Legal Education Roundup (Jul 21, 2017)

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

• "Number of LSAT Test-takers Surges. Is It a Trump Bump?," Law.com

• "Number of Students Taking LSAT Jumps," Inside Higher Ed

• "In The LSAT v. GRE Battle, Should The ABA Get Involved?," Above the Law

• "Why should law schools have to require LSAT or GRE? Law deans ask the question," ABA Journal

• "California Bar Examiners Stripped Of Authority To Determine Passing Score On State Bar Exam," Above the Law

• "California Supreme Court Strips Authority Of Bar Examiners To Set Cut Score; Lower Cut Score May Apply Retroactively To July Test-Takers," TaxProf Blog

• "California Supreme Court asserts its authority to determine passing bar exam grade," ABA Journal

• "ABA committee weighs adding gender identity, ethnicity to law school accreditation diversity rules," ABA Journal

• "The Quantity and Quality of Law School Applicants," TaxProf Blog

• "Trump Administration Considers Measure to Make Staying in US Harder for Foreign Students," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "How Will the Feds Protect Student-Loan Borrowers in the Future? 2 Visions Are Aired," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "How To Slay Your First Semester of Law School," Above the Law

• "Are There Too Many Law Schools?," Connecticut Law Tribune

• "Law school turns to crowdfunding for bar stipends," ABA Journal