Daniel Rodriguez may have gotten his wish this year. The president of The Association of American Law Schools said he encourages women, people of color and other minorities to seek work as deans.
Quite a few have been doing just that: Of the 15 new deans at law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, eight are women and almost half are minorities. Continue reading
Student Name: Fawah Akwo
Law School: Georgetown University Law Center
Status: Rising 3L
Undergraduate: B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Home City/State/Country: Limbe, Cameroon, in west Central Africa
Fawah Akwo worked as a senior software engineer at Oracle, where she developed customer relationship management web applications. A hallmark of her life, however, has been a devotion to helping women and children, especially girls. During her time in Silicon Valley, she founded a platform to enable youth in developing countries to organize and garner support for service projects in their communities. An advocate for women’s education, Akwo also founded and coordinates a “GirlTech” scholarship program in her home town to orient and nurture women students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
Jocelyn Benson’s commitment to civic engagement and an open, honest American electoral process runs long and deep. The dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit entered the fray as an undergraduate at Wellesley College in Massachusetts when she founded the Women in American Political Activism conference and became the first student elected to serve in the Wellesley town governing body. Continue reading
Student Name: Tyler A. Rube
Law School: Gonzaga University Law School
Status: Rising 3L
Undergraduate: U.S. Air Force Academy (Legal Studies)
Other Degrees: Masters, Webster University (International Relations)
Home City/State: Phoenix, Arizona
Tyler Rube, a rising 3L and current Gonzaga Law Student Bar Association vice-president, was born and raised in Phoenix, Ariz., and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at 17. After a few years, Rube was accepted into the U.S. Air Force Academy and subsequently graduated as Class President in 2007. He then worked as a Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where he conducted felony-level criminal and counterintelligence investigations. Continue reading
Experience is power when you’re applying to law school, and that makes pre-law advisers the reigning monarchs of the realm. Years of guiding aspiring law students through the application process have taught the best counselors a thing or two about steering you to the right fit — or steering you away from the legal profession altogether. Here at Lawdragon Campus, we’ve culled their collective wisdom into a list of tips.
Jeremy Paul knew shortly after starting Harvard Law School that he wanted to teach. He began doing so as soon as he graduated in 1981, holding positions that included professor in residence for the U.S. Department of Justice, and he was named dean of Northeastern University School of Law 31 years later. Continue reading
A federal judge has approved a $7.73 million settlement in a U.S. government lawsuit claiming the nonprofit that administers the Law School Admissions Test discriminated against test-takers with disabilities. Continue reading
Student Name: Christine Doelling
Law School: University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Status: Rising 2L
Focus: Media, Entertainment and Intellectual Property
Undergraduate Degree/Institution: BA American Studies (2008), George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
Graduate Degree/Institution: Masters – Media, Communications and Critical Practice (2012), University of the Arts, London College of Communications
Home city/state or country: Berkeley, Calif.
Christine Doelling, a rising 2L, is immersed in the music industry, where she aspires to work. She has created and led multi-channel marketing initiatives for world-renowned artists, musicians, museums and media companies. Doelling founded Lunchbox Theory, a music promotion company in Washington, D.C., and has served as a music promotion consultant for National Geographic Live.
Law School: Boston University School of Law
Student Name: Aaron Horth
Status: Rising 3L
Undergraduate degree/major: B.A. Political Science
Undergraduate institution: University of Missouri
Home city, state: St. Louis, MO
During his undergraduate career, Aaron Horth spearheaded the IncludeME MU campaign to add gender identity and expression to the protected categories in the university’s non-discrimination policy. After graduating, he worked as a Residential Victims’ advocate at a shelter for those subjected to domestic violence.
Lawdragon: What were key factors you used to choose your law school?
Aaron Horth: Because most of the schools I got into were roughly the same in rankings, I looked mostly at geographic location. I chose Boston because I wanted to live in a larger city and a place that I knew would be progressive and queer-friendly.
Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, the dean of Stetson University College of Law, has spent much of his career at the intersection of education, business and law. He came to Stetson from LSU Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he was the J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law and where, as Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs, he was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, financial planning and personnel matters. Before that he was a trial lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s Tax Division and an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Education Department.
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