The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public US-based research university. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes six campuses,a satellite campus in Springfield and also 25 campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts Global.
The University of Massachusetts Lowell is a public research university in Lowell,Massachusetts,with a satellite campus in Haverhill,Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts public university system and has been accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) since 1975. With 1,110 faculty members and over 18,000 students,it is the largest university in the Merrimack Valley and the second-largest public institution in the state. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
Robert Frederick Drinan was a Jesuit priest,lawyer,human rights activist,and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Drinan left office to obey Pope John Paul II's prohibition on political activity by priests.
The University of Massachusetts School of Law is a public law school in Dartmouth,Massachusetts. The only public law school in Massachusetts,it is the successor to Southern New England School of Law,a private law school that donated its campus and its assets to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and part of the University of Massachusetts system.
New England Law Boston is a private law school in Boston,Massachusetts. It was founded as Portia School of Law in 1908 and is located in downtown Boston near the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
The Florida International University College of Law is the law school of Florida International University,located in Miami,Florida in the United States. The law school is accredited by the American Bar Association,and is the only public law school in South Florida. FIU College of Law is the third highest ranked law school in the state of Florida and is ranked in the top 60 in the nation. The College of Law has also achieved the highest July bar exam passage in the state of Florida consecutively for the last nine years (2015–2024).
Aviam Soifer is an American legal scholar who worked on high-profile matters for the American Civil Liberties Union and later served as dean of two American law schools,at the Boston College Law School from 1993 to 1998,and at the William S. Richardson School of Law at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 2003 to 2020. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Suffolk University Law School is the private,non-sectarian law school of Suffolk University located in downtown Boston,across the street from the Boston Common and the Freedom Trail,two blocks from the Massachusetts State House,and a short walk to the financial district. Suffolk Law was founded in 1906 by Gleason Archer Sr. to provide a legal education for those who traditionally lacked the opportunity to study law because of socio-economic or racial discrimination.
Stetson University College of Law,founded in 1900 and part of Stetson University,is Florida's first law school. Originally located near the university's main campus in DeLand,Florida,the law school moved in 1954 to Gulfport,Florida. The law school occupies a historic 1920s resort hotel,the Rolyat Hotel,designed by Richard Kiehnel. The College of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1931. The college also has a campus in Tampa,Florida that shares space with a working court,Florida's Second District Court of Appeal.
Aaron Lazare was the Chancellor and Dean of University of Massachusetts Medical School,Worcester,Massachusetts,from May 15,1991,to March 15,2007. He died on July 14,2015,from complications of kidney cancer.
Northern Illinois University College of Law is one of four public law schools in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is one of two public law schools in the Chicago area. The College of Law was founded as the Lewis University College of Law in Glen Ellyn,Illinois,in 1975. It became part of Northern Illinois University in August 1979,and in 1982 moved to the DeKalb,Illinois,campus,taking up residence in Swen Parson Hall,the former NIU main library. The College of Law offers the Juris Doctor degree.
The Massachusetts School of Law (MSLAW) is a private law school in Andover,Massachusetts. It was founded in 1988 and claims that its design and curriculum were influenced by the medical school educational model and legal scholars. Although it is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education,it is not accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA).
The Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law is located in Orlando,Florida. The school is an academic college of Barry University in Miami Shores,Florida. Barry Law offers various programs for full-time and part-time students,including a three-year daytime program and a four-year extended studies program in the evening for working students.
Southern New England School of Law (SNESL) was a non-profit law school located in North Dartmouth,Massachusetts that operated from 1981 to 2010. At its closure,its assets were donated to the University of Massachusetts system to become the basis for the University of Massachusetts School of Law.
The Isenberg School of Management is the business school and also the second largest school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,the flagship campus for the University of Massachusetts system. The Isenberg School is accredited by the AACSB International and ACPHA.
LeRoy Pernell is a former dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law and Florida A&M University College of Law.
A law school dean is usually the highest-ranking administrator in a law school.
John F. Stack Jr. was an American professor of politics,international relations,and law at Florida International University,where he held a joint appointment as founding dean of the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs,and as a professor of law at the Florida International University College of Law.
Antony G. Page is a Canadian-American attorney,scholar,and former diplomat who has served as the third dean of the Florida International University College of Law since 2018.
