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September 30, 2009
After gaining school approval last December, 12 George Washington University Law students are on the path to receive a degree in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law, the program’s latest specialization.
With an eye toward the school’s backyard, the program is primarily designed for future military or government employees.
“This is for students who are interested in everything from counterterrorism measures to military policy to laws regulating our intelligence services,” said Gregory Maggs, the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, in an article by the GW Hatchet.
Though it is officially a new addition for GW, the program essentially builds off existing curricular offerings, as . . . → Continue Reading
September 28, 2009
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP) announced on Tuesday that it has entered in a research partnership with University of the People (UoPeople), a nonprofit, tuition-free online academic institution.
In keeping with its focus on the implications of new information technologies, and as part of the partnership, ISP plans to take on research, advocacy and network-building responsibilities to improve UoPeople’s democratic education and make the platform more accessible.
Though ISP has established a new partnership, the initiative itself is nothing new: The Law School group helped to found the Dynamic Coalition of Digital Education in early 2008.
In a school press release, Jack Balkin, . . . → Continue Reading
September 21, 2009
The University of Virginia Law School has opened its 2009 fall semester with two newly certified program additions:
Detailed recently in The Cavalier Daily, the Family Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic offers mediation services for low-income families.
Two weeks earlier, in a press release, the Law School introduced the Nonprofit Clinic, which matches students with local nonprofits for “legal health checks.”
With the quick succession of announcements, the school has made two existing pilot programs official, starting this semester. Both pro bono alternatives previously, the pair adds to UVA’s list of for-credit clinics.
The Dispute Resolution Clinic will deal entirely with family law cases, pertaining mostly to issues of child support, . . . → Continue Reading
September 17, 2009
Sensing a market shift among businesses to more small ventures and start-ups, the University of Pittsburgh recently created the Innovation Practice Institute (IPI). The IPI, through interdisciplinary coursework and planned symposia, lectures and company outreach, aims to prepare attorneys to counsel this growing generation of burgeoning businesses.
The primary impetus for IPI was Law School alum Max Miller, a member of the school’s Alumni Board who has worked as a corporate counselor, a brand manager and, perhaps most appropriately, has started his own marketing venture. After suggesting the Institute, Miller has since been named its initial director and has been hired as an adjunct professor.
“The marketplace is changing,” said Miller. “Businesses are under pressure to . . . → Continue Reading
September 10, 2009
It’s been eight months since Toby Stock, Harvard’s admissions dean of a little over three admissions cycles, departed Cambridge for a job in Washington D.C. and left Associate Director of Admissions Karen Buttenbaum in charge of conducting phone interviews for most of the past admissions season. But on Tuesday – only weeks before the admissions committee begins reviewing applications for the 2009-2010 cycle – HLS introduced the new Assistant Dean for Admissions, Josh Rubenstein, on the school’s official admissions blog HLS In Focus. Rubenstein is a 2006 graduate of HLS who has worked on Capital Hill and for a leading management consulting firm and, according to the blog . . . → Continue Reading
September 8, 2009
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 8, the University of Chicago announced the appointment of nationally-renowned property law scholar Michael Schill to the position of dean of the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Schill, who graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School, has held tenured positions at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, NYU and UCLA School of Law, and was the first director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy prior to his most recent role as dean of UCLA School of Law. As UCLA’s law school dean for the past five years, Professor Schill oversaw a period of expansion, drawing . . . → Continue Reading
September 7, 2009
Buoyed by federal modifications, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law announced Thursday that it will lessen the financial burden of alumni participating in the school’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP).
After passage of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act in July, LRAP was able to “piggyback” its program onto the government bill to provide assistance to more graduates at a lower cost.
Beginning in 2010, the reformed LRAP will offer up to ten years of unlimited assistance for Boalt alumni making less than $65,000 a year at non-profit public interest or government positions. This assistance applies to law school debt and some undergraduate debt. Currently, LRAP is capped at $100,000 of assistance . . . → Continue Reading
September 2, 2009
With digitized content so drastically altering creative industries, it’s fitting that NYU School of Law’s newest publication is an online publication.
Launched by the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society (IPELS), the IP and Entertainment Law Ledger will feature editorial contributions on legal aspects pertaining to intellectual property and the art, entertainment and sports industries, including issues of how those industries have been affected by the internet and other evolving technologies.
Debuting this semester, the Ledger’s content will come from professionals such as IP and entertainment lawyers, agents, managers and studio executives. A student-run editorial board will solicit and notate the professional commentary. The NYU Docket has not made any Ledger publication schedule . . . → Continue Reading
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