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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. Interest in J.D.

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Association of American Law Schools President Speaks on Cooperative Politics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alexander has always been interested in the realms of law, politics, and democracy. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University.

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SRT fly-in strengthens links between counselors and prestigious Spanish universities

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Representatives from 17 universities, such as ESADE Business and Law School, IE University, CEU Universities, Ramon Llull University (La Salle, IQS, Blanquerna), LCI Education, and IED Istituto Europeo di Design, hosted a series of campus tours, one-on-one meetings, and masterclasses for counselors.

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Bill: North Dakota presidents could fire tenured faculty

Inside Higher Ed

” Regarding the bill’s ban on suing presidents, Easton, a Stanford University Law School graduate, reads it as preventing a private right of action against the president personally. ” “Effectively teach and advise a number of students approximately equal to the average campus faculty teaching and advising load.”

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Twins Win $1.5M After Being Accused of Cheating

Inside Higher Ed

They opted to go to law school instead, and now both work as government affairs advisers at the same Columbia, S.C., The sisters told the Post they withdrew from MUSC at the recommendation of a dean after experiencing hostility from other students. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Student Law Society Offers Legal Support to LGBTQ+ Community

Insight Into Diversity

Zach Baumgarten, JD “[The tool kit is] mainly about educating folks on what the processes are, where you would go to do the things that you need to, what documents you can and can’t change, things like that,” says Zach Baumgarten, JD, staff adviser for OutLaw and program director of Bowen’s Veterans Pro Bono Services Center. “So