Information About Law Schools

Ten of the Best Law School Websites

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

Viewbooks of 165 Law Schools

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

Three Deans for the Seven Themes: 7 Common Traits of Successful Deans

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

The 20 Law Schools that Accept the Most Transfers

Advice From Recent Law School Graduate

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

This time around the revolution will not be televised...

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