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Barry Law students share a strong sense of unity. You strengthen those bonds by joining together to build houses with Habitat for Humanity or participate in volunteer days that serve the Orlando community. Barry Law graduates embark on rewarding careers. Some practice entertainment law in Orlando’s growing recording industry; others add legal expertise to their already established professions. As often as Barry Law alumni join the private sector, they also work for the public good: preserving the Everglades through environmental law; protecting children from distressed families as guardians ad litem; contributing to good government by running for the state legislature; or safeguarding justice as prosecutors in the state attorney’s office.

Text 36. St. Thomas University (School of Law)

The St. Thomas University School of Law was founded in 1984. The School of Law is located on the main campus of the university and includes a multi-level library, a moot court amphitheater, faculty and administrative offices, a computer lab, and classrooms and offices for student organizations. The architectural combination of buildings and breezeways provides a comfortable setting for the study of law, including an outdoor classroom that is usable virtually year-round.

The School of Law is not only fully accredited by the American Bar Association but it is also a member of the Association of American Law Schools. It embraces the duties and obligations of the JudeoChristian ethic and endeavors to instill the values and ethics of that tradition and of the Catholic Church in its students. As a Catholic law school, St. Thomas University School of Law has a fundamental duty to impart these values and ethics through the teaching of law.

St. Thomas University is an urban, student-centered, Catholic university with rich cultural and international diversity, dedicated to educating leaders who contribute to the economic and cultural vitality of the regions they serve. St. Thomas University School of Law takes special pride in the diversity of the student body. The School of Law has been recognized as having the most diverse student body among

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accredited law schools. The cultural diversity, commitment to professionalism and small class size make studying law at St. Thomas University School of Law a unique and enriching experience.

Miami, home of St. Thomas University School of Law, is not only an international gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean but also is a center of global commercial, financial and cultural activity, making it a well-suited laboratory for our international programs, including our LL.M. tracks in intercultural human rights and international taxation.

Our moot court teams consistently excel in prestigious competitions, including winning the state championship. Our tax law program is so highly respected that our graduates have accounted for as much as 20 percent of the class in the nation’s top master’s program in that area of practice.

STU Law is ranked first in total Hispanic enrollment and fifth in Spanish Heritage enrollment according to the American Bar Association’s Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools (2006 edition).

The Law School is ranked #3 for Best Environment for Minority Students and #9 for Most Diverse Faculty by the Princeton Review. The Law School has been ranked one of the top 5 law schools for Hispanic students by Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine. The National Jurist ranks St. Thomas law school a “very good value”, along with schools like Yale and Georgetown.

St. Thomas University School of Law has been fully accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1988. The School of Law is also a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

In 2001, the law school was admitted into the prestigious Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Admissions to this association is competitive, and is attained through a rigorous applications process, site visits, and written reports. Upon our admission, the AALS complimented St. Thomas University School of Law on “its commitment to diversity in the student body, the faculty’s focus on excellence in teaching, the commendable physical plant, the innovative library, and the notable spirit of camaraderie among the broader law school community.”

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Successful legal education at St. Thomas University School of Law is the sum of many parts. Strong programs and numerous options, meaningful experiences in clinics and externships, effective teachers in class and in person are all qualities we believe honestly reflect the strengths of a St. Thomas legal education.

For most students, the experience begins in the classroom. From the very beginning, you will learn the law by dissecting the law, by breaking down what you thought you knew and rebuilding your own concept of the law and its application. All of this learning takes place in a supportive environment made up of an experienced and dedicated faculty, as well as your peers, who enjoy learning with you and watching you learn.

You’ll be able to choose from a variety of degree programs. We pride ourselves on our special degree programs in Intercultural Human Rights, and Joint Degree Programs with the Graduate School.

St. Thomas University School of Law offers a wealth of programs to meet the interests and needs of our diverse student body. In addition to the traditional J.D. degree, the law school offers cuttingedge joint degree programs in Sports Administration, Marriage & Family Counseling, Business Administration, and Accounting. We also offer the innovative three plus three BA/JD degree for college students interested in pursuing the law.

Our acclaimed graduate degree programs, the LL.M. and new J.S.D. in Intercultural Human Rights and the completely online LL.M. in International Tax ,have earned praise for their globally renowned faculties and for their focus on topics of real significance in the world today.

St. Thomas University School of Law also offers an extremely popular Summer-in-Spain program.

The J.D. program at St. Thomas University School of Law will train you to become a highly skilled and knowledgeable attorney with uncompromising ethics and a real commitment to justice and service.

You will study under leading scholars who will serve not only as teachers, but also as mentors. You will experience the law through lively classroom debates, a wealth of extracurricular activities, and abundant clinical and externship opportunities.

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Earning your J.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law is a unique experience. You will study, learn, and experience the law in a law school community unlike any other in the nation– our small size coupled with our great diversity makes for a friendly yet challenging environment where excellence, ethics, and justice are valued, and great legal minds are cultivated.

The St. Thomas University School of Law is committed to training students to be effective, ethical advocates and to instill in them a devotion to justice, and a desire to provide legal services to underserved communities. As part of this commitment, the law school offers ten (10) clinical courses, including a wide variety of clinic/externship placements. These settings cover such areas as civil and criminal practice, appellate litigation, and judicial experience, as well as bankruptcy, domestic and family law, elder, immigration, and tax law. The St. Thomas clinics are very intensive; the typical student-to- teacher ratio is eight-to-one or better. Students receive careful, individualized attention from full-time and adjunct faculty, as well as the opportunity to collaborate actively with one another in the service of clients’ needs. Undoubtedly, your experience will become very demanding, gripping, and sometimes exhausting. We trust it also will become an enriching and unique part of your St. Thomas education.

Text 37. Florida International University

(College of Law)

The mission of the Florida International University College of Law is to serve the citizens of the State of Florida, particularly South Florida, by providing access to the legal profession through a contemporary, high-quality educational program. Like the University and metropolitan communities of which they are a part, the student body, faculty and administration reflect a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. Out of this diversity, the College of Law seeks to create a scholarly community in which students and faculty discuss issues freely and with respect for differing perspectives.

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The FIU College of Law occupies a brand new state of the art building, designed by renowned architect Robert A. M. Stern. The facility is one of the largest and most modern in the state, and will host classes as of the Fall semester of 2006. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the law school's building on May 22, 2005 (the same day as the inaugural commencement), although the foundation had already been laid, and principal construction had already begun at that time. $34 million was budgeted for the construction of the facility, which was. The new building is also on the University Park campus, across from the Pharmed Arena and adjacent to the newly constructed recreation center and a 1,000-car parking garage.

Construction of the facility suffered setbacks when the University Park Campus suffered direct hits from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma as each passed through South Florida in the Fall of 2005. In each instance, damage to the structure was accompanied by increases in the costs of labor and materials.

Initially, the school had occupied several floors of the Green Library building at FIU's University Park campus. The fourth floor of that building contained faculty offices and the Dean's suite. The law library was located on the third floor, and several classrooms on the first floor were dedicated to law student use.

The College of Law offers a curriculum that prepares students for ethical and effective practice of law in an increasingly global and multicultural world. The curriculum includes a full and faithful presentation of the courses traditionally offered at nearly all U.S. law schools. In addition, building on the parent university’s distinction in its international programs, the curriculum incorporates important developments in the globalization of both public and private law. The academic program takes a pervasive approach to international and comparative law, incorporating these perspectives into all domestic law classes, and includes a required introductory course and a rich array of upper level electives in international, transnational and comparative law. Recognizing the importance of a solid grounding in the skills and values of the profession, the College of Law curriculum further provides students with extensive,

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rigorous legal research and writing experiences, introduces other lawyering skills such as counseling and negotiation, and introduces the important professional values of civility and ethical practice.

The curriculum is taught by a faculty committed to excellence in both teaching and scholarship. Faculty members are actively engaged in research in their respective areas of expertise. The scholarly mission of the College of Law enriches classroom teaching and learning; contributes to the understanding, development and reform of the law; and promotes the University’s mission as one of the nation’s leading urban public research institutions.

As a community of legal scholars, the College of Law has obligations to the region, state, nation and the international community to assist the legal profession and the society it serves. The FIU College of Law seeks to graduate students who appreciate the lawyer’s professional and ethical obligations to serve the community. The College of Law will educate future lawyers who will understand the value – to the community and to them personally – of helping those in need. Students are required to satisfy a community service requirement and the College of Law will offer clinical legal education programs in which students represent indigent clients. Faculty members model these values by participating in local, state, national and international professional service activities.

The College of Law seeks to advance the intellectual growth of its students as well as their development of skills and values useful to the ethical, effective practice of law. The curriculum includes the core courses traditionally offered at almost all American law schools. In addition, the academic program is committed to special experiences in International and Comparative Law and Community Service. All courses in American law will include a short component contrasting how other countries address common issues.

All students must complete a minimum of 90 hours of course work with a cumulative g.p.a. of 2.0 or higher to earn the J.D. degree. In addition, students must satisfy the community service requirement and the residency requirement.

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The Clinical Program advances the law school’s goals of educating lawyers for ethical and effective practice of law and of promoting community service through the representation of real clients. The first clinics at the College of Law are an Immigration/Human Rights Clinic and a Criminal Law Clinic. In the first, Professor Troy Elder supervises students representing clients seeking political asylum. Professor Phyllis Kotey, formerly a County Court Judge, leads the Criminal Law Clinic in which students either prosecute cases through the State Attorney’s office or defend clients accused of crimes. The Clinical Program offers students the opportunity to develop competency in lawyering skills, including interviewing, counseling, fact-gathering, developing a litigation plan, negotiations, discovery techniques, other pre-trial and trial skills, and law office management skills. Students learn substantive and procedural law related to their clients’ needs. Clinical law students acquire problem solving abilities, learn to cope with facts, and experience the relationship between legal theory and practice in the context of providing assistance to an under-served population. Students assume responsibility for matters of great importance to real clients. They also have the opportunity to work collaboratively with other students and clinic faculty.

The Clinical Program and its clinical courses provide legal education along with hands-on experience that enables students to apply course work to actual cases and to examine the institutional, ethical and personal problems inherent in the lives of today's practicing lawyers. The Program offers students exposure to client advocacy and litigation in a supervised setting. Presently there are three clinics available, the Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, the Community Development Clinic, and the Criminal Law Clinic.

The Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic and the Community Development Clinic are in-house clinics. Students in the Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic represent low-income clients in political asylum and other immigration and human rights cases. Students in the Community Development Clinic represent clients on primarily transactional matters involving nonprofit

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organizations and small businesses. The Criminal Law Clinic is an externship program in which students are certified interns at the Public Defender’s Office and State Attorney’s Office while participating in a seminar at the law school.

The Clinical Program plans to begin one new clinic in the Spring of 2005: a Judicial Clinic . The Judicial Clinic will be an externship program where students will be able to obtain practical experience in the chambers of a trial or appellate judge or other judicial officer.

Professor Peggy Maisel is the Director of the Clinical Programs. She comes to FIU with both national and international law teaching experience. She was a Fulbright Professor and then joined the University of Natal law faculty in South Africa from 1996-2002 where she worked with the University law clinics and introduced her knowledge of clinical legal education into the development of course materials and the teaching of skills in the core law school curriculum. In the U.S., she has been the Dean of New College of California School of Law, and has taught in clinics at Harvard, Antioch Law School, and the University of Maryland. She is licensed to practice law in Florida, California, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia.

The FIU College of Law founding faculty is a group of outstanding teacher-scholars with exceptional credentials, experience and reputations. They are people for whom teaching and mentoring of students is the first priority. In addition, they are distinguished scholars who have published in the country’s leading law reviews. All are committed to the College of Law’s mission to serve the community and the legal profession in Miami, South Florida, Florida, the United States and the world.

The Law Library is a research facility designed to support the work of students and faculty of the Florida International University College of Law. FIU College of Law is a brand new law school which first opened its doors in August of 2002. The library currently has about 200,000 volumes and the collection is growing rapidly. The law librarians and staff are committed to providing a high level of service to the students and faculty of the College of Law, as well as to assisting the

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FIU community, the local bar and the general public. The full-time staff of ten includes five professional librarians and the library director.

In addition to our collection, the Library houses group study rooms, computer labs, carrels, and connections for laptops. Students have access to the Library’s electronic resources, including the webbased library catalog, subscription databases, research guides, and selected Internet resources.

The FIU College of Law Library is open to guests doing legal research, but some restrictions are observed.

Text 38. University of Miami (School of Law)

Located in one of the world's most exciting and international metropolitan areas, with a renowned faculty, a rich and diverse curriculum, a carefully selected student body, and world-class facilities, the UM School of Law is in the forefront of the nation's law schools. We are training legal professionals who will be the architects of a rapidly changing world.

Countering the well-publicized notion that law schools foster a dog-eat-dog environment, students, faculty and administrators at UM Law collaborate on a unique and overwhelmingly popular program to help first-year students adapt to the rigors of legal study. The Academic Achievement Program (AAP), better known as the “Dean’s Fellows Program,” assigns outstanding secondand third-year students (“Dean’s Fellows”) to work with students in first-year classes. On a weekly basis, each Fellow meets with students in a classroom setting and facilitates regularly scheduled study group sessions. Additional components of the AAP include the AAP Writing Center and the Fall and Spring Exam Workshop Series. Although participation is voluntary, approximately 90 percent of our first-year students take advantage of this highly effective program.

The University of Miami School of Law provides a solid grounding in all the traditional subjects that are basic to an understanding of the law and required for admission to state bars throughout the nation.

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Our philosophy, however, is that our educational scope should extend well beyond the basics. We therefore offer several ambitious programs designed to teach students the craft as well as the theory of the law, to develop the research and writing skills critical to the legal profession, and to expose students to other skills necessary for effective professional service (such as negotiation and trial advocacy).

The Law School’s curriculum also addresses the problems of a changing society by offering courses that emphasize the international, economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of the law.

Students enrolled in the full-time program usually complete the degree requirements in three years. A minimum of 88 credits is required for the degree. Full-time students register for 16 credits each semester of their first year and a minimum of 12 credits each semester thereafter.

The University of Miami School of Law grades students according to the traditional four-point system, in which a D converts to one point and an A to four points. A cumulative average of 2.0 or above is required for the J.D.

Text 39. Capital University

Capital University Law School is an innovator and leader of law schools. Offering daytime and evening programs for its students, the Law School is a pioneering educator of the next generation of legal professionals.

The Law School is part of Capital University, the oldest and largest independent college in Central Ohio and the largest university affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Founded in 1830 and incorporated in 1850, Capital University's programs include a College of Arts and Sciences, a Graduate School of Administration, a Conservatory of Music and a School of Nursing. Because of its relationship with a major university, the Law School can offer joint degree programs and access to facilities and resources at the main campus of Capital University.

Capital University Law School grew from the Columbus Law School, which was founded in 1903 as part of a national program

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