Excuses For Making Law School Expensive. Law School Was Huge Mistake. Vermont Law School Problems. Thursday, 24 January 2013 07:10 Staff What if you made a law school and no one showed up?
That may well be the reality facing Vermont Law School this Fall. While many schools are facing a shortfall of applicants, Vermont has been forced to take the unique step of downsizing its staff. [vnews, sorry about the paywall] The school gave buyouts to ten of its staff, and laid off another two. Not a particularly large ax to fall on the administrative heads, but the school has announced that professors will be next. So just what happened? The lack of a legal industry in Vermont is what happened. Vermont Law School is the only school to send 5% or more of its class to the state, yet last year only 16.7% of Vermont grads found work within Vermont. Last year, Vermont awarded 175 JDs, and enrolled 154. Looking back 3 years ago, Vermont awarded 173 JDs and took in 190 new 1Ls. Will law school students have jobs after they graduate? To do that, Irvine needed top-flight facilities and professors.
Price, seemingly, is no object. UC-Irvine, a public university, offers the second-most-expensive legal education in the country. At more than $77,000 a year including living expenses for out-of-state students, a JD from Irvine tops the bill from Harvard, Yale or Stanford. Only the University of California at Berkeley, at almost $78,000, costs more. Chemerinsky seems untroubled by this, arguing in an interview that Irvine is no more expensive than Stanford or the University of Southern California, really. Law School Predictor: Full-Time Programs. 7 Ways To Get Yourself Detained Indefinitely. Debate continued to rage this week over a short, loosely worded segment of the new 565-page 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that critics, lawmakers and now a federal judge say makes permanent a controversial, post-9/11 loophole that opened a dangerous door to approving the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without a trial.
The Obama administration and the law's supporters have maintained that the president's signing statement that secured the legislation's passage on New Year's Eve, as well as additional rules he issued in February, should be enough to assuage the fears of the law's opponents. Both documents suggest that U.S. citizens will have their constitutional right to a trial protected. Third Case Against Occupy Wall Street Protester Is Thrown Out. Share The Occupy Wall Street movement has been quietly racking up legal victories in court with the third case in a row being thrown out by a judge Wednesday due to an “insufficient” summons.
Occupy’s “freedom fairy,” Marni Halasa was ticketed by the NYPD for “impeding pedestrian traffic” during a protest at Zuccotti Park back in March. New York Daily News: “It’s absolutely ridiculous that I was impeding pedestrian traffic with silk chiffon wings and Rollerblades,” said Halasa, who was ready to plead not guilty and request her day in court for the alleged offense. “I wanted the case to go further to really challenge the law.” Halasa added that she felt like her First Amendment rights had been violated. The excellent Nick Pinto over at the Village Voice has been following Occupy’s legal battles in court and summarized the other two OWS victories.
In a single month, Occupy secured three court wins, beginning with the case of Alexander Arbuckle. Is the Corporate Personhood Reform Movement Doomed to Fail in Washington? May 22, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The highest-profile tactic of the corporate personhood movement—calling on Congress to send a constitutional amendment to the states that does not just reverse the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision but declares that corporations do not have the same rights as natural persons under the Constitution—may be doomed in Washington. Across the country, hundreds of local and state governments have sent resolutions to Congress that combine the movement’s twin demands—that Congress take back power from the Supreme Court to regulate campaign finances and that it strip corporations of legal privileges in elections and society at large. On Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi again said that Citizens United has to be reversed. Imprecise Message, Imperfect Messenger. And Joined the Fight to Rescue Our Democracy from Citizens United. May 25, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. (Editor's note: This is the transcript of a May 23, 2012 speech at the Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute.) I am often asked how, after 25 years as an election lawyer, service as an FEC Commissioner, and General Counsel to 2 presidential campaigns, did you end up as Stephen Colbert’s lawyer on late night TV.
It just goes to show—90% of life is “just showing up”—and returning phone calls. I was at my desk one day last spring and the Colbert staff called—“What is a PAC. Tips for Optimizing Your Applications. For LSAT, Sharp Drop in Popularity for Second Year.