NAME: Kellie Manders
LAW SCHOOL: Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
STATUS: 3L
UNDERGRADUATE: B.A. in Psychology and Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder
HOME: Boulder, Colorado
Kellie Manders may be the quintessential experiential learner: She devises the experiences from which she knows she’ll learn. Continue reading
“Practical, focused and connected” is how Daniel F. Attridge says The Catholic University of America
’s Columbus School of Law markets itself. In a way, it’s a fitting description of Attridge’s own attributes when he became the law school’s dean. Continue reading
Outside California, the term “AB 540 student” may be nothing if not arcane. Inside the state, though, it has become a virtual identity for thousands of undocumented immigrants benefitting from a 13-year-old law that allows them to pay the lower college tuition usually reserved for California residents.
From that perspective, it’s an ideal choice for the name of an office at the University of California-Davis dedicated to the unique needs of those students: the AB540 & Undocumented Student Center, which opened this month. Through a partnership with the law school’s immigration clinic – the first of its kind in the University of California system – the center will provide free legal services to undocumented students and their families. Continue reading
STUDENT: Kristy Brumfield
LAW SCHOOL: Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
STATUS: 2L, Civil Law, Evening
UNDERGRADUATE: B.S., Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana
OTHER DEGREE: Ph.D., Biochemistry, Louisiana State University
HOME CITY/STATE: Opelousas, Louisiana
Even as a college undergraduate, Kristy Brumfield wanted to be a lawyer. That is, of course, why she earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and teaches as an assistant professor in Xavier University of Louisiana’s biology department.
“Makes perfect sense to me,” said Brumfield, a 2L part-time evening student at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. “The appeal of law school, for me at least, was the intersection of science and law.” Continue reading
Harvard University is standing by a new sexual harassment policy implemented this fall despite criticisms from more than two dozen law school professors, who say it fails to protect the rights of accused students and that it lacked sufficient faculty input. Continue reading
Pepperdine Law Dean Deanell Tacha opens the conference on domestic violence.
Dana Bolger had consulted an Amherst College administrator to find out her options for dealing with the student who sexually assaulted and stalked her in 2011. The official’s advice was simple: Take some time off from school. Go home. Come back after your attacker graduates.
“I felt like a liability, not a student,” she said in the keynote address of a Pepperdine Law conference on domestic violence on U.S. campuses. “Later I would come to realize that the way my dean responded to me that day was part of a larger pattern of administrators seeking to downplay violence, sweep it aside and keep survivors quiet.” Continue reading
Student: Sarah Marie Draper
Law School: SUNY Buffalo Law School
Status: 2L
Undergraduate: B.A. in Political Science cum laude (minor: African-American Studies), SUNY at Buffalo
Home City/State: Buffalo, New York
This has already been a banner year for Sarah Marie Draper, a 2L at SUNY Buffalo Law School. The Buffalo native and single mother of 6-year-old Ashanti won a string of distinctions, among them the John L. Hargrave Law Student Award from the Minority Bar Association of Western New York; a position in the law school’s Pro Se Practicum, which provides free legal assistance to pro se litigants in Erie County Family Court and in federal District Court in the Western District of New York, and a place as a competitor in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court contest (2014-15). Continue reading
He’s the dean who’s excited by what turns students off.
“It’s a valuable lesson for them – discovering what they don’t want to do as lawyers,” said Harold J. Krent, dean of the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Continue reading
The arrest of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice in a domestic violence case didn’t prompt Pepperdine Law’s conference on intimate-partner abuse, but it has increased interest in the weekend event.
Baker
Public scrutiny of the case, and attention to a video of the attack, which occurred in an Atlantic City hotel elevator, “is an indicator that our culture and our society are becoming more aware of domestic violence and learning how to respond to it,” said Jeff Baker, Pepperdine’s director of clinical education, who’s organizing the conference. Continue reading
STUDENT: Julie Cummings
LAW SCHOOL: Golden Gate University School of Law
STATUS: 2L (Dean’s List all semesters, recipient of multiple scholarships, Law Review staff writer)
UNDERGRADUATE: Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Studies, linguistics emphasis; California State University-Fresno (Stilwell Sabre recipient for Most Outstanding Cadet in California)
OTHER DEGREES/INSTITUTIONS: Master of Science, International Relations; Troy University, Troy, Alabama (4.0 GPA)
HOME: Walnut Creek, California
For former military pilot Julie Cummings, it was a short jump from advocating as a volunteer on behalf of military families to advocating as a lawyer for needy civilian clients.
“When I realized I had a passion for advocacy, I knew that practicing law would be a perfect fit for my next career,” said Cummings, a 2L at Golden Gate University School of Law whose first career was flying Blackhawk helicopters on search-and-rescue missions as a U.S. Army officer. Continue reading
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