Yesterday Vic Fleischer, a respected former colleague with whom I have worked very well with on various administrative committees (and whose opinion I respect tremendously), authored the following argument: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/the-unseen-costs-of- cutting-law-school-faculty/ Vic’s conclusion, in his own words, is that, “firing untenured faculty is a shortsighted approach to managing an academic budget. It encroaches on an important principle of academic freedom, namely that
Many thanks to this recent graduate from Fordham Law for sending me this email for a blog article! Want to blow off some steam? Write a blog, send it my way, and I will likely publish it! In fact this is the third time it’s happened and I’d like to keep the streak going. 5 Things I Learned About in Law School 1. Don’t get down on yourself: If you are attending law school right now, you have every reason to be proud of yourself. It was not an easy process to get into law school — you
We have been extremely fortunate to work for and with some amazingly strrategic and succesful deans. This article is on lessons learned from the three we worked the closest with: Kent Syverud (for Mike at both Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis), Martha Minow (Karen at Harvard), and Phil Weiser (Mik at Colorado). But there are other deans who have influenced this list of 7 features of good deans. Chris Guthrie at Vanderbilt and Bob Rasmussen at USC both always make time, not just
Updated 6/3/17 Yale University (CT) [https://law.yale.edu/system/files/area/department/admissions/document/yls-viewbook-2016-17-web3.pdf] Harvard University (MA) [http://law.harvard.edu/multimedia/admissions/profiles/] Stanford University (CA) [https://issuu.com/stanfordlawschool/docs/appguide-v08eb2012-08-03] University of Chicago [http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/2016_2017_viewbook.pdf] Columbia University (NY) [http://www.law.columbia.edu/admissions/jd/learn/viewbook] New York Uni
Harvard [http://hls.harvard.edu/] Harvard’s site is a great example of a well-executed, traditional design that works. Thoughtful details abound on the site without making it feel busy (for instance, the prominently displayed “overview” links in each dropdown from the main menu), and the color scheme and typeface choices are consistent and visually appealing. Let’s be honest: Harvard probably could have slacked on their website design without losing any applicants — but they didn’t. Liberty Un
These are just a few photos that we received of this year's 2018 Accepted Students Weekends. Please email us any others you may have to info@spiveyconsulting.com, and we will add them to this post! University of Florida Levin College of Law [https://www.law.ufl.edu/] University of Michigan [https://www.law.umich.edu] University of Virginia [http://content.law.virginia.edu/] Timelapse Video: Eager to get to ASD! The road to UVA Law: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_fjbXMGIvAf
1 Yale University (CT) — 8% 2 Stanford University (CA) — 10% 3 Harvard University (MA) — 16% 4 University of Pennsylvania — 18% 5 University of Virginia — 18% 6 Columbia University (NY) — 20% 7 University of Chicago (IL) — 21% 8 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor — 22% 9 Cornell University (NY) — 22% 10 University of California--Berkeley — 23% 11 Duke University (NC) — 23% 12 Northwestern University (Pritzker) (IL) — 24% 13 University of Southern California (Gould) — 24% 14 University of Texas--A
Much has been said about the training of law students. Indeed, while it may seem like a recent discussion, this discussion on how best to prepare law students for their legal careers appears in the very first of law review articles. Should they be deeply immersed in theoretical underpinning of the law (a conscious decision made by the early law schools), enrolled in experiential apprenticeship type training (buzz words we often see today), or a combination of the two? If a combination, how shoul
