The University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia,founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. Having been governed by three Founding Fathers of the United States,it is the flagship university of Virginia and is home to the Academical Village,preserved by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The university has been referred to as a "Public Ivy" for offering an academic experience similar to that of an Ivy League university,and is known in part for certain rare characteristics among public universities such as its historic foundations,student-run honor code,and secret societies.
Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a public research university in Tel Aviv,Israel. With over 30,000 students,it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv,the university is the center of teaching and research of the city,comprising 9 faculties,17 teaching hospitals,18 performing arts centers,27 schools,106 departments,340 research centers,and 400 laboratories.
Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era,and the first African American ever elected as governor. He is currently a professor at the eponymous Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The College of William &Mary is a public research university in Williamsburg,Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III and Queen Mary II,it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. Institutional rankings have placed it among the best public universities in the United States.
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts university in Lexington,Virginia. Established in 1749 as the Augusta Academy,the university is among the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. Washington and Lee's 325-acre campus sits at the edge of Lexington and abuts the campus of the Virginia Military Institute in the Shenandoah Valley region between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains. The campus is approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast from Roanoke,140 miles (230 km) west from the state capital of Richmond,and 180 miles (290 km) inland southwest from the national capital at Washington,D.C.
Regent University is a private Christian university in Virginia Beach,Virginia. The university was founded by Pat Robertson in 1977 as Christian Broadcasting Network University,and changed its name to Regent University in 1990. Regent offers traditional on-campus programs as well as distance education. Through its eight academic schools,Regent offers associate,bachelor's,master's,and doctoral degrees in over 70 courses of study. The university is regionally accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools with specific programs accredited by other professional or national accreditors.
The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is located on the campus of Indiana University –Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis,Indiana,the urban campus of Indiana University. In the summer of 2001,the school moved to its new building,Lawrence W. Inlow Hall. IU McKinney is one of two law schools operated by Indiana University,the other being the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. Although both law schools are part of Indiana University,each law school is wholly independent of the other. According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures,59% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time,long-term,J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is the education school of Harvard University,a private research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1920,it was the first school to grant the EdD degree and the first Harvard school to award degrees to women. HGSE enrolls more than 800 students in its one-year master of education (Ed.M.) and three-year doctor of education leadership (Ed.L.D.) programs.
The University of Virginia School of Law is the law school of the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as part of his "academical village" which became University of Virginia where law was one of the original disciplines taught. UVA Law is the fourth-oldest active law school in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating law school. The law school offers the J.D.,LL.M.,and S.J.D. degrees in law and hosts visiting scholars,visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers.
University of Benin (UNIBEN) is a public research university located in Benin City,Edo State,Nigeria. It is among the universities owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria and was founded in 1970. The School currently has two campuses with fifteen faculties including a central library called the John Harris Library. The buildings in UNIBEN are sparsely built,they are not close to each other.
The Appalachian School of Law (ASL) is an ABA-approved private law school on a four building campus in Grundy,Virginia,a small town near the convergence of Virginia,Kentucky,and West Virginia. The school offers a three-year Juris Doctor degree,and enrolls approximately 128 full-time students. The law school was founded in 1994 and admitted its first class of students in August 1997. ASL was started and brought to Buchanan County,Virginia as a tool of economic development for the region. ASL emphasizes professional responsibility and alternative dispute resolution in its curriculum and requires students to complete 25 hours of community service per semester in order to graduate. Each student is also required to complete an externship before graduation. According to ASL's 2021 ABA-required disclosures,31% of the Class of 2020 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation. ASL was also the site of a triple homicide that took place on January 16,2002.
Jedediah Spenser Purdy is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. He is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School,where he teaches courses on American Constitutional Law,Constitutional Law and Democracy and its Crisis. From 2004 to 2018 Purdy was a professor at Duke University. Purdy is the author of two widely discussed books:For Common Things:Irony,Trust,and Commitment in America Today (1999) and Being America:Liberty,Commerce and Violence in an American World (2003).
John Calvin Jeffries,Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008.
The University of Richmond School of Law is a school of the University of Richmond,located in Richmond,Virginia. Richmond Law is ranked 52nd (tie) in the US by US News,among the top five value law schools by the National Jurist,and one of the Princeton Review's 167 Best Law Schools of 2018.
The Washington and Lee University School of Law is the professional graduate law school of Washington and Lee University. It is a private American Bar Association-accredited law school located in Lexington in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. Facilities are on the historic campus of Washington and Lee University in Sydney Lewis Hall. W&L Law has a total enrollment of approximately 365 students in the Juris Doctor program and a 6-to-1 student to faculty ratio.
Samuel Bernard Goodwyn is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. He previously served as a circuit court judge in Chesapeake.
The Schar School of Policy and Government,formerly known as the George Mason University School of Policy,Government,and International Affairs,is a constituent college of George Mason University headquartered in Arlington,Virginia with a satellite campus in Fairfax County,Virginia. Established in 2000 as Northern Virginia's first public policy school,the school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in international relations,public policy,public administration,political science,international security,and urban studies along with specialized graduate certificates,master's,and doctoral programs in fields such as biodefense,international commerce,homeland security,emergency management,counterterrorism,illicit trade analysis,organization development,and knowledge management as well as executive education programs with students eventually choosing one or two degree programs to join,but having the option of taking elective courses from across several of the aforementioned sub-fields at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. While it primarily educates and conducts research in subjects related to politics,government,international affairs,and public policy/public administration-related economics,as well as study of regional issues affecting the Washington D.C. metropolitan area,the school is home to several prominent centers and institutes,including the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence,Policy,and International Security,the Center for Security Policy Studies,the Terrorism,Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC),and the Center for Energy Science and Policy;the School of Policy and Government also cooperates with the Antonin Scalia Law School’s National Security Institute in conducting research around legal issues pertaining to national security. The school is also the psephology partner of The Washington Post,collaborating on electoral polling and analysis for the paper since 2016,the two hold an A+ rating for historical accuracy and methodology in polling from FiveThirtyEight.
Arthur J. Bachrach was an American psychologist and administrator,who was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University,and Director of the Environmental Stress Program and Chair of Psychophysiology at the Naval Medical Research Institute at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
Katherine Moore Porter is an American politician,law professor,and lawyer who is the U.S. representative from California's 45th congressional district since 2019. She is the first Democrat to be elected to represent the district,covering much of south-central Orange County,including Irvine,Tustin,and Lake Forest along with large portions of Anaheim and Laguna Niguel. Porter was narrowly reelected in 2022 in California's newly redistricted 47th congressional district.
Brian Lawrence Frye is an American independent filmmaker,artist,and law professor. His work includes Our Nixon,for which he served as a producer with his ex-wife,Penny Lane. His film Oona's Veil is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art,and his writings on film and art have appeared in The New Republic,Film Comment,Cineaste,Millennium Film Journal,and The Village Voice. Filmmaker Magazine listed him as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2012. He currently is the Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law,where he teaches courses on civil procedure,intellectual property,copyright,and nonprofit organizations. He is a vocal critic of the bar exams and refers to his course on professional responsibility as "Managing the Legal Cartel"
