Legal Education Roundup (May 28, 2021)
Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.
"Time To Make It Personal: How Personality Testing In Law Schools Can Improve Lawyer Well-Being," TaxProf Blog
"Law Grads With High Debt, Financial Stress Do Worse on the Bar Exam, Study Finds," Law.com
"The CASE for standards of supervised practice in lawyer licensing," Law21 Blog
"Law School Striking Chief Justice John Marshall From Name," Inside Higher Ed
"Florida Coastal's teach-out plan rejected again; another school demonstrates compliance on bar pass rates," ABA Journal
"California Overhauls Its Law School Accreditation Rules, Emphasizing Diversity and Student Learning," The Recorder
"Law school students develop app to automate police complaint process," Canadian Lawyer
"ABA Pushes Forward With Racism Training Requirement for Law Schools," Law.com
"Law school noncompliance with diversity standard should require public notice, ABA legal ed section says," ABA Journal
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