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Proposals Outlined in ABA Special Committee Reports on Accreditation Standards Could Lead to Significant Reforms in Legal Education
The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has released two special committee reports that could be influential in reforming legal education in the US, namely, Interim Report of the Outcome Measures Committee and Report of the Special Committee on Security of Position, and one report, Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Transparency. Read more at ABA Reports
Brian Leiter’s 2008 Top 40 Law Schools by Student Quality Now Available
Brian Leiter (Texas) has published his Ranking of Top 40 Law Schools by Student (Numerical) Quality 2008 on Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings website. Noting that LSAT scores are “the best, crude proxy available for measuring student quality,” he ranks the top 40 schools as measured by the average of the 75th and 25th percentile LSAT scores for the class that entered in fall 2007. Class size is the first tie breaker: the larger school with the same LSAT credentials was ranked higher. The second tie breaker is the average of the 75th and 25th percentile GPA scores. Access the website at Leiter
Law Classes on the Web
Eighteen law professors have made their recorded classes from this term available online. Go to the Lawmedia website for information and instructions.