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U.C. Hastings honors lost class of Japanese-American students Top
Commencement ceremonies tend to focus on the future, but the May 15 graduation ceremony at the University of California Hastings College of the Law included a solemn nod to the past.
 
Indiana Tech launching law school Top
While several universities have backed off plans to add law schools, the Indiana Institute of Technology is bucking the trend. Trustees of the school, known as Indiana Tech, announced Monday that they had unanimously voted to establish a new law school at the Fort Wayne, Ind., campus.
 
Keeping hope alive in an uncertain spring Top
The economy in general is showing some signs of life but events around the world make the economic future a bit uncertain. Given this context of uncertainty, how do we best help our students find jobs? How do we best encourage more employers of all types to hire them?
 
Sports law expert to lead new center at Thomas Jefferson Top
 
La Verne on the brink of losing ABA provisional accreditation Top
The ABA's accreditation committee told La Verne administrators last week that it will recommend against full accreditation when the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar meets next month in Salt Lake City.
 
Delaware delays plans to launch law school — and it's not alone Top
Six months after launching a feasibility study into forming a new law school, the University of Delaware is hitting the brakes. The university will delay plans to start the first public law school in the state in the fall of 2015.
 
Educators: Congress needs law clerks Top
There is no formal program to place newly minted lawyers in the offices of committees and lawmakers in Congress. Legal educators, law students and politicians gathered in Washington in April to discuss filling that gap.
 
Vermont offers online LL.M. in environmental law Top
Vermont Law School is now among the handful of schools offering a fully online LL.M. program. It will be the first all-online environmental law LL.M. in the United States.
 
Fordham's interim dean gets the permanent position Top
Fordham University announced Wednesday that it has promoted School of Law interim dean Michael Martin to permanent dean, effective immediately.
 
Nebraska, New Mexico win the commencement speaker jackpot Top
A handful of schools have yet to announce their speakers, but it looks like the always-in-demand justices of the United States Supreme Court opted to get off the beaten path.
 
Law schools may be forced to disclose scholarship retention rates Top
The committee reviewing the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards is considering requiring schools to disclose the percentage of students who lose merit scholarships following their first year.
 
Law professor charges collusion between dean and police Top
A Hamline University School of Law professor has filed a civil lawsuit against law school dean Donald Lewis and the head of the St. Paul. Minn., police union, claiming the two colluded to have her removed from the faculty.
 
Law school recovering from massive tornado Top
Law students at the University of Alabama School of Law were hunkered down and studying on Wednesday — the first day of final exams — when a tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa and skirted the university campus at around 5 p.m.
 
Arizona State's Berman to become law dean at George Washington University Top
George Washington University Law School has named Paul Schiff Berman as its new dean. Berman at present is the dean of Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, where he helped spearhead a somewhat controversial plan to wean the law school off public funding during the next five years.
 
Law students help Iraqis win refugee status Top
What began in 2008 as an effort by Yale law students to help Iraqis seek refugee status has evolved into a nonprofit organization with student chapters at nine law schools and three more on the way.
 
Letter to the Editor Top
ABA Consultant on Legal Education Bucky Askew challenges claims made in the opinion piece "Law School for the White and Wealthy."
 

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