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 chatting with Roger Williams law professor Christopher J. Ryan, who co-authored an eye-opening study about the gender pay gap among law school faculties. He shares his thoughts on what the data tells us and what law schools should do about it. Next up is a look at results from Texas’ September in-person bar exam. I delve into why interpreting pass rates this year is going to be tough.