{"id":142533,"date":"2026-01-23T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/23\/stats-of-the-week-law-schools-revolving-door\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:22:47","slug":"stats-of-the-week-law-schools-revolving-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/23\/stats-of-the-week-law-schools-revolving-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Law Schools\u2019 Revolving Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/law-school-dean-survives-two-year-search-falls-to-one-week-culture-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the culture war cancellation of the University of Arkansas\u2019 incoming law dean<\/a> made headlines this week, it follows substantial turnover among law school leadership in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Law.com (citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/lawdeans.com\/results.php?s=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AALS Rosenblatt\u2019s Deans Database<\/a>), nearly a quarter of U.S. law schools with ABA accreditation had a new dean in 2025. This includes six top-tier schools: Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and Yale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2026\/01\/06\/nearly-25-of-law-schools-had-new-deans-in-2025-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read the full article<\/a> at Law.com, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/new-deans-led-nearly-one-quarter-of-law-schools-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal\u2019s coverage here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<p><strong><em>Jeremy Barker is the director of content marketing for Breaking Media. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jbarker@breakingmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email him<\/a>\u00a0with questions or comments and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremy-barker-925b63375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">connect on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/stats-of-the-week-law-schools-revolving-door\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stat(s) Of The Week: Law Schools\u2019 Revolving Door<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/law-school-dean-survives-two-year-search-falls-to-one-week-culture-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the culture war cancellation of the University of Arkansas\u2019 incoming law dean<\/a> made headlines this week, it follows substantial turnover among law school leadership in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Law.com (citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/lawdeans.com\/results.php?s=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AALS Rosenblatt\u2019s Deans Database<\/a>), nearly a quarter of U.S. law schools with ABA accreditation had a new dean in 2025. This includes six top-tier schools: Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and Yale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2026\/01\/06\/nearly-25-of-law-schools-had-new-deans-in-2025-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read the full article<\/a> at Law.com, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/new-deans-led-nearly-one-quarter-of-law-schools-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal\u2019s coverage here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<p><strong><em>Jeremy Barker is the director of content marketing for Breaking Media. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jbarker@breakingmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email him<\/a>\u00a0with questions or comments and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremy-barker-925b63375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">connect on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/stats-of-the-week-law-schools-revolving-door\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stat(s) Of The Week: Law Schools\u2019 Revolving Door<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the culture war cancellation of the University of Arkansas\u2019 incoming law dean made headlines this week, it follows substantial turnover among law school leadership in general.\u00a0 As noted by Law.com (citing the AALS Rosenblatt\u2019s Deans Database), nearly a quarter of U.S. law schools with ABA accreditation had a new dean in 2025. This includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stat-of-the-week-image-e57FbZ.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}