Legal Education Roundup (Oct 11, 2019)

Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.

• "Ex-Willkie Co-Chair Gordon Caplan Gets Prison Term in College Admissions Case," New York Law Journal

• "48 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Montana, Penn State-Dickinson)," TaxProf Blog

• "Cincinnati's Fifth Third Bank, Law School Create In-House Fellowships for Grads Job Hunting," Corporate Counsel

• "Law School Clinical Faculty Ranks Are Slow to Diversify, Study Finds," Law.com

• "New High-Tech Way to Choose a Law School Debuts," Law.com

• "Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules," The New York Times

• "Judge Rules Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Policy Constitutional," The Wall Street Journal

• "Harvard Defeats Suit Over Race-Conscious Admission," The National Law Journal

• "Judge Upholds Harvard's Admissions Policies," Inside Higher Ed

• "5 Takeaways From the Harvard Admissions Ruling," The New York Times

• "Harvard Won a Key Affirmative Action Battle. But the War's Not Over," The New York Times

• "That Affirmative Action Ruling Was Good. Its Rationale, Terrible," The New York Times

• "Teaching Tech: How Legal Education Coursework Is Changing in Today's Digital Era," Legaltech News

• "Innovative Required Courses," What Great Law Schools Do

• "NACAC Agrees to Change Its Code of Ethics," Inside Higher Ed

• "End of an Admissions Era?," Inside Higher Ed

• "'Welcome to the Wild West': The Competition for College Applicants Just Intensified," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "July Bar Pass Rates Trending Up, After Years of Decline," Law.com

• "Despite Obstacles, Black Colleges Are Pipelines to the Middle Class, Study Finds. Here's Its List of the Best," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Florida Coastal Law School Asks ABA To Reconsider Its Request To Shed For-Profit Status," TaxProf Blog

• "Is an M.B.A. Still Worth It?," The Wall Street Journal

• "What happens to a summer associate class at a large law firm after a decade?," Excess of Democracy

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