Yesterday the University of Virginia School of Law released its 2009-2010 annual giving campaign results. The school reports a record number of donor contributions and adds a fifth consecutive year of receiving donations from a majority of its alumni. 8,430 graduates of UVA Law School contributed to the school’s coffers this year, which translates to 52.7% of the school’s active alumni population. President and Chief Executive of the school’s foundation, Luis Alvarez Jr. said “The surge in donors shows confidence in the Law School’s leadership and the investments we have made in our students and faculty.” Considering these tough economic times, which often result in a decrease in giving across institutions and non profits, Alvarez’s assertion . . . → Continue Reading
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Earlier this year the University of Virginia Law School announced that its Human Rights Program and Virginia Journal of International Law (VJIL) would co-sponsor a new writing competition, the UVA Law Human Rights Student Scholars Writing Competition. The writing competition is designed to be held every year and is open to J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. students from around the world who are interested in and have written about human rights topics. NYU Law’s Alyssa Bell ’10 won the competition for her essay “Torturous Intent: Refoulment of Haitian Nationals and U.S. Obligations Under the Convention Against Torture.” Bell’s paper outlines the humanitarian crisis occurring in Haiti due to the abusive, crowded, and unsanitary conditions of the prisons, and argues . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 11:55 am in
 General, School: New York University, School: University of Virginia In a June 24th press release, Virginia Law announced that the number of its graduates from the class of 2010 entering positions in public service nearly doubled from the previous year. Seventeen members of the class of 2009 graduated and went on to work within the federal government but, according to the school’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center, that number rose to thirty in Virginia Law’s most recent group of graduates. Part of this rise may be, in part, a result of concerted effort on the part of both the Public Service Program and alumni to prepare students for the application process to the Presidential Management Fellowship Program. Finalists from the previous year returned to . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 12:00 pm in
Law School News, Post-Law School Employment News, School: University of Virginia Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, where we at Clear Admit shed some light on the ins-and-outs of a leading law school’s program. Today, we’re turning our attention to the University of Virginia School of Law and the opportunities students there have to concentrate their final two years of law school on a particular area of law practice that interests them. Virginia Law offers 18 curricular concentrations covering a wide array of legal fields, including Constitutional Law, Health Law, Legal History and Tax Law. Each concentration program offers students a list of lecture courses, seminars, short courses, and Principles & Practice offerings that they can take to fulfill the concentration requirements, as well . . . → Continue Reading Over the past couple of weeks, several law schools held their commencement ceremonies marking the end of studies for 3Ls, LL.Ms and S.J.Ds. At Harvard Law, the weekend kicked off with Class Day activities on May 26. Class Day is an informal event during which the school honors notable members of the Harvard Law community. The event was capped off by a speech by national security expert, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and HLS alumna Samantha Power `99, who currently serves on the National Security Council and is an advisor to President Barack Obama. In her speech, Power urged students to . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 9:59 am in
Law School News, School: Harvard, School: University of Virginia, School: Yale Lillian BeVier, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, will retire this spring after serving the Virginia Law community for 37 years; she was the first female professor to receive tenure at the school. BeVier completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College and received her JD from Stanford University, where she was also the revising editor for the Stanford Law Review. When she entered law school in 1961 she was one of five women in a class of 160 students. After serving as a research assistant for a Stanford law professor and an attorney at a small firm, BeVier taught at Santa Clara University Law School before joining the Virginia Law faculty as a visiting professor. . . . → Continue Reading Record Number of Virginia Law Students to Receive Summer Grants from Public Interest Law AssociationThe Public Interest Law Association (PILA) at the University of Virginia School of Law has announced that it will be awarding over $361,000 to 1Ls and 2Ls who are pursuing public service jobs this summer. The number of students directly benefiting from the summer grants has increased by one since last year to a record total of 85 students. This number is not surprising given that PILA received 40 more grant applications than it had the previous year. Assistant Dean for Public Service, Yared Getachew, noted that “the PILA board really worked hard to accommodate the increased interest in public interest of the past year.” In an effort to raise money, PILA held a book sale along with their annual . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 12:00 pm in
Law School News, Public Interest Career Resources, School: University of Virginia The University of Virginia School of Law on Wednesday became the latest top-flight law school to reform its loan forgiveness program, easing the burden for qualifying graduates who enter public interest legal fields. Currently, graduates who make less than $35,000 in public service jobs can have their loan payments covered. The new Virginia Loan Forgiveness Program (VLFP II) raises the salary threshold to $55,000. Public interest graduates who make less than $75,000 are also eligible for some assistance, on a prorated scale. “The changes are designed to enable even more of our graduates to participate in the program with the goal of allowing students to pursue the careers they want regardless of educational debt,” said Dean Paul Mahoney . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 12:00 pm in
Law School News, Public Interest Career Resources, School: University of Virginia Following approval from the program’s curriculum committee, the University of Virginia School of Law has added a new student journal — the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law. As detailed in a press release Monday, the new offering will be the law school’s tenth journal. It is scheduled to begin after a criminal law symposium in Spring 2011and will initially publish two issues per year. The journal’s creation is owed to 2L Ashley Wilkinson, who saw her own legal interests inadequately represented among the law school’s existing journals. She says her new journal, which has received 90 student applications for its first iteration, will provide the law school with an opportunity to showcase its criminal . . . → Continue Reading Virginia Law School has done away with its Early Decision deadline, and now asks all interested applicants to submit completed applications by the regular decision deadline of March 1. Initially, candidates interested in obtaining early admission entrance were asked to submit applications by December 1. Applicants who would like to demonstrate their commitment to attending the program may choose to apply under the Early Decision option by submitting an early decision agreement to the Office of Admissions. Once admitted to the University of Virginia Law School as an Early Decision applicant, the candidate must withdraw all other law school applications and may not initiate any new applications for admission. Applicants who choose to go this route will be notified of . . . → Continue Reading With health policy at the forefront of the congressional agenda, at the University of Virginia School of Law and Harvard Law School, two significant, recently-announced grants seek to foster health policy research opportunities. According to a school press release, Virginia Law received its grant, worth $100,000, to study recent changes to Virginia’s Health Care Decisions Act. The reformed law outlines more comprehensive advance care directives if a patient’s mental health worsens and decision-making abilities become impaired. In effect, the school will weigh the value of such changes, including whether the new law better counteracts the possibility of mental health emergencies. The changes to the mental health law were recommended by a commission formed after the Virginia . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 8:00 am in
Law School News, School: Harvard, School: University of Virginia Building on Michigan’s Pro Bono Pledge and continuing an unofficial “public service Monday” here on the Law School Blog, the University of Virginia Law School announced it will launch a new public service program for first- and second-year students, beginning next semester. Detailed in The Cavalier Daily, accepted students must take the Law and Public Service course, partake in a colloquium in their 3L, complete an independent study project and spend at least one summer working in public service. In part to assist with the independent study and counsel on various work options, faculty mentors will assist students to identify a concentration within the public . . . → Continue Reading 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 Noticing an uptick in clerkship interest, the University of Virginia Law School has created an Office of Judicial Clerkships. The new office, operating separate of Career Services, will inform students and graduates of the benefits of working with judges and will help place those interested in the often very competitive clerkship market. To the Charlottesville Daily Progress, Ruth Payne, who will head the office, said: “We have a lot of really talented students who would benefit from the clerkship experience who we don’t talk to until their career path is set. We want our students to make the best choices for themselves, but also to . . . → Continue Reading Below is a list of the early decision deadlines (when applicable) and application review periods for the leading law schools: Berkeley / Boalt Boston College Boston University Chicago Columbia Cornell Duke Emory Fordham Harvard Posted by Clear Admit at 4:11 pm in
Deadlines, School: Berkeley / Boalt, School: Boston College, School: Boston University, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: Cornell, School: Duke, School: Emory, School: Fordham, School: George Washington University, School: Georgetown, School: Harvard, School: Illinois, School: Iowa, School: Michigan, School: Minnesota, School: New York University, School: Northwestern, School: Notre Dame, School: Stanford, School: UCLA, School: USC / Gould, School: University of Pennsylvania, School: University of Texas-Austin, School: University of Virginia, School: University of Washington, School: Vanderbilt, School: Washington University in St. Louis, School: Washington and Lee, School: William and Mary, School: Yale |
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