Legal Education Roundup (Oct 25, 2019)
Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.
"Racial Inequality, at College and in the Workplace," Inside Higher Ed
"Fewer Chinese Students at Many Campuses," Inside Higher Ed
"New York Law School Adds Religious Training to Its Diversity Program," New York Law Journal
"50% Of July LSAT Test-Takers Cancel Their Score," TaxProf Blog
"Holy Crap! A Ton Of Wannabe Law School Students Got Cold Feet: There were historic rates of LSAT score cancellation," Above the Law
"The Incredible Shrinking Higher Ed Industry," Inside Higher Ed
"My University Is Dying, And soon yours will be, too," The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Toward evidence-based legal education reform: First, let's experiment," Legal Evolution
"The Should-Be Solution to the Student-Debt Problem," The New York Times
"Three Challenges Faced by Newly Hired Law School Graduates," Legal Intelligencer
"Ryerson University wants to change legal education forever," Precedent Magazine
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