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August 20, 2010
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit School Guide to Georgetown University Law Center, the 12th and final title in our 2010-2011 law school guide series. To take a “look inside” the guide or to purchase it for immediate download, please visit the Clear Admit Shop!
The Clear Admit Guide to Georgetown University Law Center contains the most up-to-date information available about the admissions process, academic programs and quality of life at Georgetown University Law Center, and we present it to you in an easy-to-read format. Download your copy to . . . → Continue Reading
August 3, 2010
In this addition of Trivia Tuesday, we’re taking a look at the University of Chicago Law School’s grading system. While many of its peer schools have made changes to their grading systems in the past couple of years, such as altering the curve to increase the number of students who could be given A-range grades (as NYU did) or effectively getting rid of grades entirely (as Harvard Law and Stanford have done by switching to simplified Honors, Pass, Low Pass, Fail systems), Chicago has held steadfast to the unique numbers-based scheme it has used for decades without a hint that it intends to change its ways any time soon.
Chicago’s system is based on a . . . → 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 16, 2010
Earlier this week, Chicago Law announced that Amy M. Gardner would serve the law school in the capacity of dean of students beginning in August 2010.
Gardner is no stranger to the Chicago Law community; she was a member of the editorial board of the University of Chicago Law Review as a law student. Since graduating from Chicago Law in 2002, Gardner has served as a moot court judge, as a mentor for the law school’s Women’s Mentoring Program and as a member of the Alumni Admissions Committee. In fact, Gardner’s involvement extends beyond the law school—she recently ended her role as president of the Chicago chapter of the University of Chicago Alumni Club and is currently a . . . → Continue Reading
June 24, 2010
Yesterday, the University of Chicago Law School announced that Susan Curry would join the law school in the capacity of director of the Public Interest Law and Policy Program. Her formal appointment will begin on July 12, 2010 once she steps down from her post as executive director of the Chicago-based Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI).
Prior to joining PILI in 2004, Curry held leadership roles at the P-Fund Foundation, Minnesota Justice Foundation and AIDS Legal Council of Chicago. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame College of Law and was admitted to the bars of Illinois and Minnesota before beginning her brief career as a private sector attorney at Gardner, Carton & Douglas.
During her . . . → Continue Reading
June 10, 2010
For the past eighteen years students participating in the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project have represented Italo Sanders in Illinois state courts. At 16 years old, Sanders was accused of killing a man based on the testimony of a 7-year-old eyewitness. Since then, Chicago Law students and professors have worked countless hours on his case.
It all began in 1992 when Sanders’ mother contacted the Clinic and reached out to Randolph Stone, who served as the Mandel Clinic director from 1991 until 2001. Stone, along with Clinical Professor of Law Herschella Conyers, decided to take the case due to its alignment with the goal of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project. With the . . . → Continue Reading
May 31, 2010
Last week, admissions deans from six leading law schools answered questions about the law school admissions process that were posed by an unnamed news publication. Four of these admissions deans then posted the insightful responses on their school’s official admissions blog. As a result, applicants to leading U.S. law schools can now visit the Stanford Law, Columbia Law, Yale Law and Michigan Law admissions blogs and find a treasure trove of information about the admissions process straight from the minds of the gatekeepers to their dream schools: . . . → Continue Reading
March 9, 2010
In today’s Trivia Tuesday, we’re looking at the way the student body at Stanford Law School is structured.
The average size of each SLS J.D. class is roughly 170 students, and has remained virtually constant for many years. With Chicago Law’s 1L class holding steady at roughly 190 students and now that Yale Law has increased its class size from 185 to over 200 students, SLS has the smallest class of any of its peers by a relatively significant margin.
Unlike some larger schools, such as Harvard Law, which divide each class into cohorts or sections of 70 or more students to encourage a more collegial 1L experience, the small size of Stanford Law’s student body makes for . . . → Continue Reading
January 26, 2010
Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, Clear Admit’s weekly peek into a leading law school program. Today we are considering the University of Chicago Law School’s weekly colloquia, known as Workshops, for which J.D. and LL.M. students can earn credit.
Workshops are a popular way for Chicago students who are interested in a particular legal discipline to get involved in cutting edge research while engaging with faculty and visiting lecturers on discussions of scholarship and innovations within the legal profession. This year, Chicago students are taking Workshops in subjects that range from the broad, such as Law and Economics or Law and Philosophy, to the specific, such as Constitutional Law or Regulation . . . → Continue Reading
January 18, 2010
In an interview with The National Law Journal last week, the University of Chicago Law School’s newly-established dean, Michael Schill, established bold fundraising ambitions to bring his institution’s endowment in line with peer programs.
“We are way under-endowed compared to our peer schools – Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, NYU,” Schill said. ”The Law School has generated the most important idea to affect law in the past 50 years: law and economics. I want to improve some of the connectivity of faculty and students between the Law School and other departments in social sciences and the business school. It has been reduced in the past ten to 15 years. I also want to identify . . . → Continue Reading
January 6, 2010
Over the holiday semester break, Michael Schill completed his move to the deanship at the University of Chicago Law School, a transition which was announced in September. Schill officially began his tenure upon the new year.
As we originally detailed in this space, Schill moved from the deanship at the UCLA School of Law, where he oversaw a period of expansion that included the establishment of three new research centers. He previously held law professorial positions at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, and his area of expertise is property and real estate law.
Installed at his new institution, Schill wasted little time in addressing prospective students with a “ . . . → Continue Reading
December 18, 2009
With a final post last week, the University of Chicago Law School’s Admissions blog, A Day in the Life, officially signed off.
In an entry titled, “Time, and Technology, March On,” the school’s Admissions Office wrote, “We find that each year we don’t have that many new things to add to our advice about personal statements and the like, but the advice from previous years is all still valid.”
Indeed interested applicants could use the blog’s archive to learn about the Law School, gauge how the Admissions Office feels about including supplementary information in an application or find out what they should include in a resume, among other topics.
The post also indicated that “the . . . → Continue Reading
December 15, 2009
Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, Clear Admit’s weekly peek into the details and distinctions of leading law school programs. Today we’re taking a look at the way the University of Chicago Law School structures its tiny 1L class.
Chicago is one of the smallest of the leading U.S. law schools, with just 190 students in each class. Now that Yale Law School has increased the size of its class to over 200 students, only Stanford has fewer students in each class than Chicago. Students at Chicago report that the small class makes it easy to get to know every other student in the class, . . . → Continue Reading
November 12, 2009
Responding to concerns of the somewhat tiresome nature of ethics classes, the University of Chicago Law School altered its approach last fall, turning instead to more of a case-based course.
Said J.D. ’09 Brad Humphreys: “People go into [ethics class] with a certain amount of dread. The concern is that the class won’t represent what actually happens in practice.”
As a result, Chicago reformed its offering, “Legal Profession: Shades of Gray.” Feedback thus far has been more positive and, according to the article in the Chicago alumni magazine, The Record, other law programs are inquiring about the new approach.
Typically, ethics classes, which are required for all American Bar Association-accredited programs, review established standards of conduct. . . . → Continue Reading
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