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July 27, 2010
On July 22, members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School community gathered at the site of the future Golkin Hall to participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking. Golkin Hall is named after Perry and Donna Golkin, the lead donors, and, when completed, will mark the end of a 10-year period of reconstruction of Penn Law’s campus. The building is expected to be fully finalized by January 2012.
Golkin Hall – which will be located on the south side of Penn Law’s campus, will replace the former Pepper Hall, and is expected to be three times as large the building it is replacing. The building will include a two-story entry hall, a 350-seat auditorium and a state-of-the-art court room. In addition, the building . . . → Continue Reading
June 9, 2010
Starting their post-law school life off with a little pizazz, 50 members of the graduating class of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law wasted little time before weighing in on the often fraught relationship between the New York City District Attorney’s Office and the defense attorneys they argue against. Just days before their commencement, a number of students collaborated on an open letter to the newly elected D.A., Cyrus Vance, expressing disappointment that his office has yet to make in-roads towards a more open method of sharing state’s evidence with defendants. The timing of this letter and its intended recipient was made more news-worthy because Vance was scheduled to give the school’s commencement speech just a few days later. . . . → Continue Reading
May 12, 2010
On June 24th Harvard Law Professor and alumnus Einer Elhauge will be awarded the Jerry S. Cohen Award for best antitrust scholarship in 2009. A committee that included professors from NYU School of Law, Southwestern Law School and Stanford University determined that Elhauge’s 2009 article in the Harvard Review, “Tying Bundled Discounts, and the Death of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory” raised interesting and compelling arguments “that current antitrust law is correct to condemn ties with market power that lack such offsetting efficiencies, even when they do not foreclose a substantial share of the tied product’s market.” Elhauge will receive recognition at the annual American Antitrust Institute’s annual conference, and be given a cash prize, which in . . . → Continue Reading
May 5, 2010
Yale Law School announced that members of its student body have recently taken top prizes in two separate Yale moot court competitions.
Tanya Abrams ’11 and Mark Hatch-Miller ’10 competed against their peers in the Thurman Arnold Prize Finals of the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals on Monday, April 26th. Abrams and Hatch-Miller won the Potter Stewart Prize for best written and oral arguments in the case Snyder v. Phelps. Additional prizes were awarded for best oralist and best brief. Competitors presented their arguments to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge, Stephen R. Reinhardt, Judge Debra A. Livingston of the Second Circuit, and Judge David F. Hamilton of the Seventh Circuit.
Abrams and Hatch-Miller were . . . → Continue Reading
April 9, 2010
As promised in our April 6th timeline for this year’s BoBs, today is the day we release the 2009-2010 Best of Blogging nominees! For those of you not familiar with the Clear Admit Best of Blogging competition, the goal of this annual event is two-fold. First, we want to recognize and celebrate the best law school applicant and student blogs covering the 2009-10 admissions cycle/academic year. Equally important is Clear Admit’s commitment to identifying valuable sources of information for the next round of applicants and students.
The process we used to determine BoB nominees started with considering all FFF-featured blogs. Looking at originality and relevance of content, as well as total number of posts and overall . . . → Continue Reading
March 25, 2010
Registration for the LSAC Law School Recruitment Forums is now open for the 2010 scheduled events. The forums are intended as a resource for prospective J.D. candidates hoping to learn more about the various ABA-approved law schools to which they are considering applying, as representatives from law schools across the country, as well as prelaw advisors and LSAC Candidate Services representatives, are available at the events to answer questions.
Prospective candidates in attendance are encouraged to meet with the individuals representing their target schools in order to learn more about the program’s curriculum, facilities, research and clinical programs and student body. Although attendees are advised that the representatives are not there to evaluate the candidacy of prospective applicants, some individuals may find . . . → Continue Reading
March 18, 2010
Now that more and more law school applicants have begun receiving news of their acceptance at various programs, it’s becoming the time of year when such individuals must take the time to reflect on their options and ultimately decide on a school to attend next fall. This is a process that can be both tedious and difficult, especially for those lucky applicants who have been admitted to more than one of their target programs.
In a recent post to Harvard Law School’s admission blog, HLS in Focus, Emily Murphy takes the time to discuss the challenges associated with selecting a program – three years ago, she found herself in the same situation many future law students are now . . . → Continue Reading
March 4, 2010
This Friday and Saturday, February 5th and 6th, Michigan Law School‘s Journal of Race & Law plans to host a symposium entitled “Reinventing the Wheel: Why Broken Cities Stay Broken and New Ways Civil Rights Attorneys Can Fix Them.” The event will focus on addressing civil rights issues in urban environments nationwide and marks the journal’s fifteenth year of publication.
The group explains that “our symposium looks to examine civil rights struggles and why the traditional remedies worked, what the newer or existing problems are and why such solutions don’t work, as well as developing concrete solutions to such problems through a focus on Detroit.” Keynote speaker Columbia Law Professor Jack Greenburg, former director and counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, . . . → Continue Reading
February 4, 2010
Today and tomorrow, February 4th and 5th, New York University School of Law will be holding its 33rd annual Public Interest Legal Career Fair, recognized as the nation’s largest public interest legal career fair. The event is hosted by the school’s Public Interest Law Center (PILC).
The fair offers students a valuable opportunity to meet and talk with employers at information tables, and some students even have the chance to interview for internships and permanent jobs. Last year, representatives from 200 organizations and over 2,000 law students attended the event.
The event is held in NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall, and runs from 9:20 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. To learn more about to event and to review a list of participating schools, click . . . → Continue Reading
November 9, 2009
To commemorate its tenth anniversary, the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) is currently hosting two weeks of events and dialogue.
The anniversary, which began last week with a film series, continues in earnest through this week with panel discussions, forums, lectures and performances on the Iowa City campus.
While the center is university-wide in its scope and though the anniversary features a diverse collection of scholars and rights advocates, legal opinions are to be well-represented throughout the UICHR activities. Indeed the center was founded in 1999 by Burns H. Weston, a professor at the University of Iowa, College of Law.
Perhaps the most prominent opinion to be featured belongs to Michael Ratner, a professor at . . . → Continue Reading
October 28, 2009
For all those applicants who have recently opened a calendar to plot out the next few months only to realize they can’t possibly fit in campus visits on top of jobs, school, and personal statements, never fear! It’s true that traveling to a school’s campus is an ideal way to learn about their law program, but visiting is often not a viable option for applicants who are located remotely or unsure of their level of interest in a given school. The good news is that law schools might very well come to them. Many law schools hit the road and embark on worldwide tours to dispense information and recruit qualified applicants. Such events offer a great opportunity for interested students to . . . → Continue Reading
October 16, 2009
In early August, we let you know about the LSAC Law School Recruitment Forums, which offer prospective law school applicants the chance to meet with representatives from a number of programs.
After two recent forums in the Northeast, LSAC next moves to Chicago, Ill. for a one-day event on Saturday, Oct. 17 before a two-day iteration descends on Atlanta, Ga., beginning on Friday, Oct. 23. The Atlanta forum is the last scheduled event of 2009, with further forums set for 2010.
As we told you in August, these forums are not established for school representatives to evaluate prospects, but perspective students can find them helpful for asking questions about a school’s . . . → Continue Reading
August 18, 2009
J.D. students from around the world recently completed this year’s Summer Institute for Global Justice, a six-week intensive program that exposes attendees to international and comparative law. The institute, now in its fifth year, is held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and is co-sponsored by Washington University Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Utrecht University.
While enrolled in the program, participants have the opportunity to learn from prominent experts in the field of international law, including such persons as Distinguished Visiting Jurists Larry Johnson and William Shabas. Many student report that, on top to regular class sessions, many professors arrange for “evening hours,” often held at nearby bars and restaurants. In addition to the courses taught, students will also be . . . → Continue Reading
August 3, 2009
Recently, we discussed the search data for the ABA-LSAC official guide, a source made available by the LSAC for prospective law school applicants. This week, we’d like to highlight another valuable opportunity organized by LSAC – the LSAC Law School Forums. These forums, scheduled to be held in several major cities during the fall and winter, offer J.D. hopefuls the opportunity to meet with representatives from a wide variety of law schools in a centralized location. Although many of the representatives hold positions in their school’s admissions office, attendees will also have the chance to meet with faculty members, recent graduates and current students.
Prospective J.D. candidates who attend the forums are encouraged to meet with the individuals representing their . . . → Continue Reading
June 25, 2009
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity’s (“CLEO”) annual Six-Week Summer Institute, a non-profit program run through the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education. Approximately 80 students are taking part in the program this year, which is being held from June 7-July 17 at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and Southern Illinois University School of Law. The Institute mirrors the experience of the first weeks of law school, providing instruction in essential skills, such as legal research and writing, as well as fundamental blackletter law topics, such as contracts . . . → Continue Reading
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