Reviews the changes in students and in general outlook at Yale Law School in the past years. (PG)

The humanistic orientation of students at different points in their law school experiences was examined to determine whether this value changed markedly from entrance to graduation, and whether alumni practitioners and teachers held the same or different views from their students.

A newly-released analysis based on a poll of 453 deans and professors calls into question several previous studies. It continues the ongoing debate over how academic and intellectual performance ought to be measured. (Editor/LBH)

Roberto Corrada's labor law course at the University of Denver embodies both growing interest in new approaches to teaching and learning and some of the latest uses of educational technology in the scholarship of teaching. In that course, Corrada engages his law school students, many of whom have had little experience in union work settings, in a…

The status of Antioch Law School in Washington, D.C. is described. The program accepts, nurtures, and turns into successful students applicants who would have been given low priority by most law schools. Its emphasis on clinical teaching has turned out practicing lawyers. Problems with grant money and faculty-administrator relations are addressed.…

A movement toward non-law school legal studies is underway on many undergraduate campuses, including the most famous at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The law school establishment seems to be the only opposing force as publishers, students, and faculty support the legal studies programs. (LBH)

Institutions employ too few Latino faculty and employ too many statistical tricks in their reporting. The problems Latinos face in entering the teaching of law mirror the problems of minorities in the academy at large: exceedingly small numbers, arbitrarily employed hiring criteria, and prejudice. (MLW)

A law firm, Equal Rights Advocates, Inc., specializing in sex discrimination cases, has become a magnet for law students in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is involved in a cooperative program with area universities in which a new model for clinical teaching is offered. Fifteen students each semester spend at least two days a week with the firm.…

A compilation of America's best professional schools based on data from a survey of deans in the field. (PG)

The dramatic improvements at New York Law School are primarily because of the efforts of Dean Donald Shapiro. Increased financial support, quality curriculum, promotion of the school, facility improvement, unique programs allowing greater accessibility to students, renowned speakers, and an urban law emphasis are among the changes. (JMD)

Excerpts from interviews with Black students and graduates from Harvard Law and Medical Schools reveal the concern of these minority professionals as representatives of the Black community. Their experiences in graduate school and later in their professions are described. (JMF)