AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – A Law School Love Story: Prominent Professor Marries Columbia 3L

In 2008, we profiled celebrity law professor Philip Bobbitt. Professor Bobbitt has a breathtaking résumé, featuring degrees from Princeton (A.B.), Yale (J.D.), and Oxford (Ph.D.); distinguished government service, for both Democratic and Republican administrations; and numerous acclaimed books, including Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (1982), The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week: Northwestern Law ‘Bro’ Offends Most Of Law School, All Of Thailand

We’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the “PC Police” at Northwestern Law School. The school seems to have a number of students who are easily offended. Some of the kids there overreact at the slightest provocation. Do you want to see how they react when something actually offensive happens? Read more on AbovetheLaw.

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week: 1Ls Hold Tryouts For Study Group Slots, Charge Application Fee

In some imperceptible yet significant way, the experience of American legal education has reached a new low. We all feel this. Between tuition that is out of control, deans who don’t tell the truth, and students who are willing to fight other students to the death to get jobs in a market where there aren’t […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week: Fifteen More Law Schools to Be Hit with Class Action Lawsuits Over Post-Grad Employment Rates

Back in August, we reported that Kurzon Strauss had filed class action lawsuits against Thomas M. Cooley Law School and New York Law School for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and deceptive business practices. And earlier this week, we started to wonder how those cases would be moving forward, because Kurzon Strauss is apparently no more. That’s […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – New Tulane 1L Is An Advocate, A Writer, And A Murderer

Which of the nouns in the headline caught your attention? If you are a student at Tulane Law School, I’m sure it was the murderer part. Most of you have probably never heard of Charles Russell, but he was a professor at the Community College of Rhode Island who was murdered in 1992. His attacker […]