Chicago-Kent’s 1L Your Way Program allows students who know the area of law in which they would like to specialize to select a more flexible track. This optional program allows full-time J.D. students to defer a required first-year course to the second year in favor of taking either an approved, upper-division elective course or
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UA Little Rock Strives to Strengthen Pre-Law Advising by Leading a One-Day Statewide Meeting
By Michael Hunter Schwartz on
Many pre-law advisors assume their roles because of passing interest, arm-twisting, or forcible assignment. A mix of academic advisors, career counselors, faculty, staff, and community organizers who take on pre-law advising in addition to their other responsibilities, at best, they are enthusiastic participants who lack the time or resources necessary to devote to mastering and…
New Clinics at the West Virginia University College of Law
By Michael Hunter Schwartz on
I genuinely believe all law schools make a significant effort to serve their local communities, and I am convinced we succeed. Our legal clinics provide hundreds of thousands of hours of free legal services each year to people who could not otherwise afford such services, and our externship students support our local, state, and federal…
Texas A & M Requires New Dispute Resolution Course for 1Ls
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Law schools continue to tinker with the first-year curriculum, with some law schools adding Legislation and Regulation courses, others adding professionalism or professional identity-focused courses, still others adding international law courses, and a few affording students first-year electives. Texas A&M University School of Law has added another possibility to the mix—a required, first-year, one-credit Dispute…