Legal Education Roundup (Mar 24, 2023)
Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.
"Seto: 2022 First-Time Bar Pass Performance Of California Law Schools, Controlling For 25th Percentile LSATs," TaxProf Blog
"Why Georgetown Law Quit the U.S. News Rankings," Wall Street Journal
"Baker & Hostetler Becomes Inaugural Sponsor of Georgetown Law's Pipeline Program," Law.com
"Amar: What Law Schools Rankings Can Learn From College Sports Rankings," TaxProf Blog
"NYU Law Students Demand Compensation For Work On Law Journals," TaxProf Blog
"Judges Want 'Disruptive' Law Students Flagged to Employers," Bloomberg Law
"Bar exam score shows AI can keep up with 'human lawyers,' researchers say," Reuters
"GPT-4 Beats 90% Of Aspiring Lawyers On The Bar Exam," TaxProf Blog
"How can law schools with history of bar pass issues get their rates above 75%," ABA Journal
"Data on about 6,500 law students proves my mismatch theory, shows racial-preference harm, law prof says," ABA Journal
"Sander: Law-School 'Mismatch' Is Worse Than We Thought," TaxProf blog
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