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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.
Legal education in the United States. Legal education in the United States generally refers to a graduate degree, the completion of which makes a graduate eligible to sit for an examination for a license to practice as a Lawyer. Around 60 percent of those who complete a law degree typically practice law, with the remainder primarily working in ...
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
The 2020 QS World University Rankings for Law ranked 14 U.S. institutions in the top 50 worldwide. The U.S. institutions in the top 10 were Harvard Law School, which ranked first, with Yale Law School ranked fourth, Stanford Law School ranked fifth, NYU School of Law ranked sixth, UC Berkeley School of Law ranked seventh, and Columbia Law ...
Learn more in The N&O’s roundup of higher education news about why Duke’s admissions leader says scoring student essays is “an artifact of the past.” Dean’s List: Duke no longer ...
Doriane Lambelet Coleman is a Swiss-American professor at Duke Law School, where she specializes in scholarship on women, sports, children, and law. [ 1] Her most recent writing has centered on sex, its evolving definition, and the implications of this evolution for law and society. The first two articles in this series – "Sex in Sport" and ...
Swarthmore College ( BA) Stanford Law School ( JD) Occupation. Dean. Law professor. Karen L. "Kerry" Abrams (born 1971) is an American law professor and academic administrator. She currently serves as the James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the Duke University School of Law. [1]
Wiener received his A.B. in economics from Harvard University in 1984 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987. He clerked for Judge (now U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston in 1988–89, and for Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein on the U.S. District Court in New York in 1987–88.