Velvel: count more adjuncts as profs to keep class size low

Article Abstract:

Dean Lawrence R. Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law gave his solution to the economic woes experienced by many law schools in a Feb 1996 letter to the ABA's House of Delegates. Currently, one of the ABA's accreditation standards is that no more than 20% of a law school faculty be composed of adjunct professors. Velvel would alter this standard and have more adjuncts count as full professors order to keep the class size low. Velvel also stated that making full-time professors do more teaching to keep costs down was a step many law schools feared to take.

United States, Practice, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Law teachers, Law school faculty, Velvel, Lawrence R.

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Part-timers aren't the pariahs they were not too long ago

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Cleveland State University and the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar sponsored a conference on part-time legal education from Oct 15-17, 1992. The conference's theme was how to make it possible for part-time students to participate fully in the life of the law school. The conference found the view of part-time law students as second-class citizens less prevalent than in the past and a greater interest on the part of law schools in making sure their part-time programs were of a high standard.

Students, Part-time, Part time students

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A foreign affair - NYLS opens international law, trade center

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New York Law School is starting a new Center for International Law in Fall 1996, to be headed by Sydney M 'Terry' Cone III, a partner at powerhouse global law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. As NYLS's first CV Starr Professor of the Law of International Trade and Finance, he intends to draw together theory and practice and emphasize skills training. A fall symposium will explore Lloyd's of London's restructuring. NYLS hopes to develop a reputation as a school of international law.

Study and teaching, International law, New York (State)

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