Law School Deans
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Law Schools
This Prestigious Legal Job Has A Disturbingly Short Tenure
Just because it's a prestigious job doesn't mean you'll have it for very long. -
Law Schools
First Monday Musings By Dean Vik Amar: A Helpful Conversation On Campus Speech Issues Featuring Erwin Chemerinsky And Geof Stone
How should free speech flare-ups on public university campuses be handled? - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Law Schools
The Youngest Woman To Ever Lead A U.S. Law School
She was quite the trailblazing young law dean.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.12.18
* President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, claims that he used his home equity line to pay off Stormy Daniels out of the goodness of his heart, and while people have been focusing on the fact that he may have violated campaign finance laws, not many have mentioned that he likely violated New York’s ethics rules, would could get him disbarred. [Slate]
* Remember the time that Judge Katherine Forrest ruined the internet with a single ruling? Several media outlets are preparing to appeal to the Second Circuit, saying the copyright decision could change the internet as we know it. [Big Law Business]
* Dean Andrea Lyon of Valparaiso Law — the school that’s not closing, per se, but will stop accepting students and is hoping to merge with another school or move locations — will be resigning on June 1. No one knows what will happen to the school, and soon there won’t even be a dean. These poor students… [Indianapolis Business Journal]
* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a foodie, and in honor of her upcoming birthday — and because “[s]he eats real food and plenty of it” — here are a few of the Notorious One’s favorite places to dine in her hometown of New York City. [am New York]
* The February bar exam has come and gone, and with it, hundreds of jobs across the entire legal services industry. According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 200 fewer people were employed in the legal sector last month than in January. Hopefully things improve before graduation. [American Lawyer]
* “Katy Perry represents everything we don’t believe in. It would be a sin to sell to her.” Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, 89, who had been locked in litigation with the singer and the archdioces for several years over the sale of her former convent, collapsed and died in court on Friday during a post-judgment hearing. [NPR]
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Law Schools
Law School Dean Sets World Cycling Record, Gets Profiled On ESPNW
She's been referred to as a 'good role model for women navigating a healthy lifestyle and an ambitious career.' -
Law Schools
First Monday Musings By Dean Vik Amar: Reflections On The 2018 AALS Meeting
Providing information that is relevant to prospective law students is only part of what law schools need to be doing as they try to get a better handle on future admissions trends. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.05.18
* “I’d like to see in the Constitution a statement that men and women are people of equal citizenship stature. I’d like to see an equal rights amendment in our Constitution.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is all in favor of amending the Constitution to benefit women. Are you? [Washington Post]
* Kashyap Patel, the “primary author” of the House Intelligence Committee’s secret memo, is no stranger to controversy. You may remember when he dropped out of this bachelor auction due to an issue with his license to practice or from this “Order on Ineptitude” after he was berated by a federal judge. [New York Times]
* Duke Law has a brand new dean, and she’ll be starting her job come July 1. Congratulations to Kerry Abrams — “one of the brightest stars in legal education” — on becoming one of the handful of women to lead one of America’s top law schools. [Duke Today]
* The DOJ wants former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s suit against special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to be tossed, arguing that its only purpose is to “interfere with [his] ongoing criminal prosecution.” Yep, that was the whole point. [CNN]
* Ouch! One Am Law 100 Firm is experiencing that awkward moment when management decides to completely scrub the name of the firm’s major merger partner from all of its branding, just one year after the combination was consummated. [American Lawyer]
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Law Schools
New Dean Will Be Only Woman Of Color To Lead Top 30 Law School
We can only hope that the school will continue its meteoric rise in the rankings under her guidance. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Law Schools
Law School Dean Allegedly Puts Students In 'Time-Out' Before Allowing Them To Take Final Exam
This sounds like it was one hell of a test. -
Law Schools
Which Law School Has Been Put Up For Rent?
How much is a law school going for these days? -
Law Schools
Why You Didn't Get A Job: A Tenure-Track Candidate Rejection Form
We wish you the best of luck on your candidacy, which will likely end at a higher-ranked school than ours. -
Law Schools
First Monday Musings By Dean Vik Amar: What It Means For Newly Minted Lawyers To Take Their Oaths
The single most important profession over the next few decades may very well be the one new lawyers are entering today. -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
California Law School Deans Are None Too Pleased That The Bar Exam's Passing Score Will Not Be Lowered
One law dean called it a 'tragedy.'
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Law Schools
Schools Step Up To Assist Puerto Rican Law Students Displaced By Hurricane Maria
Which law schools will provide needy Puerto Rican students with assistance in their studies? -
Law Schools, Rankings
New T14 Dean Thinks His Law School Will Crack The Top 5 In The U.S. News Rankings
Does this law school stand a chance? -
Law Schools
Law School Dean Knows He's A Loser
This dean loves politics, but is staying in legal academia. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools
A Leading Law School Dean Announces His Departure
Dean Daniel Rodriguez was an innovator and reformer in legal education. -
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.08.17
* Northwestern Dean Dan Rodriguez perfectly sums up the California bar’s decision to punt on the cut score question. [PrawfsBlawg]
* The Equifax hack leaves 143 million people vulnerable. But the Equifax executives may end up the most vulnerable after they reacted to the breach by selling shares… fast. Oh, who are we kidding? This DOJ isn’t going to prosecute that! [Huffington Post]
* The Empire’s stormtrooper armor is really terrible. [The Legal Geeks]
* Professor Douglas Litowitz is on the law school job market, and he’s rejecting all rejection letters. “I wish them great success in placing their rejection letters with other candidates. I have simply received a sufficient number of excellent rejection letters already.” [Faculty Lounge]
* The University of Colorado faces a lawsuit over allegedly protecting a football coach over an a domestic abuse survivor. No one ever lost money betting against schools changing their cultures on a dime, but honestly we’re not far removed from the last round of lawsuits about the school’s hostile environment. [Rewire]
* How much do you know about “The Reid Method”? Wyatt Kozinski (Judge Kozinski’s son) calls for a new “Wickersham Commission” to investigate the method’s role in a spate of false confessions undermining the credibility of the criminal justice system. That said, the President’s first foray into politics was calling for executions based on false confessions, so maybe we shouldn’t hold our breaths for this commission. [The Crime Report]
* Irma threatens lives… and the return of an overused metaphor. [Law and More]
* Speaking of hurricanes, Harvey has spawned its first lawsuit. [The Atlantic]
* Another edition of “bad places to hide.” [Lowering the Bar]
* Congratulations to lawyer Anthony Franze, author of The Outsider (affiliate link), on the thriller getting picked up for possible television development! [Deadline]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Media and Journalism
First Monday Musings By Dean Vik Amar: Why We In Legal Academia Should Assist In Legal Journalism, But Do So Carefully
Legal academics can and should help educate the public about the law.