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Yale law prof argues against timing restrictions for judicial clerk market Adam Henry Leading today's law school news, Professor George Priest of Yale Law School argued this afternoon against timing restrictions for the judicial clerkship market in a paper on "Reexamining the Market for Judicial Clerks" [PDF] he presented to the Law and Economics Workshop at the University of Michigan Law School. Priest considered efforts to regulate the market for judicial clerks, where competition between judges for talented law graduates has accelerated the timing of decisions, predicting that "restrictions on time-of-offer currency" will "reduce aggregate welfare." In other law school news, the New York University School of Law is hosting a gala event this evening to celebrate the completion of Furman Hall, a nine-story, $98-million facility that it opened for use last Monday. Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, will speak to event-goers on "Law Education in a Unifying World." Lastly, from the other coast, The Daily Bruin of the University of California at Los Angeles reports on the experiences of UCLA School of Law students who are teaching classes in Street Law to high schoolers. The article describes the dual benefits of the classes to both teachers and students. 12:00 PM | | link to this post | latest Law School News
For-profit Florida law school sold to venture capital firm Adam Henry Leading today's law school news, AP reports that Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, FL has been sold to a venture capital firm that plans to broaden the audience for its offerings and erect a number of replica schools nationwide. With the provisional accreditation of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, CA in jeopardy, Florida Coastal may soon stand as the nation's only accredited for-profit law school. Western State filed suit against the ABA last Friday, claiming discrimination against for-profit law schools in violation of a 1995 antitrust settlement between the ABA and the Department of Justice. In other law school news, The Yale Daily News reports that Yale Law School, arguably the nation's most selective, has begun issuing its first offers of acceptance for the class of 2007. Dean Megan Barnett describes the school's unique faculty review process in the article and notes that "ideal candidates for Law School admission are good students who are fun to teach, possess intellectual curiosity, and demonstrate leadership potential." Texas Tech's University Daily reports that Daisy Floyd, former associate dean of the Texas Tech School of Law, has voluntarily withdrawn a lawsuit she filed in 2002, alleging system-wide sexual and racial discrimination in its hiring and promotion practices. Floyd has accepted an appointment as dean at Mercer University School of Law beginning this summer. Mercer details the appointment in a press release. Lastly, The Gamecock of the University of South Carolina reports that USC School of Law Professor Stephen Spitz has become the school's third faculty member to commit to work for a new private law school in Charleston next academic year. The Charleston School of Law received a provisional license from South Carolina's Commission on Higher Education last September and now awaits accreditation on its way to becoming only the second law school in the state. 12:00 PM | | link to this post | latest Law School News
Welcome back Bernard Hibbitts JURIST is delighted to bring back one of our most popular features - law school news! Just about every weekday University of Pittsburgh law student Adam Henry will report here (and in JURIST's main Paper Chase legal news weblog) on the latest developments in law schools across the country. We hope you'll find this new service by one of our very best JURIST student staffers to be even better than the original. Stay tuned! 1:24 PM | | link to this post | latest Law School News Comments by Haloscan |
