It was a good week for …
Following in your parent’s footsteps, after the heir apparent to Robert Kardashian – one of O.J. Simpson’s super lawyers – and the brother of socialite Kim Kardashian, announced he will attend law school.
“Going to law school very soon and so excited and can’t wait! School just never ends for me! #UniversityofSouthernCal #Trojans #FightOn,” Robert tweeted Monday.
Robert, who has starred in the reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” will not, however, be attending the University of Southern California Gould School of Law as he said. The school clarified the rumor with a tweet of its own.
“[W]e wish him luck at law school,” the USC tweeted Tuesday on its official Twitter feed.
It was a bad week for …
Unity between law schools and universities, after the dean of Saint Louis University School of Law resigned after one year on the job in response to disagreements with the university administration over the autonomy of the law school.
“From the beginning of my deanship, you have evinced hostility toward the law school and its faculty and have treated me dismissively and with disrespect,” Clark said in the Aug. 8 resignation letter. She said her decision was influenced by a transfer of law school funds to the university president’s account and the fact that the law school was left out of the decision to move the law school to a downtown location.
“I strongly disagree with many of her interpretations of fact,” said Reverend Lawrence Biondi, president of Saint Louis University, in a letter to the law school faculty and staff. “Her assertion of a lack of support for the law school could not be further from the truth.”
International law schools seeking U.S. accreditation, after a section of the ABA overwhelmingly declined to accredit foreign law schools that follow the U.S. model.
In response to China’s Peking University School of Transnational Law’s efforts to be the first accredited foreign law school, the ABA took on the issue after conflicting studies in 2010 and 2011 recommended different paths for the ABA. The university said that the decision would go a long way in determining whether the United States can claim the “moral high ground” as American law firms seek to move into foreign legal markets.
After reviewing the opinions of bar associations, chief judges and law school administrators, the ABA sided with the 2011 study that objected to approval of foreign schools because overseas accreditation would be expensive and hard to administer.
