The average law school increased its faculty size by 40 percent over the past 10 years, according to a study by The National Jurist to be released in late March.
This increase in staffing accounts for 48 percent of the tuition increase from 1998 to 2008, the study shows. Tuition increased by 74 percent at private schools and a 102 percent at public institutions from 1998 to 2008.
Paid readership has declined significantly for may law reviews in the past 30 years, according to a study by Ross Davies of George Mason University School of Law.
Davies based his findings on information collected by the U.S. Postal Service to track the paid circulation of 21 law reviews from some of the most prestigious U.S. law schools between 1979 and 2009, as reported by The National Law Journal.
The Lansing Lugnuts, a minor league club in Michigan, will have their April season opener in the newly named Cooley Law School Stadium.
Thomas M. Cooley Law School officials announced the renaming of the former Oldsmobile Park, located a half-mile away from the school, this week.
Under the agreement, the law school will pay $1.485 million over 11 years, the length of the team’s lease with the City of Lansing, Mich., the Associate Press reports. The team and city will split the revenues.
The American Bar Association vows to look into the methods of the U.S. News & World Report after the magazine announced its decision to start ranking law firms.
Ken Starr is leaving Pepperdine after serving as the dean of the law school for the past five years in order to become president of Baylor University, both schools announced Monday.
A $1 million fund is being established at Harvard Law School to provide money for students entering careers in public service. The Public Service Venture Fund replaces the third-year tuition waiver program piloted in 2008 and suspended early last year.
The new program awards students with one-year grants ranging from a few thousand dollars to as much as $80,000 to supplement salaries in the public sector or to start non-profit organizations.
Martin Katz, who served as interim dean since July at the Sturm College of Law, says he is eager to help implement a new strategic plan developed in conjunction with top law schools and the Colorado and national legal community and approved overwhelmingly by the faculty.
Cheers and applause followed after the state Board of Higher Education voted unanimously to approve plans for a public law school at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
Southern New England School of Law now becomes the University of Massachusetts Law School at Dartmouth — the state’s first public law school.
Southern New England Law Dean Robert Ward said state officials did the right thing.
For decades, the University of California San Diego has been interested in establishing a law school. The plan has been revived, and preliminary discussions to establish a partnership with California Western School of Law have commenced.
In January, faculty and administrators from both campuses formed a committee to explore the concept. Leaders of both institutions say that if a UC San Diego school of law were established it would be self-supporting and not involve any state or UC San Diego campus funds, at least initially.
John Yoo and Berkeley are now trying to outfox the anti-war protestors by hiding the controversial professor’s Constitutional Law class.
