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A Law School's Possible Purge Of Its Junior Faculty Ranks
Above the Law
As law school applications continue to decline, law schools must make hard choices. A law school can maintain the size of its entering class — and the revenue stream generated by those students — but at the cost of lowering its admissions standards.
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Conclave on role of law schools in strengthening democracy
Business Standard
The conclave, organised by the Jindal Global Law School from June 24 to 29, culminated with the adoption of 'Sonipat declaration on the role of legal education in strengthening rule of Law and democracy', a University press statement said. "The key ...
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Smart Ways to Leverage Law School Forums
U.S. News & World Report
Stephen Brown, the assistant dean of enrollment at the Fordham University School of Law, knows the angst that comes with meeting a law school representative. He has been to possibly 60 recruitment forums, answering questions from nervous applicants ...
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Law School Celebrates 'Occupy Wall Street Clinic'
The Weekly Standard
Hofstra University Law School has released a press release celebrating a settlement its "Occupy Wall Street Clinic" reached with the City of New York over "a protester who sustained injuries while being arrested at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration.".
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American Judicature Society and Vanderbilt Law School announce affiliation
Vanderbilt University News
The American Judicature Society and Vanderbilt Law School announce an affiliation agreement that will result in joint educational programming, publications and new research. In addition, AJS will relocate from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Vanderbilt campus ...
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Veteran Administrator Steps in at Law Schools Association
The National Law Journal
The next leader of the Association of American Law Schools is no stranger to the organization. The association has tapped Georgetown University Law Center professor Judith Areen as its interim executive director, effective on December 1. Areen served ...
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Dude, gotta get a Richmond Law education; is ad the 'lamest'?
ABA Journal
Richmond School of Law is touting its selectivity and employment statistics in an ad that uses a text message format, complete with abbreviations and lingo. TaxProf Blog shows the ad and proclaims it the "clubhouse leader for the lamest law school ad ...
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Fort Washington Resident Graduates from Widener Law
Patch.com
Widener Law recently held commencement exercises for its 39th graduating class on its campus in Wilmington, Del. The ceremony, held Saturday, May 18, on the campus lawn featured an address by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Max Baer. Baer told ...
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New Law Dean to harness industry links
UQ News
Professor Sarah Derrington, who took up the position yesterday (1 July), said she would seek to consolidate the School's position among the best law schools in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing the emphasis on industry-focused research and stronger ...
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Professor named acting dean of UA law school
al.com
William Brewbaker acting dean of UA Law The University of Alabama named William Brewbaker acting dean of UA's School of Law today. Brewbaker will serve in the position until an interim dean is found, a university spokeswoman said. The interim dean will ...
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Brown signs school-funding changes into law
San Jose Mercury News
Brown signed the main bill, AB97, and two related bills at Cahuenga Elementary School in Los Angeles and later held a ceremonial signing at California Middle School in Sacramento. The Democratic governor had pushed for the change, known as the "Local ...
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Bizar Entertainment also empowers kids
Chicago Tribune
"My dream was to go to Northwestern Law School to become a sports agent. But a bunch of the lawyers in my family were discouraging me because so many people were going to law school." It took a timely gig to find his calling behind the microphone.
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Breaking: NLU Jodhpur gets Delhi Uni law head Poonam Saxena as VC
Legally India
Saxena, who was informally told about her appointment today but has not yet received official communication, commented: "The five years' law school culture has become quite an 'in thing' and has taken legal education to a different level altogether.
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Quinn signs school safety measure into law
San Francisco Chronicle
OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a law requiring Illinois schools to hold safety drills that include practicing what to do during a possible school shooting. The Chicago Democrat says the law increases school safety in the wake of ...
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Accusations Against Alito: Not True, Not True
Above the Law
The real power of AdmissionsDean is unleashed when users register (anonymously) and input basic information about themselves, like their LSAT score(s), undergraduate GPA and the law schools to which they have applied. Registered users can then track ...
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Pittsford resident Christopher Ciaccio announces candidacy for Monroe County ...
Brighton-Pittsford Post
Ciaccio grew up in Irondequoit and attended McQuaid Jesuit High School, Colgate University and Albany Law School. After graduating from law school he worked for the Monroe Public Defender's Office and then the law office of Bernstein and Bernstein.
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South Dakota Allows School Teachers to Arm Themselves
Opposing Views
Additionally, local law enforcement agencies must work with school employees to properly train teachers how to handle firearms. While similar laws have passed in local districts around the country, a statewide legalization of firearm possession by ...
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Law & Disorder : Middle school girl , 14 , faces . . .
Florida Times-Union
A 14-year-old former Oceanway Middle School student has been charged with misdemeanor battery following an off-campus school fight that happened in March, according to the State Attorney's Office. Circuit Judge Henry Davis placed an injunction on the ...
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Law against selling drugs near schools ignores who was there first
Mail Tribune
I don't understand the law that penalizes suspected drug dealers for selling narcotics within a 1,000 feet of a school? What if, say, a charter or private school moved into an area after the suspect had already moved there? Is the law still valid in ...
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McDonnell sketches next steps on school takeover law
The Daily Progress
RICHMOND -- As legislation creating a statewide school division to take over failing schools hit the books in Virginia Monday, Gov. Bob McDonnell said the state would begin recruiting a director. He announced next steps in Richmond while ceremonially ...
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UI Center for Human Rights partners with College of Law
UI The Daily Iowan
When funding for the center became inadequate several years ago, UI officials considered a variety of schools to host the center, with the law school displaying the most interest in late 2012, according to Downing Thomas, the dean of International ...
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Law prof stumbles on story of early black Cornell law grad, the topic of his ...
ABA Journal
Looking through the school's digital card catalog, Kevin M. Clermont discovered a law school thesis written in 1890 by a man he had never before heard of, who would become the subject of a future book. The Indomitable George Washington Fields: From ...
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New law requires live-action drills in schools
Jacksonville Journal Courier
Pat Quinn said the measure was drawn based on comments made across the state during a School Safety Summit that followed a deadly shooting in December in Newtown, Conn. School officials and law enforcement authorities worked with state agencies ...
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New law requires shooting incident drills at Illinois schools
WQAD.com -- Quad Cities News & Weather from WQAD
The new law requires the law enforcement drill must include a shooting incident, and law enforcement must also participate in the drill. The shooting incident drill must be conducted during the academic year in each school building where students are ...
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New IL Law Requires Active Shooter Training in Schools
WSIL TV
Schools around the state already hold six yearly safety drills for evacuations and severe weather. This new law is designed to prepare school officials and safety officers for real-life shooting situations. The legislation requires schools to team up ...
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South Dakota's new 'School Sentinel' law goes into effect; allows armed teachers
Guns.com
A somewhat controversial law to arm South Dakota teachers went into effect July 1. The legislation known as the "School Sentinel" bill was signed into law by Gov. Dennis Daugaard in March. The new law allows teachers in South Dakota to carry loaded ...
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Governor Quinn Signs New School Safety Bill into Law
MyStateline.com
CHICAGO -- Governor Pat Quinn has signed a bill which requires all Illinois schools to hold active safety drills with local law enforcement. The legislation was in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, CT, and was the result ...
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Area schools ready for new homeschool law
Paragould Daily Press
The new law allows homeschooled students to participate in extracurricular activities in the school district in which the homeschooled student's parent resides. The bill's language states that school districts can only require a homeschooled student ...
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Auditor: District violated state law
The Tribune-Democrat
State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced Monday that Altoona Area School District violated state law when recently retired Superintendent Dennis Murray granted employee promotions, transfers and pay raises without the school board voting ...
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At the Supreme Court, a Changing of the Guard
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In contrast to law clerks, those recent law school graduates who spend a year assisting individual justices, the clerk of the court is a permanent officer of the institution who manages its docket and deals with lawyers filing and arguing cases. Along ...
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Governor Quinn Signs New School Safety Law
Murphysboro American
Governor Pat Quinn today signed a new law that requires all Illinois schools to hold active safety drills with local law enforcement to ensure they are as prepared as possible in the event of a shooting incident. Today's action is part of the governor ...
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Charter reforms prompted by NorthStar High School failure signed into law
Orlando Sentinel
Charter school reforms proposed in the wake of a more than $500,000 payout to the principal of the failed NorthStar High School are now law. House BIll 7009, signed late Friday by Gov. Rick Scott, included a provision authored by Rep. Joe Saunders, a ...
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Gov. Brown signs school-funding changes into law
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The formula also gives school districts more control over state aid by eliminating earmarks for state-mandated programs. Democratic lawmakers say districts will be responsible for tracking students' success, but Republicans say the spending plan lacks ...
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In Voting Rights Act, Subtleties Matter Most
Huffington Post
The following post was co-authored by R.B. Bernstein, Adjunct Professor of Political Science and History in the Skadden, Arps Honors Program in Legal Studies at City College of New York, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School...
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Hudson Valley News Corps Elects Shusterman to Board
The Hudson Independent
A fellowship after undergraduate school, brought him to the University of Pittsburgh Law School. During law school, Shusterman studied Serbian, and upon graduating cum laude he worked with Lawyers for Human Rights in Belgrade. Shusterman also ...
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The DA's dozen
New York Post
The group will be led by former administrative judge and Pace Law School professor Robert Keating, and includes former state Sen. William Thompson. Under review are 40 convictions involving 50 defendants Scarcella investigated in the 1980s and '90s.
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Judge rejects claim that yoga in schools is religious instruction
Los Angeles Times
Dean Broyles, attorney for the Escondido-based National Center for Law and Policy, had filed a lawsuit on behalf of an Encinitas family with two children in the school system seeking to have the program ousted as a violation of state law prohibiting ...
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Major crime foiled at Bangalore University campus
Deccan Chronicle
Bengaluru: It is almost eight months since the alleged gangrape of a National Law School student on the Bengaluru University campus. Still, the security is lax at the campus, which is vulnerable to 'attacks'. Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths arrested ...
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Members of NY Gov. Cuomo's Moreland Commission
Newsday
Commission members: -- J. Patrick Barrett, CEO of CARPAT Investments. -- Richard Briffault, professor of legislation at Columbia Law School. -- Daniel Castleman, a senior managing director in the Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice at FTI ...
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Althouse: "The legal profession is 'right-sizing,' and law schools ...
By Ann Althouse
Argues David Lat, rejecting the alternative of keeping up the present incoming class size by lowering admissions standards. The shrinkage model is painful: Last week, we heard reports of one law school basically axing its entire junior faculty.
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Governor signs school-funding changes into law | Local & Regional ...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed sweeping education legislation Monday that changes the state funding formula for K-12 schools in a way that he hopes will help boost the academic achievement of disadvantaged students.
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Law And More: Seton Hall Law School's Junior Faculty: All could be ...
By Jane Genova
The future of those employed by what might be called "Legal Sector Metro" keeps looking less professionally secure. Already the media has covered the layoffs of staff, associates, and partners in law firms. Now, as David Lat reports in ...
Law And More
ContractsProf Blog - Law Professor Blogs Network - Typepad
By Kprofs2013
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, Centro de Informática - Univ Federal de Pernambuco. 6, 99, The Information Privacy Law of Web Applications and Cloud Computing · Sebastian ...
ContractsProf Blog
CLEA calls on ABA to require 15 credits of experiential learning ...
By Michele Pistone
Current law school accreditation standards only require a single credit of experiential learning out of an average of 89 total academic credits, a dismal 1% of a law student's preparation for practice. Other professions (such as medicine, ...
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