Join a member of our admissions team in Washington, DC for an opportunity to discuss the unique program offerings at RWU Law and the law school application process. This event immediately precedes an Alumni Reception at the same location where you will be able to meet Dean Michael J. Yelnosky , RWU Law alumni, faculty, and staff. The Wink, Washington D.C. (formerly the Renaissance…
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BRISTOL, R.I., – Natale A. Sicuro, the Roger Williams College president who led the name change to Roger Williams University and helped launch the RWU law school, died on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in Seattle after a brief illness. He was 83. Sicuro served as Roger Williams president from 1989-1993. In 1989, he initiated the Roger Williams Plan for the 90s. He appointed a blue-ribbon exploratory committee…
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One of the best annual traditions here at RWU Law is Champions for Justice and the Public Interest Law Auction. These two events which are held together at the Omni Providence Hotel this year on Friday, January 26, 2018 are fun, meaningful, and benefit the many social justice programs within our law school community such as Alternative Spring Break, the Pro Bono Collaborative, the Public Interest…, Judge Edward C. Clifton, Luis Mancheno, Esq. L’13,, and, Barton Gilman LLP., Every year the library tries to think of something fun to donate to the auction portion of this event. This year we are offering a nerdy fun experience with the law librarians at Riffraff , a brand new super hipster bookstore and bar now open in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence. Sounds fun, right? Be sure to bid on this and other fun experiences to connect with members of the bench, bar…
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Historic memorials or hurtful provocations? That’s the question at the heart of the debate about removing Confederate monuments from public spaces – or keeping them in place. Groups opposing removal argue that eradicating the monuments in effect erases history and punishes Southern pride. Advocates of removal counter that the monuments serve as painful reminders of institutional racism,…, Dred Scott, decision upholding slavery and declaring that black Americans were not citizens. (Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree has called, Dred Scott, “the most regretted and despised decision ever by the Supreme Court when it comes to issues of race injustice.”) The Annapolis monument was commissioned, however, after the Civil War – and not for Taney's Confederate credentials, but because “he stood for commitment to the institution of slavery.” The empty plinth upon which his statue once stood has since become the site for a revolving variety…, University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War, (Oxford, 2016),, Reparations Pro and Con, (Oxford, 2006), and, Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, (Oxford, 2002), and the co-authored, Experiencing Trusts and Estates, (WestAcademic, 2017). Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a Presidential Bicentennial Professor at the University of Michigan, and was a founding director of the Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law & History. She is the author of, All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900, (2007), a co-editor of, Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, (2015), and author of the forthcoming, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, , from Cambridge University Press. The 13th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Keynote Address was generously supported by Nixon Peabody LLP.
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Whenever possible, I try not to simply assert that the program at RWU Law is special. Instead I try to give specific examples, preferably “objective” examples, or examples that do not come from my own observations. Let me show you a few recent indicators of the quality of the program and people at RWU Law. This chart uses data collected by the , Princeton Review, for its 2018 , 169 Best Law Schools , publication. Students at those 169 schools evaluated their faculty’s accessibility and ability to hold students’ interest. The faculty at RWU Law, once again, ranked very highly among New England law schools. In fact, according to this year’s data, we rank third in the entire region -- ahead of Vermont, Maine, UNH, Northeastern, Quinnipiac, Suffolk, UConn, Harvard, and Yale. (Western New England…, Best Law Schools , publication). Princeton Review stats Princeton Review also includes a narrative based on surveys of students at each school included in its , Best Law Schools, publication. Portions of that narrative for 2018 also reveal our students’ perception of the teaching at RWU Law: “[T]he stellar faculty . . . make Roger Williams an impressive law school . . . . The small size draws students in, who are comforted ‘that everybody knows your name, whether it’s a librarian, your professor, or the dean. . . . [T]he coursework is innovative and creative. . . .’ …, National Jurist Prelaw , Magazine, ranked the public interest programs at RWU Law #21 in the nation and noted that we are “one of only about a dozen law schools that guarantee students a live client experience.”, National Jurist Prelaw , Magazine also lists RWU Law as having one of the best 50 criminal law programs in the country: Quote from the dean Finally, we have now received the results of the performance of our recent graduates on , bar exams, administered in July across the country. We are now able to calculate pass rates for our first-time takers in 2017, and in some jurisdictions we have the data necessary to calculate pass rates for the graduates of other law schools. The following charts show comparative pass rates for the Massachusetts and Connecticut bar exams – two of the most popular exams among our graduates. They tell a…
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, From the Wall Street Journal:, " WSJ Law Schools Boost Enrollment After Price Cuts ," by Jennifer Smith Read a NY Post New York Post editorial on the story., Sept. 2, 2014:, A strategy rarely employed in legal education — price-cutting — appears to be paying off for a handful of U.S. law schools. Three institutions that trimmed tuition for some or all students are set to boost their first-year class sizes by 22% to 52% this fall compared with 2013, according to an analysis of preliminary enrollment data by The Wall Street Journal. […], First-year enrollment increased by 28% at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island after a tuition reductio, n, and by 22% at the University of La Verne College of Law in California. […], At Roger Williams University School of Law, , returning students can keep their existing aid and pay the old tuition rate of $41,400, or waive the award and pay $33,792 under the new model. "Many current students are paying less than they did previously," a spokeswoman said, "and nobody is paying more.", For full story, click WSJ here .,
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The ABA recently released the employment data reported to it by all American law schools for the graduating classes of 2016. , Above the Law, , a news website about the law, legal education, and lawyers, has reported on several studies of that ABA employment data. One of those studies ranked American law schools by the percentage of graduates who secured state court clerkships because these are some of the most sought after jobs among law school graduates. They are valuable because they offer law clerks unique insights into the…
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