Law School Briefs – 10/23/13
Read the latest news from Indiana’s law schools, including Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s participation in a new mediation study.
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When security actions become unconstitutional snooping
Indiana University Maurer School of Law professors join the effort to curb government surveillance.
Faith in practice
Red Mass reinforces the value of respect, civility and community in the legal profession.
IU Maurer to participate in national family mediation study
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and IU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have been awarded a four-year, $763,686 grant from the National Institute of Justice to study safety concerns in family mediation.
Annual survey finds law school admissions and applications continue to be down
A majority of law schools across the United States are cutting their admissions for the second year in a row, and a significant portion expect to continue the reduction in class size next year, according to the 2013 Kaplan Test Prep law school survey released Oct. 1.
More dialogue over law school cost and curriculum
Tucked along the hallway in Biolchini Hall of the University of Notre Dame Law School is an office that reflects the new focus – and the new struggle – of legal education. It is the Office of Career Development with a sleek interior of sliding doors, computers and conference rooms, and it is designed to help students get jobs once they get their law degrees.
Dean’s Desk: Third year offers students opportunity to define, hone skills
Our profession is in the midst of an important conversation about legal education – one that encompasses the costs of that education, the employment opportunities for entry-level lawyers, and the curriculum that law schools offer.
Annual survey finds fewer law school admissions and applications
A majority of law schools across the United States are cutting their admissions for the second year in a row and a significant portion expect to continue the reduction in class size next year, according to the 2013 Kaplan Test Prep law school survey released Oct. 1.
Retired Indiana chief justice assures ND law students ‘it will turn out well’
Notre Dame law students received words of comfort and encouragement about their decision to become lawyers from an Indiana jurist who is leading a massive study of the cost and content of legal education.
Dean’s Desk: Blend of theory and practice will make Tech Law unique
In August of this year, Indiana Tech Law School opened its doors in Fort Wayne with a commitment to changing the way legal education prepares students. Despite the national news reporting that there are too many law schools and not enough jobs and the Internet blogs criticizing all new start-ups as a waste of a student’s money, Indiana Tech Law School was established, in part, to respond to the criticism that law schools are not adequately training students to become effective legal professionals.
Indiana Tech dedicates law school, answers critics
Amid much pomp and circumstance, Indiana Technical Institute welcomed its new law school by reiterating its vision of legal education, praising its students and faculty, and pushing back against critics.
ABA Legal Education Task Force calls for law school innovation
The American Bar Association Task Force for the Future of Legal Education, led by Randall Shepard, retired chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, issued its draft report Friday, Sept. 20, with recommendations for improving law schools.
Easterbrook applauds Indiana Tech Law School for trying new approach
Indiana Technical Institute used the dedication ceremony for its new law school to reiterate its vision of legal education and push back against critics.
Indiana Law School Briefs – 9/11/13
Read about events and the latest news from Indiana's law schools.
McKinney professor Arafa says law students in his native Egypt are helping to guide nation’s future
Mohamed Arafa recalls the day last month when he left Cairo, Egypt, to return to his adjunct professor post at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. The streets in the capitol of his native land were full of people demonstrating, and it took four hours in a taxi to navigate to the airport. “Today we have two presidents on trial,” Arafa said of the day he departed Cairo.
IU McKinney author series spotlights faculty writers
An Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Professor will kick-off the school’s series of faculty book lectures by examining the birth of the 14th Amendment.
Rise of legal services bringing upheaval and opportunity, Maurer professor says
The advances in technology that rocked the industrial arts, bringing automation and displacing workers, are coming to the legal profession and giving a bigger role to nonlawyers, according to William Henderson, a nationally recognized authority on the legal profession and legal education.
Bodensteiner: Too many lawyers? The problem may be one of ‘allocation’
Valparaiso University Law School Interim Dean Ivan Bodensteiner argues that there may not be too many lawyers, but the problem may be one of how those resources are allocated.
ABA task force sees role for many in helping to fix legal education
In its review of legal education, a special committee led by retired Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard concluded that fixing the problems in law schools will require help from individuals and groups outside the classroom.