Ahead of the Curve: SCOTUS Edition. Plus UBE Intel
Could it be a SCOTUS justice without a Harvard or Yale law pedigree?
July 02, 2018 at 07:00 AM
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Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve . I'm Karen Sloan , legal education editor at Law.com, and I'll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education. Could it be a SCOTUS justice without a Harvard or Yale law pedigree? This week I'm looking at the law school alma maters of President Trump's list of 25 potential picks, and there are some surprises. I've also got the scoop from National Conference of Bar Examiners President Judith Gundersen on how the ever more popular Uniform Bar Exam is helping depress February bar pass rates. Not signed up yet to get Ahead of the Curve sent to your inbox each week? Go here. Please share your thoughts and feedback with me at [email protected] or on Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ
|A Non-Harvard/Yale Justice?
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy list of 25 potential nominees Tony Mauro Marcia Coyle Yale Law School Harvard Law School Ruth Bader Ginsburg Columbia Law School ➤➤ Notre Dame Amy Coney Barrett Margaret Ryan ➤➤ University of Chicago Thomas Lee Allison Eid ➤➤ Stanford Britt Grant Georgetown Thomas Hardiman Michigan Raymond Kethledge Northwestern Joan Larsen Berkeley Amul Thapar Duke' Don Willett ➤➤ Georgia Keith Blackwel Washington University Raymond Gruender Brigham Young Mike Lee Miami Federico Moreno Tulane William Pryor Kansas David Stras Marquette Diane Sykes Colorado Timothy Tymkovich Oklahoma Patrick Wyrick Tulane dean David Meyer Justice Edward White Neil Gorsuch My take— this story from 2016 Merrick Garland
|The UBE and Dismal Bar Pass Rates
average score on the Multistate Bar Exam nationwide fell 1.3 points the lowest in more than a decade National Conference of Bar Examiners Uniform Bar Exam NCBE President Judith Gundersen this story More than 11,000 people have transferred UBE scores from one jurisdiction to another The Bar Examiner My thoughts:
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Extra Credit Reading
Anthony Kennedy University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law hopes to see more University of Richmond School of Law Dean Wendy Collins Perdue Association of American Law Schools spoke with me this story University of Oregon School of Law Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor Valparaiso University School of Law headed south to Tennessee Middle Tennessee State University
I'll be back next week with more news and updates on the future of legal education. Until then, keep in touch at [email protected]
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