Legal Education

  • Law.com

    Law School Admissions Officers Report Concerns About Diversity

    By Christine Charnosky | January 22, 2024

    While the Kaplan survey found that, almost universally, law schools say that diversity is important to administrators and students alike, one admissions officer who participated warned that the court's decision will have a "chilling effect on applications."

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    UBalt Law Dean Ronald Weich Named as Dean of Seton Hall Law

    By Christine Charnosky | January 17, 2024

    "It takes a special combination of strength, wisdom and humility to run a law school," UBalt President Kurt L. Schmoke, who served as dean of Howard University School of Law from 2003 to 2012, said in a statement. "The law is often subject to sweeping change, sometimes in the face of social disorder and systemic injustices."

  • Law.com

    JD-Next Found Reliable With 'Multiple Cautions and Caveats,' ABA Council Seeks Comment

    By Christine Charnosky | January 16, 2024

    "I conclude that the JD-Next exam is a reliable and valid predictor of early law school grades but with multiple cautions and caveats that cannot be evaluated with the present data and may represent threats to its validity if used operationally for high stakes decisions," Nathan Kuncel wrote in his report.

  • Law.com

    LSAC President Kellye Testy to Become Executive Director of AALS

    By Christine Charnosky | January 11, 2024

    "I am deeply honored to have been chosen as Judy Areen's successor and am committed to advancing excellence in legal education at a time of heightened challenges and changes in law and higher education," Kelleye Testy said in a statement.

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    ABA Proposal to Accreditate Fully Online Law Schools Draws Overwhelming Support

    By Christine Charnosky | January 4, 2024

    By the end of the year, nearly 30 comments—42 pages worth—had been uploaded to the ABA's website, with all but two commenters expressing support for the proposal.

  • Law.com | News

    Already Rocked by Scandal, George Mason Law Now Found Out of Compliance With ABA Financial Standard

    By Christine Charnosky | December 19, 2023

    At its November meeting, the Council considered the status of GMU Law, concluding it was not in compliance with Standard 202(a), which pertains to resources generated by the law school, according to the Dec. 6 notice.

  • Law.com | News

    American University Washington College of Law's Fairfax to Become Dean of Howard Law

    By Christine Charnosky | December 19, 2023

    Howard University has "shaped the trajectory of my family's journey from slavery to where I proudly stand today as the dean of the American University Washington College of Law," Roger Fairfax said in a statement. "My family's strong legacy of Howard alumni, staff and faculty makes this a particularly compelling opportunity to lead one of the most impactful institutions in the nation and honor those who have come before me."

  • Law.com | News

    Nearly 25% of Law Schools Plan to Use JD-Next Admission Test

    By Christine Charnosky | December 8, 2023

    Nearly 25% of American Bar Association-accredited law schools have been granted a variance from Standard 503 to use JD-Next as an admission test, which can be used in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test and the Graduate Record Exam.

  • Law.com | News

    ABA Proposal for Accrediting Fully Online Law Schools Out for Notice and Comment

    By Christine Charnosky | December 8, 2023

    "I applaud the working group for coming up with this proposal," Steven C. Bahls, president emeritus, said during the meeting. "It's something that other professional creditors have done some time ago. And I believe that the American Bar Association is an outlier here, and I am particularly attracted by your argument that this creates an opportunity for some to reduce the cost of legal education and may enable some rural areas without access for law schools to enter the profession to serve our underserved areas."

  • Law.com | News

    ABA Names Longtime Law Dean as First Woman Managing Director of Legal Ed

    By Christine Charnosky | November 29, 2023

    Rosato Perea is "a brilliant and highly effective leader, a broadly experienced legal scholar, teacher and law school administrator, and a history-maker and ceiling-shatterer as one of the longest serving law deans of color, and women law deans, in history," Anthony Varona, dean of Seattle University School of Law, told Law.com.

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