Insight Into Diversity

MAY 17, 2023

The number of students admitted into law schools rose in 2022, marking the first increase in seven years, according to a new report by the nonprofit AccessLex Institute. However, the data shows some progress for law schools in recruiting and retaining underrepresented individuals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) and Morris Brown College are partnering for a law school pipeline. “We We are ecstatic to partner with Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School,” said Morris Brown President Dr. Kevin James. Gatewood, Dean and CEO of AJMLS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Tess Feldman Southwestern Law School is collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center in launching the Asylum Law Clinic to better equip future lawyers in providing legal support to asylum seekers in the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. Interest in J.D. Interest in J.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Having meaningful relationships with law school faculty and staff is essential for underrepresented racial minority (URMs) students as they decide on law school options, adjust to academic environments, and negotiate in-school experiences, a recent study found. law schools. law schools.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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Higher Ed Dive

JULY 17, 2023

Institutions must adapt their curricula to incorporate artificial intelligence-related topics, the dean of William & Mary Law School argues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. Richmond president Kevin Hallock broke the news to Robert Smith, Williams’s great-great-grandson and a graduate of the law school, over the phone. Williams enrolled at what was then called Richmond College in 1848.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The law school class of 2023, admitted before the U.S. The Law School Admission Council’s (LSAC) analysis of ABA data reveals that 40% of the current law school class are students of color, up from 39% in 2022, marking a third year of record diversity. of the first-year class. “This summer’s U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Department of Education (ED) has announced settlements with five freestanding law schools accused of improperly disbursing federal financial aid to students in unaccredited program. The American Bar Association often accredits Juris Doctor programs, but not Master of Laws programs, which require separate accreditation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College of Law at St. Crump College of Law, making the law school the U.S.’s Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University is the latest step in an effort to encourage bridge-building among the legal profession, law enforcement, and our communities," said David A. Benjamin L. The only other U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Alexander has always been interested in the realms of law, politics, and democracy. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes leadership and mentorship in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. Johnson Johnson is law school dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

As law schools across the nation grapple with the tidal wave of recent anti-DEI laws, the foundation of inclusion and equity in legal education is being profoundly challenged, forcing law schools to rethink their approaches to fostering a wide net of representation.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The law schools of Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford Universities all announced on Friday that they would leave the U.S. The law schools of Harvard and Yale Universities announced Wednesday that they were no longer participating. The law school of the University of California, Berkeley, announced on Thursday.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. law school. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The law school of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced Tuesday that it is dropping out of the U.S. And on Wednesday, the law school of the University of California, Irvine, joined the movement. UCLA Law does all of these things, but honoring our core values comes at a cost in rankings points.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Graduate Record Examination is now accepted at 100 law schools , more than half of the 199 American law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The Educational Testing Service first promoted the GRE for use in law school admissions in 2016, when the University of Arizona did so.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The American Bar Association will again consider a request from its Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to make law schools test optional. The ABA House of Delegates rejected such a proposal this month. But the council voted Friday to make the request a second time. Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. The ranking is not our guide, and I prefer to shine a light on the substantive attributes that make our Law School the home of the most intellectually ambitious faculty and the most powerful legal education. News ranking.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.” Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. law school. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

News' rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. By Tamara F. Lawson and Heather K. Gerken Illustration by The Chronicle U.S. News rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Rehan Staton became a viral media sensation on his admission, and film-maker Tyler Perry covered his tuition fees The man who worked as a trash hauler in Maryland before earning international news headlines by gaining admission into the prestigious Harvard Law School has graduated.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The dean said the magazine’s formula discourages schools from admitting low-income students and supporting students interested in public service. By Francie Diep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

Law schools are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their curricula, according to an AI and Legal Education Survey released by the American Bar Association and the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence. It suggests that AI has had an increasingly significant impact on legal education.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Tracking law school deans across the U.S., Rosenblatt’s Dean Database offers a rich repository of real-time information for the higher education sector. The resource was created in 2007 by Jim Rosenblatt, JD, professor of law and dean emeritus at the Mississippi College School of Law.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

News" is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. By Brian Soucek Derek Brahney for The Chronicle U.S. News is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Jessica Berg has been appointed dean of the University of California Davis School of Law. Berg, who served as co-dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, will start in her new role Sept. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

By Francie Diep Illustration by The Chronicle Top-ranked institutions can afford to take risks that others can’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Patricia Timmons-Goodson will become dean of the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law , effective Jul. from Duke University Law School. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. She is currently a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and co-chair of the board of the NC Justice Center. “I’m

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Davidson has been appointed president and dean of Southern Illinois University’s Mitchell Hamline School of Law, effective July 1. Davidson serves as professor of law at the law school and has served as dean at SIU Law since July 2020. She held a clerkship at the D.C. Superior Court in Washington, D.C.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2024

I wrote a dissertation on a topic so untrammeled, Catholic women’s higher education, that there were no books from which to plagiarize. Seize the opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Kara Ingelhart has been named director of the new LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic, part of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Bluhm Legal Clinic. Our law school is committed to contributing to efforts to uphold LGBTQI+ rights locally, regionally and nationally in collaboration with stakeholders and advocates,” said Osofsky.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

After some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions dropped out of its best law schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools. Yale University, which regularly lands at the top of the list, kicked off the exodus when law school Dean Heather K. Best law schools overhaul.

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