#law-schools

#law-schools

Bite (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into.Bark (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention.This week in Other Barks & Bites: U.S. District Judge Alia Moses officially takes over as the Chief Judge as the Western District of Texas; the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Jack Daniel's appeal of the First Amendment ruling in favor of VIP Products' whiskey bottle-shaped dog toys; the World Intellectual Property Organization announces that two-thirds of all patent applications were filed in Asian IP offices during 2021; Senators Cruz and Cantwell introduce a bill directing the FTC to create required disclosures on recording capabilities for smart devices; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office announce a joint study on non-fungible tokens; IBM files a copyright infringement suit against Micro Focus for its unauthorized use of IBM's mainframe software; and the Seventh Circuit nixes a right of publicity claim under Illinois state law after finding that the sale of a magazine subscriber list did not involve the use of the plaintiff's identity to complete a commercial purpose.

One might think that in college programs which promote DEI, - diversity, equity and inclusion -"diversity" should include diversification of social and political viewpoints.Unfortunately, as you already may know if you've been following campus news, some students and their faculty allies seem to think diversity is fine as long as it is limited to those who agree with them.

As the debate around whether to make even more changes to New York's reformed bail laws heats up in the final days of state budget negotiations, a group of over 100 law professors penned a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders urging them to leave the statutes as they are.In the missive, the law professors, who hail from law schools across the state including Columbia University and CUNY, blasted Hochul's push to excise from state law the least restrictive standard which compels judges to use the least onerous means for bringing defendants back to court.

ChatGPT is smart enough to pass prestigious graduate-level exams though not with particularly high marks.The powerful new AI chatbot tool recently passed law exams in four courses at the University of Minnesota and another exam at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, according to professors at the schools.

Yale's law school made the stunning announcement last week that it would no longer participate in the influential rankings published annually by U.S. News & World Report.Given the outsize importance attributed to the rankings by prospective applicants and alumni, Yale's decision sent shock waves through the legal profession, and indeed all of higher education.

sshepard/Getty Images The UC Berkeley School of Law joined the law schools of Harvard University and Yale University last week in cutting ties with U.S. News & World Report's rankings.The top universities will no longer provide data to the publication, alleging the report can be harmful to attracting a diverse set of prospective students.

Had the city of Missoula, Montana, existed thousands of years ago, it would have been under water.During the last Ice Age, a sheet of ice 20 miles wide got stuck in the Idaho panhandle and blocked the Clark Fork River, creating glacial Lake Missoula.At its highest, the water level reached 4,250 feet above sea level-over 1,000 feet above the present city's altitude.

Standing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building Monday morning fresh from learning that a judge vacated her murder convictions, Madeline Mendoza, who was 16 when she was arrested in connection with a double slaying, said she now plans to go to law school.Mendoza, 47, is among dozens who have accused disgraced former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara of fabricating evidence to frame them for crimes they did not commit throughout his career with the Chicago Police Department.

Under pressure amid a boycott by top law schools, U.S. News & World Report told law school deans on Monday that it will make several changes in the next edition of its influential ratings.In a letter to American law school deans published on its site, U.S. News said its next list would give more credit to schools whose graduates go on to pursue advanced degrees, or school-funded fellowships to work in public-service jobs that pay lower wages.