The VLW Blog

Reaching far beyond his classroom walls at the Appalachian School of Law – and tapping some obvious broadcasting skills – law Prof. Stewart Harris hopes to bring the U.S. Constitution to life each week on his own radio show.
“Your Weekly Constitutional” airs each Tuesday at 8 p.m. on public station WETS out of East Tennessee [...]

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A lot of college grads have decided it’s not the right time to go to law school.
Law school applications are off 11.5-percent from last year, down to the lowest level since 2001, according to figures from the Law School Admission Council Inc.
“Certain debt and uncertain job prospects” explains the trend, according to The Wall Street [...]

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The University of Richmond law school was among the big winners in the annual ranking of law schools by U.S. News & World Report.
It jumped 19 spots to 67th, which still left it trailing four other law schools in the state – the University of Virginia, which moved up a spot to tie for [...]

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The University of Richmond has named Georgetown Law Center assistant dean Wendy Perdue as dean of the UR law school, to succeed John Douglass who is stepping down to return full time to the classroom.
“She was the clear first choice of our stakeholders, and we’re delighted she will be joining us this summer,” [...]

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Richmond Law Dean John Douglass, soon to return to the professorial life, will be succeeded by someone from this list, according to the school:

Wendy Perdue, Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Georgetown University Law Center.
Joel Reidenberg, the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair and Professor of Law at Fordham School of [...]

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Paul Caron, author of the TaxProf Blog, has crunched a new set of numbers to rank law schools. The way Caron weighs the numbers, the University of Virginia comes out number one, as reported by the ABA Journal.
Caron analyzed data from Princeton Review to compile his own list of top law schools. Yale comes in [...]

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Law students at Regent University’s law school blow off steam playing intramural flag football. Not so weird, you might say, but these people really take this stuff seriously.
There’s even a website where the team rankings are listed (the 3L team “The Gong Show” is the odds on favorite so far). Check out the team photos. [...]

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When Virginia Lawyers Weekly published its Dress Code Survey results back in July, a resounding 89 percent of poll-takers shook their heads at showing off tattoos.
But a handful of University of Virginia law students recently dared to bare their ink for the student newspaper.
These future lawyers revealed the stories behind their tats, recalling how their [...]

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College seniors working on their applications to law school should choose wisely when deciding who to ask for a letter of recommendation.
With all the detail work needed for the rest of the application, the requests for recommendations might seem like an afterthought. A recent report from the Kaplan test prep people suggests, however, that students [...]

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Six years after opening, Liberty University’s law school has been awarded full accreditation by the American Bar Association.
Approval came Aug. 5 from the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar at the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
Liberty’s law school opened in 2004 and obtained provisional ABA approval in [...]

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