UK firm Clifford Chance introduces 'CV Blind' policy
British based firm Clifford Chance has introduced a new recruitment policy, whereby interviewers cannot see the information about where candidates went to university. The…
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UK law school cuts staff
BPP University College is set to make around 40 staff redundancies, including layoffs in the law school. The UK tertiary institution is downsizing as it shifts back office functions to Manchester, including the…
BPP Law School to offer legal apprenticeships in UK
BPP Law School in the UK has revealed the imminent launch of an apprenticeship scheme providing a path to qualification as a solicitor without the need for a university education. The move follows the UK government's…
Record numbers accepted onto law courses
University admissions statistics have revealed that more students than ever before have been accepted onto law courses. The provisional figures published by admissions service UCAS showed that no fewer than 18,394…
Star professor Dame Hazel Genn new Dean of UCL Laws
Professor Dame Hazel Genn has been appointed Dean of the UCL Faculty of Laws for a five-year term. Dame Hazel Genn is currently Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and co-director of the Centre for Empirical Legal…
Professor files suit against Virginia Lottery
A law firm has followed through on its threat to sue the Virginia Lottery on behalf of a Washington and Lee University professor who says he discovered that the lottery was continuing to sell scratch-off tickets even…
Law Firm Eversheds Banned from Website - Internet Freedom of Speech Under Threat
Law firm Eversheds acting on behalf of officers of the University of Wales Lampeter has been banned from being able to access the web site The Lamp Post, for making unfounded threats of legal action and a high court…
Indian law colleges: International law firms pick cream of the crop
The placement period at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore won't end for another month. But the batch of 80 students in the final year have already been placed with nearly 40% landing jobs at the…
Yale Teaches University of Paris Lesson in Law as France Demurs
It isn't easy for corporate law firms to find qualified law-school graduates in the land of Montesquieu, one of the founders of modern Western legal theory. ``Because law schools are so weak in economics and out of…
Northeastern University sues Google over patent
Northeastern University and a start-up company cofounded by an associate professor have filed a patent-infringement suit against Google Inc., claiming that database technology patented in 1997 was misappropriated by the…
University Ranking and its Discontents
LLM GUIDE revisits the ongoing debate over the value of law school rankings
New LL.M. in Public International Law and Globalization at U. of Aberdeen
Beginning this September, the University of Aberdeen School of Law in Aberdeen, Scotland will be adding a new LL.M. program - the LL.M. in Public International Law and Globalisation - to its list of over a dozen…