Jan 25, 2013

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Penn State law school dean leaving for job in Asia
San Francisco Chronicle
In November, McConnaughay had said the university's two law school campuses in State College and Carlisle were pursuing plans to operate as separately accredited campuses by 2015. Penn State completed a merger with the Dickinson School of Law in ...
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A Tiny Vermont Law School Is One Huge Mess
Business Insider
While many schools are facing a shortfall of applicants, Vermont has been forced to take the unique step of downsizing its staff. [vnews, sorry about the paywall] The school gave buyouts to ten of its staff, and laid off another two. Not a particularly ...
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Penn State law school dean leaves mixed legacy in Carlisle
PennLive.com
In 2003 it was McConnaughay who proposed moving the Carlisle-based law school to State College, just six years after Spanier and other university leaders had said the law school would remain in Carlisle "in perpetuity." The dean raised the idea after ...
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'Going To Law School Was The Biggest Mistake Of My Life'
Business Insider
"Going to law school was the biggest mistake of my life," he says. "Yes, absolutely the worst decision I've ever made. It's not a complete mistake, I just wish I'd gone about it differently. I probably would have gone to a lower ranked school with a ...
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CU Law School appoints Brad Udall director of newly named Getches-Wilkinson ...
CU Boulder News & Events
The University of Colorado Law School announced today that it is hiring Brad Udall as director of the newly renamed Natural Resources Law Center, which will now be called the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and Environment.
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SMU business dean to lead the search for a new law school dean
Dallas Morning News
The search committee, according to SMU officials, will include law school faculty, law students, members of the board of trustees, law school executive board members and alumni. "We look forward to working with the faculty and the legal community to ...
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Dallas Morning News
Law school lacks economic payoff
RU Daily Targum
What do you call a $200k gamble, full of ultra-competitive and literate people, which has a mediocre chance of pay-off? Law school. It's not what you think it is; law school and lawyering are nothing like "Suits." It is an expensive gamble and most of ...
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Penn State law school dean resigns
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philip J. McConnaughay, who also was founding dean of Penn State's School of International Affairs, will become dean of Peking's School of Transnational law in Shenzhen, China, beginning Aug. 1. McConnaughay has led the law school, now with locations ...
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Dean of Penn State's law school leaving for position in China
Centre Daily Times
Philip McConnaughay has been the dean of the Dickinson School of Law since 2002, and he will start in August as the dean of Peking University's School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China. During McConnaughay's tenure, Penn State expanded the ...
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Centre Daily Times
Katie Holmes Going Legally Blonde & Heading To Law School??
PerezHilton.com
She expressed a keen interest in law while splitting from Tom Cruise, and now that the divorce is finalized, she has the time, the money and the opportunity to go to school. "More importantly, she wants to be a strong female role model for her daughter ...
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UNM School of Law emphasizes its return on students' investment
Albuquerque Business First
At least that isn't the case at UNM, Bergman said, where 66 percent of the law school graduates are employed in the legal field. That is 10 percentage points higher than the national average. "I think you have to realize that our law school is ...
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Plan to sever unified law school into two institutions stays on course, Penn ...
Penn Live
"The path the law school is on has been discussed extensively with the faculty, students, alumni and other constitutencies," Erickson said in response to emailed questions from PennLive.com. "The external changes that are being experienced in legal ...
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WVU summer program provides law school experience
West Virginia Record
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia University College of Law is offering a week-long summer program to undergraduate students as a cost-free way to experience law school. The WVU College of Law Summer Institute will be held from May 28 until June 2 and ...
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Law school project moves forward, upward
The University News
One year ago, Lawrence Biondi, S.J., president of Saint Louis University, announced to the SLU population that the former AT&T building in downtown St. Louis would become the new home of the SLU law school. A view from the newly added 12th floor of the ...
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Law Professor Suggests Cutting Associate Salaries In Response To Job Crisis ...
Above the Law
Professor Lawrence Solan of Brooklyn Law School took to the Huffington Post the other day to offer the kind of unhelpful, unrealistic thought bubble (with no understanding of the actual market) that gives academics a bad name. Here's his "simple ...
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Above the Law
Boston College Law School LGBT Center Vandalized; The Truth about Student ...
Campus Progress
Boston College Law School LGBT Center Vandalized. This morning hateful graffiti was found in the Lambda law students association office at Boston College Law School. Lambda, is a gay rights organization, and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education ...
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China lures law dean away from Penn State
The National Law Journal
Philip McConnaughay has been named the next dean of Peking University's School of Transnational Law (STL) in Shenzhen, China. The school was founded in 2007 by former University of Michigan Law School dean and former Cornell University President ...
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The National Law Journal
Law Deans' position on Trinity Western would shut every law school in Canada
National Post
Trinity Western University (TWU) in British Columbia proposes to establish its own law school. It would teach the same law as secular law schools, but it would ask its students to sign a Community Covenant Agreement in which they would commit to ...
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Penn State Law Dean Flees To China
Above the Law
When you have a major law school initiative overturned by local politicians, you can start numbering your days as law school dean. The inevitable happened today: Philip J. McConnaughay, dean of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, announced he is ...
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Above the Law
X-Change Appoints Harvard Law School Graduate Chad S. Johnson, Esq., to ...
International Business Times (press release)
Mr. Johnson, a native of Emporia, Kansas, and a resident of Washington, D.C., began his professional career in 1992 after graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Following a federal judicial clerkship, Mr. Johnson joined the law firm ...
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LGBT Student Office Vandalized at Boston College Law School
Opposing Views
Boston College Law School Dean Vincent Rougeau issued a letter to the students and staff, stating that several other offices at the Law School had been vandalized over the past few weeks. Rougeau said: "The administration of Boston College Law School ...
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Finally: A Time For Lawyers To Ask Questions When They Don't Know the Answers
Huffington Post (blog)
In the traditional law school classroom -- the kind you saw on The Paper Chase, the kind you read about in One L -- professors instruct solely by relentlessly asking intimidating questions. It's a counterintuitive approach. And yet almost without fail ...
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Supreme Court justice gives LAW's first Esdaile Lecture
BU Today
"Life in the Yukon was cold, it was rough," he told an audience of students and faculty at the BU School of Law Thursday afternoon. The court is "the border patrol. Abortion—inside or outside the boundary? What about that school prayer? But don't ...
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BU Today
Christian-based law school should be tolerated by free society
Beacon News (blog)
The dean of the faculty of law at Queen's University, William Flanagan, argues that Trinity Western University (TWU) should not be allowed to set up its own Christian-based law school because the Christian university is guilty of "discrimination on the ...
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letters: When Christian values, sexual orientation and legal education collide
National Post
This editorial derides the concerns of Bill Flanagan ("president of the Council of Canadian Law Deans and dean of law at Queen's University") about discrimination based on sexual orientation at the proposed law school at Trinity Western University in ...
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National Post
Texas A&M One Step Closer To Obtaining Law and Health-Related Schools
KBTX
Texas A&M University is one step closer to obtaining a law school and a health-related institution following action today by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). "I am pleased that progress continues in moving the Texas A&M Health ...
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The Downhill Road from 1L to 3L
Above the Law
"One of the well-known facts about law school is it never took three years to do what we are doing; it took maybe two years at most, maybe a year-and-a-half," Larry Kramer, the former dean of Stanford Law, said in a 2010 speech. The continuing ...
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Above the Law
Law students uphold Yale's dominance in wine
Yale Daily News
Besting opponents from Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, UChicago and UPenn Law Schools "by a wide margin," a team representing the Yale Law School Wine Society — founded in 2012 by Tyce Walters LAW '13 — took first place in the U.S. Intercollegiate ...
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Quinn signs Erin's Law for elementary students
WPSD Local 6
A few of the recommendations of the Erin's Law Task Force include annual programs tailored for each grade level, professional training for teachers and administrators, as well as additional resources provided for parents. Illinois secondary schools ...
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Blogs13 new results for Law School
 
Proposed Christian Law School in Canada: A Response - First Things
By Mark Movsesian
A couple of days ago, I posted about the controversy surrounding a proposed new Christian law school in Canada. I questioned whether it's a good idea to found a new law school in the current environment and wondered whether Canadian ...
First Thoughts
UM Law School Presents Reading Of Proposition 8 | Florida Theater ...
By Bill Hirschman
Law schools are not the usual sponsors for theater, but the University of Miami School of Law is presenting Jan. 27 a staged-reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial of the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, ...
Florida Theater On Stage
Blogging for Equality: Why TWU should not have a law school
By Admin
Trinity Western University, a private, Christian law school in British Columbia has made an application to open a law school. Trinity Western requires all faculty, staff and students to sign a covenant promising to avoid same-sex sexual intimacy.
Blogging for Equality
NDLS Student Kenan Rahmani Aids Syrian Refugees // News // The ...
By Kyle Fitzenreiter
Rahmani, a law student at Notre Dame, was one of nine individuals sponsored by the Syrian American Council (SAC) to journey to the country over Christmas break to provide aid to the refugees. ... Law School Admissions Information ...
The Law School // The Law School
Katie Holmes' Big Career Change: Wants To Go To Law School ...
"She expressed a keen interest in law while splitting from Tom Cruise, and now that the divorce is finalized, she has the time, the money and the opportunity to go to school. Katie has been watching her prosecutor friend, Leigh Bishop, for a ...
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Eric Posner on Aaron Swartz Case | University of Chicago Law School
By arester
Aaron Swartz downloaded academic articles from JSTOR in violation of JSTOR's terms and conditions. He was indicted for violating federal law. Refusing the prosecutor's plea bargain offer of six months in jail, he killed himself. Depending on ...
News
Canadian law firm donates $150000 for Osgoode internship program
By sandramc
Juris Doctor (JD) students at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, who are looking for hands-on business law experience, have received a major boost from McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Philip Moore, a partner in the Business Law Group of ...
YFile
Empirical Legal Studies: 2013 Main Workshop on Research Design ...
By Michael Heise
Mat McCubbins [USC, Law School, Marshall School of Business, and Political Science Department]. Dates and Location: Monday – Friday, June 24-28, 2013, at Northwestern Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Registration: information is available ...
Empirical Legal Studies
Penn Legal History Workshop Schedule: Spring 2013
By Karen Tani
The Penn Legal History Consortium is jointly sponsored by the Law School and the Graduate History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Faculty affiliates include Sarah Barringer Gordon, Thomas Sugrue, Mary Frances Berry, ...
Legal History Blog
New IL law requires schools to teach kids about sex abuse | WGN-TV
By Charles Hayes
There's a new law in Illinois that's designed to protect kids from sexual abuse and assault. Governor Quinn signed a bill on Thursday that will require schools to teach children about sexual abuse and assault. The new curriculum will impact.
WGN-TV
Mary Crossley Available to Comment on Accommodations Policy for ...
By kek31
Pitt Law Professor and former Dean Mary Crossley is available to comment on a recent case involving the Law School Admission Council, which sued the State of California over a law banning the flagging of Law School Admission Test ...
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Texas A&M Is One Step Closer To Obtaining Law and Health ...
By tura-king
Texas A&M University is one step closer to obtaining a law school and a health-related institution following action today by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).
TAMUtimes
"Erin's Law" Mandates Sexual Abuse Awareness Programs in All ...
By Ward Room Staff
Pat Quinn on Thursday signed a new law extending sexual abuse education in Illinois schools. "Erin's Law" is named after Schaumburg native and activist Erin Merryn. Sexually abused as a child, Merryn said she's convinced she would have ...
NBC Chicago - Chicago Local News...

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Law School's Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT) to present ...
JANUARY 23, 2013—The Law School's Theatre of the Relatively Talentless ( TORT) will present its eleventh annual musical, "Back to the Future Interest," on ...
www.law.umn.edu/.../law-school-theatre-of-the-relatively-tale...
MSU Event: Choosing the Right Law School
Learn what law schools are looking for in applicants and how the application process works! This presentation will be presented by Lori Freeman, Admissions ...
calendar.msu.montana.edu/events/8345
Canada's First Christian Law School Criticized for Banning ...
An evangelical Christian University located in Langley, British Columbia is currently embroiled in a debate regarding its "community covenant" as it attempts to ...
www.christianpost.com/.../canadas-first-christian-law-school-cr...


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