These awards are offered under criteria determined by the Admissions Committee. All students applying to the School of Law are considered for these scholarships; no separate application is required. Notification will be sent with the letter of admission from the School of Law. Questions concerning these awards should be directed to the Admissions Office., Presidential Scholarships, are awarded to admitted students on the basis of exceptional merit. Students must maintain superior academic performance in order to sustain the scholarship in subsequent years. , Jurisprudence Scholarships, are awarded to select applicants to RWU Law. Students must maintain superior academic performance in order to sustain the scholarship in subsequent years. Every file is considered holistically for Jurisprudence Scholar status., Leadership Scholarships, are awarded to admitted students who show academic promise and have a demonstrated commitment to the RWU Law Mission to promote social justice and the rule of law. Leadership Scholars have shown determination in overcoming obstacles in their educational path, demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience, or supported underserved communities. Every file is considered holistically for…, Public Interest Scholarships, are awarded to admitted students who show academic promise and have shown a strong commitment to public interest work and a willingness to enter into public interest law after graduation. Every file is considered holistically for Public Interest Scholar status.
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General Information, Roger Williams University School of Law (“RWU Law”) is committed to affording its graduates a wide range of career choices and making public interest law practice a more financially feasible choice. RWU Law, through the generosity of Roger Williams University and donors Jack and Sara McConnell, demonstrated that commitment, in 2008, by establishing this Public Interest Loan Repayment Assistance…, Qualifying Employment , The applicant must be a member of a state bar or the District of Columbia bar, OR the applicant may have passed one of the above bars and be awaiting admission AND must be providing legal services on a full-time (at least 32 hours per week) or part-time (at least 20 hours per week) compensated basis in a public interest setting such as described below. Qualifying employment is limited to core…, Loan Status Eligibility Requirement , Students may apply for the PILRAP loan if they are in repayment AND in a qualified Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Plan or if they intend on starting their loan repayment within three months of the application date. A graduate must be in repayment before PILRAP loans may be distributed and must remain in repayment throughout the term of the graduate’s PILRAP loan. Graduates must be making…, Timeline, Due Date- January 10th Award Notification- February 10th, Application Process , A graduate must apply for PILRAP within five years after the graduate’s date of graduation. The application will not be considered complete unless accompanied by all required documentation specified on the application form. Submit applications no later than January 10th using our secure portal. The completed application: 1) an application, 2) an employment verification form signed by the…, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program is available through the federal government to those borrowers making qualifying payments in a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying public service employer. After 120 qualifying monthly payments, the remaining balance is forgiven with no taxable income implications. Only the loan servicer (FedLoan Servicing) can…, PILRAP Application, Submit your PILRAP application and supporting documents via our Secure Portal If you have any questions about the program or your eligibility, please email Laurie Barron at lbarron@rwu.edu or Kate Politano at kpolitano@rwu.edu .
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The institution can contribute up to 50% of those expenses and VA will match the same amount as the institution. Only individuals entitled to the maximum benefit rate (based on service requirements) may receive this funding. Therefore, you may be eligible if: You served an aggregate period of active duty after September 10, 2001, or at least 36 months; You were honorably discharged from active…
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Rather than viewing writing as the subsequent and final step to thinking, law students should understand thinking and writing as two parts of the same recursive process. Generally speaking, the human mind does not think linearly; it jumps from idea to idea in attempts to consider, correlate, and, ultimately, conclude. Writing, on the other hand, allows people to identify, clarify, condense,…, I provide assistance to students, staff, and faculty with any writing project, and at stage of that project., Specifically, as the Writing Specialist, I can diagnose areas in your writing that could use attention; help improve your understanding and employment of grammar, punctuation, and usage; and aid in interpreting assignments, creating an outline, generating content, and organizing, revising, editing, and proof-reading that content. Potential projects for which you might seek my assistance might…, I encourage you to involve me in your writing process as early as possible., You need not have anything written to meet with me; in fact, including me in your pre-writing process will often eliminate unnecessary rewriting., Also recognize that I tend to get very busy as due dates approach. I encourage you, therefore, to use forethought and attempt to schedule your appointments well in advance of their submission dates., I schedule meetings on a first-come, first-served basis, but will prioritize direct referrals from faculty, 1Ls, and those without previous last-minute cancelations (in that order)., To schedule an appointment, email me at, jkishbaugh@rwu.edu, with a small range of days and times on those days when you are available. Please allow and schedule for a response from me within twenty-four hours during the work week, and forty-eight hours over the weekend., During that time, I will compare your schedule with mine, and will respond with a proposed meeting day and time. We can then fine-tune that appointment in subsequent emails if necessary, . I only offer in-person meetings unless you cannot make it to campus, . In the latter situation, please schedule an appointment anyway and let me know it is for a submission., You also need not submit your work to me prior to our meeting, unless it is a submission because you cannot make it to campus; I prefer and have found much better results when you and I look over your assignment together. , I schedule all my appointments for the top of the hour, , and I will allot as much of that hour as is necessary to the appointment. Should you find my schedule full on any given day,, though, I welcome you to stop by my office around thirty or forty-five minutes past the hour to see if my appointment ended early, . If I am available, I will meet with you until my next scheduled appointment. Lastly, please try to provide twenty-four hours’ notice of cancellation. Thank you, and I look forward to working with you, Justin Kishbaugh, M.F.A., Ph.D.
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Bristol Campus, Our main campus is located in Bristol, Rhode Island, a classic New England village on the shores of Mount Hope Bay. A perfect sanctuary for study and reflection, it provides the foundation of your time at RWU Law. The school of law building serves as the center of legal thought and research in Rhode Island and regularly draws visiting scholars and jurists from around the state and the nation. {"…, Providence Experience, Starting in your second year and continuing into your third, you can choose to spend more and more time at our experiential campus in Providence, Rhode Island's capital and the hub of its legal, business and cultural communities. An exciting and dynamic yet compact city, Providence is home to state and federal courthouses, government offices, private law firms, public interest organizations,…
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In support of that mission, we strive to: Provide an excellent legal education that is focused on the development of students’ analytical, ethical, and other practice skills through the exploration of legal doctrine, policy, history and theory, including the relationship between law and social inequality. Provide students guided opportunities to provide pro bono legal assistance to unrepresented…
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1990, Approval of Law School Roger Williams College President Natale Sicuro, appoints a blue-ribbon committee to explore the feasibility of establishing a law school at Roger Williams College., 1991, Chief Justice Joseph Weisberger Rhode Island Chief Justice Joseph Weisberger, , as chair of the exploratory committee, officially recommends that Roger Williams College establish a law school, based upon an intensive “Feasibility Study to Establish a Law School” prepared by Anthony Santoro, then Dean and Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law., 1992, Professor Anthony Santoro Anthony J. Santoro, is appointed as, RWU Law’s founding dean, . Construction of law building begins. Faculty recruiting begins. In May, Roger Williams College is renamed Roger Williams University, partially as a result of its decision to add a law school., 1993, The School of Law opens., Its first class, the Class of 1996, consists of 110 full-time (Day Division) students, and 74 Extended Division students. The class breakdown is 56 percent Rhode Islanders, and 44 percent from out of state; they were chosen from among 600 applicants., Dean Anthony Santoro, is named the sixth, President of Roger Williams University, , effective August 23., Dean John E. Ryan, John E. Ryan, is appointed, Dean, , effective September 7. Ryan was former dean of McGeorge Law School in Sacramento, Calif., and a two-term chair of the American Bar Association’s accreditation committee. , 1994, RWU Law The School of Law building is officially dedicated, May 1.
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1995, Moot Arguments with Rhode Island Supreme Court, Chief Justice Joseph Weisberger commences the tradition of the Justices of the, Rhode Island Supreme Court, presiding over the final rounds of the annual, Moot Court Competition, – a tradition that has continued ever since. Weisberger was joined by the Honorable Florence K. Murray, the Honorable Donald F. Shea, and the Honorable Victoria Lederberg. RWU Law is awarded, provisional accreditation, from the, American Bar Association, ., 1996, Roger Williams University Law Review publishes its inaugural issue, Roger Williams University Law Review, publishes its inaugural issue. , Justice Anthony Kennedy, Inaugural Commencement held May 18, with, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, as commencement speaker. There are 87 Day Division graduates (Extended Division students from the first class would graduate in 1997). The, Marine Affairs Institute, is established, July 29., The Feinstein Institute for Legal Service, (now the, Feinstein Center for Pro Bono & Experiential Education, ) , the hub of RWU Law’s public service initiatives, is established with a $1 million donation from Rhode Island philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein on September 9. , 1997, American Bar Association, RWU Law is awarded, full accreditation, by the, American Bar Association, . At the time, it is the fastest law school accreditation in ABA history. , Esther Clark, The, Clark Moot Court Competition,, named for Distinguished Visiting, Professor Esther Clark, (1929-2002), a pioneering litigator and popular teacher in the school’s early years, is established. , 1998, Dean John Ryan, Dean John Ryan steps down, effective June 30., Bruce I. Kogan, , formerly Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, appointed Interim Dean effective July 1. , 1999, Harvey Rishikof Harvey Rishikof, is appointed Dean, effective July 1. Rishikof was previously legal counsel to the deputy director of the FBI, serving as liaison to the Office of the U.S. Attorney General. He had also served as U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s chief of staff from 1994 to 1996.
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2000, Dean Rishikof introduces courses in National Security Law and the Constitution Dean Rishikof introduces courses in National Security Law and the Constitution, in cooperation with the Naval War College in Newport., 2001, Founding Dean and former Roger Williams University President Anthony Santoro rejoins RWU Law as faculty member., Eric Holder Eric Holder, , then Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno, delivers the RWU Law’s first Thurgood Marshall Lecture., Mrs. Thurgood Marshall, makes her first of several visits to RWU Law for the inaugural lecture., Honors Program, established. Dean Rishikof steps down, effective June 30., Bruce I. Kogan, , formerly Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, appointed Interim Dean effective July 1., 2002, Amicus, Amicus, Magazine, , Vol. 1, No. 1, is published. Amicus had previously existed as a student/alumni-run newsletter. In 2011, the magazine was redesigned and re-titled, RWU Law Magazine, ,, with "Amicus" retained as the name of the publication's Alumni department., RWU Law Magazine, would publish biannually through 2016, and occasionally thereafter., 2003, Logan, David A. Logan, is appointed Dean, effective July 1. Logan had been a tenured full professor at Wake Forest University School of Law. , 2004, Thurgood Marshall, The, Thurgood Marshall Lecture Series, becomes RWU Law’s first endowed lectureship, underwritten by leading law firm, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, . First topic is the 50th anniversary of, Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
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