Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

Penn State-Dickinson and Pepperdine law deans donate 125k each to help students at their schools with "emergency needs"

Wow!

Vast majority of George Washington law faculty sign open letter condemning GW alum and current AG William Barr

CNN reports.  Signatories include most of the best-known legal scholars on the GW faculty, including Stephen Saltzburg, Richard Pierce, Jr., Daniel Solove, Naomi Cahn, and Michael Abramowicz, among others.  You can read the full letter here:   Download Gw-barr-statement.  Barr has become a disgrace to the office, so kudos to them for making a public statement.

Impact of COVID on summer programs and OCI

Useful summary of recent NALP data.

Statement by Dean Marcus Cole (Notre Dame) in the wake of the killing of George Floyd

Worth reading.

Harvard Law School announces online classes for the fall

Surprising, but perhaps this will encourage other schools to follow suit.  Of course, HLS is very large, and perhaps that was a factor.

Amicus brief from law professors in support of Shmuel Leshem in his tenure dispute with Southern California

The list of signatories and the brief are available here.  (Prior coverage.)

(Thanks to Abe Wickelgren for the pointer.)

With 95% of the Fall 2020 admissions cycle complete, applicants are down 3.2% nationwide

Details here.   That's not good news in terms of next year's academic job market in law schools, given the other negative pressures on law school hiring related to the pandemic.

University of Minnesota law professor Parisi wins defamation lawsuit against woman who falsely and maliciously accused him of rape

Good for him, some vindication after the ordeal he was put through.  (Prior coverage.)

"The Legal Academy": Orin Kerr (Berkeley) interviews law professors

Episode 1 is up with Akhil Amar (Yale).

Entry-level hiring report for 2019-20...

...courtesy of Professor Lawsky (Northwestern).  Sorry for not posting this sooner, I had missed it.  Do submit your information.