Related Research Articles
Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres, among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world. It was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever aged 15 the previous year. Leland was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The university admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford struggled financially after the death of Leland in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, the provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build a self-sufficient local industry, which would later be known as Silicon Valley.
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. As of 2023, U.S. News and World Report ranked it the fifth-best law school in the nation.
Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021, the second-lowest of any law school in the country. Since 2019, Jennifer Martínez has served as its dean.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business school in the United States, admitting only about 6% of applicants.
The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It employs more than 180 full-time and part-time faculty and hosts more than 600 students in its Juris Doctor program, while also offering the Master of Laws, Master of Studies in Law and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees in law. The law school has the third highest percentage of recent graduates clerking for federal judges after Stanford Law School and Yale Law School.
Marquette University is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, the first Bishop of the diocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Initially an all-male institution, Marquette became the first coeducational Catholic university in the world in 1909.
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 the 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.
A Doctor of Juridical Science, or a Doctor of the Science of Law, is a research doctorate in law equivalent to the more commonly awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Seattle University School of Law, or Seattle Law School, or SU Law is the law school affiliated with Seattle University, the Northwest's largest independent university.
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a private research university. The law school is located on the university's Chicago campus. Northwestern Law is among the top ten most selective law schools and is considered part of the T14, an unofficial designation in the legal community as the best 14 law schools in the United States.
Merrill Joseph Bateman has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1992, originally as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He is currently an emeritus general authority. From 2003 to 2007, Bateman was a member of the church's Presidency of the Seventy. He was president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from January 1, 1996, until May 1, 2003, and was the church's twelfth presiding bishop in 1994 and 1995. In 2003 and 2004, Bateman was the general president of the church's Sunday School organization. From 2007 to 2010, Bateman was president of the Provo Utah Temple.
The William & Mary Law School, formally known as the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, is the law school of the College of William & Mary, a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the oldest extant law school in the United States, having been founded in 1779 at the urging of alumnus Thomas Jefferson. It has an enrollment of 606 full-time students seeking a Juris Doctor (J.D.) or a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in the American Legal System, a two or three semester program for lawyers trained outside the United States.
Henry Johnson Eyring is an American academic administrator who served as the 17th president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) from April 10, 2017 to August 1, 2023. Since April 2019, he has also served as an area seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He previously served as both the Academic and Advancement vice president at BYU-Idaho, as well as director of the Marriott School of Business (MSB) MBA program at Brigham Young University (BYU).
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The school is named after Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, an Indianapolis businessman and 1967 alumnus who donated $35 million in 2008. From its founding in 1842 until Maurer's donation, the school was known as the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington.
James R. Rasband has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2019. He was previously the Academic Vice President (AVP) at Brigham Young University (BYU) from June 2017 until shortly after he was called as a general authority. He also previously served as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS). He has also been the Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law.
Robert H. Daines (1905–1985) was a leading plant pathologist.
Robert H. Daines III was the Driggs Professor of Strategic Management at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Srikant Datar is an Indian-American economist and the Dean of Harvard Business School. At Harvard, he concurrently serves as the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration.
Anthony Devos Johnstone is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
References
- ↑ "Robert M. Daines". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ↑ "Appointed Dean". stanford.edu. April 11, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ↑ compass logistics bio of Daines
- ↑ Deseret News article by Daines, including short bio
- ↑ "Banking on the future". The Stanford Daily. May 6, 2010. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ↑ Meet the New Leaders Called at the April 2023 General Conference, Newsroom, churchofjesuschrist.org, 1 April 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
- ↑ Daines I'm a Mormon profile
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This biographical article about an American legal academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |