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The Business Of Running A Law School, John H. Garvey Jan 2001

The Business Of Running A Law School, John H. Garvey

Scholarly Articles

I confess that as a faculty member I gave little thought to the business of running a law school. Deans do not have that luxury. Someone has to pay attention to things like the budget, payroll, physical plant, purchasing, admissions, career services, and (most important of all) the kind and quality of service that we provide to students in the classroom. Stated abstractly, we are a nonprofit business that provides a service to about 800 customers each year, and we, like all businesses, have to balance our books. From a business point of view the most interesting challenge we face …

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The 50th Anniversary Of The Catholic University Law Review, Ralph J. Rohner Jan 2001

The 50th Anniversary Of The Catholic University Law Review, Ralph J. Rohner

Miscellaneous Historical Documents

This is an essay, not a history, on the first fifty years of the Catholic University Law Review. When an enterprise survives that long, it is cause for acknowledgment and celebration. This seems especially appropriate for the Law Review when we consider that it is managed by amateurs, relies on volunteer labor, and changes leadership every year; yet, it has grown and matured into a respectable scholarly journal. There is reason to wonder from where the Law Review has come, what it has accomplished, and how and where it is going. There is reason, too, to reminisce over half a …

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Clinical Legal Education: An Annotated Bibliography, J.P. "Sandy" Ogilvy Jan 2001