preLaw - Back to School 2007 - (Page 13) news LAW SCHOOL As of June 2007, a total of 196 institutions had ABA approval. Phoenix officials said the law school received provisional approval on its first attempt. “The American Bar Association has sent a message that Phoenix Law is a quality law school with a unique mission to make student-centered legal education accessible to minorities and non-traditional students,” said Dennis Archer, a past ABA president and chair of the InfiLaw National Policy Board. InfiLaw Corp., a consortium of independent, community-based law schools, also owns Florida Coastal, as well as Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte, N.C. Its goal is to develop law schools in areas without a nearby source of legal education. Through its provisional accreditation, Phoenix can now create clinical programs, receive federal student loan assistance and take part in admissions recruiting events Alternative Dispute Resolution Experiential Learning with ABA-approved schools. Phoenix is scheduled to graduate 38 students in May 2008, its first graduating class since opening in 2005. —Karen Dybis Ave Maria law professors protest move to Florida A group of law professors are objecting to Ave Maria School of Law’s decision to move its facilities from its current location in Ann Arbor, Mich., to a rural Southwest Florida town by 2009. Part of the group’s concerns are that the law school would be better served by staying in its urban location rather than moving to Ave Maria, Fla., which was cofounded and funded largely by Catholic multimillionaire Tom Monaghan. Calling themselves the Association of Ave Maria Faculty, the group has taken its Business & Commercial Law concerns public, posting letters online and talking with media outlets. “There are all sorts of reasons why one would find it imprudent to leave a wellpopulated area, where a law school has made valuable contacts with the profession and for its students over the last seven years, to move 1,300 miles to a new and untested community, isolated from most of the kinds of social networks in which legal communities thrive,” the Association said in an April 30 statement posted on Catholic legal theory Web site Mirror of Justice. Monaghan helped to found both Ave Maria University and its law school, which began offering classes in 2000. —Karen Dybis Go to www.NationalJurist.com for weekly news updates and more. Child Advocacy Criminal Law Litigation & Trial Practice Discover the Hamline Difference World Leader in Dispute and Conflict Resolution International Opportunities Part-time Weekend Program Engaged Faculty in a Supportive Environment Intellectual Property Property Law Public Law & Human Rights Governmental Affairs www.hamline.edu/law Weekend Program Study Abroad Health Law International Law Labor & Employment Law hamline.indd 1 www.preLawInsider.com Back to 6/30/06 2006 13 School 10:35:50 AM http://www.NationalJurist.com http://www.hamline.edu/law http://www.preLawInsider.com
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