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One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law is a constituent academic unit that began in 1868 as the Trinity College School of Law. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity College to Duke University, the school was renamed Duke University School of Law. Admission is selective, with only about 10 percent of applicants being admitted.
Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. It is most controversial in college admissions, [3] where students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students.
Ben F. Johnson, 1949 – dean of the Emory University School of Law and Georgia State University College of Law; Ivan C. Rutledge – dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; Michael P. Scharf, 1988 – professor of law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Previously, Duke’s admissions office assigned numerical scores to six areas of a student’s application, The Chronicle reported: the strength of a student’s curriculum, plus their grades ...
University of Akron School of Law. 3.0 first year, 3.1 upper years. [2] University of Alabama School of Law. 3.20 [3] Albany Law School. 3.0 [4] American University Washington College of Law. No mandatory curve; 3.1 to 3.3 mean for 1L courses, except First-Year Rhetoric. 3.25 to 3.45 mean for most upper-level courses.
The first European university, that of Bologna, was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars in the 12th century who were students of the glossator school in that city. The first academic title of doctor applied to scholars of law. The University of Bologna served as the model for other law schools of the medieval age.
Harvard denies that the discrimination it engaged in was inappropriate and said its admissions philosophy of considering race as one of many factors in its admissions policy complies with the law. The school also says that it receives more than 40,000 applications, that a large majority of applicants are academically qualified, and as a result ...
He has stated that his experience during the Duke lacrosse case motivated him to attend law school and pursue a legal career. [144] [145] Finnerty enrolled at Loyola College in Maryland , leading the team in scoring as the Greyhounds qualified for the 2010 NCAA lacrosse tournament . [146]