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A ‘Preview’ Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings (2025)

Above The Law

Prospective law students, current law students, and law school alumni are eagerly awaiting the release of the 2025 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which usually occurs sometime in March. News places a 10% weight on law school admissions in the overall ranking. 3 Washington Univ.

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“Yale Law School triggers me”

HowAppealing

“Yale Law School triggers me”: Columnist Kathleen Parker has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

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Professor Luna Teaches Animal Liability at George Washington Law School

JonathanTurley

This week, the students in my day (left) and evening (right) torts class received a lecture from the leading American expert on animal tort liability, Professor Luna. Herr Professor taught subjects like animus revertendi with the insight and intensity expected from a world renown canine academic.

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Law Schools Respond To The Executive Threatening To Cut Federal Funding Over DEI

Above The Law

And while it’s nice to see schools take stands for diversity, being on the right side of history usually doesn’t pay the bills quite like falling in line. Law schools have already begun scrubbing mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from their websites to stay in the federal funding running.

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Entirely Preventable Cheating Scandal Rocking Law School

Above The Law

The post Entirely Preventable Cheating Scandal Rocking Law School appeared first on Above the Law. Exactly none of this had to happen.

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Former Justice Breyer Speaks At Harvard Panel On Legal Interpretation

Above The Law

(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) One of the quickest lessons you pick up in law school is that the path to knowing the law doesn’t end at finding a line in the Constitution or a statute and reading it aloud to anyone who would hear it. Moderated by Andrew T.

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Which law schools are choosiest? Washington University is in top five, while Yale is mostly No. 1

ABA Journal

Yale Law School is No. 1 based on ABA admissions data showing that it is the choosiest law school in terms of acceptance rate and…