At the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco, it was announced that the law school of the world’s largest Christian university has been awarded full accreditation. On Thursday, Liberty University School of Law was given the full accreditation status by the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which is [...]
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of a California public law school to deny recognition to a national Christian student organization because that organization’s beliefs violate the school’s policy on nondiscrimination. In the 5-4 opinion, the Court upheld the lower court rulings in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, saying the group’s (student chapter [...]
Approximately 200 people including representatives from the Idaho Supreme Court and Idaho Court of Appeals, celebrated the groundbreaking of Boise’s first law school on Tuesday. The new Concordia University School of Law will be located downtown Boise which will transform a current empty building into the law library and classrooms and a what is now [...]
Justice Antonin Scalia says Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s lack of judicial experience is — a good thing. During a speech Wednesday by Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, Scalia said he was supportive of appointing individuals without federal judicial experience, for that matter, no judiciary experience at all. ABC News reported Scalia’s remarks, which [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments in whether a public-run law school may refuse funding and other benefits to a Christian group who requires its officers and voting members to agree with their statement of faith. In 2004 the Christian Legal Society required voting members to sign a statement that held to basic [...]
Just hours after President Obama signed the Democrats healthcare legislation into law, Liberty University is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the bill – making the world’s largest Christian university the first private organization to pursue legal opposition to the bill. The complaint, filed by Liberty Council, names as defendants the U.S. [...]
Five law school deans sent a letter to the Senate and House Armed Services committees late last week calling for Congress to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, which bars homosexuals from serving openly and restricts the military from seeking or revealing closeted gays. The letter, signed by deans at Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, [...]
A Liberty University School of Law team placed first at the regional ABA Law Student Division National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC), held in the nation’s capital. Liberty had 2 teams among the 33 teams representing the 21 law schools from 10 states and the District of Columbia. The team of Timothy Todd, Ben Walton and Matthew [...]
Former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr is leaving his post as dean of Pepperdine University Law School to become president of Baylor University, both schools announced Monday. Starr, who has been dean of the law school for five years, made national attention when he investigated President Clinton during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals. He [...]
During last week’s midyear meeting, the American Bar Association House of Delegated narrowly passed Resolution 10A that would “examine” the way law schools and law firms are ranked. The ABA specifically called attention to the methodology behind U.S. News Best Law Schools and upcoming U.S. News Best Law Firms. The resolution adopted by the ABA reads, “Resolved, that the American [...]
