Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve. I’m Karen Sloan, legal education editor at Law.com, and I’ll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.

This week, I’m rounding up the many new law dean announcements from Wake Forest; Ohio State; Chicago-Kent; Appalachian; and Cooley. Next up is a check-in with Law School Transparency, which has rebooted its great podcast I Am the Law with funding from the Law School Admission Council. Last is a post-mortem on a law school censorship scandal at the University of South Dakota School of Law that turned out to be not so scandalous.