University of Cincinnati researchers release report on the factors behind student bar exam success
UNIVERSITY OF CINNINATI –When Joel Chanvisanuruk, JD ’06, was hired as director of Academic Success and Bar Programs at Cincinnati Law in 2009, conventional wisdom pointed to incoming student credentials—notably, LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs—as the best indicators of bar passage. Now, thanks to a collaboration with Amy Farley and Christopher Swoboda, both of who are…
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WTOP NEWS — Because the U.S. is a global hub of legal education and practice, American law schools attract many foreign applicants. Most commonly, applicants come from countries with similar common law legal systems, like Canada, the United Kingdom, India and English-speaking nations in Africa and the Caribbean. But growing numbers of applicants from Asia, Latin America…
Read More about Tips for international students applying to law school in the USStanford Law professor Erik Jensen discusses the future of Legal Education in Afghanistan
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — What is the legacy of the American invasion of Afghanistan, twenty years on? For Erik Jensen, faculty director of Stanford Law School’s Rule of Law Program (ROLP), who helped launch the Afghanistan Legal Education Project(ALEP) in 2007 as a student-driven initiative in ROLP, the answer for him is simple: legal education.
Read More about Stanford Law professor Erik Jensen discusses the future of Legal Education in AfghanistanA look at law school acceptance rates
ABA JOURNAL — If you applied to your favorite law school last year only to face rejection, you are in good company. According to the U.S. News & Report Short List, the average acceptance rate last fall, among 193 ranked law schools, was 44%. The average acceptance rate for students who began in the fall of 2020…
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BLOOMBERG LAW — University of Virginia Law School professors Joshua Fischman and Michael A. Livermore study the potential impact of U.S. News & World Report’s proposal to include the number of times a professor’s work was cited in its methodology for ranking law schools. They say it would result in less intellectually diverse law school faculties…
Read More about Opinion: University of Virginia Law professors discuss the impact of law school ranking changesUniversity of Nebraska board vetoes anti-critical race theory proposal
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Board of Regents for the University of Nebraska system on Friday voted down a resolution opposing the “imposition” of critical race theory on the curriculum. The resolution, backed by the state’s Republican governor, Pete Ricketts, was proposed by Regent Jim Pillen, a Republican who is running to succeed term-limited Ricketts as…
Read More about University of Nebraska board vetoes anti-critical race theory proposalArizona State University Law welcomes incoming class
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University will welcome its most highly credentialed class for the fourth year in a row, with the incoming fall 2021 Juris Doctor students holding a median LSAT score of 166 and a median GPA of 3.85, ASU Law’s strongest ever. It is…
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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — The new Advance Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University welcomes its first cohort this fall including 20 students representing diverse backgrounds with nearly half of the group the first in their families to attend college.
Read More about Arizona State University Law welcomes inaugural cohort of Advance Program studentsCase Western Reserve Law students to brief case before Supreme Court of Ohio
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students who begin their semester in the Appellate Litigation Clinic this fall will have an opportunity few practicing attorneys ever do: they will brief a case to the Supreme Court of Ohio, which last week accepted the clinic’s petition for discretionary review in an important case involving a…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law students to brief case before Supreme Court of OhioChapman Law to host state and local government works-in-progress conference
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — When the annual State & Local Government Works-in-Progress Conference returns to the Fowler School of Law for its 10th anniversary this academic year, it will be made possible thanks to the conference’s co-founder, Kenneth Stahl, 2021 Kennedy Professor in Law and director of the law school’s Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate Law…
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