Advice for students seeking clerkships
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Position yourself during the admissions process to get a coveted clerkship after law school.
Read More about Advice for students seeking clerkshipsGeorge Washington Law Dean Blake D. Morant discusses campus free speech and respectful discourse
THE ATLANTIC — George Washington Law Dean Blake D. Morant reflects on an incident on the topic of campus speech that left a lasting impression. Without respectful discourse, free speech isn’t much more than a hostile shouting match.
Read More about George Washington Law Dean Blake D. Morant discusses campus free speech and respectful discourseLaw school applicants should emphasize work experience
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Prospective law school students coming straight from college should emphasize whatever experience they have, like internships.
Read More about Law school applicants should emphasize work experienceBar prep technology changing with the times
ABA JOURNAL — The days of attending bar review classes in person are waning, say law school deans, and recent graduates preparing for the bar now do a great deal of studying on smartphones with offerings like streamed lectures, flashcard apps and even YouTube songs devoted to thinking through statutes and case law.
Read More about Bar prep technology changing with the timesYale Law celebrates graduation
YALE LAW SCHOOL — More than 200 graduates of Yale Law School were urged to harness the power of law as they leave New Haven and head out into the world during commencement ceremonies on May 21, 2018.
Read More about Yale Law celebrates graduationYale Law Professor Taisu Zhang named winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Yale Law Professor Taisu Zhang ’08 has been chosen as a winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for his work, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England (2017, Cambridge University Press).
Read More about Yale Law Professor Taisu Zhang named winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book PrizeYale Law Professor Abbe Gluck elected to the American Law Institute’s Council
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Yale Law Professor Abbe R. Gluck ’00 was elected to the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Council on May 21, 2018. Gluck was one of only two people elected to the highly selective Council.
Read More about Yale Law Professor Abbe Gluck elected to the American Law Institute’s CouncilPodcast: Washburn Law Professor Roger McEowen discusses school’s agricultural law efforts
KANSAS AG NETWORK — Washburn Law Professor Roger McEowen talked about his work at the law school, and a program that places Ag Law students in several western Kansas counties as summer interns. He also talked briefly about why farmers should be careful before they consider structuring their business as a C corporation.
Read More about Podcast: Washburn Law Professor Roger McEowen discusses school’s agricultural law effortsWake Forest Law Dean Suzanne Reynolds to step down in 2019
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — Suzanne Reynolds (JD ’77) announced today that she will step down as Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law at the end of the next academic year, effective June 30, 2019.
Read More about Wake Forest Law Dean Suzanne Reynolds to step down in 2019University of Virginia Law’s Innocence Project secures exoneration of man wrongfully convicted of bank robberies
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday officially cleared Gary L. Bush, a client of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, who was wrongly convicted of two Virginia bank robberies perpetrated in 2006.
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