin law deans argue ending admissions test requirement could negatively impact diversity
BLOOMBERG LAW — The American Bar Association is considering a major change in legal education: eliminating the longstanding requirement that applicants for law school take a valid and reliable admissions test like the Law School Admissions Test. This change would be effective with the law school class entering in 2026.
Read More about Opinion: UC Berkeley and University of Wisconsin law deans argue ending admissions test requirement could negatively impact diversityOpinion: Law school diversity could improve following decisions on admissions tests and law school rankings
BLOOMBERG LAW — Top law schools’ efforts to increase student body diversity could get a boost from moves to drop LSAT requirements and participation in the U.S. News rankings.
Read More about Opinion: Law school diversity could improve following decisions on admissions tests and law school rankingsYale Law dean Heather Gerken discusses why the school will opt out of US News rankings
YALE LAW SCHOOL — For three decades, U.S. News & World Report, a for-profit magazine, has ranked the educational quality of law schools across the country. Since the very beginning, Yale Law School has taken the top spot every year. Yet, that distinction is not one that we advertise or use as a lodestar to chart our…
Read More about Yale Law dean Heather Gerken discusses why the school will opt out of US News rankingsMore law schools opt out of US News rankings
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Yale University’s law school ranks at the top of U.S. News & World Report’s list of the best law schools. It has ranked on top throughout the decades that U.S. Newshas ranked law schools, every single year. Yale hasn’t typically boasted about its rankings—the top institutions in the rankings rarely do—but it participated…
Read More about More law schools opt out of US News rankingsUC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses why law schools are opting out of US News rankings
KCRW — Several of the country’s top law schools are pulling out of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of colleges and universities, which many parents and prospective students refer to when deciding where to apply. That’s because graduating from top-tier programs can help them score better clerkships and more money at law firms. But…
Read More about UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses why law schools are opting out of US News rankingsUS News announces they will continue to rank law schools even if they do not provide data
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — U.S. News & World Report will continue to rank all fully accredited law schools, regardless of whether schools agree to submit their data. A few law schools recently announced that they will no longer participate in the data collection process for the U.S. News Best Law Schools rankings. We…
Read More about US News announces they will continue to rank law schools even if they do not provide dataUniversity of Chicago Law and Cornell Law announce that they will continue to provide data to US News rankings
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. News & World Report rankings, but they aren’t walking away from them.
Read More about University of Chicago Law and Cornell Law announce that they will continue to provide data to US News rankings