Legal Education Roundup (May 19, 2023)

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

• "Pass Rate on California's February Bar Exam Dips Below 33%," The Recorder

• "Law Schools Shouldn't Blame 'U.S. News' for Their Own Moral Choices," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Dean Rutledge: Law Schools Shouldn't Blame U.S. News For Their Own Moral Choices," TaxProf Blog

• "With LSAT poised for elimination, law deans call for compromise," Reuters

• "Study Reveals How Pedigree of Law Schools, Law Firms Influence In-House Pay," Corporate Counsel

• "Ahead of the Curve: How Law Schools Are Trying to Counter 'Multifaceted Societal Inequities'," Law.com

• "63 Law Schools Boycotted US News Law School Rankings," The National Law Journal

• "The 2023-24 US News Rankings Are Out and Official," Law.com

• "Revamped US News law school rankings yield major shifts," Reuters

• "Big shifts in U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. Here's why," Reuters

• "U.S. News Releases Its Latest, Disputed Rankings of Law and Medical Schools," The New York Times

• "What the New 'U.S. News' Law-School Rankings Reveal About the Rankings Enterprise," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Students, Meet the Superego," Inside Higher Ed

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