U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — About 2,000 law school professors, deans and other legal scholars gathered in San Diego Jan. 3-7 for the Association of American Law Schools annual conference, the group’s first in-person gathering in three years. The incoming president, Mark Alexander, dean of the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University, sat down with U.S. News to discuss the changing nature of law school applicants and where legal education is headed.