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L AW SCHOOL 2007•2008 William & Mary Law School Established 1779 Fast Facts Academics YEAR FOUNDED–1779 DEGREE PROGRAMS HISTORY–First law school in America J.D. AFFILIATION–College of William & J.D./Master of Arts in American Mary; America’s second oldest Studies university, chartered in 1693 J.D./Master of Business LOCATION–Williamsburg, Virginia Administration 150 miles southeast of J.D./Master of Public Policy Washington, DC LL.M. Master of Laws in the 50 miles east of Richmond American Legal System 50 miles west of Norfolk LAW STUDIES ABROAD—Semester in LOCAL LANDMARKS Austria, China, Japan, New Colonial Williamsburg, “the Zealand, and Spain for advanced world’s largest living history foreign legal study museum,” three blocks from the SUMMER STUDY ABROAD—Five-week Law School program in Madrid, Spain. Institutes and Programs 2006 EMPLOYERS REGISTERED FOR The College’s Wren Building, Externships in law firms also are ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS—180 available for students fluent in CENTER FOR LEGAL AND COURT oldest academic building in 2006 NONVISITING EMPLOYERS LISTING Spanish. TECHNOLOGY continuous use in America POSITIONS—2,000+ LEGAL SKILLS PROGRAM—A required, INSTITUTE OF BILL OF RIGHTS LAW Jamestown, site of the first 2006-07 OFF-CAMPUS INTERVIEW comprehensive, two-year course THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE permanent English settlement in PROGRAMS—30, including events America of study that prepares students to PROGRAM in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, practice law through simulated Yorktown, site of the military HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New client representation and course campaign that ended the SECURITY LAW PROGRAM York, Seattle, and Washington, DC instruction. Winner of the ABA’s Revolutionary War E. Smythe Gambrell Professional- PROPERTY RIGHTS PROJECT ism Award. Featured in the Wall ELECTION LAW PROGRAM Employment Statistics for 2007-08 Students Street Journal, the ABA Journal and GEORGE WYTHE SOCIETY OF CITIZEN 2006 Graduates The Professional Lawyer. LAWYERS ENROLLMENT–635 full-time students LOCATION—27 states, DC, and PERCENT WITH PRIOR WORK EXTERNSHIPS—Practical legal Africa experience under the tutelage EXPERIENCE—42% Student Life EMPLOYMENT PROFILE—99.5% of experienced practitioners STUDENT-EDITED JOURNALS—4 employed as of February 2007 PERCENT HOLDING GRADUATE and judges DEGREES—8% William and Mary Law STARTING SALARY RANGE—$30,000 - PLACEMENTS Review,William & Mary Bill of MALE/FEMALE RATIO—50%/50% $180,000 Courts and judges Rights Journal, William and Mary MEDIAN PRIVATE SECTOR STARTING AVERAGE AGE—25 Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Environmental Law and Policy SALARY—$115,000 STUDENTS OF COLOR—18% and public defenders’ offices Review, and William and Mary MEDIAN PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT U.S. STATES AND TERRITORIES Law firms, nonprofit Journal of Women and the Law SECTOR STARTING SALARY— REPRESENTED—46, and the organizations, and government ORGANIZATIONS—34 service, special $50,000 District of Columbia agencies interest, and competitive JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS—12 federal, OTHER COUNTRIES Virginia General Assembly organizations 19 state REPRESENTED—7 Therapeutic courts COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES Alumni JUDICIAL CLERK EXTERNSHIP Summer Public Service REPRESENTED—239 LIVING ALUMNI—6,600 PROGRAM—Externships are Fellowships ENTERING CLASS MEDIANS—UGPA available each year with members MOST FAMOUS ALUMNUS—John 3.68, LSAT 164 of the Federal Bench or the Marshall, the great Chief Justice NUMBER AWARDED IN 2007—91 APPLICANTS (CLASS OF 2010)—4,250 Virginia Court of Appeals. of the U.S. Supreme Court PLACEMENTS—Fellows worked in 19 PERCENT OF APPLICANTS CLINICS—Valuable experience in U.S. STATES REPRESENTED—50 states, DC, Australia, Azerbaijan, ACCEPTED—27% client representation under the OTHER COUNTRIES REPRESENTED—37 Belgium, Cambodia, and direction of experienced lawyers Pakistan. 2007-08 Tuition and Fees SPECIALIZATIONS Career Services Domestic violence John Levy Loan Repayment VA RESIDENT TUITION & FEES—$18,336 RESOURCES—Individualized career NONRESIDENT TUITION & FEES— Federal tax planning and advising, Web-based Assistance Program $28,536 Legal Aid job listings, online searchable ELIGIBILITY—Graduates working for alumni directory, Alumni Mock private nonprofit organizations 2007-08 Financial Aid Interview Program, skills work- or government employers shops, practice area programs, SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP LOAN FORGIVENESS—Up to $5,000 and real-time videoconference annually per recipient for a RECIPIENTS—340 students (54% interviews of student body) maximum of three years TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP VALUE—$3.8 million Contents 2 Message from the Dean 4 An Introduction to the Law School 6 Academic Program 6 Legal Skills 7 Curriculum 11 Institutes and Programs: McGlothlin Courtroom and the Center for Legal and Court Technology Institute of Bill of Rights Law Therapeutic Jurisprudence Program Human Rights and National Security Law Program Property Rights Project Election Law Program George Wythe Society of Citizen Lawyers 14 International and Interdisciplinary Programs 16 The Wolf Law Library 18 Faculty 21 Student Life and Student Organizations 21 Student Organizations: Honor Council Journals National Trial Team Moot Court Program 24 Living in Williamsburg 25 Housing Options 26 Career Services 28 Admission Information 28 Admission Policy 29 Visiting W&M Law School Directions and Map 30 Application Procedure 32 Financial Information 33 Admission Contacts This stained glass window, a prominent feature of the Law School’s entrance hall, depicts Sir William Blackstone, who held the first professorship of law in the English-speaking world, established at Oxford University in 1758. Blackstone’s example helped inspire the second professorship of law in the English-speaking world, established at the College of William & Mary in December 1779. The warden and fellows of All Souls College at Oxford presented this window to the Law School in 1979 on the 200th anniversary of George Wythe’s appointment as COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY William & Mary’s, and America’s, inaugural law professor. LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION OFFICE P.O. BOX 8795 WILLIAMSBURG, VA 23187-8795 (757) 221-3785 [email protected] www.wm.edu/law/ ©2007 COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY 1 Message from the Dean Studying law can be an extraordinary experience. Now that you have decided to go to law school, the question becomes, where? We encourage you to look closely at William & Mary. Its greatest strength, in our view, is the superb job it does of educating students. The faculty puts tremendous energy into working with students, in class and individually. No institution succeeds without a capacity to change. William & Mary Law School changes constantly to take advantage of the best in today’s legal instruction. Our two-year Legal Skills Program stands at the cutting edge of programs all over the country that seek to give students a real sense of a lawyer’s life. Our faculty comprises nationally known scholars, committed to innovative teaching. The McGlothlin Courtroom is the most technologically advanced in the United States. It attracts lawyers and jurists from all over the world and teaches students what they must know to thrive in a technological age. This law school is vibrantly alive! William & Mary also has deep, enduring roots reaching back more than 300 years into American history. This was the first academic institution in the country to teach law in a university setting. Thomas Jefferson had the idea. George Wythe implemented it, and John Marshall was one of his students. Thus, William & Mary’s law school is often called Marshall-Wythe. Our students Institutions take strength from their past. Marshall-Wythe moves through the centuries are people the with a confidence born of its august origins. These origins ensure as well that Marshall- professors know Wythe remembers its obligation to produce graduates who are not simply wise counselors by name, not and powerful advocates, but also honorable human beings and good citizens. merely faces Having invested enormously in our students, we care very much about their opportunities passing in the after graduation. The Law School works hard to ensure these opportunities are notable. hall or statistics Marshall-Wythe’s concern for its graduates continues throughout their lives. on a list. W. TAYLOR REVELEY III Dean and John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence 2 Each student is someone carefully selected from among many to study law at William & Mary and, for us, each student is important. 3 An Introduction to the Law School We welcome your interest in William & Mary Law School! The Law School is moving powerfully into the 21st century, with roots running deep into America’s past. Legal education at William & Mary began in 1779, at the urging of Thomas Jefferson. He was governor of Virginia and a member of William & Mary’s Board of Visitors. Jefferson believed that aspiring lawyers should be taught in a university setting and that they should be trained not simply to be excellent legal craftsmen, but also good citizens and leaders of their communities, states, and nation. He wanted them to become citizen lawyers. The Law School remains extraordinarily committed to training citizen lawyers, just as was true in Jefferson’s day. George Wythe (a great lawyer, teacher, and statesman of this country’s Revolutionary Era) was hired in 1779 to begin legal training at William & Mary. Among the first lawyers Statues of George Wythe and John Marshall stand together before the Law School, commemorating its historic origins. In 1779, at Thomas Jefferson’s urging, Wythe taught at the University was John Marshall. As Chief Wythe (right) was appointed as William & Mary’s — and America’s — first Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Marshall had a seminal professor of law. John Marshall (left), who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was among the earliest law students at William & impact on U.S. history. He epitomized the citizen lawyer, so Mary, receiving his formal legal training under Wythe’s tutelage. prized at William & Mary. We are a relatively small relationships characterize society, which in turn their first week on campus in school with approximately the Law School.