In Memoriam: Skye Donald

UCLA School of Law issued this press release earlier today which states in part: UCLA Law faculty member Skye Donald, widely admired for he...

Good Luck on the Bar Exam! (2016 Edition)

During the past week, I noticed that this 2014 post I wrote on bar exam dress codes was getting suspiciously high traffic. I then realized ...

Queenan on the Coming "National Plague of Dumb Lawyers"

At the Wall Street Journal, Joe Queenan writes  this column about how law schools' lowering their admissions standards will lead to a p...

Perspectives on a Looming Decline in Bar Exam Passage Rates

As rumblings grow over the possibility of another summer of poor bar exam results, yesterday's New York Times ran this "Room For D...

Concerns Over the California State Bar's Practical Training Proposal

Paul Caron has this post at TaxProf Blog quoting extensively from a (paywalled) article at The National Law Journal. From the quoted porti...

"Jennifer Mnookin Named New Dean of UCLA School of Law"

So reads the title of this UCLA press release : Jennifer Mnookin, a nationally renowned evidence law scholar who has held key administrative...

Chemerinsky: California Should Adopt the Uniform Bar Exam

Erwin Chemerinsky, noted constitutional law professor and the dean of UC Irvine School of Law, recently wrote this op-ed in the Los Angeles...

A New Round of Bar Exam Criticism

Law school graduates around the country took the bar exam at the end of February. In the exam's wake, commentators are questioning the n...

University of California, Irvine Law School Ranked 30th by US News

So reports this press release  from the school: The University of California, Irvine School of Law has been ranked by U.S. News & World ...

Amar and Allard on Reevaluating the Bar Exam

At Justia's Verdict, Vikram Amar has this article discussing the decline in performance of the July 2014 bar examinees relative to othe...