Texas A&M University School of Law is the first in the Lone Star State to join a growing national trend of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Examination in admissions. Hoping to broaden and diversify its pool of applicants, Texas A&M announced Tuesday that prospective law students applying to be Aggies in fall 2018 will …
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Animal Law Clinics Become Pet Projects at Law Schools
As part of an emerging trend in legal education, South Texas College of Law Houston is the latest among a handful of law schools nationwide offering animal law clinics for would-be attorneys. South Texas, the first law school in the Lone Star State to create an animal law clinic, joins Lewis & Clark Law School, …
LSAT-Takers Trending Up Following 5-Year Plunge. Why?
A continuing surge in the number of people taking the Law School Admission Test this year provides another glimmer of hope to law schools that a drought in the applicant pool might be ending. LSAT numbers have seen modest single-digit gains in the last two testing years, following a five-year decline in which the number …
Veterans Heading to Law Schools, With Nonprofit’s Help
Law school final exams next month might seem like the worst thing in the world to some law students. Not Eric Gilliland. He has a different way of thinking about law school after being in the U.S. Army Special Operations for six years, deploying to Jordan and Turkey. Veterans who have deployed and seen combat …
GRE or LSAT? ABA Council’s Latest Move Could Nix Tests Altogether
Future law school applicants could avoid taking the Law School Admissions Test—or any other admissions test, for that matter—if a proposal by the nation’s law school accrediting body passes. The key word, however, is “if.” After 90 minutes of discussion on Friday afternoon and a split vote, the council of the American Bar Association Section …
Handling Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey didn’t significantly impact most law students and law professors of Houston’s three law schools—South Texas, the University of Houston Law Center, and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. But students and professors who lost everything have struggled to get back on track, and they could face long-term impacts as they slowly …
Tougher Bar Pass Standard for Law Schools on Agenda at ABA Meeting
A fight over a controversial proposal to toughen law school accreditation standards regarding bar exam pass rates is headed for round two. Although it failed earlier this year in the effort, the nation’s accrediting body for law schools, the American Bar Association Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, is …
Harvard Law to Launch Student Mental Health Survey
Harvard Law School is set to conduct a mental health survey of its students in November, part of a trend in which legal educators are playing a larger role in the well-being of their J.D.-hopefuls. The survey aims to measure the rate of law students who have experienced mental health incidents, determine the adequacy and …
At Law Schools, Rowdy Protests Provide Teachable Moments
Since February, when violent protests canceled a speech by provocative writer Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley, colleges and universities nationwide have faced criticism for caving to opposition by canceling events. Law schools have not escaped the clashes. The nationwide free-speech-on-campus debate took root at three law schools this fall as protesters opposed speakers or …
High Drama Comes to University of Miami Law School Clinic
Theater and law school might not seem like a perfect fit, but one legal clinic is relying on a theatrical approach to teaching about attorney-client interviewing techniques. Early in the school year, before University of Miami School of Law students ever see a client in the school’s Health Rights Clinic, they participate in an intense …