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Law School News: Leadership And Vision: Jonte T. Mckenzie L'24, Michelle Choate
Law School News: Leadership And Vision: Jonte T. Mckenzie L'24, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law School News: From The Community, For The Community 1/21/24, Suzi Morales, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law School News: From The Community, For The Community 1/21/24, Suzi Morales, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Orientation 2023 : Roger Williams University School Of Law, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Orientation 2023 : Roger Williams University School Of Law, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
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Law School News: Roger Williams University School Of Law Withdraws From Us News Rankings 1-17-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law School News: Roger Williams University School Of Law Withdraws From Us News Rankings 1-17-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law School News: Welcome, Rwu Law Class Of 2025! 08-15-2022, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Welcome, Rwu Law Class Of 2025! 08-15-2022, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law School News: Dean's Distinguished Service Award 2021: Ralph Tavares 05/28/2021, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Dean's Distinguished Service Award 2021: Ralph Tavares 05/28/2021, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Inclusivity In Admissions And Retention Of Diverse Students: Leadership Determines Dei Success, Danielle M. Conway, Bekah Saidman-Krauss, Rebecca Schreiber
Inclusivity In Admissions And Retention Of Diverse Students: Leadership Determines Dei Success, Danielle M. Conway, Bekah Saidman-Krauss, Rebecca Schreiber
Faculty Scholarly Works
Penn State Dickinson Law has been leading with an Antiracist admissions philosophy and corresponding plans for implementation before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Arguably, this approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)was not identified explicitly as a vision priority for the law school until July 2019, when Dickinson Law welcomed Danielle M. Conway as the first Black Dean and first woman Dean in the law school’s 186-year history. Dean Conway outlined four vision priorities to accomplish within her first five years at Dickinson Law. Vision priority number two calls upon the law school’s administrators to move the needle substantially on …
Access Law Schools & Diversifying The Profession, Deseriee A. Kennedy
Access Law Schools & Diversifying The Profession, Deseriee A. Kennedy
Scholarly Works
Lawyers do not reflect the racial diversity in the United States. The legal profession continues to struggle with ways to achieve and maintain racial diversity. Law schools play a critical role in the path to practice, and therefore an examination of the barriers to the profession they created is warranted. This essay critiques the over-reliance on standardized testing in law school admissions and advocates for an open admissions process that prioritizes racial and academic diversity. It suggests that the benefits of minimizing the role of standardized tests far outweigh any perceived costs in legal education. This essay concludes that the …
Law Library Blog (November 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (November 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
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The 16th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner, April 4, 2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law
The 16th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner, April 4, 2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: 24: Dean Style 3-6-2017, Michael Yelnosky
Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: 24: Dean Style 3-6-2017, Michael Yelnosky
Law School Blogs
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Making Law School A Place For People Who Know What They Want To Do
Making Law School A Place For People Who Know What They Want To Do
Austen Parrish (2014-2022)
No abstract provided.
Reforming Legal Education To Prepare Law Students Optimally For Real-World Practice, John M. Lande
Reforming Legal Education To Prepare Law Students Optimally For Real-World Practice, John M. Lande
Faculty Publications
This article synthesizes major points in the October 2012 symposium of the University of Missouri School of Law Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, entitled "Overcoming Barriers in Preparing Law Students for Real-World Practice." There is a growing consensus that American law schools need to do a better job of preparing students to practice law. Teaching students to think like a lawyer is still necessary but it is not sufficient for students to act like a lawyer soon after they graduate.
The Real Impact Of Eliminating Affirmative Action In American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique Of Richard Sander's Study, David L. Chambers, Timothy T. Clydesdale, William C. Kidder, Richard O. Lempert
The Real Impact Of Eliminating Affirmative Action In American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique Of Richard Sander's Study, David L. Chambers, Timothy T. Clydesdale, William C. Kidder, Richard O. Lempert
Articles
In 1970, there were about 4000 African American lawyers in the United States. Today there are more than 40,000. The great majority of the 40,000 have attended schools that were once nearly all-white, and most were the beneficiaries of affirmative action in their admission to law school. American law schools and the American bar can justly take pride in the achievements of affirmative action: the training of tens of thousands of African American (as well as Latino, Asian American, and Native American) practitioners, community leaders, judges, and law professors; the integration of the American bar; the services that minority attorneys …
Myths And Facts About Affirmative Action, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Myths And Facts About Affirmative Action, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Articles
The case against affirmative action in admissions to institutions of higher education is based on the moral attractiveness of colorblind decision making and buttressed by a sense that such programs are not just unfair but pointless. Their intended beneficiaries, the argument goes, are put in situations in which they are unable to compete with whites and not only perform poorly but are destructively demoralized in the process. Common to arguments against affirmative action in admissions is a belief that minorities advantaged by it displace whites who are more deserving of admission because they have accomplished more, can better benefit from …
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: Answers To Methodological Queries, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: Answers To Methodological Queries, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Articles
Before making a few remarks in response to those who commented on our article (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000), we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for securing these commentaries and to the people who wrote them. The comments both highlight the potential uses to which our research and similar studies may be put and give us the opportunity to address methodological concerns and questions that other readers of our article may share with those who commented on it. The responses to our work are of two types. Professors Nelson, Payne, and …
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams
Articles
This paper reports the results of a 1997-98 survey designed to explore the careers of the University of Michigan Law School's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's white alumni who graduated during the same years. It is to date the most detailed quantitative exploration of how minority students fare after they graduate from law school and enter law practice or related careers. The results reveal that almost all of Michigan Law School's minority graduates pass a bar exam and go on to have careers that appear successful by …
Doing Well And Doing Good: The Careers Of Minority And White Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams
Doing Well And Doing Good: The Careers Of Minority And White Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams
Articles
Of the more than 1,000 law students attending the University of Michigan Law School in the spring of 1965, only one was African American. The Law School faculty, in response, decided to develop a program to attract more African American students. One element of this program was the authorization of a deliberately race-conscious admissiosn process. By the mid-1970s, at least 25 African American students were represented in each graduating class. By the late 1970s, Latino and Native American students were included in the program as well. Over the nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998, the admissions efforts and goals …
A Message From The Dean, Alfred C. Aman Jr.
A Message From The Dean, Alfred C. Aman Jr.
Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)
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Law School Expects Record Applications, June Lyle
Law School Expects Record Applications, June Lyle
Bryant Garth (1986-1987 Acting; 1987-1990)
No abstract provided.
Number Of Law School Applications Rises Again, Bryan E. Denham
Number Of Law School Applications Rises Again, Bryan E. Denham
Bryant Garth (1986-1987 Acting; 1987-1990)
No abstract provided.
A First Year Appraisal; Thoughts On Bakke, Sheldon J. Plager
A First Year Appraisal; Thoughts On Bakke, Sheldon J. Plager
Sheldon Plager (1977-1984)
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Dean Provides Some Answers, S. Jay Plager
Dean Provides Some Answers, S. Jay Plager
Sheldon Plager (1977-1984)
A number of student groups had expressed a need for an open meeting with Dean Plager. On February 6, 1978, the Dean spoke with a group of about 150 students at a meeting arranged and conduct.ed by the Women's Caucus and SAC. With Dean Plager's permission, the meeting was taped recorded. Herewith is a condensed and edited transcript of the Dean's remarks:
Pressure To Enter Law School Intense, Bill Pittman
Pressure To Enter Law School Intense, Bill Pittman
Douglass Boshkoff (1971-1972 Acting; 1972-1975)
No abstract provided.
A Message From The Dean, Douglass G. Boshkoff
A Message From The Dean, Douglass G. Boshkoff
Douglass Boshkoff (1971-1972 Acting; 1972-1975)
No abstract provided.
Admissions Plan Measure Hit
Douglass Boshkoff (1971-1972 Acting; 1972-1975)
No abstract provided.