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“McCarthyism Is Rearing Its Head in America’s Law Schools; Two federal appeals court judges want legal educators to get into the business of blacklisting student ‘disrupters’ from law schools and legal jobs; That’s deserving of true student outrage”

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“McCarthyism Is Rearing Its Head in America’s Law Schools; Two federal appeals court judges want legal educators to get into the business of blacklisting student ‘disrupters’ from law schools and legal jobs; That’s deserving of true student outrage”: Columnist Vivia Chen has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

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“Stop the Chaos: Law Schools Need to Crack Down on Student Disrupters Now; Administrators who promote intolerance don’t belong in legal education; And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession.”

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“Stop the Chaos: Law Schools Need to Crack Down on Student Disrupters Now; Administrators who promote intolerance don’t belong in legal education; And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession.” ” Fifth Circuit Judge James C.

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Continuing Education for Paralegals – Sink or Swim?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Why Continuing Education is Necessary If you asked 100 paralegals who all went to 100 different paralegal certificate programs, they would all tell you the same thing: the schools taught us theory and terminology, but not the skills that were needed when on the first day of that first paralegal job.

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157 US law school deans issue collective statement on 2020 election, Capitol attack

JURIST

Law school deans from 157 law schools across the US issued a collective statement on Tuesday addressing the 2020 election and condemning the attack on the US Capitol on January 6. Because law school deans usually do not collectively speak on issues outside of legal education, this was an unusual occurrence.

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Elite US law schools must take accountability for enabling use of fossil fuels: law student group

JURIST

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions.

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The Educational Eight: Rampant, Comical Cheating In Law School Rankings!

Above The Law

Keep voting to determine the top law school in the land. The post The Educational Eight: Rampant, Comical Cheating In Law School Rankings! appeared first on Above the Law. or something.

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As ABA gathers more information on JD-Next, law schools still have to obtain variances to use test

ABA Journal

Law schools that want to use the JD-Next exam in admissions will have to continue to seek a variance, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar determined at its Feb. 22 meeting.