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Announcements
Attention Prelaw Students and Alumni/ae: Pre-Law Handbook
The Prelaw Handbook has now been incorporated into the CMU Pre-Law Program web site. This handbook is designed to take a "deeper dive" than our main pre-law web site into matters pertaining to pre-law interests and needs of current students and alumni/ae. It discusses in much greater detail the relevant information and issues about exploration of law school as a professional school option, preparation for law school, the law school application process, financing law school, and several resources for additional reference. This handbook is navigable by detailed bookmarks so that you can go straight to those sections that respond most directly to your questions and needs.
Comments or suggestions about both the handbook and web site are always welcome!
Sincerely,
Dr. Devine
Prelaw Advisor
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Articles
4 Ways to De-stress During the Law School Application Process
Applying to law school is stressful. Especially if you are still taking the LSAT, or waiting for LSAT scores to come back. But there are ways to make it at least a little bit less anxiety-provoking.
Here are some tips
UCLA to help more public interest attorneys make do
Public interest jobs can be rewarding in most aspects. You help people. You fight for the little guy. You can sleep like a baby at night, knowing your work is making a difference.
But the pay?
Law schools give back to the tune of $111 million
Law schools get a bad rap for lots of things, such as being too expensive and too wedded to their sometimes-called stuffy education model.
But it would be hard to argue that they are not assets to their communities.
Read more.
Syracuse Law to start "Third Year Away" program
if you go to Syracuse University College of Law, here's some good news, particularly if you're prone to frostbite. In your third year, thanks to a new program called "Third Year Away," you can go to, say, Atlanta. It's much warmer there.
Learn more.
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Lectures and Events
Mock Criminal Law Class with Dean Simons, St. John's University Law Shool
January 30, 2020 at 2 p.m.
Ever wondered what it's like to be in a real law school class? Join us
as Dean Michael A. Simons teaches an actual case from his first year Criminal Law class-Dudley v. Stephens, the "cannibals in a lifeboat case." Dean Simons will also talk about life in law school and the application and admissions process.
Learn more.
Judicial Humility and Judicial Humiliation: A View from the Trenches
Thursday,
February 6, 2020
Porter Hall 100 (CMU Campus)
5:00-6:00 pm
The
Honorable Edmond E-Min Chang, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
In recent years, litigants have challenged federal legislation and executive action in the federal courts by seeking "nationwide" injunctions, even though typically a court judgment applies only to the specific parties in the case. Recent examples include challenges to the Affordable Care Act and to the Executive Order restricting entry from certain foreign nations. Judge Chang will address the propriety - or not - of nationwide injunctions, and how those injunctions bear on the credibility of the federal courts.
Presented by the Thomas M. Kerr, Jr. Lecture Series on Law & American Society.
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LSAT/PreLaw
Pre-Law Certificate Program in NYC
July 13th - July 31st, 2020
Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law
is offering the
Pace Pre-Law Certificate Program (PPCP)
, a three-week, New York City-based comprehensive certificate program for aspiring
lawyers who would like to practice in the United States.
Learn more.
University of Houston Pre-Law Pipeline Program
Are you interested in studying law? Are you a first-generation college student or a member of a group underrepresented in legal profession? Do you need assistance with the LSAT and your law school application materials?
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Other Opportunities
SEO Law Fellowship Program
Deadline to apply: Monday, March 9
Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 SEO Law Fellowship Program, a diversity pipeline program that provides a 2-week academic training program to underrepresented students that plan to matriculate into law school in Fall 2020 as well as matches them with paid internships at law firms across the country the summer before they start law school. In particular, we are actively seeking Fellows for our law firms in Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston (in addition to our locations in NYC, DC, LA, and SF). Fellows also receive complementary tutoring sessions while in law school.
Preparing talented, motivated, yet under-represented students to successfully gain admission to and succeed in law school. The ASAP program curriculum will focus on aspects of the law school application process that are commonly overlooked or undervalued by students when applying to law school
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