Legal Education Roundup (Nov. 27, 2015)

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

• "Is Washington Finally Tired of Welfare for Law Schools?,"  The American Lawyer

• "Spike in Law School Applicants Will Make Admissions More Difficult," New University

• "LA Film Czar Ken Ziffren Gives $5M to UCLA Law," The National Law Journal

• "Most New York Law Schools See Decline in Bar Pass Rates," The New York Law Journal
  • "July Bar Exam Pass Rates," New York Law Journal

• "Are Elite College Courses Better?," Inside Higher Ed

• "Are law students driven by money? It's not most important, survey finds," ABA Journal

• "Arne Duncan, Education Secretary, Sees Challenges for US Colleges," The New York Times

• "These law students combine technology with fee-generating cases," ABA Journal

• "An Open Letter to Dean Minow: Change HLS' Default Option to Civic-Minded Career Building,"  The Harvard Law Record

• "The Debt Burden of Law School Graduates," The New York Times

• "Legal Education's Strange Bedfellows," The American Lawyer