Starting in August, students will have the option to take the Law School Admission Test remotely or in person at a testing center, announced the Law School Admission Council on Monday.
Students at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law walked out of their classes on March 29, to protest an email sent by a religious student society containing anti-trans messages and what they believe to be a “lacking” response from administrators.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law announced the launch of the all-online part-time JD program, Hawaiʻi Online JD Flex, which is accepting applicants for this fall semester.
Law students at New York University School of Law are demanding that they get paid to do work that, for 148 years, law students have done for the experience and prestige.
The American Bar Association notified two more law schools — the University of Oregon and University of Kentucky — of noncompliance according to public notices posted in early March.
Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law dean Jenny Martinez issued an apology to Judge Kyle Duncan, after students walked out and protested during his visit on March 9.
Four law schools that missed the mark last year on standards set by the American Bar Association are now back in compliance with those standards, according to public notices posted on March 3.
Brad Toben, the current longest-serving law school dean, will step down in July and return to the Baylor University School of Law faculty. This change was announced just a month before the American Bar Association posted a public notice of noncompliance for the lack of faculty diversity at the school.