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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. People care invigorates their teaching. an intense introduction to 600 students. Admission is about one another. Our curriculum prepares Legal Skills and then quite selective. There were Members of our faculty students for the increasingly continue for two years with more than 4,200 applicants teach with real passion in complex world confronting both classroom instruction for the Class of 2010. Our and out of the classroom. lawyers. One aspect of the and simulated client repre- alumni live and work in all They contribute meaning- curriculum is an innovative sentation. Each student joins 50 states and the District of fully to scholarship. They program called Legal Skills. a law office led by a senior Columbia, as well as 37 study the role of law in Entering students spend partner drawn from the other countries. Close to 70 faculty and a junior partner percent of the Class of 2006 chosen carefully from work outside Virginia, in 27 among third-year students. states, DC, and Africa. Within the law office and in Employers enthusiastically the context of specific cases, seek the services of our much happens: research, students for judicial counseling, interviewing, clerkships, pro bono ventures, drafting all sorts of legal and positions in law firms, corporations, and public William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice agencies. Sandra Day O’Connor, at left, Chief Because collegiality is Justice of Canada Beverley a prime virtue here, the McLachlin, and U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer were among students, faculty, and admin- the American and Canadian judges istrators enjoy their time who engaged in a dialogue with students during a panel at the Law together. Pleasant, friendly School in April 2007.

4 papers, and actual work in several years. It has the easy court. Each student follows charm of a small, historic, his or her cases from begin- and secure community. ning to end, through all Opportunities abound for phases of representation. entertainment of all sorts, Along the way there is including outdoor activities. intense training in legal A full range of amenities is skills and ethics. Legal Skills, nearby. Williamsburg is less now in its second decade, than an hour’s drive from has enjoyed marked success. Richmond to the west and Along with Legal Skills, Norfolk/Virginia Beach to the Law School gives stu- the east. Washington, DC, is dents ground-breaking two and a half hours away by instruction in the use of car. An AMTRAK station technology to support and (less than a mile from the conduct litigation. Our Law School) and three McGlothlin Courtroom is nearby airports (Richmond, the most technologically Newport News, and Norfolk) advanced in the United make travel elsewhere States. Students receive convenient. hands-on instruction on how While the Law School was to use the Courtroom’s created in 1779, the univer- innovative technology and sity of which it is part began get to know it well. A steady in 1693. The College of WILLIAM W. VAN ALSTYNE stream of judges, court William & Mary was created Lee Professor of Law administrators, lawyers, and by Royal Charter from King B.A., University of Southern California other members of the legal William and Queen Mary of J.D., Stanford University Certificate, The Hague Academy of International Law profession from around the Great Britain. Among U.S. One of the nation’s foremost law professors and scholars, William world visit the Courtroom colleges and universities, W. Van Alstyne has addressed a wide range of constitutional each year. only Harvard has roots questions in countless articles and books. A study published in The academic experience running deeper into 2000 in the Journal of Legal Studies named him as one of “the 50 extends beyond the class- America’s past than William most-cited legal scholars of all time.” He has twice been chosen in room. Students are involved & Mary. The College’s polls of his peers as being among those most qualified for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. in a rich mix of public alumni include four signers service and social programs of the Declaration of Of the many subjects he has taught, Professor Van Alstyne thinks students are most passionately engaged by the First Amendment. and numerous symposia, Independence, 16 members of the Continental Congress, The subject, he said, “should be the most exciting because so lectures, and visiting scholars many First Amendment issues are wonderfully divisive” and the contribute to a nourishing three associate justices of the problems “dazzlingly interesting.” Discussions are never dull — albeit full — calendar U.S. Supreme Court, and whether the issue in question is flag burning, hate speech on of events. Presidents Washington (who campus, or the use of cameras in the courtroom. While he enjoys received his surveyor’s being a scholar, Professor Van Alstyne said he relishes teaching The Law School is because it “renews one’s spirit, one’s energy.” located a few blocks from license here), Jefferson, the main campus of the Monroe, and Tyler. College of William & Mary. William & Mary provides The grounds of Colonial undergraduate, graduate, honor society, was founded Order of the Coif, and we Williamsburg are equally and professional education. at William & Mary in 1776. work together at the Law close. The immediate It includes one of the leading Three years later, the School under an Honor neighbors of the Law School colleges in the country, College introduced an Code administered by are the National Center for business and public policy honor system. Faithful to students. State Courts (a think tank schools, and graduate these traditions, the Law Legal education is expen- for state court issues), a programs in the arts and School puts great store on sive. We believe that William modern residential facility sciences. The Law School both academic excellence & Mary is among the best for graduate students, and a deals extensively with other and integrity. We recognize law school buys. For more splendid tennis complex. parts of the University. the most academically details about this and other Williamsburg is a comfort- Phi Beta Kappa, the distinguished third-year matters just sketched, please able, fun place to spend nation’s first scholastic students by electing them to keep reading.

5 Academic Program From the very first day, students begin to learn the real meaning of the phrase “a life in law.”

Legal Skills What does it really mean to be a lawyer? Beyond knowledge of the law, which skills are required to represent a client effectively? How do lawyers relate to one another as adversaries or as partners? How do good lawyers apply ethical principles in the practical world of everyday lawyering? These are important questions for both legal education and the profession. They also are questions that remain a mystery for most law students. At William & Mary School of Law, an innovative skills program helps provide answers in the most direct fashion; with due allowance for their neophyte status, our students assume the role of counselors-at-law.

The Legal Skills Program profession and the ethical students, and a faculty research and writing as part is a required nine-credit, responsibilities of being an member and a carefully of the lawyering simulations. two-year program that begins attorney, and are instructed selected third-year student Instead of research and the first day a student enters on how to brief and analyze who are the senior and writing being taught as a William & Mary. This cases before the first-year junior partners. These separate course as it is in the innovative, award-winning curriculum starts. partners serve as mentors majority of American law program utilizes a wide The Legal Skills Program and instructors. Topics are schools, William & Mary range of original materials is organized into law offices taught through “hands-on” students learn their research and instructional methods to that use the law of an actual representation of simulated and writing skills by complet- teach students the skills jurisdiction. This law office clients and traditional ing the documents necessary necessary to be successful setting encourages students instruction. Topics include to successfully represent law students and practicing to begin to master lawyering professional ethics, legal their Legal Skills clients. The attorneys. William & Mary skills and ethical concepts. research, writing and small group environment of provides a challenging legal During their first week, drafting, interviewing, the law office offers students education in a supportive students are introduced to negotiating, counseling, the opportunity for candid environment, and trains their law office colleagues, alternative dispute resolu- and personal feedback on students through experience approximately 17 first-year tion, and trial and appellate writing assignments from the to manage the demands and practice. Through detailed senior and junior partners. deadlines of a practicing case scenarios and role- The Legal Skills Program attorney in an ethical manner. playing, each student emphasizes the value and First-year students begin represents multiple clients importance of the lawyer’s their legal education with a from the initial client duties to the client, the week-long introduction to interview, through each step justice system, and the the legal system, law study, required by the representa- public. Ethical conflicts and and the lawyer’s role. During tion, to a logical conclusion considerations are treated in this orientation, first-year for each client’s problem. the practical setting of client students have a chance to Sometimes this conclusion is representation, allowing get to know one another a negotiated settlement; students to incorporate before upper-class students other times it may mean a ethical duties into their legal arrive and traditional first- trial and appeal. practice from the very year courses begin. Students Another unique feature beginning. Students also are introduced to law as a of the Legal Skills Program serve as client role-players is the teaching of legal

6 for their classmates. Acting on courtroom technology as a client offers an additional training to all second-year perspective on conflicts of students, who incorporate interest and the need for this technology into their lawyer-client confidentiality. bench trial experience. This creates greater sensitiv- A law school’s skills ity of a lawyer’s ever-present program is a student’s first ethical obligations and window into the legal professional responsibility. profession. Each William & Students in the Legal Mary Legal Skills student Skills Program have the associate has the tremendous support of the Center for advantage of practicing the Legal and Court Technol- skills and ethical responsi- ogy, which includes the bilities required of every Law School’s McGlothlin attorney while still in the Courtroom, the most supportive environment of technologically advanced law school. The Legal Skills trial and appellate court- Program cultivates talented room in the United States. and successful attorneys with Center staff supplies hands- the highest ethical standards.

First-Year Curriculum The first-year curriculum is designed to introduce students to the essential analytical skills they will need to JAMES E. MOLITERNO practice law. Through the study of traditional first-year Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and subjects – civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, Director, Legal Skills Program B.S., Youngstown State University criminal law, property, and torts – and their responsibilities J.D., University of Akron as first-year associates in the Legal Skills Program, students When he accepted the challenge of helping create the Legal Skills Program almost twenty years ago, Professor Moliterno’s goal was to develop their ability to read and analyze cases, conduct legal design a two-year course of study that would teach students research, and prepare legal documents. professional skills and ethical standards of practice in a supportive environment. “Everyone associated with the program,” he said, First-Year Required CONSTITUTIONAL LAW “tries to communicate to each student who comes here that they Analysis of the structure of are an important part of the Law School community right from the Courses government, from the role of start. The program has become a symbol of — and a way of the courts and the concept of perpetuating — the sense of community here.” Professor Moliterno’s CIVIL PROCEDURE judicial review, through the expertise in legal ethics and professional education also has become A study of the strategic options distribution of power in the his passport to international pro bono work. Thanks to this globe- federal law provides to persons federal system and the alloca- trotting director of the Legal Skills Program, William & Mary is attempting to resolve disputes tion of power among the three having an impact on how law is taught around the world. through litigation; basic concepts branches of the government; During 2006-07, for example, Professor Moliterno traveled to involved in the federal civil also a study of individual rights universities in Armenia, Georgia, and Thailand as part of the ABA’s adversary system, federal protected by the Constitution. Rule of Law Initiatives. He met with law faculty in each country jurisdiction, choice of law, and eager to develop ethics and skills courses for their students. In finality; in-depth exploration of CONTRACTS addition, Professor Moliterno lectured on global legal ethics in the policies governing, and the Spain, participated in an experiential education roundtable in China, mechanics involved in, plead- An exploration of legally enforceable promises, normally traveled to Japan to observe a pilot curriculum modeled on the Legal ing, discovery, and disposition Skills Program, and made the last of a series of trips to Serbia to before trial. exchanged as part of a bargain between private parties. help develop discussion-based writing and ethics courses. Among the topics that may be Moliterno said consulting with colleagues from other countries has covered are: bases of enforce- been gratifying. “Taking a little bit of William & Mary to share with ment, capacity to contract, others expresses our own sense of community in a special way.” contract formation, interpreta- tion, conditions, excuse of performance, and remedies for breach.

7 College and receive up to six R EBECCA BEACH SMITH ’79 hours of law school credit with approval of the vice dean. U.S. District Judge Eastern District of Virginia Norfolk, VA Electives Judge Smith is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William & Mary, where she earned a degree in government. She received a master’s degree in city BUSINESS LAW planning and public administration from the University of Virginia, graduating Accounting for Lawyers first in her class, and worked as a professional planner before attending law school. Judge Smith served as executive editor of the William and Mary Law Administrative Law Review and was inducted into Order of the Coif, membership in which is the Admiralty Law highest academic honor a law student Advanced Income Tax can achieve. Following graduation, The Law School faculty was Antitrust she clerked for U.S. District Judge J. Bankruptcy Cavitt Clarke, Jr., and then practiced accessible and caring. I law at Willcox & Savage. In 1985 she Business Associations was appointed magistrate judge for always felt that I could talk with my professors about my Complex Transactional the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Practice District of Virginia. In 1989 she was course work, as well as my career ambitions. They were Consumer Law named by President George H.W. Contract Theory Bush to her current position as U.S. outstanding educators as well as outstanding people. district judge. Corporate Drafting Corporate Tax Corporations CRIMINAL LAW TORTS European Union Law The Elective Federal Income Tax A study of the basic doctrines A survey of the legal system’s Food and Drug Law underlying the criminal law, responses to problems arising Curriculum including actus reus and mens from personal injury and The elective curriculum is Government Contracts rea; the principal substantive property damage; concentra- broad and diverse. In a typical International Business and inchoate crimes; the tion on legal doctrines relating year it embraces more than 100 Transactions accountability for the criminal to liability for harm resulting courses and seminars, giving International Trade acts of others; and the general from fault and to strict liability; students opportunities to study Mergers & Acquisitions defenses to criminal liability. and analysis of the goals and a wide range of subjects or to Nonprofit Law Practice techniques of accident preven- focus intensely in a few areas. Payment Systems tion and compensation for loss. Practical Application of LEGAL SKILLS I, II For most students, the second European Union Law A study of professional responsi- year is best centered around Principles of International bility; the nature of the legal Second-Year introductory courses covering Taxation profession; legal research and Required Courses major fields. These courses writing; and numerous lawyer- serve several important Products Liability ing skills, including interview- The Public Corporation LEGAL SKILLS III, IV purposes. They build on first ing and client counseling, year courses, provide a founda- Real Estate Transactions negotiating, drafting, and The second year of the two-year Sales course required of all students, tion for more intensive study, electronic filing of pleadings. and facilitate formulation of Secured Transactions includes professional responsi- Securities Regulation bility, the nature of the legal career goals and objectives. PROPERTY Securities Regulation Law profession, legal research and In the third year, students take A study of the rules for acquir- and Policy writing, and numerous legal courses that refine their ing, using, dividing (in various Selected Problems in skills (e.g., interviewing and understanding of materials dimensions), and losing rights Securities Regulation client counseling, negotiating, previously encountered. The over scarce resources; most Small Business Planning drafting, introduction to trial third year is also the time to material concerns realty, with and appellate practice, and pursue individual interests Sports Law limited consideration of alternative dispute resolution). through externships and Taxation of Small Business personal property. Introduces clinical placements, perfor- the rudiments of capture, finds, LEGAL SKILLS ETHICS mance-based courses and self- and adverse possession; initiated projects. landlord-tenant law; the system The final examination of legal profession/ethics issues for the of estates; easements; and Courses in the elective curricu- Legal Skills Program (operates restrictive covenants; also lum include lectures, seminars, in conjunction with Legal introduces zoning and takings. advanced skills courses, and Skills IV). independent studies. Some of these utilize simulation exercises, supervised represen- tation of live clients, and externships. Students may enroll in courses and seminars offered by other units of the

8 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Employment Discrimination Trusts & Estates INTERNATIONAL LAW Administrative Law Employment Law Youth Law Comparative Constitutional Disability Law Campaign Finance HEALTH CARE LAW Systems Comparative Constitutional General Mediation Comparative Law Labor Arbitration & Collective Administrative Law Systems Bioethics, Medical Ethics & European Union Law Comparative Law Bargaining Human Rights Labor Law the Law Constitutional Tort Litigation Food & Drug Law Immigration Law Election Law Mediation Advocacy International Bioethics and Negotiation & Settlement Health Law & Policy Federal Courts Insurance Law Health Care Federalist Papers Advocacy International Business Selected Topics in International Bioethics and First Amendment Health Care Transactions Fourth Amendment Theory Employment Law International Criminal Law Virginia Department of Medical Malpractice & and Practice Health Care Liability International Environmental Law and Religion Employment Dispute Law Resolution Externship National Health Policy Legislative Process Selected Topics in International Organizations Property Rights ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Health Care International Practice Clinic: Takings & Just Compensation Administrative Law Selected Topics in Insurance Iraqi Tribunal International Trade CRIMINAL LAW Environmental Law Regulation Environmental Policy Making Islamic Law Criminal Procedure I INTELLECTUAL Fundamentals of Law & Development Criminal Procedure II PROPERTY LAW Litigation in Civil Law Systems Criminal Procedure Survey Environmental Science for Copyright Law Military Law Death Penalty Policy Makers Copyright Litigation National Security Law Domestic Violence Clinic Land Use Control Entertainment Law Post-Conflict Justice and the Fourth Amendment Theory Local Government Law Entertainment Law Litigation Rule of Law and Practice Natural Resource Law Intellectual Property Practical Application of International Criminal Law Property Rights Internet Law European Union Law Selected Problems in FAMILY AND PERSONAL Patent Appeals & Principles of International Criminal Justice WEALTH Inter-ferences Taxation Selected Problems in Advanced Family Law Patent Law Public International Law Criminal Law Advocacy Patent Practice Selected Problems in Interna- Terrorism Bankruptcy Privacy in a tional Trade & Economics Therapeutic Jurisprudence Education Law Technological Age Terrorism Virginia Criminal Procedure Family Law Sports Law Transitional Justice White Collar Crime Family Wealth Transactions Trademark Law Transnational Litigation MPLOYMENT AND E Federal Income Tax LITIGATION LABOR LAW Law & Intimate Associations Administrative Law Real Estate Transactions Administrative Law Advanced Brief Writing Selected Topics in Estate Alternative Dispute Resolution Advanced Family Law Planning & Elder Law Employee Benefits Advocacy Alternative Dispute

E RIC CANTOR ’88 Resolution American Jury Congressman, Virginia’s Seventh District Chief Deputy Republican Whip Conflicts Washington, DC Constitutional Tort Litigation While an undergraduate student at George Washington University, Eric Cantor Depositions interned with Congressman Thomas Bliley and served on the congressman’s first Discovery: Pretrial reelection campaign. After earning his juris doctor at William & Mary, Congress- Domestic Violence Clinic man Cantor received a master’s degree from Columbia University and served for Electronic Discovery and Data nine years in the Virginia House of Delegates before being elected to Congress in 2000. During his first congressional term, he sat on the House Financial Services Seizures and the House International Relations Committees. Shortly after his reelection in Entertainment Law Litigation 2002, he was selected as chief deputy Evidence majority whip, the highest appointed As a member of Congress, I Federal Courts position in the House of Representa- General Mediation tives. Since 2003 he has held a seat on am constantly reminded of the the House Ways and Means Commit- Legal Aid Clinic tee. Reelected to his fourth term in lasting contributions made by our nation’s founding Legal Technology 2006, he continues his leadership as Litigation in Civil Law Systems the chief deputy Republican whip and fathers, many of whom studied at the College of William Mediation Advocacy also serves as chairman of the Negotiation & Settlement Congressional Task Force on & Mary. I am proud to be an alumnus of William & Terrorism and Unconventional Advocacy Warfare. Mary Law School, the nation’s first law school.

9 Objections Tax Research Methods Remedies Technology-Augmented Therapeutic Jurisprudence Trial Advocacy Technology-Augmented Trial Trial Advocacy Advocacy Trial Strategy & Persuasion Transnational Litigation CLINICS AND Trial Advocacy EXTERNSHIPS Trial Strategy and Persuasion Virginia Civil Procedure Attorney General Externship Virginia Criminal Procedure Domestic Violence Clinic Federal Practice Tax Clinic TAXATION General Assembly Externship Accounting for Lawyers General Practice Externship Advanced Income Tax International Practice Clinic: Corporate Taxation Iraqi Tribunal Employee Benefits Judicial Clerk Externship Family Wealth Transactions Legal Aid Clinic Federal Income Tax Nonprofit Organization Federal Tax Practice Clinic Externship Principles of International Summer Government/Public Taxation Interest Externship Real Estate Taxation Supreme Court of Virginia Small Business Planning Chief Staff Attorney Tax Research Methods Externship Taxation of Small Business Therapeutic Courts Practice METHODS OR Externship Virginia Court of Appeals PERSPECTIVES COURSES LAN CAO Externship Boyd Fellow and Professor of Law Accounting for Lawyers Virginia Department of B.A., Mount Holyoke College American Legal History Employment Dispute J.D., Yale University Citizen Lawyers Resolution Externship “The world is more interconnected than ever before. Farm Economic Analysis of the Law policies in the U.S. affect development in Africa. Capital English Legal History STUDENT-ORGANIZED movements in Asia affect the market in the U.S. Trade has Environmental Policy Making LEARNING EXPERIENCES national and international implications, as politicians of all Fundamentals of Environ- Directed Reading stripes recognize. Teaching and writing about international mental Science for Policy Independent Legal Research trade and development require me to be on the alert not just Makers Independent Legal Writing about the most recent decisions of the World Trade Organiza- Law & Literature William & Mary Bill of Rights tion Dispute Settlement Body but also the policy debates Law & Politics Journal surrounding trade in developed and developing countries. My Law & Social Justice William and Mary Environmental personal interest in this field stems from my childhood in Lawyers in Practice Settings Law and Policy Review Vietnam, which remains, 30 years after the war, one of the Legal Themes in Literature William and Mary Journal of world’s poorest countries. Trade is a fascinating subject Philosophy of the Law because it inspires hope for sustainable development as well as Women and the Law Statistics for Lawyers wrath from anti-trade critics. Teaching trade and development William and Mary Law Review Therapeutic Jurisprudence requires an understanding of many of the hot-button issues Course descriptions can be that are in the news — labor, capital, environment, food, ADVANCED SKILLS explored at www.wm.edu/law agriculture, health.” COURSES /academicprograms Lan Cao’s research focuses on the relationship between developed Advanced Brief Writing /curriculum/. and economically developing countries and law and development. Advanced Family Law She is the author of numerous scholarly articles, a novel titled Advocacy Academic requirements and Monkey Bridge (Penguin, 1997), and a work of nonfiction titled Advanced Income Tax regulations can be found at Everything You Need to Know About Asian-American History (Penguin Advanced Research I & II www.wm.edu/law Plume, 2d ed., 2004, with Himilce Novas). Alternative Dispute /academicprograms /regulations/. Before entering academia, Professor Cao practiced law at Paul, Resolution Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City and clerked Depositions for Judge Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for Discovery - Pretrial the Southern District of New York. She was a Ford Foundation General Mediation Scholar in 1991. Lawyers in Practice Settings Mediation Advocacy Negotiation & Settlement Advocacy Objections

10 Institutes and Programs The Law School’s institutes and programs inject a special vitality to legal education at William & Mary. Please visit our web site at www.wm.edu /law/institutesprograms/ for more in-depth descriptions.

MCGLOTHLIN COURTROOM AND THE CENTER FOR LEGAL AND COURT TECHNOLOGY To countless judges, administrators, lawyers, architects, and technologists Each fall, the Supreme Court Preview, sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, brings together leading journalists, throughout the world, the advocates, and scholars to discuss the court’s upcoming term. Law School’s McGlothlin Courtroom is the center of high technology evidence Center regularly studies the family court, the Center courtroom technology, presentation, or use of the interface among law, tried an experimental research, and application. To Internet to make the technology, public policy, international parental child students, the Courtroom is courtroom a vital informa- and human behavior. abduction case verifying the where they receive hands-on tion hub for all purposes. The Center for Legal and utility of a new international legal technology training The Courtroom is home to Court Technology puts the protocol developed by the and where they try their the Center for Legal and latest courtroom technology Center for the resolution Trial Advocacy and Legal Court Technology, which to the test in laboratory trials of multi-jurisdictional cases. Skills trials and appeals. includes the Courtroom 21 conducted by students in In another simulated case The McGlothlin Court- Project, a joint program of the Legal Technology brought under the Ameri- room can accommodate the Law School and the Seminar. Recent laboratory cans with Disabilities Act, the almost any technology a National Center for State trials have made legal Center tested how assistive judge or lawyer might want, Courts. Its mission is to history. The Center has tried technologies can be used to whether it is electronic improve through appropri- groundbreaking terrorist, provide equal access to filing, hotlinked motions ate technology the malpractice, and multi- justice for judges, lawyers, and briefs, a multi-media administration of justice and national civil mediation witnesses, and jurors who court record, remote judicial the world’s legal systems. cases. In recent years, for have mobility, sight, or or witness appearances Covered by national and example, in conjunction hearing impairments that through videoconferencing, international media, the with the Monterrey, Mexico, traditionally have made participation in court proceedings difficult. The T. ANDREW CULBERT ’81 trial was conducted with Associate General Counsel the support of numerous Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA companies and organiza- After receiving a bachelor’s degree in biology from Williams College, Andy served tions including the Justice in the Peace Corps in Butembo, Congo (Zaire), teaching biology, chemistry, Department’s Disability physics, and mathematics in French to Congolese high school students. At Rights Section, the American William & Mary, Andy was a member of the William and Mary Law Review and a legal writing course instructor. Following law school he practiced law and became Foundation for the Blind, a partner at Drinker, Biddle & Reath, where he focused mainly on intellectual and the WGBH Media property law. As associate general counsel for Microsoft Corporation, Andy is Access Group. head of its worldwide patent infringement docket. He manages all of Microsoft’s worldwide patent infringement litigation, including the hiring and supervising of outside counsel, directing strategic and tactical handling of cases, editing briefs and presenting My law professors oral arguments, and advising the company about its patent assets and liabilities. Andy has tried a were topnotch and approachable. I truly learned number of cases in federal courts across the country, and has written and spoken extensively on how to ‘think like a lawyer’ at William & Mary. intellectual property issues.

11 PAUL MARCUS THERAPEUTIC Haynes Professor of Law and Kelly Professor of Teaching JURISPRUDENCE Excellence PROGRAM A.B. and J.D., University of California at Los Angeles Recipient, 2007 Walter L. Williams, Jr. Teaching Award Devoted to the study of Thanks to the Literature and the Law Program created by law as a helping profession, Paul Marcus, William & Mary students and people currently the Therapeutic Jurispru- serving jail sentences have a chance to share their perspec- dence Program focuses on tives about criminal justice in a unique forum. The Program improving the administra- uses works of fiction, and excerpts from films based on tion of justice so that it has a these works, to spark a semester-long conversation. The Program is limited to 20 inmates and six student discussion positive effect on individu- leaders who come together one evening a month at the als, their families, and the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail. The reading list varies from community. Recently, the year to year but has included novels such as To Kill a Program began a partner- Mockingbird, A Lesson Before Dying, and The Sweet Hereafter. ship with the Southwest According to Professor Marcus, most students who participate Virginia Public Education in the Program have never been in a prison or jail before. Many Consortium to provide remark that the Program challenged their pre-conceived notions training for school adminis- about inmates. “The Program is certainly not a traditional form trators and also of learning about being a lawyer,” said Marcus, “but, in my judgment, it’s a very good educational experience.” co-sponsored a conference with the Commonwealth’s Professor Marcus has lent his expertise on a pro bono basis to many cases during his career. His books include Criminal Attorneys’ Services Council Procedure in Practice (NITA Press, 3d ed., 2007) and The Entrap- and the National Center for ment Defense (Lexis Pub., 3d ed., 2002). He served as the U.S. State Courts on effective reporter to the International Conference on Criminal Law in responses to domestic 2002 and 2004, and recently concluded his work as a co- violence in Virginia. reporter, with University of Oklahoma Law Professor Mary Sue Backus ’01, for the National Committee on the Right to Counsel. Several courses offer an introduction to the field and the Therapeutic Courts The Center’s most recent U.S. Supreme Court Preview enliven our constitutional Practice Externship, the first endeavors include renovating is an Institute highlight that, discussions. of its kind in the country, a courtroom used in military through live broadcast on C- Law students keep William gives students the chance to trials and training defense SPAN, brings the work of the & Mary on the cutting edge work in specialized alcohol attorneys, prosecutors, and Law School before audiences of constitutional debate. The or drug courts under the Military Commission staff to here and abroad. depth of their interests forces supervision of judges, enhance the due process, In an ongoing effort to serious exploration of prosecutors, and/or public transparency, and efficiency publicize the issues debated creative policy solutions to defenders. Students also of the trials. at William & Mary, the Law the emerging questions of have the opportunity to School publishes the constitutional law and policy. contribute to on-going INSTITUTE OF BILL OF research conducted by the RIGHTS LAW student-edited William & Actively engaged in the Mary Bill of Rights Journal, scholarship of the school, the Program’s Therapeutic Through its Institute, the considered one of the Institute’s Student Division Courts Project. The Thera- Law School has established nation’s leading journals on organizes and presents peutic Jurisprudence Society, itself as one of the preemi- constitutional issues. The conferences, lectures, and founded by students in 2005, nent institutions engaged in Institute also sponsors the debates on constitutional law sponsors lectures and engages study of the Bill of Rights. award-winning book series, topics. Recent symposia in public service projects. Created in 1982, the Insti- Constitutional Conflicts, have focused on the consti- tute of Bill of Rights Law is HUMAN RIGHTS AND published by the Law School tutional issues raised by the nationally recognized for its NATIONAL SECURITY in conjunction with Duke Ten Commandment cases high quality programs. LAW PROGRAM University Press. and by the efforts of feder- The Institute sponsors a The Human Rights and Institute programs bring ally funded law schools to variety of lectures, confer- National Security Law experts in their field for short- exclude military and other ences, and publications that Program is one of the latest and long-term visits. The recruiters that refuse to hire entice scholars from around additions to the Law Jurist-in-Residence, Lawyer-in- applicants based on their the country to examine School’s array of well- Residence, Scholar-in-Residence, sexual orientation. important, current constitu- respected institutes and and Distinguished Visiting tional issues. The annual Lee Professor programs

12 programs for specialized In conjunction with the legal study. Center for Legal and Court The Program offers Technology, the Program is students the opportunity to also able to explore the use of learn about the interplay technology and advanced legal between national defense forensics to meet the growing and the protection of civil needs of international rights, and has at its heart the litigation and alternative objective of creating citizen dispute resolution. lawyers who possess a deep These aspects of the appreciation for national Program have created an security issues. Students can academic structure that choose from a wide range of fosters a sophisticated and courses and seminars that practical understanding of provide a strong foundation national security law and for understanding this human rights issues that complex and dynamic area face the United States and of study, including clinics the world community. that facilitate their involve- PROPERTY RIGHTS ment in actual cases. William PROJECT & Mary was one of three law schools in the country The William & Mary working for the U.S. Depart- Property Rights Project ment of Justice to provide encourages legal scholarship legal support to the Iraqi on the role that property Special Tribunal, the court rights play in society and also trying Saddam Hussein. facilitates the exchange of ideas between scholars and Students in the Iraqi Special DAVISON M. DOUGLAS practitioners. Each year the Tribunal Clinic, working Hanson Professor of Law and Director, Project hosts the Brigham- under the supervision of Election Law Program Program Director Linda A. Kanner Property Rights A.B., Princeton University Conference to bring together M.A., M. Phil., M.A.R., J.D., and Ph.D., Yale University Malone, prepared detailed Five-time recipient, Walter L. Williams, Jr. Teaching Award legal memoranda for the members of the bench, bar, and academia to explore “My philosophy of teaching begins with one basic assumption. I am Iraqi court on substantive training students not just to be technically competent lawyers, but also to recent developments in legal questions. The clinic perform significant roles in public life. This was Thomas Jefferson’s vision was featured in stories on takings law and other areas of law teaching when he established the first law school in America at CNN’s American Morning, Fox of the law affecting property William & Mary in 1779 with the goal of training ‘citizen lawyers,’ and I News Channel, network rights. During the confer- firmly embrace this vision.” television affiliates, and in ence, the Project presents Davison Douglas is a scholar of constitutional law and history who has daily newspapers. the Brigham-Kanner Prize focused in particular on the interplay of race and law in American to an outstanding figure in history. His books include Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation The Program’s popular the field. of the Charlotte Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 1995) and Distinguished Lecture Series Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle Over Northern School Desegregation, and co-sponsored symposia ELECTION LAW 1865-1954 (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is director of the bring leading experts to PROGRAM Election Law Program, a joint venture of the National Center for campus to foster discussion Some legal issues that arise State Courts and the Law School, which seeks to provide practical assistance to state court judges who are called upon to resolve election and debate about on-going in connection with elections law disputes. and emerging issues. ultimately require resolution in the courts. These election law cases are extraordinarily important to the democratic process as they often concern fundamental issues such as ballot access, accurate voter counts, and voter challenges. Created as a joint venture of the

13 International and B ARBARA L. JOHNSON ’84 Interdisciplinary Partner Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker Programs Washington, DC Barbara is a graduate of Hampton University. She began her career as an LAW STUDIES ABROAD analytical chemist and instrument engineer for The Dow Chemical Company and This program offers third- earned her law degree at William & Mary while on leave from the company. Prior to joining Paul Hastings in 2002, she served as in-house counsel for Dow in year law students the Michigan and Texas and was a partner in the Houston office of Wickliff & Hall. opportunity to pursue Barbara is a nationally known employment jury trial and class action lawyer advanced study of foreign representing employers. She provides employment law advice, defends class actions, advises employers on Department of Labor audits, and handles sexual legal systems, international harassment investigations and lawsuits. In and comparative law, and addition, she also has litigated ERISA, Sarbanes-Oxley, premises liability, toxic I participated in moot legal practice in their fall tort, environmental racism, and business semester at a select number tort cases. She has given numerous lectures court at William & Mary, and felt as if I truly found of institutions abroad. In about employment law issues, written about workplace drug testing, and is active my niche in law. The experience helped me know that I 2007-08, William & Mary law in organizations that support diversity in students may apply to study wanted to be involved in advocacy. I was also active in the legal profession and in numerous for a semester at the Univer- community groups. A trustee of the William & Mary Law School Foundation, the Black Law Students Association, and learned a sity of Austria (Vienna, Barbara is a member of the American Bar Austria), China University of great deal from the events that we sponsored. Association, the American Employment Politics and Law (Beijing, Law Council, the DC Bar Association, and the National Employment Law Council. China), Keio Law School (Tokyo, Japan), the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, National Center for State GEORGE WYTHE from year to year, but Spain), and the University of Courts and the Law School, SOCIETY OF CITIZEN include lectures, courses, Auckland Law School the Election Law Program LAWYERS conferences, community (Auckland, New Zealand). seeks to provide practical This civic leadership service projects, and Through a reciprocal assistance to state court program recognizes and mentorship opportunities to exchange arrangement, judges in the United States encourages community aid students’ growth as students from these institu- who are called upon to service and civic participa- citizens and leaders. tions will also have an resolve difficult election law tion by members of the Applicants wishing to opportunity to study at disputes. The Program will student body. The program participate in the program William & Mary. publish the first edition of honors George Wythe (1726- should discuss their poten- the Election Law Manual in 1806), William & Mary’s — tial as citizen lawyers and 2007, a publication that and the nation’s — first answer Question 35 of the discusses and analyzes professor of law and one of application. For more about election law issues and the the leading members of the the Society, please visit judicial relief available for Revolutionary and early www.wm.edu/law/about election law violations. The National Eras. To bring the /citizen_lawyer.shtml. Program’s student division, Law School’s early history to the Election Law Society, co- life and introduce first-year hosted its first symposium in students to the citizen-lawyer March 2007 on the topic of ideal, the Society sponsors a campaign finance and the guided walking tour each 2008 elections. fall that begins at the Law School, winds its way through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg, includes a visit to George Wythe’s home, and ends at the historic Wren Building on the William & Mary campus. Other activities vary

14 SUMMER ABROAD their legal training outside Information about the Program can be found at PROGRAM the U.S. and are interested in application procedure for www.wm.edu Forty years ago, William & careers in legal practice or the LL.M. program can be /americanstudies/. education, or who wish to found at www.wm.edu/law Mary became the first law J.D.—M.B.A. Degree school to offer a summer law increase their familiarity with /prospective/llm/. Through a four-year program abroad. The Law the American legal system. JOINT DEGREE combined program with School’s five-week program The program provides a PROGRAMS William & Mary’s Mason in Madrid, Spain, has been range of academic opportu- To pursue a joint degree, School of Business, a student one of the most popular nities, from studying candidates must apply may earn the M.B.A./J.D. programs offered by a U.S. American legal subjects in separately to the School Information about the law school in Europe. the classroom to undertak- of Law and also to the application procedure for Approximately 100 law ing original research on a other school or program the Business School can be students from law schools particular aspect of law. One desired. Law students may found at mason.wm.edu/. around the country and a objective of the program is do so during their first or limited number of Spanish to integrate American and J.D.—M.P.P. Degree second year. law students participate each international law students Candidates interested in year. Courses are taught in into a common learning J.D.—M.A. Degree the study of public policy English by Spanish law experience. Therefore, The program in Law and may pursue the four-year professors, most of whom LL.M. students take their American Culture encour- Master of Public Policy/J.D. have experience in U.S. law courses alongside William & ages the interdisciplinary Information about the schools and who are leaders Mary J.D. students. The study of law and other application procedure for in Spain’s government or graduate students individual- aspects of American society the M.P.P. degree can be private practice, and William ize their program of study by and culture. This program found at www.wm.edu & Mary law professors. drawing from law school culminates in a joint M.A. /publicpolicy/. Courses have included courses and seminars, as in American Studies/J.D. Comparative Corporations, well as courses from other within three and a half years European Internet Law, disciplines, subject to of study. Information about Human Rights in Europe, approval by the faculty the application procedure International Environmental advisor and course instructor. for the American Studies Law, Introduction to Civil Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, the Law of the World Trade Organi- zation, the Legal System of the European Union, and Securities Regulation in Europe. Students fluent in Spanish may also choose to extern in a Spanish law firm. Information about study abroad opportunities can be found at www.wm.edu/law /studyabroad/.

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM (LL.M.) The one-year Master of Laws (LL.M.) program in the American Legal System provides advanced education for persons who received

15 The Wolf Law Library

The new Wolf Law Library was completed in summer 2007. With 540 seats, 2 reading rooms, 12 group study rooms, and 6 lounges (including one with billiards and table tennis), the library provides an elegant and comfortable state-of-the-art center for research, instruction, individual and group study, and social interaction. Scholarly resources from around the world are available to students and faculty, thanks to the library’s collection of 400,000 volumes, extensive electronic resources, interlibrary cooperation, and facility-wide wireless Internet access. The library’s comprehensive treatise collection is particularly noted for its strength in constitutional and environmental law, taxation, jurisprudence, legal history, public and private international law, and Roman law. Its rare book collections include

16 American and European legal works dating back to the 16th century, pleadings prepared and signed by George Wythe in 1746, and John Marshall’s family Bible, with notations in the hand of the future Chief Justice. Extensive reference and research assistance is provided by the library’s service-oriented staff, which includes seven librarians with law degrees.

17 Faculty Students and alumni praise William & Mary faculty not only for their expertise and skill in the classroom but also for their accessibility, compassion, and warmth.

The Law School’s powerful focus on teaching and scholarship began in 1779 with its first professor, George Wythe. Interest in students’ welfare and success in teaching them — so characteristic of George Wythe in the late 18th century — remain characteristic of William & Mary law professors in the 21st century. Our professors teach in and out of class. They know their students by name and want them to succeed. They are accessible. Ask a William & Mary law student and see how enthusiastic he or she is about the professors.

Members of our faculty PETER A. ALCES have compelling academic Rollins Professor of Law A.B., Lafayette College and clerkship credentials. J.D., University of Illinois They are distinguished Teaches contracts, philosophy scholars and consultants who of law, products liability, and help resolve leading issues of sales. the day. Drawing on their ANGELA M. BANKS broad knowledge of law and society, they produce a Assistant Professor of Law B.A., Spelman College striking quantity and quality M.Litt., Oxford University of scholarly publications — J.D., Harvard University law review articles, mono- Teaches contracts and graphs, treatises, casebooks, immigration law. and expert reports. They JAYNE W. B ARNARD LAURA A. HEYMANN are in great demand as Cutler Professor of Law participants in symposia B.S., University of Illinois Assistant Professor of Law and conferences and as J.D., University of Chicago B.A., Yale University J.D., University of California at Berkeley visiting professors at other Teaches business associations and securities regulation. “What I love about William & Mary is the close community that it law schools. fosters among faculty and students. This environment enables me The full-time faculty at LYNDA L. BUTLER to share with students my fascination with intellectual property the Law School is joined Vice Dean and Chancellor law — a field of increasing importance to them as both creators by an excellent corps of Professor of Law and consumers of culture — and enables them to share with me adjunct professors who come B.S., College of William & Mary the wonderful diversity of viewpoints and experiences they bring to the study of law.” from the world beyond the J.D., University of Virginia campus. These professors Teaches land use control, Laura A. Heymann joined the William & Mary faculty in 2005. property, and property rights. Before arriving in Williamsburg, she was the inaugural Frank H. are largely public officials Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Administrative and practicing lawyers who LAN CAO Fellow at The George Washington University Law School, where bring invigorating perspec- Boyd Fellow and Professor she taught courses in Internet law and privacy. She has also tives and experience to of Law served as an assistant general counsel for America Online, Inc., the classroom. B.A., Mount Holyoke College as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, J.D., Yale University and as a law clerk to Judge Patricia M. Wald on the U.S. Court of Faculty biographies and a Teaches international business Appeals for the DC Circuit. She writes and teaches in the areas of list of faculty publications transactions, international copyright law and trademark law; she also teaches torts in the can be found at trade law, and corporations. first year. www.wm.edu/law /facultyadmin/fulltime.shtml.

18 K YLE R.BAHR ERIC D. CHASON DAVID FRISCH Class of 2008 • Gresham, OR Assistant Professor of Law and Visiting Professor of Law Director, William & Mary Tax University of Richmond Law School Kyle earned a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He then B.S., University of Pennsylvania worked as a legal assistant in the litigation group of the law firm of Skadden, Conference Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, in Washington, DC. Kyle also has a great deal B.A., Duke University J.D., University of Miami LL.M., Yale University of journalism experience, having worked as a sportswriter for various J.D., University of Virginia newspapers including Philadelphia Metro, The Washington Times, and The York Teaches employee benefits, Teaches payment systems Dispatch & Sunday News. At William & Mary he serves as a teaching assistant federal income tax, and trusts and sales. for the Legal Skills Program, is a member of the William and Mary Law Review, and estates. and acts as webmaster for the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Society. During B. GLENN GEORGE summer 2006 he worked as an intern for Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. NANCY L. COMBS Professor of Law District Court for the District of B.A., University of North Carolina at Columbia. During summer 2007 Kyle Associate Professor of Law Chapel Hill worked as a summer associate for B.A., University of Portland J.D., Harvard University White & Case in Washington, DC. J.D., University of California at Berkeley Teaches civil procedure, Our professors care about Certificate, The Hague Academy of employment discrimination, International Law labor law, and sports law. their students, and not just Ph.D., Leiden University Teaches criminal law, human MICHAEL STEVEN in the “our doors are open rights, international criminal GREEN law, and transitional justice. 2007-08 Cabell Research during office hours” sense. Professor of Law I’ve had dinner at the GLENN E. COVEN, JR. B.A., University of California at Godwin Professor of Law Berkeley homes of leading scholars B.A., Swarthmore College J.D., Ph.D., Yale University LL.B., Columbia University Teaches civil procedure, and conversations in the halls with professors discussing Teaches corporate tax, federal conflicts, and philosophy all sorts of non-law-related topics. My torts professor still income tax, and international of law. taxation. SUSAN S. GROVER emails us with notes of congratulations when our NEAL E. DEVINS Associate Professor of Law achievements are announced. Goodrich Professor of Law, A.B., Hollins College Professor of Government, and J.D., Georgetown University Director, Institute of Bill of Teaches civil procedure, LAURA A. HEYMANN FREDRIC I. LEDERER Rights Law employment discrimination, Assistant Professor of Law Chancellor Professor of Law and A.B., Georgetown University and women and the law. B.A., Yale University Director, Center for Legal and Court J.D., Vanderbilt University J.D., University of California at Technology VIVIAN E. HAMILTON Berkeley Teaches administrative law B.S., Polytechnic Institute of New York and constitutional law. Associate Professor of Law Teaches copyright, torts, J.D., Columbia University B.A., Yale University intellectual property, and LL.M., University of Virginia DAVISON M. DOUGLAS J.D., Harvard University trademark law. Teaches criminal procedure, Hanson Professor of Law and Teaches family law and civil evidence, legal skills, legal ERIC A. KADES Director, Election Law Program procedure. technology, technology- A.B., Princeton University Professor of Law and Director, I. TROTTER HARDY augmented trial advocacy, and M.A., M.Phil., M.A.R., J.D., Ph.D., Property Rights Project Yale University military law. Professor of Law and Associate B.A., J.D., Yale University Dean of Technology Teaches constitutional law, Teaches corporations, JOHN W. LEE III B.A., University of Virginia election law, employment law, economic analysis of law, land Professor of Law law and religion, and legal M.S., American University J.D., Duke University use control, property law, real A.B., University of North Carolina at history. estate transactions, and Chapel Hill Teaches copyright, intellectual LL.B., University of Virginia JAMES G. DWYER property, trademark law, statistics for lawyers. LL.M., Georgetown University Class of 2010 Professor of Law and torts. CHARLES H. KOCH, JR. Teaches accounting for lawyers, B.A., Boston College JAMES S. HELLER Woodbridge Professor of Law federal income taxation, real J.D., Yale University estate taxation, and taxation of Ph.D., Stanford University Professor of Law and Director, B.A., University of Maryland J.D., George Washington University small business. Teaches family law, law and The Wolf Law Library LL.M., University of Chicago B.A., University of Michigan social justice, trusts and Teaches administrative law, MARÍA LÓPEZ- estates, and youth law. M.L.S., University of California at CONTRERAS GONZÁLEZ Berkeley comparative constitutional J.D., University of San Diego systems, European Union law, Visiting Professor of Law Teaches advanced research and federal courts. Instituto de Empresa and law and public policy. Diploma, College of Europe M.A., Brussels Free University LL.B., Universidad de León Teaches European Union law.

19 LYNDA L. BUTLER Vice Dean and Chancellor Professor of Law B.S., College of William & Mary J.D., University of Virginia “As children, we quickly learn about the concept of ‘mineness’ and form childlike views of property. ‘Finders keepers’ and ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law’ are oft-repeated expressions of these notions. As a teacher and scholar of property law, I thoroughly enjoy examining property rights from many different perspectives. Economic, moral, political, and cultural considerations all play a role in defining property rights and in explaining differences between our property law system and that of other countries. My pedagogical goal is to help us all to put aside childlike thoughts and think more comprehensively about property — about what it is and what it should be under the law.” Lynda Butler is vice dean of the Law School and faculty advisor to the William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review. Her areas of expertise include eminent domain/ takings, environmental law, land use, and property law. She is a member (ex officio) of the Board of Governors of the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar and serves on the coordinating committee for the Law School’s annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC.

LINDA A. MALONE JAMES E. MOLITERNO PATRICIA E. ROBERTS law and development, public Marshall-Wythe Foundation Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law, Visiting Clinical Assistant international law, and secured Professor of Law and Director, and Director, Legal Skills Program Professor of Law; Acting Director, transactions. Human Rights and National B.S., Youngstown State University Clinical Programs; Director, Security Law Program J.D., University of Akron Academic Support Program; MICHAEL STEIN B.A., Vassar College Teaches civil procedure, Director, Externships; and Professor of Law J.D., Duke University evidence, and professional Director, Legal Skills Program B.A., New York University J.D., Harvard University LL.M., University of Illinois ethics. B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s Ph.D., Cambridge University Teaches criminal law, College environmental law, human GENE R. NICHOL J.D., William & Mary Teaches civil procedure, rights, public international President, College of William & Teaches legal skills and disability law, employment law, and the Iraqi Special Mary, and Professor of Law externship and clinic discrimination, English legal Tribunal Clinic. B.A., Oklahoma State University seminars. history, and torts. J.D., University of Texas at Austin JEFFREY D. MANNS RONALD H. KATHRYN R. URBONYA NATHAN B. OMAN Visiting Assistant Professor ROSENBERG Professor of Law of Law Assistant Professor of Law Professor of Law and Director, B.A., Beloit College B.A., Brigham Young University M.A., J.D., University of North Dakota Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC J.D., Harvard University American Legal System Graduate B.A., University of Virginia Program and Foreign Exchanges Teaches constitutional law, J.D., Yale Law School Teaches contracts and secured B.A., Columbia University constitutional tort litigation, D. Phil., Oxford University transactions. M.R.P., J.D., University of North and the Fourth Amendment. Teaches security regulation. Carolina at Chapel Hill MITCHELL B. REISS WILLIAM W. Teaches environmental law, PAUL MARCUS Professor of Law, Professor of VAN ALSTYNE land use control, local Government, and Vice Provost for Haynes Professor of Law and Kelly government law, property, Lee Professor of Law International Affairs Professor of Teaching Excellence and real estate transactions. B.A., University of Southern California A.B., J.D., University of California at B.A., Williams College J.D., Stanford University Los Angeles M.A.L.D., Tufts University ERIN RYAN Certificate, The Hague Academy of Teaches criminal law and J.D., Columbia University International Law D.Phil., Oxford University Assistant Professor of Law procedure, entertainment law, Teaches constitutional law and Teaches national security law. B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe College copyright, and law and M.A., Wesleyan University the First Amendment. J.D., Harvard University literature. W. TAYLOR CYNTHIA V. W ARD Teaches natural resource law, ALAN J. MEESE REVELEY III Professor of Law negotiation, and property. Ball Professor of Law Dean and Bryan Professor of B.A., Wellesley College J.D., Yale University A.B., College of William & Mary Jurisprudence ALEMANTE G. J.D., University of Chicago A.B., Princeton University SELASSIE Teaches criminal law, J.D., University of Virginia Teaches antitrust, corporations, Associate Professor of Law jurisprudence, property, and Teaches citizen lawyers. economic analysis of the law, LL.B., Haile Selassie University white collar crime. the Federalist Papers, and J.D., University of Wisconsin torts. Teaches contracts, international organizations,

20 Student Life and Student Organizations

A NDREW F. KNAGGS

Law students come to William & Mary with great Class of 2008 • Springfield, NJ potential. Many opportunities are provided so that everyone Andrew earned his B.S. in civil engineering from the United States Military can realize their full potential. Academy at West Point and went on to serve as an officer in the United States Army for nearly 10 years. He began his military career as a combat engineer and Law students can participate in a wide array of co-curricular eventually became a Green Beret, where he commanded a detachment in the organizations, programs, and activities. Many of the activi- 5th Special Forces Group. He was valedictorian of the U.S. Army Special Operations Language Course (Arabic) and was awarded the Bronze Star and ties further stimulate intellectual curiosity and divergent Combat Infantryman Badge. At William & Mary, Andrew has served as a student thinking, and provide an opportunity for students to admission ambassador and as the president of the Federalist Society. During the 2006 and 2007 summers, he worked for the law firm of Hirschler Fleischer in become better acquainted with their classmates, the faculty, Richmond, VA. the College, and Williamsburg community. Most students find that membership in a student organization helps their There’s an incredible number understanding of the law and its institutions, provides a of opportunities for students useful resource in the search for rewarding professional employment, and allows them to collaborate rather than to become involved. As a compete with their fellow students. married father of twins, I

The Student Bar Associa- International Law Society can say with confidence that tion (SBA) is the umbrella J. Reuben Clark Law Society no matter how hectic your Jewish Law Students organization that oversees Association schedule there will be many student groups and allocates Lesbian and Gay Law funds to support student Association opportunities for you to organizations. The following Military Law Society Moot Court Program contribute to the Law School groups and organizations National Trial Team community. sponsor debates, panels, and Phi Alpha Delta speakers, and organize Phi Delta Phi various activities in line with Public Service Fund HONOR COUNCIL The Law School’s honor Sports and Entertainment system is administered by the their special interests. Many Law Society An honor system adminis- participate in community Student Bar Association tered by students is among Honor Council. The Council service activities. Students for Innocence the oldest and most impor- is appointed by the Student Project tant traditions of William & Bar Association president The Advocate (student Student Intellectual newspaper) Mary dating back to 1779. and is composed of a chief Property Society justice from the third-year Alternative Dispute Student Legal Services At its core, the honor system Resolution Team Students for Equality in Legal requires that students class and five justices from American Constitution Society Education conduct themselves honestly the student body. They Animal Law Society Therapeutic Jurisprudence in all matters related to educate students about the Asian Law Students Society Association student life. Lying, cheating, honor system, investigate William & Mary Bill of and stealing are not toler- allegations of honor code Black Law Students Rights Journal violations, determine guilt Association William & Mary Chapter ated, and students found Bone Marrow Drive of the ACLU guilty of these offenses are or innocence, and impose Committee William and Mary Environmen- sanctioned, usually by sanctions upon a finding Children’s Advocacy Law tal Law and Policy Review of guilt. Society dismissal. By accepting an William and Mary Journal offer of admission to the The existence of the Christian Legal Society of Women and the Law Election Law Society William and Mary Law Review Law School, a student agrees honor system and the Environmental Law Society More information about to abide by the principles student body’s commitment Federalist Society student organizations can be and procedures of the George Wythe Society honor system. Honor Council found at www.wm.edu/law I’Anson-Hoffman American /prospective/studentlife Inn of Court /student_orgs.shtml. Institute of Bill of Rights Law Student Division

21 to it permit a community of professors, judges, practicing trust and an atmosphere of lawyers, and students. freedom at the Law School. Students typically spend For example, examinations their first year on a journal are not proctored, students subchecking articles and may take them anywhere in verifying the accuracy of the building, and many citations and footnotes exams are self-scheduled. provided by the authors. Students are permitted to The journals’ editorial use personal computers for boards manage the publica- exams and are trusted to tion process and consist of follow the rules governing upper-level students. Journal their use. members also write student The honor system models notes, which are legal the professional code of research papers of publish- responsibility under which able quality. The student lawyers live. In much the note fulfills the Law School’s articles on topics related to periodicals. In the same same way the legal profes- writing requirement and their special expertise. The study, the William & Mary sion is self-regulated, may be selected for publica- symposia benefit our students Bill of Rights Journal was rd William & Mary law students tion. Both second-year who witness and often ranked 3 , the William and take responsibility for staff members and third- participate in cutting-edge Mary Journal of Women and th safeguarding the character year editors may receive debates of important issues. the Law was ranked 5 , and of their community. academic credit for their The William and Mary Law the William and Mary work on journals. Review, the oldest and largest Environmental Law and Policy JOURNALS th At least once annually, each of our legal journals, does Review was ranked 10 The publication of legal journal chooses one legal not have a particular focus, among the most-cited journals offers students an issue and sponsors a printed publishing articles on a wide student-edited journals in extraordinary opportunity to or live symposium on the array of topics. It recently was their subject areas. Students be involved in legal scholar- th topic. These symposia are ranked as the 19 most-cited interested in a position on ship. William & Mary’s four opportunities for legal legal journal in an evaluation any journal or review must student-run and edited scholars to exchange ideas of more than 900 U.S. and participate in an intensive journals publish work by and to lecture or publish selected non-U.S. legal writing competition con-

ANGELA M. BANKS Assistant Professor of Law B.A., Spelman College M.Litt., Oxford University J.D., Harvard University “International human rights and immigration are two areas of law that address what legal rights the state will guarantee and protect, and who within the polity is entitled to the full enjoyment of these rights. It is especially exciting to teach and write about these issues at William & Mary because the students are enthusiastic about global events and bring thoughtful and insightful perspectives to discussions about these timely issues.” Angela M. Banks was the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard prior to joining the faculty in spring 2007. She studied as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, where she earned a Master of Letters in sociology. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard International Law Journal. Following graduation from law school, she practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, and clerked for Judge Carlos F. Lucero of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. From September 2002 to August 2005, Professor Banks served as a legal advisor to Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald at the Iran- U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague.

22 The Moot Court competi- The administration of the S ARAH A. FULTON tions require each team Moot Court Program is the Class of 2008 • Great Falls, VA to research and write an responsibility of the Moot Sarah graduated cum laude with a B.A. in political science and public policy from appellate brief and defend Court Board. In addition Vanderbilt University. Elected to serve as William & Mary Law School’s Student Bar Association president during the 2007-08 school year, Sarah is also a member it in an oral argument before to managing the Law of the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law and the Moot Court Team. panels of judges. School’s Bushrod Tourna- She acquired a wealth of legal experience before coming to William & Mary by working for a private law firm, the Fairfax County General District Court, and To join the Moot Court ment, the Board also the U.S. Department of State. During summer 2006 she was an intern for the Team, students must compete sponsors the prestigious Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Office in Fairfax, VA. During summer 2007 she in the Law School’s Bushrod William B. Spong, Jr. worked in Charlotte, NC, for the law firm of Parker Poe. Tournament, an intense, Invitational Moot Court Journal membership is a two-week competition for Tournament each spring. first-year students. Similar This competition draws wonderfully rewarding to an actual tournament, teams from across the experience and William & participants in Bushrod nation. Teams are judged research a selected topic and in oral advocacy, and Mary’s use of a joint journal prepare an appellate-style research and writing skills competition ensures that oral argument that they by a distinguished panel of judges from the Virginia students who want to be defend in front of a panel of judges. The top participants Supreme Court, federal involved with a journal earn positions on the Moot courts, and numerous U.S. district courts. Outstanding have a good chance of doing Court Team. Second-year students on the team are participants in Moot Court so. The atmosphere of the required to take an appellate are honored by induction into the Order of Barristers. school encourages students to be involved in a variety of brief writing class designed for the Moot Court Program. activities in addition to journal and moot court.

ducted at the end of their Team during their first year first year. Selection to the through a competition that Law Review also may be based requires each student to on a student’s academic conduct a full trial in standing at the end of his or successively challenging her second semester of law rounds. The team, in groups school. Promotion to the of two to four members, editorial board of a journal participates in complex is based on proficiency in criminal and civil trials at legal writing and editing and tournaments throughout the level of dedication. United States. Outstanding members of the Trial Team NATIONAL TRIAL TEAM are honored by induction The National Trial Team is into the Order of Barristers. a student-run organization designed to develop law MOOT COURT PROGRAM students’ trial advocacy skills. The William & Mary Moot Trial Team is an important Court Program has a long part of William & Mary’s oral history of success and is one advocacy program. The of the school’s best opportu- organization differs from nities for students to develop Moot Court in that Trial and refine both oral advo- Team focuses on jury trial cacy and brief writing skills. litigation whereas Moot Each year, teams represent Court focuses on appellate William & Mary in national advocacy. Students are and regional tournaments. selected to join the Trial

23 Living in While Williamsburg boasts The main campus of all the comforts of a college William & Mary offers many Williamsburg town – major chain restau- concerts and cultural Williamsburg offers a rants and retail stores, coffee activities for law students to unique blend of small-town shops and movie theaters – it enjoy, including numerous hospitality and big-city also has a charm you won’t plays, readings, and lectures. amenities. Whether you’re a find anywhere else. Family- Justice Sandra Day history buff, a lover of the owned restaurants serve up O’Connor, College chancel- great outdoors, an avid favorites of Southern cuisine lor, is a frequent visitor. shopper, or a connoisseur of such as peanut soup, There also is a vibrant local fine restaurants, this is the barbecue, and sweet tea. The arts scene offering a full place for you. Student Bar Association’s calendar of chamber and Thursday night Bar Review classical music concerts, art programs will introduce exhibits, and community you quickly to the town’s theater productions. B RIAN S. SUH nightlife, from pints with William & Mary’s newly- Class of 2008 • Suwanee, GA your friends at a favorite renovated Rec Center offers Brian earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at local deli to live music Chapel Hill. He takes advantage of every opportunity for involvement in the a wide range of athletic Law School community at William & Mary. He is president of the Asian- performances and karaoke facilities which include a American Law Students Association, a Student Admission Ambassador, nights at area restaurants pool, basketball court, and volunteer for the Bone Marrow Drive, and president of the Sports & Entertain- ment Law Society. Brian is also very active in intramural and club sports and and hotels. You can stroll running track. Tennis the orchestra. During summer 2006 he was an intern with the Volunteer Lawyers along Williamsburg’s historic enthusiasts will enjoy playing for the Arts in New York. In summer 2007 Brian returned to New York City to Duke of Gloucester Street, work in the entertainment law field as a summer intern with the in-house legal on the courts of the College’s department of RCA Records. two blocks from the Law McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis School, and browse in shops Center, located next door to Williamsburg is perfect for a selling pottery, silver, and the Law School. law student - quiet and glassware made by Colonial Whether you’re up for Williamsburg’s artisans. canoeing on Lake Matoaka secluded when you need to Or, you can travel further on the main campus, study and offering lots of down the road to peruse the sunbathing on a beach along many bargains offered on the James River, hiking and opportunities for diverse and Richmond Road at biking on nearby trails, or interesting social activities Williamburg’s multiple golfing at any of the area’s outlet malls. as well. There is something more than one dozen golf courses, Williamsburg’s special about a town where warm temperatures, beauti- you can watch Monday ful spring blooming season, and vibrant fall foliage Night Football at a bar just down the street from the oldest beckon everyone outside. academic building in the nation.

24 anniversary of the settle- full bathrooms, and living/ ment’s founding in 1607, dining areas. Each resident drew visitors from around has a private bedroom, the world, including Presi- telephone number, and dent Bush and Queen voicemail. Each bedroom and Elizabeth II. living room is equipped with All this and more makes both a direct connection to Williamsburg a great place the College’s computer to live…and study. network, including email and Internet access (network card Housing Options and software required), and Many housing options are cable television. All utilities are available to students includ- included in the rent, which ing both privately owned and averages $4,950 for the 2007- university-owned apartments. 08 academic year. Additional The Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Residences are adjacent to the Law School. William & Mary offers information can be found at www.wm.edu/reslife Thrill-seekers will enjoy A short drive down the graduate students housing in /residenceHalls braving the roller coasters at Colonial Parkway will take the Lettie Pate Whitehead /graduate.php. Busch Gardens or riding the you to Yorktown, the scene Evans Residences adjacent to waves at Water Country USA, of the Revolutionary War the Law School. This complex while the more laid-back battle that triggered the features two-, three-, and four- may prefer sipping a choice British surrender, and bedroom apartments vintage on the local winery’s Jamestown, the site of the overlooking a central court- outdoor patio. first permanent English yard. The apartments are Countless activities provide settlement in the New furnished and air condi- entertainment and a taste of World. “Jamestown 2007,” tioned, have private outside local history. Just a short an eighteen-month com- entrances, full kitchens with walk from the Law School, memoration of the 400th major appliances, one or two Colonial Williamsburg has been restored to appear as it did during the Revolutionary War, when it served as capital of Virginia. You can enjoy strolling through its stately brick homes and English- style gardens, engaging in conversation with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, or even posing for pictures in the stockade.

Queen Elizabeth II was warmly welcomed by College President Gene R. Nichol and the William & Mary community when she paid a call to the College during her May 2007 visit to Virginia.

25 Career Services

Exploring options and obtaining access to employment opportunities are important components of legal education at William & Mary. Similar to other aspects of a positive law school experience, success in the job market requires shared responsibility between the school and each student. The Law School’s Office of Career Services (OCS) relishes its role in this school- student partnership.

To facilitate this process, assess options, refine OCS has established rela- career goals, and develop tionships with thousands of job search strategies. Our David M. Spooner ’94, at right, assistant secretary for import administration employers around the world, priority is knowing students, at the U.S. Department of Commerce, speaks with students during an Alternative Career Conversations program. The program gives students an opportunity to including law firms, public serving them as individuals, meet with attorneys working in dozens of fields outside of traditional law practice interest organizations, and introducing them to the where lawyers put their talents to use, including international trade, sports prosecutors, corporations many resources available management, alternative dispute resolution, higher education, journalism, investment banking, and nonprofit administration. and businesses, federal, state through the Law School. and local government Recognizing that career SPEAKERS AND federal law enforcement, agencies, NGOs, accounting development is a lifelong PANEL DISCUSSIONS opportunities with local, state firms, and courts. Our process, we provide gradu- and federal government contacts also include ates with access to OCS Each semester, attorneys agencies, using a law degree organizations that hire services throughout their representing a broad range in the business world, and lawyers for professional legal careers. of employment settings and practicing law in small towns. positions not involving practice areas are invited by OCS to speak with William & traditional law practice. Career Planning PUBLICATIONS AND Mary law students. Panelists In 2006, 180 employers Resources OCS LIBRARY describe their career paths, registered for on-campus Each student receives a SKILLS WORKSHOPS provide candid insights interviews for 343 offices in Career Planning Manual AND PROGRAMS about their work, and offer 30 states and the District of (covering job search strate- OCS conducts and career planning and job Columbia. Our students par- gies, career satisfaction, sponsors a series of informa- search suggestions. Students ticipated in 30 off-campus job resume and cover letter tion sessions designed to have the opportunity to fairs and searched several preparation, interview tips, educate students about the meet and network with thousand job listings from and professionalism), a job search process. panelists at informal recep- nonvisiting employers. Government and Public tions or lunches. In addition to skills-based Interest Job Search Guide, A Philosophy of sessions covering effective Other programs have and a comprehensive Individualized resume and cover letter provided overviews of judicial bibliography of print and writing and interviewing, clerkships, post-graduate electronic resources. Career Planning and recent programs have fellowships, international The OCS Resource Library, Advising focused on business eti- public service internships, with several hundred quette, an international job Each student presents public interest advocacy, resources for researching a unique credentials, search, mock interviews, working on Capitol Hill, geographic and work principles of professional- preferences, and short- and ism, succeeding in your We offer a full range of services and resources to assist long-term goals. We believe summer job/internship, students in mounting an individualized, creative, and that one-on-one meetings and targeting the hidden provide the best setting to job market. thorough job search for summer and post-graduate positions. Visit www.wm.edu/law/careerservices for more information.

26 Recent Graduates Profile Employment aid societies, prosecutors, employers and our member- Classes 2004 to 2006 Locations public defenders, govern- ship in PSLawNet and Equal Employment Status 35% • Virginia ment agencies, think tanks, Justice Works. With assistance 65% • Out of State and advocacy groups. Issue from OCS, William & Mary Employment Profile 38 states, DC, areas have encompassed law students have been as of nine months post-graduation 4 other countries international relations, particularly successful Graduates Reporting children’s rights, domestic landing highly competitive Employment Status ...... 99% violence, human rights, postgraduate Presidential Total Employed or Pursuing Advanced Degree ...... 99% homelessness, the environ- Management Fellowships. (excluding 25 graduates not seeking employment) ment, AIDS/HIV, housing, OCS also coordinates student consumer protection, judicial participation in several public Employer Types and Starting Salaries service job fairs. for 2006 Graduates reform, civil rights, employ- ment, health care, prison The John Levy Loan Salary Range ...... $30,000 - $180,000 reform, education and Repayment Assistance Median Private Sector Starting Salary ...... $115,000 alternative dispute resolution. Program, established in Median Public and Nonprofit Sector Starting Salary ..... $50,000 In addition to assisting 2004, has helped make the organizations and clients choice of public service literally from coast to coast, careers more viable for Law fellowship recipients have School alumni. Graduates spanned the globe, serving working for private non- employers in more than 20 profit organizations or other countries. government employers are Opportunities with eligible to apply for up to government agencies and $5,000 annually in loan public interest groups are forgiveness for a maximum plentiful, as a result of our of three years. aggressive outreach to nonprofit and public sector

variety of employment and the world offer a A LEXIS A. MC L EOD options, is an extension of the breadth of geographic and Class of 2007 • Mission Viejo, CA Law Library and is open to career contacts. Alexis graduated from the University of California at Irvine with a degree in students approximately 90 OCS’s professional staff Spanish and English. There she was actively involved in various community hours a week during the outreach efforts. At William & Mary, Alexis continued to demonstrate her offers more than 40 years of passion for public service. She was a board member of the Public Service academic year. Fifteen experience in student services. Fund, a founding member of the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Society, and an customized career bibliogra- ESL tutor. During summer 2006 Alexis worked for the Public Law Center in phies covering diverse Emphasis on Santa Ana, CA. She received one of 50 Equal Justice Works Fellowships awarded in 2007, which allowed her to continue representing low-income practice specialties are Public Service individuals living with HIV/AIDS. available in our offices and The Law School recognized Alexis’s We are proud of our on the Web. distinguished pro bono work with the students’ commitment to 2007 Thurgood Marshall Award. public interest and govern- Human Resources The support and ment service and our array of Accessible faculty mem- summer public service encouragement I bers and receptive Law fellowships. During summer School graduates provide encountered in the Office of 2007, students benefited from excellent links to the legal 91 fellowships. Positions vary Career Services was integral community for students. from year to year but have Faculty regularly assist to securing my included employment with students in securing judicial civil rights organizations, legal postgraduate fellowship in clerkships and learning about substantive areas of the public service arena. The OCS staff possesses the practice. Some 6,600 breadth of knowledge, tools, and dedication to help graduates around the nation students secure employment in law firms, government agencies, or public service organizations.

27 Admission Information

Admission Policy The number of applications for admission to the Law School exceeds the number of places in the entering class. Based upon academic record and LSAT score, a very high percent- age of the applicants are deemed qualified for admission. While the Law School could choose its class solely on the basis of academic potential, the faculty has concluded that neither the public nor the profession would be best served by an admission process that was limited to selecting only those most likely to achieve academically. The faculty believes the educational process at the Law School, as well as the profession the students enter upon graduation, is best served by an admission process that will result in the selection of a diverse and talented student body. To that end, the faculty has formulated an admission policy that takes into consuming extracurricular educational background and consideration individual skills and characteristics that might activities, and the length of experiences, moral character, not necessarily be directly related to academic potential. time elapsed since gradua- leadership qualities, commit- tion; (2) the applicant’s ment to community service, capacity for the academic ability to undertake indepen- Therefore, admission to the ability based upon a careful study of law based largely dent and creative research, Law School will be granted to examination of the under- upon the LSAT score and and communication skills. those applicants who, in the graduate (and graduate, if writing sample; and (3) other The applicant should discuss opinion of the admission any) transcript, including relevant personal qualities his or her own characteris- personnel, will make the most factors such as the grade-point and characteristics of the tics and qualities in the significant contribution to average, the quality of the applicant, including factors personal statement required society as members of the school attended, the difficulty such as the location of the as part of the admission legal profession. Factors used of the major or department in applicant’s permanent process and should seek to in making decisions regarding which the degree was earned, residence, the applicant’s have those persons writing admission include: (1) the the hours spent on outside career goals, ethnic status, letters of recommendation applicant’s general academic employment or other time- cultural, economic, and discuss such factors.

28 An offer of admission to Alternately, self-guided, the school is valid only for recorded tours may be the year stated in the obtained from the Admis- admission letter. Deferment sion Office during business requests will be considered hours or the Library on an individual basis if a Circulation Desk during written request is submitted Law Library hours (because with an explanatory state- library hours vary during the ment. An admitted applicant year, please call (757) 221- who does not enroll that 3255 to confirm availability). year may reapply by filing the application for a subse- Directions quent year and will be Arriving by Car considered with other William & Mary is 150 students applying that year. miles south of Washington, Admission one year does not DC, midway between Rich- ensure admission for a mond and Norfolk on I-64. subsequent year. From the east, take Exit 242A Visiting W&M (Route 199 West) toward Jamestown and Williamsburg. Law School Turn right at the second traffic We invite you to visit! light onto South Henry Street (Route 132 North). The Law You may call the Admis- School is located on the right From the William & Mary The combined train and bus sion Office to arrange an 1.5 miles from the intersection. campus, the Law School is (Greyhound) station is less than informational meeting with Coming from the west, take located several blocks to the east. one mile from the Law School. an admission dean, arrange Exit 238 (Route 143 East) From Richmond Road (at the Taxi service is available. to observe a class, and/or toward Colonial Williamsburg College Corner “V”) go Arriving by Plane schedule a student-guided and proceed four-tenths of a straight onto South Boundary tour of the Law School. mile. Turn right on Route 132 Street. Newport News/Williamsburg Airport is approximately 30 Tours may be scheduled South — the Law School is From Jamestown Road (at the located 2.5 miles from this turn. minutes from campus. Williams- weekdays during the aca- College Corner “V”) go right burg is also served by Rich- Proceed through the first light onto South Boundary Street. demic year at 9 a.m. or and move to the right lane — mond International and 2 p.m. To schedule bear right continuing on Route At the next block turn left onto Norfolk International airports, a visit, please contact us at 132 South. The Law School is Francis Street (Route 5 East). each one hour away. Ground (757) 221-3785 or at the second large building on At the stop light, turn right transportation companies meet flights at all three airports with [email protected] at least the left after passing Newport onto South Henry Street. The Avenue. Law School is approximately limousine or shuttle service to one week in advance. two blocks on the left. the College available with advance reservations. Parking is available at the Law School. Obtain a parking permit from the Administrative Office located to your left as We look for students who have you enter. Visitors with parking permits may park in any strong academic backgrounds faculty/staff or student space. Arriving by Train or Bus and a sharp intellect during the Visitors may use AMTRAK service to Williamsburg from admission process, but we also major northeast cities including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, look for those with drive, Baltimore and Washington, DC. commitment, and compassion.

F AYE F. SHEALY Associate Dean for Admission

29 arrange to have transcripts financial aid offices or sent to LSDAS from all may be filed online at colleges attended by Febru- www.fafsa.ed.gov, by Febru- ary 1. Have a reportable ary 15. The FAFSA code for LSAT score on record with William & Mary is 003705. LSDAS. Applicants must All admitted applicants indicate all dates on which are considered for merit they have taken or plan to scholarships awarded by take the LSAT in the the Law School using the appropriate space on the criteria submitted to com- application. February tests plete the application for will be accepted. The LSDAS admission; no separate code for William & Mary is application is required. 5115. For information visit Application for Virginia www.LSAC.org. In-State Tuition Privileges: Two Letters of Recom- Applicants claiming entitle- mendation: Arrange to ment to in-state educational submit two letters of privileges must submit the recommendation by any of “Application for Virginia In- three procedures. State Tuition Privileges” Applicants may utilize the when applying for admission LSAC Recommendation to the Law School. This form Service included in the may be downloaded from Application Procedure LSDAS registration. To use www.wm.edu this service, follow the /registrar/forms/tuition Applicants must earn a baccalaureate degree from an directions outlined in the /Application_for_ accredited institution prior to the commencement of study LSAT & LSDAS Information Virginia_In-state_ at the Law School. Book or on www.LSAC.org. Tuition_Privileges.pdf. Eligibility for In-State Print the application from Applicants may obtain First-Year Status: To be eligible for in- the William & Mary website letters of recommendation Application state tuition, a student must www.wm.edu/law/docs in sealed envelopes and meet the statutory test for Deadline for First-Year /jdapplication.pdf and mail submit with their application. domicile set forth in Section Application—March 1 to the address on the form Recommenders may 23-7-4 of the Code of Deadline for Financial Aid with the $50 application fee send their letters directly to Virginia. In general, to (FAFSA)—February 15 payable by check or money the Admission Office. A establish domicile students order to the College of composite recommendation Application Form and Fee: must prove permanent The application and a William & Mary. or letters processed by prelaw advisors or career residence in Virginia for at $50 nonrefundable applica- Personal Statement: The least one continuous year tion fee should be received personal statement provides services offices may be sent directly to: immediately preceding the no later than March 1 of applicants an opportunity to first official day of classes William & Mary Law School the year enrollment is demonstrate the ways in and they must intend to Admission Office sought. Applications received which they can contribute remain in Virginia indefi- P.O. Box 8795 after March 1 will be their talents and experiences nitely after graduation. Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 processed and considered to the Law School. Appli- Residence in Virginia for the A Dean’s Certification on a space-available basis. cants are also invited to primary purpose of attend- form is not required. Applicants may: submit additional essays ing college does not guarantee Complete the LSDAS if applicable (answers to Application for Need- eligibility for in-state tuition. Electronic Application Questions 34 and 35 of the Based Financial Aid: Applicants seeking in-state located at www.LSAC.org application). Instructions for Applicants for need-based status must complete and or link to the single school the personal statement are scholarships and/or educa- submit the “Application for e-application from the found within the application. tional loans must file the Virginia In-State Tuition William & Mary website LSAT/LSDAS Registra- Free Application for Federal Privileges” to the Office of and pay the $50 application tion: Register for the Law Student Aid (FAFSA), which the Registrar as noted on the fee by credit/debit card School Data Assembly may be obtained from form. Students seeking through LSAC. Service (LSDAS) and college and university

30 reclassification to in-state Higher Education for must complete and submit Virginia at www.schev.edu Applicant Profile—2007 the “Application for Virginia /Students/VadomicileInfo.asp? The figure to the left of the slash represents 2007 entering class admittees, while the figure to the right of the slash represents applicants (e.g., 2/10 in a In-State Tuition Privileges.” from=students or by box means 2 of 10 applicants with that combination of LSAT and GPA were The Office of the University contacting the Office of the accepted). Totals reflect all first-year applications as of 6/1/07. Registrar evaluates the University Registrar at application and notifies the (757) 221-2808. LSAT Score Percentile Range 50 & 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100 Total student if his/her request below First-Year for in-state tuition has been GPA denied. Appeal of an adverse Admission 3.75 & 4/42 3/29 11/114 15/132 76/247 354/377 465/945 decision is permitted, but Above Decisions 3.74 - 6/96 2/46 11/117 17/200 55/291 289/390 380/1142 a change in classification 3.50 Applications are reviewed will only be made when 3.49 - 4/114 4/50 6/125 7/138 19/212 139/306 180/952 justified by clear and when the files are complete. 3.25 Decision letters are mailed 3.24 - 6/102 2/32 4/72 4/88 2/93 66/190 84/583 convincing evidence. 3.00 no later than April 1 for first- In determining domicile, 2.99 - 1/78 1/17 0/35 1/44 2/41 4/79 9/297 year applications complete 2.75 the University considers the by March 1. The majority of 2.74 - 0/50 0/7 0/20 2/14 1/23 4/46 7/163 following factors for the 2.50 decisions are finalized and student, spouse, or parent: 2.49 - 2/37 0/4 0/4 1/11 0/7 0/12 3/75 mailed during the last week 2.00 residence during the year of March. Below 0/3 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/4 immediately prior to the first 2.00 official day of classes; state to No LSDAS To Reapply Summary 0/19 0/4 0/10 0/13 1/18 3/13 4/79 which income taxes are filed GPA William & Mary Law or paid; driver’s license; Total 23/541 12/189 32/497 47/640 156/932 859/1413 1132/4240 School retains files for two motor vehicle registration; years and applicants may voter registration; employ- reapply. To do so: Register with LSDAS the final 30 semester hours ment; property ownership; were earned while in Submit the current unless the transcript on file sources of financial sup- residence at William & Mary. application with the applica- with LSAC is complete with port; location of checking degree conferral. Transfer application or passbook savings; and tion fee — where indicated Submit additional procedures can be found at social or economic ties provide the year of entrance letters of recommendation www.wm.edu/law with Virginia. for which your application(s) was previously submitted. if desired — recommenda- /prospective/admissions Additional information tions from previous file may /otherapps_advstanding.shtml. regarding domicile require- Include an updated personal statement or specify be used. Visiting student status ments and guidelines is for one semester or one available at www.wm.edu direction to use the prior Transfer and statement and updated academic year is considered /registrar/domicile.php and Visiting Student for applicants with the from the State Council of supporting materials. Applications approval of their home law school to accept course Individuals may apply for credits for the law degree admission to the Law School to be awarded by the as transfer students with home school. advanced standing if they Visiting student applica- have successfully completed tion procedures can be a minimum of 26 semester found at www.wm.edu/law hours at other ABA-accred- /prospective/admissions ited law schools. All /otherapps_visiting.shtml. advanced credit awarded will be on the basis of an evaluation of previous law work in light of the curricu- lum here. Credit in excess of 35 semester hours is rarely granted, and in no event will a Juris Doctor degree be conferred when fewer than

31 educational loans are required percent. More information T HOMAS E. ROBERTSON to file the Free Application can be found at Class of 2008 • Los Angeles, CA for Federal Student Aid www.wm.edu/financialaid/. Tom is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Claremont McKenna College, where he (www.fafsa.ed.gov). The For inquiries, email earned a degree in mathematics and economics. Before enrolling in law school suggested deadline is [email protected]. Tom was an investment banking analyst for Goldman Sachs in Los Angeles. At William & Mary he is a member of the William and Mary Law Review and the February 15. William & FELLOWSHIPS Moot Court Team. During summer 2006 he worked for the U.S. Department Mary’s Title IV code is of Justice in Washington, DC, and in summer 2007 worked for Manatt, Phelps The Institute of Bill of & Phillips in Los Angeles. 003705. No other financial aid application is required Rights Law, the Center for The value is incredible. by William & Mary Law Legal and Court Technology, School for scholarships or and The Wolf Law Library I’ve interned alongside grants. Stafford loans are have a small number of students from other great available to students whether three-year fellowships. These special fellowship schools, but come or not they have demon- strated financial need. The opportunities are described graduation I will begin annual Stafford loan limit at www.wm.edu/law /prospective/admissions practicing with roughly for a law student is $20,500, of which $8,500 can be /fellowships.shtml. half the amount of debt. subsidized. The federal Interested applicants government pays the should answer Question 35 interest on a subsidized of the application and note loan while the student is their interest in, and qualifi- Financial Information enrolled. However, the cations for, these fellowships. interest on an unsubsidized Institute Fellowship appli- COST OF ATTENDING loan accrues from the date cants should have a special William & Mary’s relatively modest fees, cost of living, of receipt and must be paid interest in constitutional law. and comprehensive financial aid program make financing by the borrower. Most Center for Legal and Court a legal education more manageable than at many other Stafford loan lenders will Technology Fellowship law schools. allow the interest to accu- applicants should have an mulate, with no payment interest in the impact of Tuition and fees for law students during the 2007-08 necessary until after gradua- technology on the legal academic year total $18,336 for Virginia residents and tion or enrollment ceases. system; a technology back- $28,536 for nonresidents. The Office of Student Financial Only citizens or permanent ground is not required but Aid prepares standardized student budgets. Examples for residents of the United may be helpful. Law Library the 2007-08 academic year are presented below. The living States are eligible for Fellowship applicants must allowance is an estimate and many students, through careful federal funds. Additionally, have a M.L.S. degree. budgeting and shared living arrangements, find their students may apply for a Information about Graduate PLUS loan to student employment can expenses are less than those quoted. Students who meet the bridge the gap between the be found at www.wm.edu requirements for Virginia residency during their time of cost of attendance and any /law/academicprograms enrollment are eligible for the in-state tuition rate. other aid. The Grad PLUS /regulations/. is a federal loan similar to FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE from these funds. Educa- the Stafford loan and these We are committed to tional loans are administered loans can be consolidated helping students meet the by the University’s Financial upon graduation. It has costs of their legal education. Aid Office. a fixed interest rate of 8.5 William & Mary administers All applicants selected a financial assistance pro- for admission are automati- VA Resident Nonresident gram including merit and cally considered for merit need-based scholarships, scholarships and fellowships Tuition & Fees $18,336 $28,536 work-study, and education awarded by the Law School. loans. The Admission Office Awards are based on Living Allowance $12,350 $12,350 administers the scholarship information required in program and selects Gradu- the application for admis- Books $1,250 $1,250 ate Fellows. Approximately sion. Students applying half of our students benefit for need-based funds and/or Total $31,936 $42,136

32 Admission Contacts

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