American University Washington College of Law intellectual property program graduates mentor students at career coaching event
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — On January 25, over 25 coaches and 60 students participated in the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property’s (PIJIP) 2019 IP & Technology Career Counseling & Speed Networking event.
Read More about American University Washington College of Law intellectual property program graduates mentor students at career coaching eventOpinion: University of Illinois Law Dean Vikram Amar discusses the advantages of blind grading
ABOVE THE LAW — Protecting students from biased assessments of their work and the work of their peers isn’t the only advantage of blind grading.
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LAW.COM — It’s my second semester at Michigan Law, and, yes, I’ve learned a few things. I’ve come to realize that a tough cold call will not kill me. The length of reading assignments is no longer surprising, and I know what a law school final exam looks like. Even better, I have blissful months ahead before I…
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ABOVE THE LAW — Women are breaking barriers in the legal profession each and every day, and law school enrollment is no different. In 2016, women outnumbered men in law school classrooms for the first time on record.
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LAW.COM — A new law review article concludes that elite law schools are too generous in granting tenure. Meanwhile, Regent University has snagged the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court for its next dean, and donors have been lining up to write checks to law schools.
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TEXAS LAWYER — On the national stage, law schools saw a 3 percent boost in first-year student enrollment—the first gain since 2010—but Texas saw a more modest gain of just 1 percent, which is 2,220 students.
Read More about Texas law schools experience modest first-year enrollment increase in 2018Three American University Washington College of Law students selected as Gallogly Public Interest Fellows
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) is delighted to announce the selection three fellows for this year’s Gallogly Family Foundation Public Interest Fellowship Program.
Read More about Three American University Washington College of Law students selected as Gallogly Public Interest FellowsGift to Drexel Law supports and names school’s community lawyering clinic
DREXEL NOW — Thanks to a $1.65 million naming gift from Andy and Gwen Stern, Kline Law’s Community Lawyering Clinic will now be known as the Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic.
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ABA JOURNAL — For the second time, the ABA House of Delegates voted against a proposal to tighten a bar passage rate standard for accredited law schools. At the ABA Midyear Meeting in Las Vegas on Monday, the final vote was 88 in favor of the resolution, and 334 opposed.
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ABA JOURNAL — Schools usually apply strict standards for tenure, granting it only to the most talented and productive professors. But that’s generally not true at the country’s top 14 law schools, where 95 percent of professors hired on tenure track receive it, according to a paper by three University of Chicago Law School academics.
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