The project is important to Bazyler because of his personal experience as a Russian-speaking Jewish refugee. He came to America in the 1960s with his Holocaust-survivor parents.
The 60 deans responded to that request for comments with a letter that says optional entrance exams would cause schools to rely more on GPA and other criteria, which could be “detrimental” to diversity among law students and the legal profession.
The California State Senate and Assembly have approved a name change to University of California Hastings College of Law, the state’s oldest state law school.
Students and a faculty member from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) in Mexico participated in the second International Energy and Environmental Law Summer Course at the University of Houston Law Center.
Penn State Dickinson Law has received a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to support the growth of a book series and to develop workshops that will create paths to more legal education and a profession committed to antiracism.