Category: Legal Education
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Legal Encyclopedias
Legal Encyclopedias in the United States Legal encyclopedias provide (generally) a brief, integrated statement of the law. They pull together an enormous body of legal literature, definitions, rules, and practice points derived mainly from case law. Indexes and cross-references are provided. […]
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Law School Job Rankings
Law School Job Rankings in the United States Law School Job Rankings Detailed Insight By Lorelei Laird (2011) The year 2012 may be remembered as the year that law schools were first required to air their dirty – and clean – laundry regarding graduates’ employment rates, offering detailed […]
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Continuing Legal Education
Continuing Legal Education in the United States Each state’s CLE rules are published in The Lawyer’s Almanac. A summary of each state’s rules are posted on the Web by the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education. The ALI-ABA posts a chart of states that accept online, self-study and other […]
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Cornell University
Cornell University in the United States Description and History Cornell University, one of the largest of American institutions of higher education, situated at Ithaca, New York. Its campus is finely situated on a hill above the main part of the city; it lies between Fall Creek and […]
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Legal Treatises
Legal Treatises in the United States The term treatise usually refers to an in-depth scholarly work on a particular subject area. A treatise may be a single volume or a multi-volume set. Some treatises carry scholarly weight but are not too technical or theoretical to be useful to law […]
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Legal Treatises
Legal Treatises in the United States The term treatise usually refers to an in-depth scholarly work on a particular subject area. A treatise may be a single volume or a multi-volume set. Some treatises carry scholarly weight but are not too technical or theoretical to be useful to law […]
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Corpus Juris Secundum
Corpus Juris Secundum Encyclopedia in the United States History The big old American legal encyclopedia was the Corpus Juris: Being a Complete and Systematic Statement of the Whole Body of the Law as Embodied in and Developed By All Reported Decisions (William Mack & William Benjamin, eds, […]
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Law Review
Law Review in the United States Articles in law reviews have certainly become more obscure in recent decades. Many law professors seem to think they are under no obligation to say anything useful or to say anything well. They take pride in the theoretical and in working in disciplines other […]
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Stetson University College of Law
Stetson University College of Law in the United States From the College website: As Florida’s first law school, Stetson has educated outstanding lawyers, judges and community leaders for more than a century. Stetson is a top-100 law school, ranked #1 in trial advocacy and #6 in legal […]
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Stetson University College of Law
Stetson University College of Law in the United States From the College website: As Florida’s first law school, Stetson has educated outstanding lawyers, judges and community leaders for more than a century. Stetson is a top-100 law school, ranked #1 in trial advocacy and #6 in legal […]
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Washington and Lee University School of Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law in the United States This educational institution is a small private law school located in Lexington, Virginia with a total enrollment of about 1000-1100 students per year. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and has been a member of […]
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Law Schools
Law Schools in the United States Legal Materials The American Bar Association posts lists of all ABA-approved law schools. FindLaw posts a state-by-state list of all U.S. law schools that gives you the school’s address & telephone number and links to the school’s Web page, library […]
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall in the United States Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. He graduated in 1930 from Lincoln University and in 1933 from Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., ranking first in his class. Marshall began his legal career as counsel […]
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Religious Liberty Clinic
Religious Liberty Clinic in the United States Religious Liberty Clinic at Stanford University At Stanford’s new Religious Liberty Clinic, law students gain valuable experience helping to protect First Amendment rights. The Religious Liberty Clinic at Stanford University is still young, […]