Law School: Criminal Procedure Class and Jay-Z

In law school, criminal procedure is one of the more engaging classes you'll take.

You probably already know about the Miranda warning, but there's a lot more to learn in Criminal Procedure class. If his article about Jay-Z is any indication of his teaching style, Caleb Mason is probably one of the best professors to take it from.

He recently wrote an article for the St. Louis University Law Journal titled "Jay-Z's 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps."

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Logic and Games

* Wondering when you'll get your June 2012 LSAT score back? I've got a prediction. [LSAT Blog]

* At least 10 law schools are planning to reduce incoming class sizes for this fall. [ABA Journal]

* Unsurprisingly, Cooley Law is not one of them. Instead, it's opening another campus. [Above the Law]

* Cornell Law just got a $25 million anonymous donation. [Reuters]

* Fun with correlation/causation: why are city kids more likely than rural kids to have food allergies? [Jezebel]

LSAT Logic: Interpreting Survey Data | Polls

LSAT Blog reader Rachel wrote the following LSAT-style analysis of survey data on abortion and gay marriage. Please feel free to discuss her analysis, and the surveys themselves, in the comments.

If you'd like to write a post for LSAT Blog with your own analysis of any real-world situation, please email me. I'd love to feature you!

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June 2012 LSAT Score Release Dates

The June 2012 LSAT scores / results are scheduled to be released via email by Friday, July 6, 2012, so you'll have to wait for your LSAT score.

However, the scores usually come out a bit earlier than scheduled.

Let's look at the trend over the past several years (click to enlarge):

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Premium Law School Application Guide

LSAT Blog's Premium Law School Application Guide is now available for instant PDF download.

I've already written several articles containing advice on completing your law school applications.

However, they're just that - articles. How do you use all of them to complete the best application possible?

There are several components to the law school application. They include the:

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Logic and Games

* What should you eat for breakfast on LSAT Test Day? [LSAT Blog]

* The Dean of Massachusetts School of Law says that law school should be accessible to all. [Huffington Post]

* Cardozo Law student gets unexpected lesson from federal judge at Gupta insider-trading case hearing. [ABA Journal]

* A former dean recommends some ways low-tier law schools can make education more student-centric. [Baltimore Sun]

* A debate on when to punish young offenders, and when to rehabilitate them. [NYTimes]

Law School Personal Statement Goals

This post on navigating the personal statement is by the author of A Comprehensive Guide to the Law School Personal Statement, Margaret Klein, PhD, a personal statement editor.

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Law School Applicant / Application Numbers Update

If you've been following LSAT Blog over the past few months, you know that the number of law school applicants and applications has dropped precipitously this cycle compared to previous ones.

I've created graphs and provided analysis on what these changes may mean for those who applied this cycle (and, perhaps, future cycles as well).

In a further update, LSAC has just put together a few nifty graphs showing the number of law school applicants / applications for this cycle as compared to the previous two admission cycles.

What's cool about these is that these graphs is that they show the number of applicants and applications as they're counted over the course of each cycle. You'll see what I mean below:

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Logic and Games

* Don't forget to bring a photo on Test Day. [LSAT Blog]

* Some law school success stories. [Above the Law]

* Think the LSAT's bad? Taking college entrance exams in China is even worse. [Yahoo News]

* Which law schools have the highest and lowest yields? And which might lower their admission standards? Here's some great analysis. [TaxProf Blog]

* 76 degrees (Fahrenheit) is the temperature at which workers are most productive. [ABA Journal]

Even More LSAT GIFs

Even more LSAT GIFs (see previous):

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LSAT Test Day: Use Previous Photo?

You'll need to bring a passport-sized photo with you on LSAT Test Day, so that LSAC employees can vote on all test-takers, Hot-or-Not-style. (Just kidding, it's for test security purposes. Supposedly.)

LSAC requires that this photo be recent, which, according to them, means it must have been taken within the past 6 months.

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