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August 30, 2010
In a recent New Jersey Star-Ledger article, John Farmer, Jr., the dean of the Rutgers School of Law at Newark, says that although law students currently face great challenges with respect to employment, a legal education is still valuable.
In the article, entitled “The Real Value of a Legal Education,” Farmer identifies some of the problems of legal education. He notes that law school application and enrollment numbers are at a record high, leading some members of the bar to question how legal educators can admit such large numbers of students, knowing the uncertainty of the job market. According to Farmer, law schools should prepare students for the challenging job market, and law students should keep . . . → Continue Reading
August 27, 2010
Monterey College of Law in Seaside, California is the first accredited law school, among the 220 or so in the U.S., to provide students with iPads as part of a BARBRI supplemental curriculum program. During the second phase of the program, iPads will be given to members of the law school faculty who are interested in using the tool to enhance their course materials.
Monterey College of Law, which is a four-year evening J.D. program, is a suitable testing ground for the iPad pilot program given the fact that the median age of enrolled students is 38, many of whom hold full-time jobs. The aim of dispensing iPads to current law students is to give them up to 700 additional . . . → Continue Reading
August 26, 2010
This September, James Tysse, a 2006 graduate of UVA Law, will serve as one of four U.S. Supreme Court fellows during the upcoming 2010-2011 session. Tysse was selected from among eight finalists after two days of intensive interviews, which took place last January, with Elena Kagan and former Justice O’Connor, a dinner at the Supreme Court and an introduction to the Chief Justice.
During his time serving at the U.S. Supreme Court, Tysse will specifically work at the Sentencing Commission where he’ll conduct research of sentencing guidelines. Tysse developed an interest in this area while he was studying for his JD at UVA and specifically points to a class on criminal law and psychiatry taught by Professor Hafemeister. Since graduating, . . . → Continue Reading
August 26, 2010
According to a recent New York Times article, recent law school graduates are choosing to pursue public service positions, even when saddled with heavy law school debt, or, in some cases, even when offered high paying jobs with larger law firms.
One such example of a recent graduate who has chosen to remain in public serve is Nathan Richardson, a 2009 graduate of Chicago Law School. Like many law students before him, Richardson accepted a summer position with a large law firm between his 2L and 3L year, and, at the end of the summer, was offered a full-time position with the group following graduation. After the 2008 economic downturn, however, the firm he was set to join in 2009 . . . → Continue Reading
August 19, 2010
With September right around the corner, law schools across the country are gearing up for the fall academic term. Recent posts to the Lawyerist.com have provided tips for 2Ls and 3Ls soon to be returning to their programs. Though geared at second and third-year students, the advice provided is also applicable to matriculating students, as much of the information provides insights into how to best structure the 1L year, and the type of experience a new law student should expect to have during his or her first few months as a law student.
For example, the advice provided for returning 2Ls notes that, although the second year is notoriously not as challenging or time consuming as the first . . . → Continue Reading
August 13, 2010
UW Law School recently announced that Assistant Professor Susannah Camic and Professor Jonathon Lipson will be joining the law school faculty.
Professor Camic, who completed her Bachelor of Arts and J.D. studies at Yale University, will be coming to UW Law from Washington, DC, where she was a member of the tax group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. During her three years at Yale Law, Camic served as the executive editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation and received the Clifford L. Porter Prize for her exceptional work on a taxation paper in 2006. This fall, Professor Camic will teach Taxation I and her future courses will align with her expertise in tax law and policy.
Professor Lipson . . . → Continue Reading
August 12, 2010
In keeping with last week’s post about the appointment of UC Davis Law graduate Tani Cantil-Sakauye to Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, today we share similar news from Vanderbilt University Law School.
On Tuesday, Vanderbilt Law announced that Cornelia A. Clark, a 1979 graduate of the law school, will serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. As of September 1, 2010, Chief Justice Clark will be the second female to serve in this role; she will be succeeding Chief Justice Holder, who is also a woman.
Clark, who received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt and a Masters from Harvard, was a member of the editorial board of the Vanderbilt Law Review during her . . . → Continue Reading
August 11, 2010
On Monday, Michigan Law announced that Professor Steven Croley would be accepting the post, thus taking time off from his teaching role at the University, of Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy.
Croley, who will now be a member of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, is not the first member of the Michigan Law community to work for the Obama Administration. He will be reporting to Melody Barnes, a 1989 graduate of the law school, who serves as the president’s Domestic Policy Advisor. In his new role in Washington, Croley will primarily work on issues related to regulatory policy and ethics, among other topics.
Professor Croley, who completed his undergraduate studies at the University . . . → Continue Reading
August 9, 2010
NYU School of Law has hired six fulltime professors to join the school’s faculty in the 2010-2011 academic year. These new faculty members boast a variety of legal expertise, including backgrounds in business, criminal, international, and procedure law.
One of the new professors, Richard Epstein, has actually been teaching at NYU Law as a Visiting Professor for the last few fall terms. He is known for his work regarding constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical topics related to law, and comes to NYU from Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the faculty from 1972 through the end of the 2009-2010 academic year. For the 2010-2011 academic year, Professor Epstein will teach the first-year Contracts course in . . . → Continue Reading
August 6, 2010
Not all classes let out in late spring as evidenced by NYU Law’s participation in two programs aimed at giving high school students from underprivileged backgrounds the chance to explore the field of law.
The first of these partnerships is with the Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools (TRIALS), which is also sponsored by the Advantage Testing Foundation and Harvard Law School. During the five-week program, a select group of 20 students meet legal scholars from the NYU Law community, such as Dean Revesz and Professor McKenzie, and attend lectures by public figures and leading lawyers. Participants, for whom the residential program is fully subsidized, are also afforded the opportunity to prepare for the LSAT and . . . → Continue Reading
August 3, 2010
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit Law School Guides to Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, NYU, Northwestern, Penn, Stanford, UVA and Yale!
This set of comprehensive guides was designed with the discerning law school applicant in mind. Each publication provides detailed information about areas such as academics, clinical programs, student clubs, career services, and admissions and financial aid in an easy-to-use format. These objective guides help law applicants:
- Select law schools effectively by comparing J.D. programs head-to-head using objective data that goes beyond published rankings
- Save time assembling application materials as the guides provide the key . . . → Continue Reading
August 2, 2010
For those applicants looking for some fun summer reading that has the added benefit of enhancing your law school applications, the archives of student newspapers are a wonderful resource that is well worth exploring. Student papers often offer excellent insight into the culture on campus and provide a great window on the events and controversies at each school, making them an important part of the law school application research process.
Candidates beginning the application process might find it helpful to read through some of the back issues of a school’s paper. Information from the papers can become a valuable addition to application essays later this summer – perhaps you would like to help organize one of the conferences or speaker series profiled . . . → Continue Reading
July 23, 2010
Earlier this week the University of Minnesota Law School announced that it was the recipient of a $2 million gift from the Robina Foundation, which was established in 2004 by a 1941 graduate of the law school, James H. Binger.
This recent gift is not the first donation on behalf of the Robina Foundation. Back in December 2008, the foundation granted Minnesota Law $6.01 million to be given over a five year period. It was this larger gift that served as the bedrock upon which the law school’s Program on Law, Public Policy, and Society (LaPPS) was launched. Among other things, the financial resources from the first . . . → Continue Reading
July 22, 2010
Boston College announced yesterday that George D. Brown, a nationally recognized expert in government ethics and federal-state relations, will serve as the interim dean of the law school once John Garvey leaves this post to fulfill his appointment as president of Catholic University.
Brown, who was named Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Professor of Law in 2006, is not new to the role of administrator as he previously served as the associate dean of academic affairs under two different deans. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the Boston College community for nearly 40 years, Brown has served his fellow Bay Staters on numerous occasions. In the mid-1990s he was appointed by Governor Weld . . . → Continue Reading
July 15, 2010
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama made his intentions known to appoint Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law, to serve as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS).
Professor Cuéllar, who joined the Stanford Law faculty in 2001, is widely recognized for his expertise in federal regulatory policy, international security and public safety. The ACUS Council operates independently of the federal government and its members are tasked with increasing the efficiency and fairness of U.S. government agencies. In his new post, Cuéllar will leverage his knowledge of the management of institutional regulatory change to help the ACUS set its priorities.
Cuéllar, a 1997 Yale Law School graduate who . . . → Continue Reading
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