The Harvard Law School Human Rights Clinic, with the help of two HLS students, recently published a report on the legal ramifications of mining claims on the Takla Lake First Nation people of British Columbia. Susanna Knox ’10 and Lauren Pappone ’11 accompanied HLS lecturer Bonnie Docherty on a fact finding trip to Canada in September of 2009. The trio conducted interviews in remote parts of the Takla Lake First Nation’s over 27,000 square kilometers of territory, a third of which has had its mineral claims staked by outsiders. The report that the clinic ultimately released, “Bearing the Burden: The Effects of Mining on First Nations in British Columbia,” determined that Canadian mining laws benefit mining interests over those of the First nations people. The report also pushed the Canadian government to elaborate on its stance on this issue. Knox, who graduated this summer and now works for the Southern Environmental Law Center in North Carolina expressed how meaningful this work for her: Continue reading
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 Law School News Late last week, Northwestern University announced that the dean of its School of Law, David Van Zandt, will leave the University at the end of December to take on his new role as president of The New School in New York City. A member of the Northwestern faculty since 1985, Van Zandt has served as dean of the law school for the past 15 years. He will replace The New School’s current president, Bob Kerrey, on January 1st, 2011. During his tenure as dean of Northwestern Law, Van Zandt led a strategic plan to make the school more competitive. His efforts resulted in the creation of the largest JD-MBA program in the United States, a dramatic increase in annual giving, and a rise in the school’s public profile. Northwestern Law has also become the most diverse top-tier law school in the country as a result of Van Zandt’s guidance. Continue reading 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 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 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 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 Dan Farber, a Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, will act as a special consultant to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Berkeley announced in a Friday press release. The commission was formed by President Obama in May to study the causes of, and federal responses to, the spill. Continue reading Last week, the UVA School of Law followed up on some of its faculty who went abroad this summer to teach mostly non-American law students at law schools located around the world. The faculty profiled in the article included criminal law scholar Josh Bowers, vice dean for the law school and food and drug law expert M. Elizabeth Magill, contracts scholar Kevin A. Kordana and torts and insurance law expert Kenneth S. Abraham. Additionally, international business expert . . . → Continue Reading Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that a New York state court judge has approved a controversial expansion plan at Fordham University School of Law’s Lincoln Center campus. The decision, handed down on Monday, rejected a nearby condo’s contention that the construction would violate certain conditions of the 1957 urban-renewal deal which first gave Fordham the land rights to the Lincoln Center area. According Justice Judith Gische’s ruling, the original terms of the property deed have since been changed by the city. Continue reading Posted by Clear Admit at 12:24 pm in
Law School News Earlier in August, the National Jurist reported that preLaw Magazine recently published a list of the “Best Value Law Schools.” The publication determined the list by weighing the schools’ respective bar pass rates, the amount of debt a typical student graduates with, if employment rates are above 85% within the nine months after a class’ graduation, and the in-state tuition cost of attending the institution. While the magazine is not yet out on the stands, and won’t be until October, the National Jurist provided its readers with the full list of schools in alphabetical order, first listing the top 20 before providing the remaining 40. For a more thorough ranking and explanation of the publication’s system, readers will have . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 7:00 am in
Law School News An article in yesterday’s LA Times reported the recent court decision to free Gregory Taylor after eight years in prison. Taylor’s sentence of 25 years to life for his attempt to break into a church at which he volunteered and was welcome, was a result of California’s ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ policy. It was with the help of Stanford students Gabriel Martinez and Reiko Rogozen, supported by the school’s Criminal Defense Clinic, that Taylor’s fate was changed. Martinez and Rogozen are just two of a number of Stanford students working to free imprisoned individuals with harsh sentences as a result of the 1994 three strikes policy. Michael Romano, the Clinic’s Founder, was quoted as . . . → Continue Reading Just one day after announcing its presence on Twitter, the Admissions Office at William and Mary Law School revealed that any prospective student who becomes a follower of the W&M Law Admission Twitter Feed before October 3, 2010 could be the lucky winner of an application fee waiver. Slated to be used during the 2010-2011 admission cycle, William & Mary is offering this fee wavier to help ameliorate the extensive costs that law school applicants often accumulate applying to their target schools. The winner of the fee wavier, selected via random drawing, will be announced through a Twitter direct message on October 4, 2010. Thus far, the W&M Law Admission Twitter Feed has pointed prospective students . . . → Continue Reading In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) earlier this summer, the University of Iowa College of Law recounted some of the success its in-house clinic has had in helping businesses, bureaus and organizations in Iowa update policies in order to comply with the new accessibility laws. Some examples of the in-house clinic’s impact on local institutions, with regard to ADA compliance, include helping Iowa City’s Hickory Hill Park make its trails accessible to people with disabilities while limiting the impact of construction on the park’s natural beauty; participating in the creation of the Universal Design Model Home, the first of its . . . → Continue Reading 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 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 |
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