Law schools set aside 30% quota for girls.
Byline: SEETHALAKSHMI S BANGALORE: Parliament may be dilly-dallying on bringing 33% reservation for women. But premier national law schools in the country will implement a 30% quota for girls keen to pursue law, from the academic year 2008-09. The seven premier law schools in the country have...

Reproducing racism; white space, elite law schools, and racial inequality.
9780742560062 Reproducing racism; white space, elite law schools, and racial inequality. Moore, Wendy Leo. Rowman & Littlefield 2008 199 pages $26.95 Paperback KF272 From the content and intent of their admissions...

Are law schools amoral boot camps? Two legal ethicists beg to differ with a controversial book.
Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession Philip Slayton Viking 294 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780670065042 In this book, Philip Slayton--formerly a Bay Street lawyer and a dean of law-tells the stories of a number of...

Law schools lose.
Byline: The Register-Guard American law schools got their clocks cleaned by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, but even though they lost the legal battle, they were right to oppose the U.S. military's disgraceful "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Justices ruled unanimously that if the...

Clinton nominee takes aim at law schools; Guinier says Socratic method biased.
Byline: Mark Melady WORCESTER - Harvard law professor Lani Guinier, once labeled a "quota queen" whose nomination to head the nation's civil rights office was famously withdrawn by President Clinton, has taken aim at the Socratic teaching method used in most law schools that she claims favors...

"Rum, sodomy, and the lash": what the military thrives on and how it affects legal recruitment and law schools.
I. OPENING REMARKS MS. GREER: Winston Churchill once said that "Naval Tradition is just rum, sodomy, and the lash." I'm Sharra Greer. I'm the director of Law and Policy for the Service Members' Legal Defense Network. We're a national nonprofit dedicated to ending "Don't Ask,...

Cite unseen: how neutral citation and America's law schools can cure our strange devotion to bibliographical orthodoxy and the constriction of open and equal access to the law.
I. INTRODUCTION There can be fewer subjects less inviting on their face than a discussion of legal bibliographical practice. Citation itself is neither scholarship nor analysis but is the mere act of recording a supporting source's location; (1) the quintessence of form with no intrinsic substance at...

Recruiting banned at law schools.
Since this report was prepared, a lawsuit filed by a group of law schools and professors won a ruling by an appeals court in Philadelphia that the federal law that forces law schools to allow military recruiters on campus is an unconstitutional violation of schools First Amendment rights. A...

Law reviews: good for judges, bad for law schools?
[This article responds to Justice Kirby's recent praise of law reviews. It will be argued that law reviews should be a matter of concern, both because of the questions that their use raises about the judiciary and for the problems that they cause for law schools. The increasing use...

Law schools for legislators in one day or less.
Most state legislators have never stepped inside a law school. But a new trend is bringing law school--or, at least, a mini-law school--to them. Each year, more state bar associations are conducting half or full-day programs, billed as Law Schools for Legislators. Unlike three-year law schools that...