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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
  Bartlett Named Dean of Duke Law School
Duke law professor Katharine T. Bartlett, an award-winning scholar and teacher, has been selected to be the new dean of the Duke School of Law, Provost Peter Lange announced Dec. 21.
She said the law school is "in strong shape, with an excellent student body, a world-class faculty and a small but growing and strongly committed alumni base.
She is married to Duke law professor Chris Schroeder, a scholar whose work spans environmental law, administrative law and a number of other public law topics, and who has served at high level government positions in the U.S. Senate and the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.
www.dukenews.duke.edu /2000/01/bartlett107.html   (900 words)

  
 Duke University Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Law student instruction will be inegrated into the required 9th grade social studies course, "Economic and Political Systems in Action." The 9th grade course features a unit on the legal system during the first semester.
In the second semester, plans are underway to have law students prepare 9th graders for a mock trial competition - possibly in conjunction with the University of North Carolina and Central Law schools.
Duke funds the Pro Bono Director's position and a portion of her time will be spend coordinating the program.
www.streetlaw.org /Duke_survey.htm   (294 words)

  
 Law school revamps grading scale
Duke's previous scale was considered misleading and potentially confusing, said Chris McLaughlin, director of academic advising and a member of the committee.
Duke's previous high grade of 4.5 may have generated confusion because many other schools only award a score of 4.3 as equivalent to an A+, making Duke's system seem vastly different in the eyes of employers.
Many law schools, such as those at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, have scrapped the 4.3 scale entirely.
www.lawschool.com /dukechanges.htm   (475 words)

  
 JSTOR: Duke University School of Law
Duke Law School was established as a graduate and professional school in 1930.
Although Duke University is young by comparison to other major American universities, its academic programs and professional schools together have attained an international stature and a reputation for quality and innovation that few universities can match.
Among the Law School's unique strengths are an extensive network of interdisciplinary collaboration across the Duke campus and an emphasis in teaching and research initiatives addressing global and international issues.
www.jstor.org /journals/dusl.html   (371 words)

  
 Duke University School of law, LSAT Data, GPA Data, Class Rankings
Duke University School of Law is currently ranked Number 12 on the annual U.S. News & World Report list of Tier One law schools.
Duke Law Journal (DLJ)[17] is published six times per year and is among the most prestigious and influential legal publications in the country.
It is composed of second- and third-year law students from Duke University School of Law, and governed by a faculty advisor committee.
www.bcgsearch.com /crc/book/duke.html   (1034 words)

  
 Duke University School of Law
The Project connects Duke law students with nonprofit, governmental and educational institutions in the Law School's surrounding community which are in need of law student assistance on projects serving the public.
Law students who have engaged in pro bono work are recognized with a spring public interest and pro bono dinner at which faculty members serve the students NC BBQ.
The Law School community is invited to help select four to seven books, and the authors of those books speak at programs scheduled in the next academic year.
www.abanet.org /legalservices/probono/lawschools/33.html   (2055 words)

  
 Club News
The panel was moderated by Fuqua Professor Sim Sitkin and included Duke Law Professors Erwin Chemerinsky, Jedediah Purdy and Neil Siegel; William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences; and Ted Triebel, a visiting lecturer in public policy studies at Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Alston and Bird Professor of Law at Duke Law School and a renowned scholar of constitutional law.
Jedediah Purdy is an assistant professor of law at Duke Law School teaching in the areas of property, constitutional law and environmental law.
www.fuqua.duke.edu /alumni/connect/pnews/club.htm   (1012 words)

  
 NCCU School of Law -
Nationally recognized for the diversity of its students and faculty, the School of Law at North Carolina Central University is built on a proud tradition of achievement against historic odds.
With excellence in classroom teaching at its foundation, the School of Law is committed to developing in its students a deep sense of personal integrity, professional responsibility and social conscience.
The School of Law does not make its Career Services facilities available to employers who unlawfully discriminate in their selection of employees on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or handicap.
www.nccu.edu /law/career/interviews.html   (502 words)

  
 Information on U-M Admissions Lawsuits
Duke does consider race among the many factors in its admissions process, but does not employ the kind of point system that the Supreme Court struck down Monday in the case involving undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan.
Shields said that Justice O’Connor notes in her majority opinion that law schools are also a training ground for future legislators and policy makers.
Duke Law Professor James Coleman, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the law school, said this represents the first time that a majority of the Court has held that public institutions of higher education have a compelling interest in attaining a diverse student body.
www.vpcomm.umich.edu /admissions/statements/ruling/duke.html   (682 words)

  
 Duke University Alumni Magazine
When I entered Duke, I knew I wanted to go on to law school, but I was one of the few over-anxious students who insisted on meeting with the pre-law dean as early as my sophomore year.
Duke administrators, from the president's office to the housekeeping offices, work incredibly long hours to make the university function efficiently and effectively.
Contrary to popular belief, all Duke students were not born grasping the keys to sport-utility vehicles in their little hands.
www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /alumni/dm23/gargoyle.html   (1001 words)

  
 Duke University
Duke Law School uses version of the 4.0 scale, with grades given as numbers to the first decimal place (3.1, 3.2, etc.).
Law & Contemporary Problems[376] is the school’s oldest journal and its topics embrace “an interdisciplinary perspective with contributions by lawyers, economists, social scientists, scholars in other disciplines, and public officials.” The Journal occasionally publishes student notes related to past symposia.
The Duke Law & Technology Review[383] is an electronic publication regarding the “intersection of law and technology.” Unlike most journals, which focus primarily on faculty-written articles, the Review focuses on student-written “issue briefs” or “iBriefs,” that keep pace with the changing field.
www.bcgsearch.com /crc/book2005/duke_uni.html   (1034 words)

  
 Visit to Duke Law School
Duke attracts a good number of international students and from what I hear, Duke has a decent pull internationally, partly because Duke's business school is world-renown attracting many internationals and thus, the Duke name can travel far.
Although Duke's been in the national spotlight for the infamous lacrosse scandal, it doesn't seem that Duke's reputation as an academic powerhouse was affected greatly.
I believe the school did a good job in damage control and although the trial is still on-going, Duke seems to have recovered and are ready to move on.
www.top-law-schools.com /forums/tls2489.html   (2209 words)

  
 Duke University School of Law Admission: Vault Student Surveys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Duke Law School is an ideal law school among the top law schools for job placement at a top law firm anywhere in the country or around the world.
Duke's career placement office is one of the school's greatest strengths.
The Duke campus is generally regarded as one of the most beautiful in t...
www.vault.com /law-school-admissions/Duke-University-School-of-Law.html   (605 words)

  
 Admissions
We were among the first law schools in the country to integrate international programs throughout our curriculum.
The Law School also provides leadership at national and international levels in efforts to improve the law and legal institutions through teaching, research and other forms of public service.
Duke is an ambitious law school that seeks out and encourages ambitious students.
www.law.duke.edu /admis   (369 words)

  
 University of Baltimore School of Law Dean's Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She was a featured speaker at the Scholarship Roundtable, “Reforming Parentage Law” at William and Mary School of Law in September.
UB School of Law faculty are invited to submit a short (no more than 1,500 word) overview of the topic they propose to address.
The University of Maryland School of Law is hosting the symposium “The Impact of Film on Law, Lawyering and Legal Institutions” on March 31 and April 1, 2006.
law.ubalt.edu /deansnotes/issue01.html   (1933 words)

  
 Linda Malone, Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law and Director, Human Rights and National Security Law Program, ...
She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, Washington and Lee Law School, Duke University, the University of Arizona, and University of Denver law schools, and has taught at the University of Illinois Law School and University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville.
She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Environmental Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.
Professor Malone received her B.A. from Vassar, her J.D. from Duke, where she was Research and Managing Editor of the Duke Law Journal, and her LL.M. from the University of Illinois.
www.wm.edu /law/facultyadmin/faculty/malone-48.shtml   (1716 words)

  
 Duke University School of Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The School of Law is one of 10 schools and colleges at Duke University.
The first addition to the Law School was completed in 1994, and a polished granite facade was added to the rear exterior of the building.
In 2005, Duke Law was featured in the June 6th unveiling of the Open Access Law Program, an initiative of Creative Commons, for its work in pioneering open access to legal scholarship.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_University_School_of_Law   (892 words)

  
 Duke University Alumni Magazine
Her writings are slated to appear in The Oxford Companion to Military History, the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, and the German-language book Gender and the Military.
In addition to teaching courses in criminal and international criminal law, she is the faculty director for the Duke/ Geneva Institute in Transnational Law, and a coordinating faculty member for Duke's Lemkin Program on Genocide, Refugees, and Ethnic Conflict Resolution.
Since 1994, she has also supervised a project with Duke law students to provide research assistance to the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /alumni/dm8/rwanda_txt.html   (2548 words)

  
 Duke HR - News
Duke Law School is offering free tax preparation services to people who work at Duke, as well as residents of Durham.
Last year, the volunteer Duke Law students, staff and faculty members logged more than 2,000 hours and filed more than $300,000 in returns for more than 200 clients, many of whom work at Duke.
VITA volunteers receive two days of tax preparation training from the Internal Revenue Service and are qualified to prepare and file tax returns electronically, which allows taxpayers to receive their refunds in less than a week.
www.hr.duke.edu /news/2006/tax_help.html   (321 words)

  
 Proof for Duke Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series Vol. 7, No. 1
The Article's chief contributions include an expansion of the behavioral economic approach to include a host of variables in health psychology, a behavioral refinement of empirical health economics, a behavioral critique of Medicaid policy, and a menu of suggested Medicaid reforms.
I argue that, in the early days of the European Community, rights before the Commission were patterned on the laws and legal traditions of the dominant Member States.
Deborah DeMott, David F. Cavers Professor of Law, is Academic Coordinator, Brett Cornwright is Director of Publications.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/sample_issues/209452.html   (2313 words)

  
 Duke Law
While Duke was once nicknamed the Harvard of the South, Duke Law School can now stand on its own with excellent programs in several fields.
Overall, Duke Law School is always rated amongst the top 15 law schools in the nation, appearing as a top 10 law school on a good year.
Duke Law School is also considered to be amongst the top 15 law schools in the following legal specialities: intellectual property, environmental law, international law, and tax law.
www.top-law-schools.com /forums/tls193.html   (251 words)

  
 Duke CIT - Explore Ideas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
To give his law students a taste of the original drama and complexity of some the Supreme Court's most important recent cases, Duke law professor Tom Metzloff is making documentary-style, 20-minute videos of the events leading up to them.
Gore case hinges on specialized knowledge unfamiliar to many law students: how new BMW cars are painted, and sometimes repainted.
In Metzloff’s Distinctive Aspects of American Law and Civil Procedure courses, students prepare for a lecture on BMW v.
cit.duke.edu /ideas/newprofiles/metzloff.do   (476 words)

  
 Veteran Duke law professor dies Associated Press February 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
DURHAM, N.C. Jerome M. Culp Jr., a professor at Duke University School of Law for nearly 20 years, died Thursday of complications of kidney disease, the university announced.
Culp, who joined the Duke faculty in 1985, specialized in race and the law; law and economics; and labor economics issues.
He was director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Duke Law School from 1989 to 1993.
www.lawschool.com /culp.htm   (173 words)

  
 NCCU School of Law - Academics
Returning to Durham, she practiced with a small law firm in the areas of commercial litigation and corporate law.
This was followed by nearly thirteen years as Director of the ABA-approved paralegal certificate program at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, where, in addition to her administrative responsibilities, Attorney Potter taught legal research and writing and directed the internship and placement programs for the paralegal students.
She teaches the Pro Bono Clinic and Street Law courses and serves as faculty advisor, along with Professor Marshall Dayan, to the NCCU Law School Innocence Project.
www.nccu.edu /law/faculty/admin/potter.html   (342 words)

  
 LawPundit :: Law : Information Technology : Intellectual Property : Current Events
The Duke Law & Technology Review (DLTR) is an online legal publication that focuses on the evolving intersection of law and technology..
This area of study draws on a number of legal specialties: intellectual property, business law, free speech and privacy, telecommunications, and criminal law—each of which is undergoing doctrinal and practical changes as a result of new and emerging technologies.
B.A. University of Nebraska; J.D. Stanford University Law School
www.lawpundit.com /blog/2004/11/duke-law-school-law-and-technology.htm   (513 words)

  
 Duke University | Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
Duke University has established a centralized fund to help students organizing direct service trips to the areas devastated by the hurricane.
Duke Chapel is working to find ways to respond to the needs of the victims of Hurricane contributing the entirety of the September 4 worship service offering to relief organizations.
Duke officials exploring where assistance can be most effective.
www.duke.edu /hurricanerelief   (1278 words)

  
 Duke Grad Killed in Law School Shooting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
One of the victims of the cruel, senseless and random shooting at Appalachian Law School in Grundy, Virginia on Wednesday of this week was a Duke Law/ Graduate School of Philosophy Grad, Tom Blackwell, '86.
Tom had left his practice in Texas to join the faculty of Appalachian, a fledgeling law school, just recently accredited, which was established to educate and train lawyers who want to stay and work in the depleted and fairly poor coal mining reagion of far western Virginia.
Many of the students would be unable to leave their homes, families, or jobs to attend school elsewhere, or could not afford to go elsewhere.
www.dukebasketballreport.com /main/3409.html   (307 words)

  
 Environmental Law Symposium Brings Leaders in Environmental Policy
On Friday, November 14 th, Duke Law School hosted a symposium on key issues in the Bush Administration's environmental policy.
A reception and group discussion followed in the Law School's Burdman lounge.
Former Clinton Solicitor of the Department of the Interior John Leshy speaks at the podium, as Duke Law Professor Christopher Schroeder and Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior Lynn Scarlett look on in the opening session of the symposium.
www.env.duke.edu /solutions/documents/envLaw11-14-03.html   (737 words)

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