Touro Law faculty members named to leadership roles in AALS
TOURO UNIVERSITY – Several Touro Law faculty members have been named to key leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), a nonprofit whose mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
Read More about Touro Law faculty members named to leadership roles in AALSUniversity of Oregon Law Dean Michael Moffitt to step down from position in July 2017
THE OREGONIAN – Michael Moffitt, the dean of the University of Oregon’s School of Law, said Friday he will step down in 2017 and return to teaching.
Read More about University of Oregon Law Dean Michael Moffitt to step down from position in July 2017Interview with Charleston Law Dean Ed Bell on plans for the school
THE POST AND COURIER – Among students and faculty, Bell’s brief tenure as president has breathed new optimism into a school that had been limping along on life support for months.
Read More about Interview with Charleston Law Dean Ed Bell on plans for the schoolState of Virginia greenlights George Washington Law professor’s proposal for reporting sexual violence
THE GW HATCHET – Virginia universities may start using a new way to report sexual assaults that a GW law professor proposed.
Read More about State of Virginia greenlights George Washington Law professor’s proposal for reporting sexual violenceTexas Tech Law develops “brain training” program for first-year students
ABA JOURNAL – Last year, the law school introduced its entering first-year class to SMART (strategic memory advanced reasoning training), a program developed by the Center for BrainHealth, a research division of the University of Texas at Dallas, to improve cognitive performance.
Read More about Texas Tech Law develops “brain training” program for first-year studentsUC Irvine Law professor to be awarded honorary doctorate from Belgian University for work in international conflict management
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE – Her lifelong commitment to the power of talk, mediation and active listening has earned the University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of law an honorary doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
Read More about UC Irvine Law professor to be awarded honorary doctorate from Belgian University for work in international conflict managementSelective law schools admit fewer students in response to five-year decrease in applications
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS – Since 2011, the number of applicants to law schools ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News has dropped by a median 18 percent, data from the American Bar Association show.
Read More about Selective law schools admit fewer students in response to five-year decrease in applicationsBureau of Labor Statistics revises job forecast for new lawyers
ABA JOURNAL – The Bureau estimates the number of lawyer positions will increase by just 43,800 jobs in the period between 2014 and 2024, the Am Law Daily (sub. req.) reports.
Read More about Bureau of Labor Statistics revises job forecast for new lawyersThe factors behind the rising price of higher education
THE WASHINGTON POST – Researchers at the Delta Cost Project attempt to make sense of higher education spending by explaining in detailed reports where the money to pay for college comes from and where it’s spent.
Read More about The factors behind the rising price of higher educationGrowing number of Hispanic students are enrolled in law school despite drop in applications
GOODCALL – Law school enrollment has decreased each year since 2010, according to numbers from the American Bar Association (ABA). But, there’s an interesting trend taking place amid this overall student reduction: more minority students are being admitted and attending law school.
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