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Ahead of the Curve: The GMAT Arrives | Protecting Press Freedoms | What's New on Campus

The GMAT exam, most commonly used by MBA programs, is gaining some traction in law school admissions. Plus, 22 law schools team up with the Reporter Committee for Freedom of the Press to support journalists and documentarians.
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Ahead of the Curve: Tracking Law Deans

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at new data on the racial and gender makeup on the nation's law deans. Plus, does the University of Houston's decision to construct a $90 million law campus signal a new era of law school investment?
7 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: Cracking the Case of Law School Cost

This week's Ahead of Curve hits up the American Bar Association's annual meeting for an in-depth discussion on why a J.D. costs so much and how to reduce law student debt.
8 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: Bar Exam Security in the Age of the UBE

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at the recent California bar exam essay topics leak, and whether that could have been prevented if California used the Uniform Bar Exam. Plus, a look at a new private student loan just for Harvard Law School.
7 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: A Law School and an Assassin

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at the University of North Texas Dallas College of Law's new campus and its ties to presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, as well as Yale Law School's decision to accept the GRE and what that means.
8 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: The Case For Open Casebooks

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at open casebooks and whether they are on track to replace traditional textbooks. And former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthau was known for taking on mob bosses and crooked Wall Street titans, but did you also know he brought down a former Harvard Law School dean?
7 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: A STEM Premium for Law Students?

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at a new study on the motivations of people with STEM backgrounds who go to law school.
8 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: Here Come The Undergraduate Law Degrees

This week's Ahead of the Curve examines the early success of the University of Arizona's B.A. in Law, which will finally get some competition next year. Plus, is a second clerkship one too many? At least one judge thinks so.
7 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: Malcolm Gladwell Takes on the LSAT

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at Malcolm Gladwell's podcast analysis of the LSAT, a law dean pulling double duty as a state bar president, and why the cool kid law students end up at USC.
9 minute read

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Ahead of the Curve: Harvard Law Welcomes Vets and the LSAT Cracks Down on Serial Repeaters

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at Harvard Law School's new partnership with VetLink; new limits on the number of times you can take the LSAT; and racial discrimination on law faculties.
8 minute read

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