It was a BAD Week for …
Law school porn, after a study found that law school marketing materials, called “porn” as slang, had minimal impact on U.S. News & World Report rankings. The study, conducted at St. John’s University, looked at marketing materials sent to that school in a one-year period. There was some correlation between schools that sent marketing materials and higher tier placement and peer assessment scores, but the number of pieces a school sent wasn’t significant.
Holding the line on tuition, after The National Law Journal reported that private law schools increased tuition by 4 percent and public schools by 6 percent this year. The increases came despite recent criticism about the costs of legal education and a 25 percent drop in applicants over the past two years. “I’m not shocked by the numbers, but I’m horrified,” Deborah Jones, professor at Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law told the National Law Journal. “It’s professionally irresponsible.”
It was a GOOD week for …
Innocence, after the Project for the Innocent at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs. The grant will fund the project’s initiatives for two years. The project, founded by student volunteers pursues claims of innocence on behalf of those who have been wrongfully convictedIt was launched in 2008.
