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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.
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.
Most law schools have a "flagship" journal usually called "School name Law Review" (e.g., the Harvard Law Review) or "School name Law Journal" (e.g., the Yale Law Journal) that publishes articles on all areas of law, and one or more other specialty law journals that publish articles concerning only a particular area of the law (for example, the ...
Fictional alumni. Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie – fictional character portrayed by Catherine Bell on JAG, earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law. Sam Seaborn – fictional character portrayed by Rob Lowe on The West Wing, graduated from Duke Law School.
A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree . Law schools in the U.S. confer the degree of Juris Doctor (J.D.), which is a professional doctorate. [1] It is the degree usually required to practice law in the United States, and ...
Influenced. Louis Michael Seidman, Gary Peller. Duncan Kennedy (born 1942) is an American legal scholar and held the Carter Professorship of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School until 2015. Now emeritus, he is best known as one of the founders of the critical legal studies movement.
Maryellen Fullerton (B.A. 1968), lawyer and interim dean and law professor of law at Brooklyn Law School; Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962), psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College; John Graham (Ph.D. 1994), economist; Huck Gutman, Ph.D. from Duke; professor of English at the University of Vermont and political advisor to Bernie Sanders
Margaret Lemos. Margaret H. Lemos is an American legal scholar of constitutional law, legal institutions, and procedure. She is currently Robert G. Seaks Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where she has taught since 2011. [1] Lemos completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at Brown University in 1997.