That concrete is more than an architectural flourish: It’s the exterior wall of the 17-story tower that has been the law school’s home since the 1960s. This fall, the tower will be closed for renovation as classes shift to the five-story state-of-the-art structure wrapped around a portion of its base, built to complement the design of the original architect, Josep Lluis Sert. Continue reading
Think of America’s legal education system as a law-school building, and the package of changes that the American Bar Association approved at its annual meeting this week are like a renovation that changes the form and function of some rooms but leaves the overall structure intact. Continue reading
Pro bono attorneys gather at New York Law School for an asylum-law training session conducted by the Safe Passages Project.
Lenni Benson recognizes the parallels between her family’s history and the stories of her Safe Passage Project clients, child immigrants who must navigate a complex legal system to stay in the U.S. after a dangerous journey without their parents.
The youths, many of them from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, are part of a surge in juveniles seeking to cross the U.S. southwestern border that has prompted calls from Congress for tighter patrols and more aggressive deportation. Continue reading
Columbia University law school awarded more than 400 juris doctorate degrees at its May 2014 commencement ceremony, above. The size of first-year classes at law schools across the U.S. has dropped for three straight years and may reach a fifth straight decline, based on the number of LSAT takers in June.
Declines in U.S. law school enrollment are poised to stretch into a fifth straight year after the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test, a gauge of applicant interest, dropped during the first 2014-15 session. Continue reading
Ronald Weich learned to navigate myriad, and often competing agendas, from two of the art’s best-known practitioners: the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy and current U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Continue reading
Don’t confuse the bachelor’s degree in law that the University of Arizona will offer this fall with the bachelor of laws degree that was the early 20th-century standard for attorneys in training in the United States.
The names sound alike, but that’s where the similarity ends. The bachelor of laws, or LL.B., was the ancestor of today’s juris doctorate degree and provided entry to the practice of law. Arizona’s program, designed for undergraduates, prepares students for some law-related jobs but doesn’t qualify them to become licensed attorneys. Continue reading
What, exactly, is a person? That’s the question at the crux of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling exempting some for-profit corporations from complying with a federal mandate to provide health insurance for birth control because of owners’ religious objections. Continue reading
A federal judge has agreed to the voluntary dismissal of a former Northwestern Law student’s suit claiming he was wrongfully kicked out when the school learned of his felony conviction for pretending to be a lawyer.
Mauricio R. Celis, Northwestern Law and Instituto de Empresa, the school’s Spanish partner in the executive master’s in law program, sought the dismissal about a month after the case was referred to a federal magistrate for settlement talks. Their joint request, filed on June 18, makes no mention of any settlement agreement. Continue reading
Since trips are nothing without photos, each of which is worth 1,000 words, we’re taking this opportunity to share ours with you. Continue reading
The Murphy family didn’t make a habit of traveling to the same place twice. So when Gonzaga Law Professor Ann Murphy applied for a second Fulbright teaching scholarship in China, she knew it would be a break with tradition.
Her logic was that China’s rank as the world’s fourth-largest country by area and its diverse population of 1.4 billion make each visit unique.
“I told my brothers and sisters I can’t believe I’m applying for China again because that’s not the Murphy way,” she said in a telephone interview about the most recent grant, which will take her to Shanghai for a year. “But it’s such a huge country, it counts as something different.”
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