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
"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
"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
"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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