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Fast Facts LAW STUDIES ABROAD—Semester in Austria, Japan, New Zealand, and YEAR FOUNDED-!779 Spain for advanced foreign legal HlSTORY-First law school in America study AFFiLiATiON-College of William & SUMMER STUDY ABROAD—Five-week Mary; America's second oldest program in Madrid, Spain. university, chartered in 1693 Externships in law firms also are LocATiON-Williamsburg, Virginia available for students fluent in • 150 miles southeast of Spanish. Washington, DC LEGAL SKILLS PROGRAM—A required, • 50 miles east of Richmond comprehensive, two-year course • 50 miles west of Norfolk of study that prepares students to practice law through simulated • 60 miles west of Virginia client representation and course Beach instruction. Winner of the ABA's LOCAL LANDMARKS: E. Smythe Gambrell Professional- • Colonial Williamsburg, "the ism Award. Featured in the Wall world's largest living history Street Journal, the ABA Journal and Student Life Employment Statistics for museum," three blocks from the The Professional Lawyer. Law School STUDENT-EDITED JOURNALS—4 2005 Graduates EXTERNSHIPS—Practical legal William and Mary Law • The College's Wren Building, experience under the tutelage LOCATION—26 states, DC, Germany, Review, William & Mary Bill of and India oldest academic building in of experienced practitioners Rights Journal, William and Mary continuous use in America and judges Environmental Law and Policy EMPLOYMENT PROFILE—98.2% • Jamestown, site of the first PLACEMENTS Review, and William and Mary employed as of February 2006 permanent English settlement in H Courts and judges Journal of Women and the Law STARTING SALARY RANGE—$35,000 - America • Commonwealth's Attorneys' ORGANIZATIONS—31 service, special $135,000 • Yorktown, site of the military and public defenders' offices interest, and competitive MEDIAN PRIVATE SECTOR STARTING campaign that ended the • Lawfirms ,nonprofi t organizations SALARY—$110,000 Revolutionary War organizations, and government MEDIAN PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT agencies Alumni SECTOR STARTING SALARY— $50,000 2006-07 Students • Virginia General Assembly LIVING ALUMNI—6,700 JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS—11 federal, ENROLLMENT-625 full-time students • Therapeutic courts MOST FAMOUS ALUMNUS—John 22 state PERCENT WITH PRIOR WORK JUDICIAL CLERK EXTERNSHIP Marshall, the great chief justice EXPERIENCE—43 % PROGRAM—More than 20 of the U.S. Supreme Court Summer Public Service PERCENT HOLDING GRADUATE externships are available each U.S. STATES REPRESENTED—50 DEGREES—7% year with members of the Federal OTHER COUNTRIES REPRESENTED—30 Fellowships Bench or the Virginia Court of MALE/FEMALE RATIO—53%/47% NUMBER AWARDED IN 2006—93 Appeals. AVERAGE AGE—25 Career Services PLACEMENTS—Fellows worked in 19 CLINICS—Valuable experience in states, the District of Columbia, STUDENTS OF COLOR—18% client representation under the RESOURCES—Individualized career Argentina, China, and South U.S. STATES AND TERRITORIES direction of experienced lawyers planning and advising, Web-based job listings, online searchable Africa. REPRESENTED—47, and the SPECIALIZATIONS District of Columbia • Domestic violence alumni directory, Alumni Mock Interview Program, skills work- 2006-07 Tuition FOREIGN COUNTRIES • Federal tax shops, practice area programs, REPRESENTED—9 VA RESIDENT TUITION & FEES—$16,600 • Legal aid and real-time videoconference NONRESIDENT TUITION & FEES— COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES interviews REPRESENTED—225 $26,800 Institutes and Programs 2005 EMPLOYERS REGISTERED FOR ENTERING CLASS MEDIANS—UGPA ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS—174 3.64, LSAT 165 CENTER FOR LEGAL AND COURT 2006-07 Financial Aid TECHNOLOGY 2005 NONVISITING EMPLOYERS LISTING APPLICANTS (CLASS OF 2009)—4,209 POSITIONS—4,171 SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE OF BILL OF RIGHTS LAW PERCENT OF APPLICANTS RECIPIENTS—345 students (55% THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE 2006 OFF-CAMPUS INTERVIEW of student body) ACCEPTED—24% PROGRAMS—29, including events PROGRAM in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP Academics HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New VALUE—$3.9 million SECURITY LAW PROGRAM DEGREE PROGRAMS York, Seattle, and Washington, DC m J.D. PROPERTY RIGHTS PROJECT John Levy Loan Repayment • J.D./Master of Arts in American ELECTION LAW PROGRAM Assistance Program Studies GEORGE WYTHE SOCIETY OF CITIZEN ELIGIBILITY—Graduates working for • J.D./Master of Business LAWYERS private nonprofit organizations Administration or government employers • J.D./Master of Public Policy LOAN FORGIVENESS—Up to $5,000 • I.L.M. Master of Laws in the annually per recipient for a American Legal System maximum of three years Contents
2 Message from the Dean 4 An Introduction to the Law School 6 Academic Program 6 Legal Skills 7 Curriculum 11 Requirements for the J.D. Degree 12 Institutes and Programs: McGlothlin Courtroom and the Center for Legal and Court Technology Institute* of Bill of Rights Law Therapeutic jurisprudence Program Unman Rights and National Security Law Program Properly Rights Project Election Law Program (ieorge Wylhe Society of Citizen Lawyers 15 Library and Computing Resources 16 Fellowships h :.v. '< 16 International and Interdisciplinary Programs l^fe.' 18 Faculty 24 Career Services 26 Student Life and Student Organizations 26 Student Organizations: Honor Council Journals National Trial Team Moot Court Program Newspaper arid Other Organizations 30 Housing Options 31 Living in Williamsburg 32 Admission Information 32 Admission Policy 33 Visiting W&M Law School Directions and Map 34 Application Procedure 36 Financial Information 37 Application for Admission 41 Admission Contacts
This stained glass window, a prominent feature, oj 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 175ti. lilackstone'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 OFFIC:E P.O. BOX 8795 WILLIAMSBURG, VA 23187-8795 (757) 221-3785 kiwad 11 [email protected] www.wni.cdii/law/ ©2006 COI.LEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY u 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. Institutions take strength from their past. Marshall-Wythe moves through the centuries with a confidence born of its august origins. These origins ensure as well that Marshall- Wythe remembers its obligation to produce graduates who are not simply wise counselors and powerful advocates, but also honorable human beings and good citizens. Having invested enormously in our students, we care very much about their opportunities after graduation. The Law School works hard to ensure these opportunities are notable. Marshall-Wythe's concern for its graduates continues throughout their lives.
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Each student is someone carefully selected from among many to study law at William &; Mary and, for us, each student is important. An Introduction to the Law School
We welcome your interest in William & Mary Law School! The Law School is moving powerfully into the 21M 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, Wythe taught at the University was John Marshall. As chief commemorating its historic origins. In 1779, at Thomas Jefjerson 's urging, 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 & Mary, impact on U.S. history. He epitomized the citizen lawyer, so receiving his formal legal training under Wythe's tutelage. prized at William & Mary.
We are a relatively small Because collegiality is their first week on campus in drafting all sorts of legal school with approximately a prime virtue here, the an intense introduction to papers, and actual work in 600 students. Admission is students, faculty, and admin- Legal Skills and then court. Each student follows quite selective. There were istrators enjoy their time continue for two years with his or her cases from begin- more than 4,200 applicants together. Pleasant, friendly both classroom instruction ning to end, through all for the Class of 2009. Our relationships characterize and simulated client repre- phases of representation. alumni live and work in all the Law School. People care sentation. Each student joins Along the way there is 50 states and the District of about one another. a law office led by a senior intense training in legal Columbia, as well as 30 Members of our faculty partner drawn from the other countries. More than teach with real passion in and faculty and a junior partner 60 percent of the Class of out of the classroom. They chosen carefully from 2005 work outside Virginia, contribute meaningfully to among third-year students. in 25 states, DC, Germany, scholarship. They study die Within the law office and in and India. Employers role of law in society, which the context of specific cases, enthusiastically seek the in turn invigorates their much happens: research, services of our students for teaching. counseling, interviewing, judicial clerkships, pro bono Our curriculum prepares ventures, and positions in students for the increasingly College of William & Mary law firms, corporations, and complex world confronting Chancellor Sandra Dai O'Connor public agencies. addresses the Law School's Class of lawyers. One aspect of the 2006 at graduation. Chancellor curriculum is an innovative O'Connor, the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, became the program called Legal Skills. College's twenty-third chancellor after a Entering students spend long and distinguished career in public service, including nearly a quarter of a century on the nation's highest court. skills and ethics. Legal Skills, including outdoor activities. now in its second decade, A full range of amenities is has enjoyed marked success. nearby. Williamsburg is less Along with Legal Skills, than an hour's drive from the Law School gives stu- Richmond to the west and dents ground-breaking Norfolk/Virginia Beach to instruction in the use of the east. Washington, DC, is technology to support and two and a half hours away by conduct litigation. Our car. An AMTRAK station McGlothlin Courtroom is (less than a mile from the the most technologically Law School) and three advanced in the United nearby airports (Richmond, States. Students receive Newport News, and Norfolk) make travel elsewhere hands-on instruction on how •:£ to use the Courtroom's convenient. innovative technology and While the Law School was get to know it well. A steady created in 1779, the univer- I stream of judges, court sity of which it is part began administrators, lawyers, and in 1693. The College of other members of the legal William & Mary was created profession from around the by Royal Charter from King world visit the Courtroom William and Queen Mary of each year. Great Britain. Among U.S. The academic experience colleges and universities, WILLIAM W. VAN ALSTYNE extends beyond the class- only Harvard has roots running deeper into Lee Professor of Law room. Students are involved B.A., University of Southern California in a rich mix of public America's past than William J.D., Stanford University service and social programs & Mary. The College's Certificate, The Hague Academy of international Law and numerous symposia, alumni include four signers One of the nation's foremost law professors and scholars, William lectures, and visiting scholars of the Declaration of W. Van Alstyne has addressed a wide range of constitutional contribute to a nourishing Independence, 16 members questions in countless articles and books. A study published in of the Continental Congress, 2000 in the Journal of Legal Studies named him as one of "the 50 — albeit full — calendar of most-cited legal scholars of all time." He has twice been chosen in events. three associate justices of the polls of his peers as being among those most qualified for The Law School is located U.S. Supreme Court, and appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Presidents Washington (who a few blocks from the main Of the many subjects he has taught, Professor Van Alstyne thinks campus of the College of received his surveyor's students are most passionately engaged by the First Amendment. William & Mary. The license here), Jefferson, The subject, he says, "should be the most exciting because so grounds of Colonial Monroe, and Tyler. many First Amendment issues are wonderfully divisive" and the William & Mary provides problems "dazzlingly interesting." Discussions are never dull Williamsburg are equally whether the issue in question is flag burning, hate speech on close. The immediate undergraduate, graduate, campus, or the use of cameras in the courtroom. While he enjoys neighbors of the Law School and professional education. being a scholar, Professor Van Alstyne says he relishes teaching are the National Center for It includes one of the leading because it "renews one's spirit, one's energy." State Courts (a think tank colleges in the country, for state court issues), a business and public policy modern residential facility schools, and graduate these traditions, the Law Legal education is expen- for graduate students, and a programs in the arts and School puts great store on sive. We believe that William splendid tennis facility. sciences. The Law School both academic excellence & Mary is among the best Williamsburg is a comfort- deals extensively with other and integrity. We recognize law school buys. For more able, fun place to spend parts of the University. the most academically details about this and other several years. It has the easy Phi Beta Kappa, the distinguished third-year matters just sketched, please charm of a small, historic, nation's first scholastic students by electing them to keep reading. and secure community. honor society, was founded Order of the Coif, and we Opportunities abound for at William & Mary in 1776. work together at the Law entertainment of all sorts, Three years later, the School under an Honor College introduced an Code administered by honor system. Faithful to students. 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, a faculty member Another unique feature of is a required nine-credit, responsibilities of being an and carefully selected third- the Legal Skills Program is two-year program that begins attorney, and are instructed year student who are the the teaching of legal re- the first day a student enters on how to brief and analyze senior and junior partners. search and writing as part of William & Mary. This cases before the first-year These partners serve as the lawyering simulations. innovative, award-winning curriculum starts. mentors and instructors. Instead of research and program utilizes a wide The Legal Skills Program Topics are taught through writing being taught as a range of original materials is organized into law offices "hands-on" representation of separate course as it is in the and instructional methods to that use the law of an actual simulated clients and majority of American law teach students the skills jurisdiction. This law office traditional instruction. schools, William & Mary necessary to be successful setting encourages students Topics include professional students learn their research law students and practicing to begin to master lawyering ethics, legal research, writing and writing skills by complet- attorneys. William & Mary skills and ethical concepts. and drafting, interviewing, ing the documents necessary provides a challenging legal During their first week, negotiating, counseling, to successfully represent education in a supportive students are introduced to alternative dispute resolu- their Legal Skills clients. The environment, and trains their law office colleagues, tion, and trial and appellate small group environment of students through experience approximately 18 first-year practice. Through detailed the law office offers students to manage the demands and case scenarios and role- candid and personal feed- deadlines of a practicing playing, each student back on writing assignments attorney in an ethical represents multiple clients from the senior and junior manner. from the initial client partners. First-year students begin interview, through each step The Legal Skills Program their legal education with a required by the representa- emphasizes the value and week-long introduction to tion, to a logical conclusion importance of the lawyer's the legal system, law study, for each client's problem. duties to the client, the and the lawyer's role. During Sometimes this conclusion is justice system, and the this orientation, first-year a negotiated settlement; public. Ethical conflicts and students have a chance to other times it may mean a considerations are treated in get to know one another trial and appeal. the practical setting of client before upper-class students arrive and traditional first- year courses begin. Students are introduced to law as a representation, allowing second-year students, who students to incorporate incorporate this technology ethical duties into their legal into their bench trial practice from the very experience. beginning. Students also A law school's skills serve as client role-players program is a student's first for their classmates. Acting window into the legal as a client offers an addi- profession. Each William & tional perspective on Mary Legal Skills student conflicts of interest and the associate has the tremendous need for lawyer-client advantage of practicing the confidentiality. This creates skills and ethical responsi- greater sensitivity of a bilities required of every lawyer's ever-present ethical attorney while still in the obligations and professional supportive environment of responsibility. law school. The Legal Skills Students in the Legal Skills Program cultivates talented Program have the support of and successful attorneys with the Center for Legal and the highest ethical stan- First-Year Curriculum Court Technology, which dards. The first-year curriculum is designed to introduce stu- includes the Law School's dents to the essential analytical skills they will need to McGlothlin Courtroom, the most technologically ad- practice law. Through the study of traditional first-year vanced trial and appellate subjects - civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, courtroom in the United criminal law, property, and torts - and their responsibilities States. Center staff supplies as first-year associates in the Legal Skills Program, students hands-on courtroom tech- develop their ability to read and analyze cases, conduct legal nology training to all research, and prepare legal documents.
JACQUEIYNNE M. JORDAN First-Year Required CONTRACTS Class of 2007 • Atlanta, GA An exploration of legally Courses enforceable promises, normally Jacquelynne earned a B.A. in communications summa cum laudefrom Columbus State University in Columbus, GA. She then worked as a paralegal CIVIL PROCEDURE exchanged as part of a bargain in Atlanta and volunteered as a guardian ad titan for local underprivileged between private parties. Among children. At William & Mary, Jacquelynne serves as a teaching assistant for A study of the strategic options the topics that may be covered the Legal Skills Program, is an articles editor of the William and Mary Journal federal law provides to persons are: bases of enforcement, of Women and the Law, served as secretary of the Student Bar Association, and attempting to resolve disputes capacity to contract, contract competed in the Jessup International Moot Court Competition as a member through litigation; basic formation, interpretation, of the Moot Court Team. During summer 2005 she worked as a judicial concepts involved in the federal conditions, excuse of perfor- intern for Magistrate Judge Tommy Miller of the U.S. District Court for the civil adversary system, federal Eastern District of Virginia and studied in Spain. Jacquelynne divided her mance, and remedies for time during summer 2006 working with a private law firm in Orlando and jurisdiction, choice of law, and breach. the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta. finality; in-depth exploration of the policies governing, and the CRIMINAL LAW mechanics involved in, plead- / have found the l^egal A study of the basic doctrines ing, discovery, and disposition underlying the criminal law, Skills Program to be one of before trial. including actus reus and mens the most enjoyable and CONSTITUTIONAL LAW rea; the principal substantive and inchoate crimes; the practical experiences of law Analysis of the structure of accountability for the criminal government, from the role of acts of others; and the general school Working in a the courts and the concept of defenses to criminal liability. judicial review, through the simulated small law firm distribution of power in the LEGAL SKILLS I, II federal system and the alloca- composed of students and A study of professional responsi- tion of power among the three bility; the nature of the legal faculty has provided an branches of the government; profession; legal research and also a study of individual rights writing; and numerous lawyer- incomparable teaming experience - one that has given protected by the Constitution. ing skills, including drafting, me great confidence far work in the world ofkan interviewing, negotiating, and oral advocacy. LAURA A. HEYMANN
Assistant Professor of Law B.A., Yale University J.D., University of California at Berkeley "What I love about William & Mary is the close community that it fosters among faculty and students. This environment enables me to share with students my fascination with intellectual property law — a field of increasing importance to them as both creators and consumers of culture — and enables them to share with me the wonderful diversity of viewpoints and experiences they bring to the study of law." JH Laura A. Heymann joined the William & Mary faculty in 2005. Before arriving in Williamsburg, she was the inaugural Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Administrative Fellow at The George Washington University Law School, where she taught courses in Internet law and privacy. She has also served as an assistant general counsel for America Online, Inc., as an associate at Witmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and as a law clerk to Judge Patricia M. Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She writes and teaches in the areas of copyright law and trademark law; she also teaches torts in the first year.
PROPERTY Second-Year tion for more intensive study, Supporting A study of the rules for acquir- and facilitate formulation of Accounting for Lawyers ing, using, dividing (in various Required Courses career goals and objectives. Administrative Law dimensions), and losing rights LEGAL SKILLS III, IV In the third year, students take Admiralty Law over scarce resources; most Antitrust The second year of the two-year courses that refine their material concerns realty, with Bankruptcy course required of all students, understanding of materials limited consideration of previously encountered. The Complex Transactional personal property. Introduces including professional responsi- bility, the nature of the legal third year is also the time to Practice the rudiments of capture, finds, pursue individual interests Consumer Law and adverse possession; profession, legal research and writing, and numerous legal through clinical placements, Contract Theory landlord-tenant law; the system performance-based courses and Corporate Drafting of estates; easements; and skills (e.g., drafting, interview- self-initiated projects. Corporate Finance restrictive covenants; also ing, negotiating, introduction Corporate Tax introduces zoning and takings. to trial and appellate practice, Courses in the elective curricu- and alternative dispute lum include lectures, seminars, European Union Law TORTS resolution). advanced skills courses, and Food and Drug Law Government Contracts A survey of the legal system's independent studies. Some of LEGAL SKILLS ETHICS International Business responses to problems arising these utilize simulation Transactions from personal injury and The final examination of legal exercises, supervised represen- International Trade Law property damage; concentra- profession/ethics issues for the tation of live clients, and tion on legal doctrines relating Legal Skills Program (operates externships. Students may Mergers & Acquisitions to liability for harm resulting in conjunction with Legal enroll in courses and seminars Nonprofit Law Practice offered by other units of the from fault and to strict liability; Skills IV). Products Liability College and receive up to six and analysis of the goals and The Public Corporation techniques of accident preven- The Elective hours of law school credit with Real Estate Transactions tion and compensation for loss. approval of the vice dean. Securities Regulation Curriculum Selected Problems in Business The elective curriculum is Electives Entities broad and diverse. In a typical Selected Problems in Securities year it embraces more than 100 BUSINESS LAW Regulation courses and seminars, giving Faundational Small Business Entities students opportunities to study Small Business Planning Business Associations a wide range of subjects or to Sports Law Corporations focus intensely in a few areas. State and Local Government Federal Income Tax Finance For most students, the second Payment Systems Tax Planning for Foreign year is best centered around Sales introductory courses covering Business Opportunities Secured Transactions major fields. These courses Taxation of Small Business serve several important purposes. They build on first- year courses, provide a founda- CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Fourth Amendment Theory and Practice Foundational International Criminal Law Federal Courts Personal Security & Privacy Supporting under the Fourth Administrative Law Amendment Comparative Constitutional Selected Problems in Systems Criminal Justice Comparative Law Selected Problems in Constitutional Tort Litigation Criminal Law Education Law Sentencing Election Law Terrorism Federalist Papers Therapeutic Jurisprudence First Amendment Transitional Justice Fourth Amendment Theory Virginia Criminal Procedure and Practice White Collar Crime Law and Religion EMPLOYMENT AND Legislative Process LABOR LAW Personal Security & Privacy under the Fourth Foundational Employment Discrimination Jessie Kirchner, who is blind, uses a portable Braille device while testifying as a Amendment witness during the Center for Legal and Court Technology's 2006 Laboratory Property Rights Employment Law Trial. The trial was designed to help the Center determine how technology can be Selected Problems in Labor Law used to provide equal access to court proceedings for people who have disabilities. Constitutional Law Supporting Supreme Court ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FAMILY AND PERSONAL Administrative Law Takings & Just Compensation WEALTH Alternative Dispute Resolution Foundational CRIMINAL LAW Department of Employment Administrative Law Foundational Dispute Resolution Foundational Environmental Law Bankruptcy Externship Land Use Control Family Law Criminal Procedure I Disability Law Natural Resource Law Family Wealth Transactions Criminal Procedure II Employee Benefits Supporting Trusts & Estates Criminal Procedure Survey General Mediation Supporting Supporting Labor Arbitration & Collective Environmental Policy Fundamentals of Environ- Education Law Criminal Justice Ethics & Bargaining mental Science for Policy Family Law Practitioner Decision-Making Labor Law Local Government Law Federal Income Tax Death Penalty Mediation Advocacy Property Rights Law & Intimate Associations Domestic Violence Clinic Negotiation & Settlement Special Topics in Environ- Real Estate Transactions Federal Criminal Law Advocacy Selected Topics in mental Law Selected Topics in Estate Employment Law Planning & Elder Law Youth Law
ERIC CANTOR '88 HEALTH CARE LAW Congressman, Virginia's Seventh District Foundational Chief Deputy Majority Whip Washington, DC Administrative Law As an undergraduate at George Washington University, Congressman Cantor Health Law & Policy interned with Congressman Thomas Bliley and served on his first reelection Supporting campaign. After earning hisJ.D. at William & Mary, he received an MA. from Columbia University and served for nine years in the Virginia House of Delegates Bioethics, Medical Ethics & before being elected to Congress in 2000. During his first congressional term, the Law Congressman Cantor sat on the House Financial Services and the House Food & Drug Law International Relations committees. Shortly after his reelection in 2002, he was selected as chief deputy majority whip, Insurance Law the highest appointed position in the As a member of Congress, International Health Care House of Representatives. Since 2003 Medical Malpractice & Health he has held a seat on the House Ways I am constantly reminded Care Liability and Means Committee. Reelected to National Health Policy his third term in 2004, he now serves as of the lasting contributions made by our nation's founding chairman of the Congressional Task Selected Topics in Health Force on Terrorism and Unconven- fathers, many of whom studied at the College of William Care tional Warfare. Congressman Cantor Selected Topics in Insurance is a member of the U.S. Holocaust & Mary, I am proud to be an alumnus of William & Regulation Memorial Museum Council and also serves on the Virginia Holocaust Mary Law School, the nation's first school of law. Museum's Board of Trustees. INTELLECTUAL LITIGATION PROPERTY LAW Foundational Foundational Evidence Copyright Law Federal Courts Intellectual Property Trial Advocacy Patent Law Virginia Civil Procedure Trademark Law Virginia Criminal Procedure Supporting Supporting Copyright & New Technology Administrative Law Copyright Litigation Advanced Brief Writing Entertainment Law Advanced Research I & II Entertainment Law Litigation Alternative Dispute Resolution Internet Law American Jury Patent Appeals & Conflicts Interferences Constitutional Tort Litigation Patent Practice Depositions Privacy in a Technological Age Discovery: Pretrial Sports Law Domestic Violence Clinic Telecommunications Law & Electronic Discovery and Data Regulation Seizures Electronic Evidence, Expert INTERNATIONAL LAW Testimony, Scientific Foundational Evidence International Business Entertainment Law Litigation Transactions General Mediation ALEMANTE G. SELASSIE Public International Law Legal Aid Clinic Legal Technology Associate Professor of Law Supporting Litigation in Other Legal LL.B., Haile Selassie University Comparative Constitutional Systems M.L.I., J.D., University of Wisconsin Systems Mediation Advocacy "I love teaching because it is a supremely gratifying experience. Comparative Law Negotiation & Settlement I especially love teaching first-year law students. They have Cultural Property Law: Advocacy fresh ideas and different perspectives. The clash and play of Artifacts and Stolen ideas is always interesting to me, as is the excitement of Objections Heritage eager students engaged in learning the law they have heard so Remedies European Union Law much about." Therapeutic Jurisprudence Human Rights Technology-Augmented Trial Alemante Selassie specializes in law and development, with an Immigration Law Advocacy emphasis on rule of law and democratization issues. He credits International Criminal Law Transnational Litigation his interest in law, and the perspective he brings to his classes, International Environmental Trial Strategy and Persuasion to his father, who took him at an early age to see local court Law proceedings in their native Ethiopia. Professor Selassie is the International Health Care TAXATION author of several thoughtful articles and commentary on issues International Organizations concerning ethnicity, Africa, and human rights legal issues. A Foundational International Tax board member of the Third World International Legal Studies Corporate Taxation Association, he participated in the Project on Constitution- International Trade Law Family Wealth Transactions Making, Peace Building, and National Reconciliation sponsored Islamic Law Federal Income Tax by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Law & Development Litigation in Other Legal Supporting Systems Accounting for Lawyers Methodologies in the United Employee Rights States Legal System Federal Tax Practice Clinic Military Law International Tax National Security Law Real Estate Taxation Post-Conflict Justice and the Small Business Planning Rule of Law Tax Planning for Foreign Selected Problems in Interna- Business Opportunities tional Trade & Economics Tax Research Methods Tax Planning for Foreign Taxation of Small Business Business Opportunities Terrorism Transitional Justice Transnational Litigation METHODS OR PERSPECTIVES COURSES Accounting for Lawyers American Legal History Citizen Lawyers Economic Analysis of the Law Environmental Policy Fundamentals of Environmen- tal Science for Policy Law & Literature Law & Politics Law & Social Justice Philosophy of the Law Statistics for Lawyers Therapeutic Jurisprudence ADVANCED SKILLS COURSES Advanced Brief Writing Advanced Research Each fall, the Supreme Court Preview, sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, brings together leading journalists, Alternative Dispute Resolution advocates, and scholars to discuss the court's upcoming term. Depositions General Mediation General Assembly Externship STUDENT-ORGANIZED Requirements for Law Office Management General Practice Externship LEARNING EXPERIENCES Lawyers in Practice Settings International Practice Clinic: the J.D. Degree Mediation Advocacy Directed Reading Iraqi Tribunal Independent Legal Research • Be in residence for a total of Negotiation & Settlement Judicial Clerk Externship three academic years with Advocacy Independent Legal Writing Legal Aid Clinic William & Mary BUI of Rights enrollment of 10 to 17 hours Objections Nonprofit Organization per semester. Tax Research Methods Journal Externship « Accumulate a minimum of 86 Technology-Augmented Trial William and Mary Environmental Summer Government/Public Law and Policy Review semester hours of credit. Advocacy Interest Externship Trial Advocacy William and Mary Journal of • Earn a minimum of 75 percent Supreme Court of Virginia of credits by William & Mary Trial Strategy & Persuasion Women and the Law Chief Staff Attorney William and Mary Law Review Law School letter grade. CLINICS AND Externship Transfer students must meet EXTERNSHIPS Therapeutic Courts Practice Detailed course descriptions the graded credit hour Externship may be explored at requirement for graduation Attorney General Externship www.wm.edu/law Department of Employment Virginia Court of Appeals based on two full years of study / academicprograms at the Law School. For transfer Dispute Resolution Externship /curriculum/. students, this equates to 75 Externship percent of 56 credits or 42 Domestic Violence Clinic William & Mary Law School Federal Practice Tax Clinic graded credit hours earned. » Maintain good academic standing by achieving no less T. ANDREW CULBERT '81 than a 1.8 cumulative grade point average in the first year Associate General Counsel Microsoft Corporation and no less than a 2.0 Redmond, WA cumulative average at the end After receiving a bachelor's degree in biology from Williams College, Andy served of each successive semester in the Peace Corps in Butembo, Congo (Zaire), teaching biology, chemistry, and year. physics, and mathematics in French to Congolese high school students. At • Successfully complete all William & Mary, Andy was a legal writing course instructor and a member of the William and Mary Law Review. Following law school he practiced law and became a required coursework. partner at Drinker, Biddle & Reath, where he focused mainly on intellectual property law. As associate general counsel for Microsoft Corporation, Andy is Detailed academic head of its worldwide patent infringement docket. He manages all of Microsoft's requirements and regula- worldwide patent infringement litigation, including the hiring and supervising of tions can be found at outside counsel, directing strategic and tactical www.wm.edu/law handling of cases, editing briefs and presenting My law professors /academicprograms oral arguments, and advising the company about /regulations/. its patent assets and liabilities. Andy has tried a were top-notch 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. PAUL MARCUS in a simulated case brought Haynes Professor of Law under the Americans with A.B. and J .0., University of California at Los Angeles Disabilities Act, the Center Thanks to Paul Marcus, William & Mary law students are tested how assistive tech- contributing to the national dialogue about whether the nologies can be used to criminal justice system is providing adequate representa- provide equal access to tion to indigent people in criminal cases. As part of justice for judges, lawyers, research sponsored by the National Committee on the witnesses, and jurors who Right to Counsel, Professor Marcus and a team of students recently created an indexed collection of more than 900 have mobility, sight, or articles on right to counsel issues published in U.S. hearing impairments that newspapers during the past decade. The mammoth traditionally have made collection, says Professor Marcus, "illustrates that there are participation in court serious problems and is evidence of the compelling need proceedings difficult. The for legislative action." He and former student Mary Sue trial was conducted with the Backus '01, a University of Oklahoma law professor, serve as the Committee's co-reporters. support of numerous companies and organiza- Professor Marcus has written numerous books and articles tions including the Justice on criminal law and procedure. He also has lent his expertise on a pro bono basis to many cases during his Department's Disability career. In 2006 he received William & Mary's Algernon Rights Section, the American Sydney Sullivan Award. The award recognized Professor Foundation for the Blind, Marcus "for the spirit with which he gives of himself - and the WGBH Media especially to those in need." Professor Marcus has been Access Group. active in the community as a volunteer for the Big Brothers Mentoring Program and Habitat for Humanity. He directs INSTITUTE OF BILL OF the Law and Literature Program at the Virginia Peninsula RIGHTS LAW Regional Jail in which law students and inmates meet to Through its Institute, the read and discuss works of fiction and nonfiction that have law and justice as their themes. Law School has established itself as one of the preemi- nent institutions engaged in Institutes and The McGlothlin Court- international media, the study of the Bill of Rights. Programs room can accommodate Center regularly studies the Created in 1982, the Insti- almost any technology a interface among law, tute of Bill of Rights Law is The Law School's institutes judge or lawyer might want, technology, public policy, nationally recognized for its and programs inject a special whether it is electronic and human behavior. high quality programs. vitality to legal education at filing, hotlinked motions Each year, the Center for The Institute sponsors a William & Mary. Please visit and briefs, a multi-media Legal and Court Technology variety of lectures, confer- our web site at www.wm.edu court record, remote judicial puts the latest courtroom ences, and publications that /law/institutesprograms/ for or witness appearances technology to the test in a entice scholars from around more in-depth descriptions. through videoconferencing, laboratory trial conducted by the country to examine high technology evidence students in the Legal important, current constitu- MCGLOTHLIN presentation, or use of the Technology Seminar. Recent COURTROOM AND THE tional issues. The annual Internet to make the court- laboratory trials have made U.S. Supreme Court Preview CENTER FOR LEGAL AND room a vital information hub COURT TECHNOLOGY legal history. The Center has is an Institute highlight that, for all purposes. tried groundbreaking through live broadcast on C- To countless judges, The Courtroom is home to terrorist, malpractice, and SPAN, brings the work of the administrators, lawyers, the Center for Legal and multi-national civil media- Law School before audiences architects, and technologists Court Technology, which tion cases. In 2005, in here and abroad. throughout the world, the includes the Courtroom 21 conjunction with the In an ongoing effort to Law School's McGlothlin Project, a joint program of Monterrey, Mexico, family Courtroom is the center of publicize the issues debated the Law School and the court, the Center tried an at William & Mary, the Law courtroom technology, National Center for State experimental international research, and application. To School publishes the Courts. Its mission is to parental child abduction student-edited William & students, the Courtroom is improve through appropri- case verifying the utility of a where they receive hands-on Mary Bill of Rights Journal, ate technology the new international protocol considered one of the legal technology training administration of justice and developed by the Center for and where they try their Trial nation's leadingjournals on the world's legal systems. the resolution of multi- constitutional issues. The Advocacy and Legal Skills Covered by national and jurisdictional cases. In 2006, trials and appeals. Institute also sponsors the ing the administration of award-winning book series, justice so that it has a Constitutional Conflicts, positive effect on individu- published by the Law School als, their families, and the in conjunction with Duke community. Students may University Press. enroll in courses that Institute programs bring provide an introduction to experts in their field for short- this area of study and to the and long-term visits. The work of therapeutic, prob- Jurist-in-Residence, Lawyer-in- lem-solving courts. The Residence, Scholar-in-Residence, Therapeutic Courts Practice and Distinguished Visiting Externship, the first of its Lee Professor programs kind in the country, offers enliven our constitutional students the chance to work discussions. in specialized alcohol or Law students keep William drug courts under the & Mary on the cutting edge supervision of judges, of constitutional debate. The prosecutors, and/or public depth of their interests forces defenders. Students also serious exploration of have the opportunity to creative policy solutions to contribute to on-going the emerging questions of research studies on thera- constitutional law and policy. peutic courts and the Actively engaged in the effectiveness of their scholarship of the school, the practices conducted by the Institute's Student Division Program's Therapeutic organizes and presents Courts Project. conferences, lectures, and The Therapeutic Jurispru- DAV1SON M. DOUGLAS debates on constitutional law dence Society, founded by Hanson Professor of Law and Director, topics. The February 2006 students in fall 2005, spon- sors lectures and engages in Election Law Program symposium, "Holding the A.B., Princeton University Purse Strings: Should the public service projects. M.A., M. Phil., M.A.R., J.D., and Ph.D., Yale University Five-time recipient, Walter L. Williams, Jr. Teaching Award Federal Government Have HUMAN RIGHTS AND Equal Access to Law Schools "My philosophy of teaching begins with one basic assumption. I am NATIONAL SECURITY training students not just to be technically competent lawyers, but also to without Equal Treatment of LAW PROGRAM perform significant roles in public life. This was Thomas Jefferson's vision Gays & Lesbians in the The Human Rights and of law teaching when he established the first law school in America at Military?," focused on the National Security Law William & Mary in 1779 with the goal of training 'citizen lawyers,' and I constitutional issues raised in firmly embrace this vision." Program is one of the latest Rumsfeld v. FAIR In March additions to the Law Oavison Douglas is a scholar of constitutional law and history who has 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court focused in particular on the interplay of race and law in American School's array of well- reversed a lower-court history. His books include Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation respected institutes and decision in this case and of the Charlotte Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 1995) and programs for specialized ruled that the federal Jim Crow Moves North: The Bottle Over Northern School Desegregation, legal study. [865-1954 (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is director of the government can withhold Election Law Program, a joint venture of the National Center for State federal funding from colleges The Program offers students the opportunity to Courts and the Law School, which seeks to provide practical assistance and universities that bar or to state court Judges who are called upon to resolve election law learn about the interplay limit military recruitment on disputes. their campuses. between national defense and the protection of civil THERAPEUTIC rights and has at its heart the JURISPRUDENCE objective of creating citizen PROGRAM lawyers who possess a deep Devoted to the study of law appreciation for national as a helping profession, the security issues. Students can Therapeutic Jurisprudence choose from a wide range of Program focuses on improv- courses and seminars that MARIE E. SIESSEGER '05 discusses and analyzes Clerk election law issues and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Duncansville, PA judicial relief available for Marie is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she earned a B.A. in election law violations. In economics and English. While attending Georgetown, she was active in campus life addition, the Program will as a resident assistant, as editor of The Georgetown Voice, and as a member of the Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society. After graduation she spent a year teaching English at hold educational confer- the Miwajunior High School in Miwa-cho,Japan. Marie brought the same ences for judges. enthusiasm and commitment to William & Mary that she had to Georgetown. She served as an articles editor of the William GEORGE WYTHE SOCIETY and Mary Law Review, news editor of The OF CITIZEN LAWYERS Advocate, and secretary of Phi Delta Phi. / recommend William & During the summers while she was in law This civic leadership school, Marie worked at the Federal Public Mary to people thinking program recognizes and Defender's Office in Alexandria, VA, and at encourages community Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. about law school for a number of reasons: the general Following graduation she clerked for service and civic participa- Federal Districtjudge Glen E. Conrad of atmosphere is collegia!, and scholarly, the professors are tion by members of the the Western District of Virginia and is currently serving a clerkship with Judge exceedingly well versed in their subjects, and the first-year student body. The program D. Brooks Smith of the U.S. Court of honors George Wythe (1726- program is nicely balanced between practical legal skills Appeals for the Third Circuit. Marie will 1806), William & Mary's - return to Washington, DC, in 2007 to practice law at Covington & Burling. and legal theory. and the nation's — first professor of law and one of the leading members of the provide a strong foundation In conjunction with the takings law and other areas Revolutionary and early for understanding this Center for Legal and Court of the law affecting property National Eras. To bring the complex and dynamic area Technology, the Program is rights. During the confer- Law School's early history to of study, including an also able to explore the use of ence, the Project presents life and introduce first-year international clinic that technology and advanced legal the Brigham-Kanner Prize students to the citizen lawyer facilitates their involvement forensics to meet the growing to an outstanding figure in ideal, the Society sponsors a in actual cases. William & needs of international the field. guided walking tour each fall that begins at the Law Mary was one of three law litigation and alternative ELECTION LAW schools in the country dispute resolution. School, winds its way PROGRAM through the streets of working for the U.S. Depart- These aspects of the Recent events illustrate the Colonial Williamsburg, ment of Justice to provide Program have created an legal issues that can arise in includes a visit to George legal support to the Iraqi academic structure that connection with elections in Wythe's home, and ends at Special Tribunal, the court fosters a sophisticated and this country, many of which the historic Wren Building trying Saddam Hussein. practical understanding of ultimately require resolution on the William & Mary Students in the Iraqi Special national security law and in the courts. These election campus. Other activities vary Tribunal Clinic, working human rights issues that law cases are extraordinarily from year to year, but under the supervision of face the United States and important to the democratic include lectures, courses, Program Director Linda A. the world community. Malone, prepared detailed process, as they often conferences, community legal memoranda for the PROPERTY RIGHTS concern fundamental issues service projects, and Iraqi court on substantive PROJECT such as ballot access, mentorship opportunities to legal questions. The clinic The William & Mary accurate voter counts, and aid students' growth as was featured in stories on Property Rights Project voter challenges. Created in citizens and leaders. CNN's American Morning, Fox encourages legal scholarship 2005 as a joint venture of the Applicants wishing to News Channel, network on the role that properly National Center for State participate in the program television affiliates, and in rights play in society and also Courts and the Law School, should discuss their poten- daily newspapers. facilitates the exchange of the Election Law Program tial as citizen lawyers and seeks to provide practical The Program's popular ideas between scholars and answer Question 35 of the assistance to state court Distinguished Lecture Series practitioners. Each year the application. For more about judges in the United States and co-sponsored symposia Project hosts the Brigham- the Society, please visit who are called upon to bring leading experts to Kanner Property Rights www.wm.edu/law/about resolve difficult election law campus to foster discussion Conference to bring together /citizen_lawyer.shtml. disputes. The Program is and debate about on-going members of the bench, bar, publishing an election law and emerging issues. and academia to explore recent developments in manual for judges that Library and and popular films. Two computer labs and numerous Computing public access computers Resources provide connections to Lexis- From its rare book collec- Nexis, Westlaw, hundreds of tions to its evolving web site, other online databases, and the Law Library brings the to the Internet. The Law past and the future together School is a member of the to support legal research, Center for Computer- scholarship, and instruction. Assisted Legal Instruction An addition to the Law (CALI), and William & Mary Library opened in fall 2006, law students may access CALI and a complete renovation lessons from law library or of the original facility will be home computers. completed in spring 2007. As a member of the The expanded and reno- Consortium of Southeastern vated Law Library will be Law Libraries, we have nearly two-thirds larger and cooperative interlibrary at the cutting edge techno- lending programs with logically. Our modern consortium libraries and other facility, collection of nearly libraries throughout the 400,000 volumes, and United States, Canada, and service-oriented staff offer Europe. This lending students an excellent program, coupled with a environment for study and document delivery service and research. the collections of all William & Mary libraries, provides The Law Library offers a LYNDA L, BUTLER strong combination of extensive access to scholarly primary and secondary law resources throughout the Vice Dean and Chancellor Professor of Law world. B.S., College of William & Mary and law-related materials. J.D., University of Virginia Our comprehensive treatise The library's staff includes Practicing in the field of environmental law often requires lawyers to collection is particularly seven librarians with law work with scientific experts to gather facts, understand causal links noted for its strength in degrees who provide exten- between conduct and harm, identify the source of a problem, and constitutional and environ- sive reference and research determine how to comply with regulatory requirements. To foster mental law, taxation, assistance to the Law School greater understanding of the linkages between environmental law and science, Lynda Butler has sought opportunities to interact with jurisprudence, legal history, community. Training in the environmental scientists on curricular and research projects. In public and private interna- use of both print and electronic addition to working on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tional law, and Roman law. legal information sources is tration grant to develop an environmental science course for law These print collections are included as part of the Legal students, and on a Mellon Foundation grant to develop an environ- complemented by numerous Skills curriculum. mental studies minor, she served as director of the College's Environ- electronic resources and a Advanced research mental Science and Policy Cluster. As director, she helped to plan and secure funding for the construction of an Environmental Field large video collection that courses are offered, includ- Laboratory, established a summer research program for undergradu- includes skills-oriented videos ing one-credit mini-courses ates interested in environmental issues, supported several environ- mental education projects, and initiated a visiting scholars program for experts in the environmental area. As vice dean, she has expanded opportunities for law students to take environmental and policymaking courses offered in other parts of the University, most notably the School of Marine Science and the Public Policy Program. -
The Law School recently completed this spacious and state-of-the-art addition to the library. which are completed in of the legal titles owned by but may be helpful. Law SUMMER ABROAD three weeks. The librarians Thomas Jefferson, including Library Fellowship appli- PROGRAM also work with students the first printed edition cants must have an M.L.S. More than 35 years ago, informally, both individually (London, 1554) of the first degree. William & Mary became the and in small groups, to assist first law school to offer a English legal treatise, com- International and with research assignments monly known as "Glanville." summer law program and in support of law school Interdisciplinary abroad. The Law School's activities such as law review Fellowships Programs five-week program in and moot court. The Institute of Bill of Madrid, Spain, has been one LAW STUDIES ABROAD THE RARE BOOK Rights Law, the Center for of the most popular pro- COLLECTIONS Legal and Court Technology, This program, inaugurated grams offered by a U.S. law in 2005, offers third-year law school in Europe. Approxi- The rare book collections and the Law Library have a small number of three-year students the opportunity to mately 100 law students from include pleadings prepared pursue advanced study of law schools around the and signed by attorney fellowships that may be available to admitted first- foreign legal systems, country and a limited George Wythe in 1746 and year students. These special international and compara- number of Spanish law the family Bible of John fellowship opportunities are tive law, and legal practice in graduates participate each Marshall, with notations in described at www.wm.edu their fall semester at a select year. Courses are taught in the hand of the future chief /law/prospective/admis- number of institutions English by Spanish law justice. sions/fellowships.shtml. abroad. In 2006-07, William professors, most of whom & Mary law students may have experience in U.S. law The General Collection, Interested applicants apply to study for a semester schools and who are leaders composed primarily of 17* should answer Question 35 th at Keio Law School (Tokyo, in Spain's government or and 18 century English legal of the application and note Japan), University of private practice, and William sources and 19th century their interest in, and qualifi- Auckland Law School & Mary law professors. American law treatises, also cations for, these fellowships. (Auckland, New Zealand), Courses have included contains some extraordinary Institute Fellowship th the Institute de Empresa Comparative Corporations, 16 century works. The applicants should have a (Madrid, Spain), and the European Internet Law, Armistead Collection com- special interest in constitu- University of Austria Human Rights in Europe, prises books used by Virginia tional law. Center for Legal (Vienna, Austria). Through International Environmental th th lawyers in the 18 and 19 and Court Technology a reciprocal exchange Law, Introduction to Civil centuries and represents the Fellowship applicants should arrangement, students from Law and Comparative working library of a well- have an interest in the these institutions will also Constitutional Law, The Law equipped 19th century law impact of technology on the have an opportunity to study of the World Trade Organi- legal system; a technology office. The Jefferson Collec- at William & Mary. zation, The Legal System of background is not required tion embodies more than 200 the European Union, and Securities Regulation in Europe. Students fluent in HALDANE ROBERT MAYER '71 Spanish may also choose to Judge extern in a Spanish law firm. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Washington, DC For more information Judge Mayer earned his undergraduate degree at West Point and entered William about study abroad opportu- & Mary after serving with great distinction in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam nities, please visit War. He was editor-in-chief of the William and Mary Law Review and graduated first www.wm.edu/law in his class. After graduation Judge Mayer clerked for Judge John D. Butzner, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was later special assistant /academicprograms to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced law at /studyabroad/. McGuire, Woods & Battle in Charlottesville, VA, and Baker & McKenzie in Washington, DC, while also finding time to teach as an adjunct law It was a privilege to attend professor at the University of Virginia and George Washington University. law school at William & President Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Claims in 1982 and Mary, and, believe it or not, I enjoyed every minute of it. I then to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1987. Judge consider the preparation I received there second to none, Mayer served as chief judge of the Federal Circuit from 1997 to 2004. His and I am thankful that my daughter had iht opportunity daughter, Anne Mayer Turk '98, practices law with Sidley Austin Brown to study there as well. & Wood in Los Angeles. NEAL E, DEV1NS
Goodrich Professor of Law and Professor of Government Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law A.B., Georgetown University • j.D., Vanderbilt University "Students in my constitutional law class quickly learn that the Supreme Court is not insulated from the social and political forces which shape elected government decision making. By calling attention to the ways in which the Supreme Court participates in constitutional dialogues with other parts of government, my students have a fuller appreciation of the mix of factors which influence the Court. Students are always fascinated by the political dynamics of constitutional law which makes the course an exciting one for me to teach." Neal Devins is director of the Law School's Institute of Bill of Rights Law, one of the nation's preeminent programs devoted to study of constitutional law and public policy. He previously served as assistant general counsel for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as project director for the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. Professor Devins's most recent books include Congress and the Constitution (with Keith Whittington) (Duke University Press, 2005) and The Democratic Constitution (with Louis Fisher) (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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Members of our faculty PETER A. ALCES Patrick F. Speice, Jr. '06, at right, presents Professor Davison Douglas with the Walter L. Williams, Jr. Teaching Award at the May 2006 graduation ceremony. The award Rollins Professor of Law have compelling academic recognizes excellence in teaching and its recipient is chosen each year by the A.B., Lafayette College graduating class. This is the fifth time Professor Douglas has received the award. and clerkship credentials. J.D., University of Illinois They are distinguished Teaches contracts, philosophy of scholars and consultants, law, products liability, and sales. LAN CAO NEAL E. DEVINS who help resolve leading Boyd Fellow and Professor Goodrich Professor of Law, THOMAS E. BAKER issues of the day. Drawing on of Law Professor of Government, and Visiting Professor of Law their broad knowledge of law B.A., Mount Holyoke College Director, Institute of Bill of Florida International University J.D., Yale University and society, they produce a College of Law Rights Law striking quantity and quality B.S., Florida State University Teaches international business A.B., Georgetown University of scholarly publications — J.D., University of Florida transactions, international trade J.D., Vanderbilt University law, and corporations. law review articles, mono- Teaches constitutional law. Teaches administrative law and constitutional law. graphs, treatises, casebooks, ANGELA M. BANKS ERIC D. CHASON and expert reports. They are Assistant Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Law DAVISON M. in great demand as partici- B.A., Spelman College B.A., Duke University DOUGLAS J.D., University of Virginia pants in symposia and M.Litt., University of Oxford Hanson Professor of Law and Teaches employee benefits, conferences and as visiting J.D., Harvard University Director, Election Law Program federal income tax, and trusts A.B., Princeton University professors at other law JAYNE W. BARNARD and estates. M.A., M.Phil., M.A.R., J.D., Ph.D., Yale schools. Cutler Professor of Law University The full-time faculty at the B.S., University of Illinois NANCY L. COMBS Teaches constitutional law, J.D., University of Chicago Law School is joined by an Assistant Professor of Law election law, employment law, Teaches business associations B.A., University of Portland law and religion, and legal history. excellent corps of adjunct and securities regulation. J.D., University of California at Berkeley professors, who come from JAMES G. DWYER Certificate, The Hague Academy of the world beyond the LYNDA L. BUTLER International Law Professor of Law campus. These professors Vice Dean and Chancellor Ph.D., Leiden University B.A., Boston College Professor of Law J.D., Yale University are largely public officials Teaches criminal law, human Ph.D., Stanford University and practicing lawyers who B.S., College of William & Mary rights, and international J.D., University of Virginia criminal law. Teaches family law, law and social bring invigorating perspec- Teaches land use control, justice, trusts and estates, and tives and experience to the property, and property rights. GLENN E. COVEN, JR. youth law. classroom. Godwin Professor of Law and For faculty biographies Director, William & Mary Tax and a list of faculty publica- Conference tions, visit www.wm.edu/law B.A., Swarthmore College LL.B., Columbia University /facultyadmin Teaches corporate, federal income, /fulltime.shtml. and international taxation. DAVID FRISCH RICHARD M. HYNES Visiting Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law University of Richmond Law School B.S.F.S., Georgetown University B.S., University of Pennsylvania J.D., University of Chicago J.D., University of Miami Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania LL.M., Yale University Teaches bankruptcy, contracts, and Teaches payment systems. corporate finance.
B. GLENN GEORGE ERIC A. KADES Professor of Law Professor of Law and Director, B.A., University of North Carolina at Property Rights Project Chapel Hill B.A.J.D., Yale University J.D., Harvard University Teaches corporations, economic Teaches civil procedure, employ- analysis of law, land use control, ment discrimination, labor law, property law, real estate transac- and sports law. tions, and statistics for lawyers.
MICHAEL STEVEN CHARLES H. KOCH, JR. GREEN Woodbridge Professor of Law and Professor of Law Director, Summer Abroad Program B.A., University of California at B.A., University of Maryland Berkeley J.D., George Washington University J.D., Ph.D., Yale University LL.M., University of Chicago Teaches civil procedure, conflicts, Teaches administrative law, and philosophy of law. comparative constitutional systems, European Union law, SUSAN S. G ROVER. and federal courts. Associate Professor of Law and Director, Office of Equal Opportu- JULIAN KU nity, College of William & Mary Visiting Associate Professor A.B., Rollins College of Law JAMES E. MOLITERNO J.D., Georgetown University Hofstra University Law School Teaches civil procedure, employ- B.A.,).D., Yale University Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and ment discrimination, and women Teaches international business Director, Legal Skills Program B.S., Youngstown State University and the law. transactions and international J.D., University of Akron trade law. 1. TROTTER HARDY For Professor Jim Moliterno, an email from a Japanese faculty Professor of Law and Associate FREDRIC 1. LEDERER committee seeking guidance on how to teach professional ethics Dean of Technology Chancellor Professor of Law and offered a chance to share his unique teaching philosophy with law B.A., University of Virginia Director, Center for Legal and schools half a world away. The committee's visit to William & Mary M.S., American University in 2005 inspired them to draft a pilot program called Virtual Law J.D., Duke University Court Technology B.S., Polytechnic Institute of New York Firms, based on the Legal Skills model. In February 2006, Professor Teaches copyright, intellectual J.D., Columbia University Moliterno traveled to Kwansei Gakuin University Law School in property, and torts. LL.M., University of Virginia Osaka, japan, to speak at an international symposium on graduate Teaches criminal procedure, evi- legal education, observe the Virtual Law Firms program in action, JAMES S. HELLER dence, legal skills, legal technology, and moderate a mock mediation. Professor of Law and Director, technology-augmented trial advo- This is not the first time Professor Moliterno has shared his Legal Law Library cacy, and military law. Skills vision on an international scale. In November 2004, he began B.A., University of Michigan consulting with the Serbia Rule of Law Project to develop discus- M.L.S., University of California at JOHN W. LEE III Berkeley sion-based writing and ethics courses for law students in Belgrade. J.D., University of San Diego Professor of Law Serbian law faculty invited him on a final trip in March 2006, to A.B., University of North Carolina at observe the first writing classes of the semester and give the Teaches advanced research and Chapel Hill law and public policy. LL.B., university of Virginia opening lecture for the ethics course. LL.M., Georgetown University What's next for the globetrotting Legal Skills director? "I hope for LAURA A. HEYMANN Teaches accounting for lawyers, fed- continued contact with Japanese law schools, and that I'll have the Assistant Professor of Law eral income taxation, real estate taxa- opportunity to do legal education consulting in other parts of the B.A., Yale University tion, and taxation of small business. world," he says."! received a call just the other day wondering if I J.D., University of California at was interested in going to Azerbaijan, Jordan, Georgia, and Kosovo." Berkeley WAYNE A. LOGAN Teaches copyright, torts, and Visiting Professor of Law trademark law. William Mitchell College of Law B.A., Wesleyan University M.A., State University of New York at Albany J.D., University of Wisconsin Teaches criminal procedure and sentencing. NANCY L. COMBS Assistant Professor of Law B.A., University of Portland J.D., University of California at Berkeley Certificate, The Hague Academy of International Law Ph.D., Leiden University "From Guantanamo, to Abu Chraib, to the trial of Saddam Hussein, to the capture of Charles Taylor, international criminal justice issues pervade the news these days. So, it's an exciting time to be introducing students to the legal framework that governs, or in some cases purports to govern, these very political events. William & Mary students are sophisti- cated, globally aware, and eager to learn about the complex interplay between legal norms and power politics that creates and shapes international law. I find myself continually impressed and inspired by their insights, enthusiasm, and commitment to the world good." Nancy Combs served as legal advisor at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague prior to joining the faculty in 2004. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of international criminal justice, human rights, comparative criminal procedure, and criminal law. After graduating first in her class at Berkeley, Professor Combs clerked for judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Her dissertation research focused on guilty pleas in international criminal law.
LINDA A. MALONE GENE R. NICHOL ERIN RYAN KATHRYN R. Marshall-Wythe Foundation President, College of William & Assistant Professor of Law URBONYA Professor of Law and Director, Mary, and Professor of Law B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe College Professor of Law Human Rights and National B.A., Oklahoma State University M.A., Wesleyan University B.A., Beloit College J.D., Harvard University Security Law Program J.D., University of Texas at Austin M.A., J.D., University of North Dakota B.A., Vassar College Teaches natural resource law, Teaches constitutional law, NATHAN B. OMAN J.D., Duke University negotiation, and property. constitutional tort litigation, and LL.M., University of Illinois Assistant Professor of Law the Fourth Amendment. B.A., Brigham Young University Teaches environmental, human ALEMANTE G. J.D., Harvard University rights, public international, and SELASSIE WILLIAM W. Teaches contracts and secured women's rights law. Associate Professor of Law VAN ALSTYNE transactions. LL.B., Haile Selassie University Lee Professor of Law PAUL MARCUS J.D., University of Wisconsin B.A., University of Southern California MITCHELL B. REISS Haynes Professor of Law Teaches contracts, international J.D., Stanford University A.B., J.D., University of California at Professor of Law, Professor of organizations, law and develop- Certificate, The Hague Academy of Los Angeles Government, and Vice Provost for ment, public international law, International Law Teaches criminal law and International Affairs and secured transactions. Teaches constitutional law and procedure, entertainment law, B.A., Williams College the First Amendment. copyright, and law and literature. M.A.L.D., Tufts University MICHAEL STEIN J.D., Columbia University 2006-07 Cabell Research Professor CYNTHIA V. WARD D.Phil., Oxford University ALAN J. MEESE of Law Professor of Law Teaches national security law. Ball Professor of Law B.A., New York University B.A., Wellesley College A.B., College of William & Mary J.D., Harvard University J.D., Yale University J.D., University of Chicago W. TAYLOR Ph.D., Cambridge University Teaches criminal law, jurispru- REVELEY III Teaches antitrust, corporations, Teaches civil procedure, disability dence, property, and white collar economic analysis of the law, and Dean and Professor of Law law, employment discrimination, crime. torts. A.B., Princeton University English legal history, and torts. J.D., University of Virginia RICHARD A. JAMES E. MOL1TERNO Teaches citizen lawyers. TIMOTHY J. SULLIVAN WILLIAMSON Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law, President Emeritus, College of Chancellor Professor of Law and RONALD H. Director, Legal Skills Program, and William & Mary, and Bryan Coordinator of Legal Affairs, College ROSENBERG Director, Clinical Programs Professor of Jurisprudence of William & Mary B.S., Youngstown State University Professor of Law and Director, A.B., College of William & Mary B.B.A., Ohio University J.D., University of Akron American Legal System Graduate J.D., Harvard University J.D., Ohio State University Teaches civil procedure, evidence, Program and Foreign Exchanges Teaches criminal law and criminal and professional ethics. B.A., Columbia University procedure. M.R.P., J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Teaches environmental law, land use control, local government law, property, and real estate transactions. University Faculty CRAIG D. BELL JAMES N. CHR1STMAN THOMAS G. DIGNAN Partner, McCuireWoods, Richmond, VA Partner, Hunton & Williams, Former Partner, Nixon Peabody, From Other B.S., M.B.A., Syracuse University Richmond, VA New York, NY J.D., State University of New York B.S., University of Illinois B.A., University of Connecticut Disciplines at Buffalo J.D., University of Michigan LL.B., Yale University LL.M., William & Mary School of Law Teaches environmental law. Teaches collective bargaining and HUGH w. DUCKLOW Directs the federal practice tax labor arbitration. Clucksman Professor of Marine Science, clinic. ELIZABETH S. DOPP Virginia Institute of Marine Science CHUPIK MARION P. FORSYTH College of William & Mary CATHERINE A.C. BLACK Former Deputy Commonwealth's Associate Director, Phoenix Project, and A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney, Attorney, Norfolk, VA Founder, Lawyers' Committee for Teaches fundamentals of environ- Williamsburg/James City County, VA B.A., Duke University Cultural Heritage Preservation, mental science for policymakers. B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and J.D., William & Mary School of Law Washington, DC State University Teaches legal skills. B.A., Indiana University J.D., William & Mary School of Law ROBERT L. HICKS J.D., Harvard University Assistant Professor of Economics Teaches legal skills. TIMOTHY G. CLANCY Teaches cultural property law. College of William & Mary Partner, Moschel & Clancy, Hampton, VA B.A., North Carolina State University RENE ROARK BOWD1TCH B.A., J.D., College of William & Mary ANDREW R. FOX Ph.D., University of Maryland Attorney-at-Law, Williamsburg, VA Teaches legal skills. Assistant City Attorney, Norfolk, VA Teaches environmental policy. B.)., University of Texas at Austin B.A., Cornell University J.D., William & Mary School of Law M.S., Old Dominion University JAMES E. KlRKLEY Teaches legal skills. J.D., William & Mary School of Law Professor of Marine Science, Virginia Teaches legal skills. Institute of Marine Science JEFFREY A. BREIT College of William & Mary Member, Breit Drescher & Imprevento, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Maryland Norfolk, VA Teaches principles of environ- B.A., J.D., Tulane University mental and natural resource Teaches depositions, objections, policy. pre-trial discovery, trial advocacy, trial strategy and persuasion. DENNIS L. TAYLOR Advisor for National Trial Team. Professor of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science CHRISTOPHER D. BYRNE College of William & Mary Head of Research and Instructional B.S., University of Pennsylvania Services Ph.D., University of Wales B.A., Hamilton College Teaches fundamentals of environ- M.L.I.S., University of Rhode Island mental science for policymakers ).D., Harvard University and principles of environmental Teaches advanced research and and natural resource policy. law and public policy. Adjunct Law Faculty FLETCHER E. CAMPBELL, JR. Former Judge, Office of Administrative CHRISTOPHER A. ABEL Law Judges, U.S. Department of Labor, Of Counsel, Troutman Sanders, Newport News, VA Norfolk, VA B.A., Oberlin College B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy LL.B., Harvard University M.A., Old Dominion University J.D., William 8c Mary School of Law Teaches food and drug law. Teaches selected topics in employment law. PAUL K. CAMPSEN Partner, Kaufman & Canoles, Norfolk, VA B.S., M.P.A., Old Dominion University R. JOEL ANKNEY J.D., University of Richmond Attorney-at-Law, Virginia Beach, VA B.S., Brigham Young University Teaches bankruptcy survey. J.D., William & Mary School of Law Teaches entertainment law. STEPHEN p. CARNEY Of Counsel, Funk fe Bolton, Baltimore, MD GREGORY BAKER B.S., J.D., College of William & Mary Director, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Teaches selected topics in William & Mary Bar Review insurance regulation. B.A., University of Virginia's College at wise CASEY L. CHMIELEWSK1 J.D., Samford University Attorney, Maintenance and Logistics Professor Linda A. Malone, director of the Human Rights and National Security Command, Norfolk, VA Teaches alternative dispute resolu- Law Program, introduces students involved in the Iraqi Special Tribunal Clinic tion, education law, and therapeu- B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy J.D., William & Mary School of Law at a 2005 special briefing. Students, under Malone's supervision, prepared tic jurisprudence. Directs the detailed legal memoranda for the Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein. therapeutic courts practice Teaches legal skills. externship. GEORGE F. HELFRICH TERRY G. KILGORE HELENAS. MOCK 1999-00 St. George Tucker Adjunct Delegate, 1st District, Virginia House of Partner, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly, Professor, Attorney-at-Law and former Delegates, Richmond, VA Williamsburg, VA Patent Counsel, NASA Langley Research B.A., University of Virginia's College at Wise B.A., University of Maryland Center, Newport News, VA J.D., William & Mary School of Law M.A., Old Dominion University B.S., Tulane University Teaches legislative process. J.D., William & Mary School of Law J.D., Louisiana State University Writing specialist. Teaches patent law and patent ALISON VAIL LENNARZ practice. Of Counsel, Kaufman & Canoles, STEPHANIE A. Williamsburg, VA MONTGOMERY LOUANNAO. HEUHSEN B.A., University of Virginia Attorney-at-Law, Williamsburg, VA 1997-98 St. George Tucker Adj'unct J.D., University of Richmond B.A., University of California at San Diego Professor, Partner, Hunton & Williams, Teaches legal skills. J.D., William & Mary School of Law Richmond, VA Teaches legal skills. B.A., College of William & Mary SUSAN E. LUSCOMB J.D., Cornell University Partner, Jean & Luscomb, Yorktown, VA MARKE. NEWCOMB Teaches mergers and acquisitions B.A., Michigan State University Associate, Davey & Brogan, Norfolk, VA and securities regulation survey. J.D., Boston University B.S., U.S. Naval Academy Teaches estate planning and elder J.D., William & Mary School of Law LL.M., Judge Advocate General's School JOHN E. HOLLOWAY law, and the family law practitioner. Partner, Hunton & Williams, Norfolk, VA Teaches national security law and B.S., Virginia Military Institute DAVID I. MEYERS terrorism. ROBERT P. FRANK J.D., George Mason University Partner, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia, Teaches admiralty law. B.S., J.D., University of Virginia ANGELA M. O'CONNOR Newport News, VA Teaches mergers and acquisitions. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney, B.A., J.D., University of Virginia TAZEWELLT. HUBARD III Newport News, VA Teaches trial advocacy. Founder, Conflict Management DOUGLAS E. MILLER B.S., Medaille College J.D., Regent University Associates, Norfolk, VA Partner, Patten, Wornom, Hatten & LAURA LEE GARRETT B.A., Virginia Military Institute Diamonstein, Newport News, VA Directs the domestic violence Of Counsel, McCandlish Holton, J.D., University of Richmond B.S., James Madison University clinic. Richmond, VA Teaches general mediation. M.P.S., Syracuse University B.A., University of Virginia J.D., William & Mary School of Law ROBERT DEAN POPE J.D., William & Mary School of Law REBECCA G. HULSE Teaches advanced brief writing Partner, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA Teaches real estate transactions. Assistant Director for Privacy and and legal skills. Advisor for Moot A.B., Princeton University J.D., Ph.D., Yale University Technology, Center for Legal and Court Team and writing specialist. ANN M. GOLSKI Court Technology Teaches state and local govern- Former Of Counsel, Williams, Mullen, B.A., Connecticut College TOMMY E. MILLER ment finance. Clark & Dobbins, Virginia Beach, VA M.A., J.D., Harvard University 2004-05 St. George Tucker Adjunct B.A., University of Virginia Teaches privacy in a J.D., William & Mary School of Law Professor, U.S. Magistrate Judge, ALAN B. RASH KIND technological age. Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk, VA Partner, Furniss, Davis, Rashkind and Teaches legal skills. B.A., University of Virginia Saunders, Norfolk, VA VERNON E. INGE, JR. J.D., William & Mary School of Law B.A., Randolph-Macon College NATHAN R. GREEN Partner, LeClair Ryan, Richmond, VA Teaches criminal justice ethics J.D., University of Virginia Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney, B.A., University of Richmond and decision making, criminal Teaches insurance. Williamsburg, VA J.D., University of Virginia B.A., George Mason University procedure II, and death penalty. Teaches sports law. J.D., William & Mary School of Law Teaches legal skills.
PAULA L. HANNAFORD-AGOR Staff Attorney/Senior Research )AN A. BROWN '92 Associate, National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, VA Associate Director of Athletics for Student Life Enrichment and Equity University at Albany B.A., George Mason University Albany, NY M.A., J.D., College of William & Mary Teaches American jury. Jan earned a B.A. in economics and an M.A. in urban and environmental policy at Tufts University. During law school she was sports editor of The Advocate, coached girls' youth soccer, and played on a co-ed soccer team with MICHAEL L. HE1KES other law students in a county league. Jan began her career with the National Attorney-at-Law, Williamsburg, VA Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in B.A., Pennsylvania State University 1994 and served in the NCAA as an J.D., William & Mary School of Law enforcement representative, as assistant I think the facility at Teaches legal skills. chief of staff for Division II, and as director of division II and governance liaison to the the Law School is one Executive Committee. She is currently an associate athletic director at the University of the school's best at Albany, where she oversees the institution's intercollegiate athletics assets. All my professors were approachable and took a compliance program, academic support, and student-athlete enrichment services. real interest in students beyond the classroom. Jan is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. PATRICIA E. ROBERTS WILLIAM H. SHAW III Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Judge, Circuit Court, Ninth Judicial Associate Director, Legal Skills Circuit, Gloucester, VA Program, and Director, Academic B.A., J.D., University of Virginia Support and Externship Programs Teaches trial advocacy. B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College J.D., William & Mary School of Law STACEY-RAE SlMCOX Teaches legal skills. Director for Professional Education and Terrorism Prosecutions, Center for NEAL J. ROBINSON Legal and Court Technology Partner, Spirn, Tarley, Robinson & Tarley, B.A., B.Sc., Ohio University Williamsburg, VA J.D., William & Mary School of Law B.S., College of William & Mary Teaches legal skills, legal technol- M.B.A., University of Dallas ogy, and technology-augmented J.D., William & Mary School of Law trial advocacy. Teaches complex transactional practice. SUZANNE P. STERN Former Corporate Counsel, International KAREN M. ROSE Motion Control, Inc., Buffalo, NY Attorney-at-Law, Williamsburg, VA B.A., University at Albany, State University B.A., Washington University of New York J.D., William & Mary School of Law J.D., William & Mary School of Law Directs the legal aid clinic. Teaches legal skills.
MARKE. RUBIN BRUCE H. STONER, JR. Senior Advisor to the Governor, Office of Of Counsel, Greenblum & Bernstein, the Governor, Richmond, VA Reston, VA, and Former Chief B.A., University of North Carolina at Administrative Patent Judge, USPTO Chapel Hill B.S., Pennsylvania State University W, TAYLOR REVELEY III J.D., University of Virginia J.D., Washington College of Law Teaches mediation advocacy. Teaches patent appeals and inter- Dean and Professor of Law ferences. A.B., Princeton University ALAN A. RUDNICK J.O., University of Virginia Former Vice President and General JOHN TARLEY, JR. "To train citizen lawyers was the prime reason Thomas Jefferson Counsel, CSX Corporation, Richmond, VA Partner, Spirn, Tarley, Robinson & Tarley, and George Wythe started a law school at William & Mary in 1779. B.A., University of Chicago Williamsburg, VA J.D., Case Western Reserve University This was the Law School's original mission and it is the Law B.S., M.B.A., Pennsylvania State University Teaches the public corporation. J.D., William & Mary School of Law School's enduring mission - to train people who will be not simply skilled practitioners of law but also leaders for the common good Teaches legal skills. TROY SAVENKO of their communities, states, and nation." Partner, LeClair Ryan, Richmond, VA WILFORD TAYLOR, JR. B.A., Capital University Following graduation from law school, Taylor Reveley clerked for Judge, Circuit Court of the City of justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before J.D., University of Richmond Hampton, Hampton, VA, and Director, becoming dean of the Law School in 1998, he practiced law at Teaches sports law. Trial Advocacy Program B.A., Hampton University Hunton & Williams for nearly 30 years. During his nine-year tenure ELIZABETH M. SCHMIDT M.A., University of Richmond as managing partner, the firm opened new offices in the U.S. and Counsel and Vice President, GuideStar J.D., William & Mary School of Law Europe and created a branch in Virginia devoted to pro bono Services, Williamsburg, VA Teaches trial advocacy. representation. He currently serves as a trustee of many organiza- B.A., Princeton University tions, for example, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the J.D., Stanford University DONALD A. TORTORICE Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Virginia Teaches nonprofit law practice. 2002-03 St. George Tucker Adjunct Historical Society, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Professor, Former Managing Partner, PATRICIA Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Dean Reveley is a trustee emeritus of Princeton University. SCHWARZCHILD Philadelphia, PA Partner, Hunton & Williams, B.A., University of Texas at Austin Richmond, VA J.D., University of California at Berkeley CHRISTIE S. WARREN DEBORAH C. WATERS B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Teaches bioethics, health law and 2005-06 St. George Tucker Adjunct Partner, Ferguson, Rawls & Raines, State University policy; international health care; J.D., Vanderbilt University Professor, Deputy Director for Suffolk, VA medical ethics and law; and medi- International Programs, Center for B.A., Old Dominion University Teaches trial advocacy. cal malpractice and health care Legal and Court Technology J.D., William & Mary School of Law liability. B.A., University of California at Berkeley Teaches trial advocacy. J.D., University of California at Davis Teaches comparative law, com- J.R. ZEPICIN parative constitutional systems, 2001-02 St. George Tucker Adjunct Islamic law, litigation in civil code Professor, Former Judge, General systems, methodologies in the District Court, Ninth Judicial District, U.S. legal system, and post-con- Williamsburg, VA A.B., J.D., College of William & Mary flict justice and the rule of law. Teaches Virginia criminal proce- dure and Virginia civil procedure.
23 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, A Philosophy of OCS has established rela- tionships with thousands of Individualized David M. Spooner '94, at right, assistant secretary far import administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce, speaks with students during the 2006 employers around the world, Career Planning Alternative Career Conversations program. The program gives students an including law firms, public and Advising opportunity to meet with attorneys working in dozens of fields outside of interest organizations, traditional law practice where lawyers put their talents to use, including Each student presents international trade, sports management, alternative dispute resolution, higher prosecutors, corporations unique credentials, education, journalism, investment banking, and nonprofit administration. and businesses, federal, state geographic and work and local government preferences, and short- and Career Planning of employment settings and agencies, NGOs, accounting long-term goals. We believe Resources practice areas are invited by firms, and courts. Our that one-on-one meetings OCS to speak with William & contacts also include provide the best setting to SKILLS WORKSHOPS Mary law students. Panelists organizations that hire assess options, refine career AND PROGRAMS describe their career paths, lawyers for professional goals, and develop job OCS conducts and spon- provide candid insights positions not involving search strategies. Our sors a series of information about their work, and offer traditional law practice. priority is knowing students, sessions designed to educate career planning and job In 2005, more than 170 serving them as individuals, students about the job search search suggestions. Students employers registered for on- and introducing them to process. Recent programs have the opportunity to campus interviews for 319 the many resources avail- include: meet and network with offices in 30 states, and the able through the Law Business Etiquette panelists at informal recep- District of Columbia. Our School. Recognizing that Effective Resumes and tions or lunches. students participated in career development is a Cover Letters Other programs have 29 off-campus job fairs lifelong process, we provide Five Steps to Securing Your provided overviews of judicial (attended by more than graduates with access to Dream Job clerkships, post-graduate 1,100 employers) and Guerilla Tactics for Getting OCS services throughout fellowships, international searched more than 4,100 the Job of Your Dreams their legal careers. public service internships, job listings from nonvisiting How to be an Effective public interest advocacy, employers representing Leader working on Capitol Hill, 49 states, the District of International Job Search Interviewing Tips federal law enforcement, Columbia, and several other Mock Interviews opportunities with local, state countries. Principles of and federal government Professionalism agencies, using a law degree Succeeding in Your in the business world, and Summer Job/Internship We offer a full range of services and resources to assist practicing law in small towns. Targeting the Hidden Job students in mounting an individualized, creative, and Market PUBLICATIONS AND thorough job search for- summer and post-graduate SPEAKERS AND OCS LIBRARY positions. For more information, visit www.wm.edu PANEL DISCUSSIONS Each student receives a /law/careerservices. Each semester, attorneys Career Planning Manual representing a broad range (covering job search strate- gies, career satisfaction, community for students. Employment resume and cover letter Faculty regularly assist Classes 2003 to 2005 Locations preparation, interview tips, students in securing judicial Employment Status 37% « Virginia and professionalism), a clerkships and learning 63% • Out of State Employment Profile Government and Public about substantive areas of 37 stales. DC. Interest Job Search Guide practice. Some 6,700 as of nine months post-graduation and a comprehensive graduates around the nation Graduates Reporting bibliography of print and and the world offer a Employment Status 99% electronic resources. breadth of geographic and Total Employed or Pursuing Advanced Degree The OCS Resource Library, career contacts. (excluding 25 graduates not seeking employment) with several hundred re- OCS's professional staff, Employer Types and Starting Salaries sources for researching a together, offers more than for 2005 Graduates variety of employment 40 years of career services options, is an extension of the experience. Salary Range $35,000 - $135,000 Law Library and is open to Median Private Sector Starting Salary $110,000 students approximately 90 Emphasis on Median Public and Nonprofit Sector Starting Salary $50,000 hours a week during the Public Service academic year. Fifteen We are proud of our •Judicial Clerkships (19.5%) customized career bibliogra- students' commitment to phies covering diverse public interest and govern- Government Agencies (14.2%) practice specialties are ment service and our array of Private Business/Industry (7.1%) available in our offices and summer public service Practice (48.5%) —MilitaryJustice (4.7%) on the Web. fellowships. During summer 2006, students benefited from —Public Interest Human Resources Organizations (4.7%) 93 fellowships. Positions vary Accessible faculty mem- from year to year but have I—Academia (< 1%) bers and receptive Law included employment with Accounting Firms (< 1%) School graduates provide civil rights organizations, legal excellent links to the legal aid societies, prosecutors, public defenders, govern- nonprofit and public sector ment agencies, think tanks, employers and our member- NOELLYN K.M. DAVIES and advocacy groups. Issue ship in PSLawNet and Equal Class of 2007 • Falmouth, ME areas have encompassed Justice Works. With assistance Noellyn graduated summa cum laud* from Bates College with a B.A. in political science. She was a member of the Bates Leadership Academy and of international relations, from OCS, William & Mary Phi Beta Kappa. At William & Mary, Noellyn is a member of the editorial children's rights, domestic law students have been board of the William and Mary IMW Review, worked for the Center for Legal violence, human rights, particularly successful and Court Technology, and is the vice president of the Asian Law Students Association. She has completed an externship with Chief Judge Walter homelessness, the environ- landing highly competitive Felton of the Virginia Court of Appeals and worked as a summer associate for ment, AIDS/HIV, housing, postgraduate Presidential Williams Mullen in Richmond. During summer 2006 Noellyn worked for consumer protection, judicial Management Fellowships. Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. reform, civil rights, employ- OCS also coordinates student The Office of Career ment, health care, prison participation in several public Services' (OCS) general reform, education and service job fairs. alternative dispute resolution. workshops and programs The John Levy Loan In addition to assisting Repayment Assistance are excellent, but it is their organizations and clients Program, established in literally from coast to coast, commitment to each and 2004, has helped make the fellowship recipients have choice of public service every student that makes spanned the globe, serving careers more viable for Law employers in almost 20 other the difference. Whether School alumni. Graduates countries. working for private non- helping me fine-tune my Opportunities with profit organizations or resume or define my career government agencies and government employers are public interest groups are eligible to apply for up to goals, the OCS team listened carefully and offered well- plentiful, as a result of our $5,000 annually in loan thought-out advice. aggressive outreach to forgiveness for a maximum of three years. Student Life and Student Organizations
ERNEST FREEMAN II! Students come to William & Mary with great Class of 2007 -Norfolk. VA potential. Many opportunities are provided so that everyone Trey earned his B.A. in political science from Stanford University, where he was a can realize their full potential. member of the varsity football team. Prior to law school he was a free agent selection by the Baltimore Ravens. During his time with the Ravens, he also Law students may participate in a wide array of co-curricular interned for Senator Elizabeth Dole in Washington, DC. Trey then worked as a organizations, programs, and activities. Many of the activi- paralegal in the Office of the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was elected president of the Student Bar ties further stimulate intellectual curiosity and divergent Association (SBA) for 2006 and is a staff member of the William and Mary thinking, and provide an opportunity for students to Environmental Law and Policy Review. During summer 2005 he worked for two professors and participated in the William &: Mary Summer Study Abroad become better acquainted with their classmates, the faculty, Program in Madrid. During summer 2006 Trey worked for Venable in Baltimore. the College, and Williamsburg community. Most students find that membership in a student organization helps their A wealth of stimulating understanding of the law and its institutions, provides a activities is essential for any useful resource in the search for rewarding professional employment, and allows them to collaborate rather than well-functioning law school. compete with their fellow students. Every student organization The Student Bar Associa- George Wythe Society at William & Mary has tion (SBA) is the umbrella Honor Council I'Anson-Hoffman American activities open to all organization that oversees Inn of Court students. The SBA student groups and allocates Institute of Bill of Rights Law funds to support student Student Division works diligently to make organizations. The following International Law Society J. Reuben Clark Law Society your William & Mary groups and organizations Jewish Law Students sponsor debates, panels, and Association I experience truly unique. speakers, and organize Lesbian and Gay Law various activities in line with Association HONOR COUNCIL The Law School's honor Military Law Society their special interests. Many Moot Court Program An honor system adminis- system is administered by the participate in community National Trial Team tered by students is among Honor Council. The Council service activities. Phi Alpha Delta the oldest and most impor- is appointed by the Student The Advocate (student Phi Delta Phi tant traditions of William & Bar Association president newspaper) Public Service Fund Mary dating back to 1779. At and is composed of a chief Alternative Dispute Sports and Entertainment its core, the honor system justice from the third-year Law Society Resolution Team requires that students class and five justices from American Constitution Society Student Bar Association conduct themselves honestly the student body. They Asian Law Students Student Intellectual Association Property Society in all matters related to educate students about the Black Law Students Student Legal Services student life. Lying, cheating, honor system, investigate Association Students for Equality in Legal and stealing are not toler- allegations of honor code Bone Marrow Drive Education violations, determine guilt or Therapeutic Jurisprudence ated, and students found Committee guilty of these offenses are innocence, and impose Children's Advocacy Law Society Society William & Mary Bill of sanctioned, usually by sanctions upon a finding of Christian Legal Society Rights Journal dismissal. By accepting an guilt. Environmental Law Society William & Mary Chapter offer of admission to the Law The existence of the Federalist Society of the ACLU School, a student agrees to William and Mary Environmen- honor system and the tal Law and Policy Review abide by the principles and student body's commitment William and Mary Journal procedures of the honor to it permit a community of of Women and the Law system. trust and an atmosphere of William and Mary Law Review freedom at the Law School. For example, examinations are not proctored, students may take them anywhere in journals publish work by the building, and many professors, judges, practicing exams are self-scheduled. lawyers, and students. Students are permitted to Students typically spend use personal computers for their first year on a journal exams and are trusted to subchecking articles and follow the rules governing verifying the accuracy of their use. citations and footnotes The honor system models provided by the authors. The the professional code of journals' editorial boards responsibility under which manage the publication lawyers live. In much the process and consist of upper- same way the legal profes- level students. Journal sion is self-regulated, members also write student William & Mary law students notes, which are legal take responsibility for research papers of publish- safeguarding the character able quality. The student of their community. note fulfills the Law School's writing requirement and JOURNALS may be selected for publica- The publication of legal tion. Both second-year staff journals offers students an members and third-year extraordinary opportunity to editors may receive aca- be involved in legal scholar- demic credit for their work ship. William & Mary's four on journals. student-run and edited
At least once annually, each the Law was ranked 5th and ELIZABETH A. I'ANN I LL '06 journal chooses one legal the William and Mary Associate, Vinson & Elkins Houston, TX issue and sponsors a printed Environmental Law and Policy th Lizzie graduated magna cum laud£"with a B.A. in history from Kenyon College, or live symposium on the Review was ranked 10 where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was editor-in-chief of the William topic. These symposia are among the most-cited and Mary Law Review and one of 12 members of her class to receive the Gambrell opportunities for legal student-edited journals in Professionalism Award from the Legal Skills Program. Before attending law school Lizzie worked in nonprofit organization management at the Alley scholars to exchange ideas their subject areas. Students Theatre in Houston and in corporate marketing at Bear, Stearns & Co. in New and to lecture or publish interested in a position on York City. During summer 2004 she was an intern for U.S. Districtjudge Nancy F. articles on topics related to any journal or review must Atlas in the Southern District of Texas. During summer 2005 she worked in Houston for the law firms of Vinson & Elkins and Fulbright & Jaworski. their special expertise. The participate in an intensive Following graduation Lizzie joined Vinson & Elkins as an associate. symposia benefit our students writing competition con- who witness and often ducted at the end of their One thing that sets William participate in cutting-edge first year. Selection to the & Mary apart is that every debates of important issues. Law Review also may be The William and Mary Law based on a student's aca- student in the class may Review, the oldest and largest demic standing at the end of compete for a position on of our legal journals, does his or her second semester not have a particular focus, of law school. Promotion to the William and Mary Law publishing articles on a wide the editorial board of a Review, which — like the array of topics. It recently was journal is based on profi- ranked as the 20th most-cited ciency in legal writing and other student-edited legal journal in an evaluation editing, and level of dedica- journals — provides an of more than 900 U.S. and tion. selected non-U.S. legal incredible opportunity to periodicals. In the same work closely with some of the nation's hading legal study, the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal was scholars and to contribute to contemporary dialogue ranked 3rd, the William and about the law. Mary Journal of Women and
27 NATIONAL TRIAL TEAM MOOT COURT PROGRAM The National Trial Team is The William & Mary Moot a student-run organization Court Program has a long designed to develop law history of success and is one students' trial advocacy skills. of the school's best opportu- Trial Team is an important nities for students to develop part of William & Mary's oral and refine both oral advo- advocacy program. The cacy and brief writing skills. organization differs from Each year, teams represent Moot Court in that Trial William & Mary in national Team focuses on jury trial and regional tournaments. litigation whereas Moot The Moot Court competi- Court focuses on appellate tions require each team to advocacy. Students are research and write an selected to join the Trial appellate brief and defend it Team during their first year in an oral argument before through a competition that panels of judges. the National Best Advocate on the Moot Court Team. requires each student to The William & Mary team award in Chicago. Second-year students on the team are required to take an conduct a full trial in of Joshua Heslinga '06, To join the Moot Court appellate brief writing class successively challenging Catherine Molloy '06, and Team, students must com- rounds. The team, in groups Eric Pohlner '06 were one of pete in the Law School's designed for the Moot Court of two to four members, four teams to advance to the Bushrod Tournament, an Program. participates in complex nationals in Chicago from intense, two-week competi- The administration of the criminal and civil trials at the regional round of the tion for first-year students. Moot Court Program is the tournaments throughout the 2006 National Appellate Similar to an actual tourna- responsibility of the Moot United States. Outstanding Advocacy Competition ment, participants in Court Board. In addition to members of the Trial Team sponsored by the American Bushrod research a selected managing the Law School's are honored by induction Bar Association's Law topic and prepare an Bushrod Tournament, the into the Order of Barristers. Student Division. At appellate-style oral argument Board also sponsors the regionals the team won Best that they defend in front of a prestigious William B. Brief and Heslinga won Best panel of judges. The top Spong, Jr. Invitational Moot Advocate. Heslinga netted participants earn positions Court Tournament each spring. This competition draws teams from across the JBHBB1BB ALAN J. MEESE nation. Teams are judged in oral advocacy, research and Ball Professor of Law writing skills by a distin- A.B., College of William & Mary • J.D., University of Chicago guished panel of judges A leading antitrust scholar best known for his work examining antitrust law and policy through the lens of from the Virginia Supreme transaction cost economics, Alan Meese is a senior Court, federal courts, and advisor to the Antitrust Modernization Commission. numerous U.S. district The bipartisan commission is charged with examining courts. Outstanding partici- whether federal antitrust laws are in need of change pants in Moot Court are and will report its findings to Congress and the honored by induction into President in 2007. "Antitrust provides a unique the Order of Barristers. opportunity for the integration of economic theory and public policy," says Professor Meese. "I am happy to NEWSPAPER have the chance to take part in the study of significant questions of law and policy." The Advocate is the Law School's student-edited Professor Meese is founding editor of William & Mary's newspaper. It publishes Law and Economics Working Paper Series, a member of the Public Policy faculty, and a fellow of the Institute of feature articles, news, sports, Bill of Rights Law. After graduating from law school, he editorials, humor, and clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the Seventh political commentary written Circuit Court of Appeals and then Justice Antonin Scalia. by members of the Law He practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and School community. Flom in Washington, DC, before joining the law faculty in 1995. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS National Bone Marrow In addition to the Honor Donor Registry at no cost. Council, journals, competi- Activities that bring in these tive teams, and newspaper, vital funds include a 5K run/ there are many other walk, a free-throw contest student organizations active (an all-day event in the Law at the Law School. Every School's entrance hall), and student has the opportunity the Texas Hold 'Em Poker to become involved in Tournament. This past year's campus life, and most tournament players vied for students do so passionately. a top prize of an all-ex- The Law School was penses-paid vacation in founded upon the concept Florida. The campus-wide of the citizen lawyer, that bone marrow drive at lawyers have a responsibility William & Mary has regis- to serve the public good. tered more than 10,000 of William & Mary students the four million potential take this responsibility donors in the registry in the seriously as they prepare for past 15 years. A number of their legal careers. Members students each year share JAYNE W. BARNARD their legal know-how with of the Public Service Fund Cutler Professor of Law (PSF), for example, raise members of the campus B.S., University of Illinois money to provide summer community via Student Legal J.D., University of Chicago fellowships for students who Services (SLS). SLS provides "People have mixed feelings about corporations. To some, they are work in unpaid or low-paying information and help to soulless institutions that dampen the spirit. To others, they hold the hope of upward mobility, opportunity, and self-fulfillment. Corpora- public interest and govern- students and staff at no cost on issues such as landlord- tions are interesting creatures — they have both economic and social ment jobs. PSF also supports aspects, as well as important legal characteristics. There will always the Loan Repayment tenant disputes, insurance be rogues and fraud. The challenge is to devise mechanisms to Assistance Program, which claims, and contracts. SLS minimize harm." helps make public service a members also are available Professor jayne Barnard specializes in corporate finance, corporations, more viable career choice by to assist students involved in white collar crime, and securities regulation. She recently was helping a select number of disciplinary or Honor appointed to a three-year term on the National Association of graduates each year pay their Council proceedings. Securities Dealers National Adjudication Council, which serves as the law school loans. Fundraisers The Law School commu- "court of appeals" in the brokerage industry's private regulatory system. Joining her on the current Council are seven members of the such as PSF's Halloween nity enjoys and values its financial services industry and six non-industry representatives, Party and Casino Night diversity. Numerous organi- including professors from the Harvard Business School, the Kellogg encourage students to have zations seek to provide social School of Management, and the Wharton School of Business. A fun for a good cause. support, further students' member of the American Law Institute, Professor Barnard also serves Another of its popular events academic and professional on the Board of Directors for the ACLU of Virginia and is a member of st is the annual Date Auction, success, and foster awareness the Commission on Virginia Courts in the 21 Century. Before entering academia she was a partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago and served in which students present and discussion of important as deputy corporation counsel in the administration of Mayor Harold "dates" (such as sports issues. The Asian Law Washington. tickets and dinners) for Students Association (ALSA), bidding among their for example, sponsors get- classmates. The Bone togethers, such as pop culture. The Lesbian & Law Day, which gives Marrow Drive Committee dumpling-making parties Gay Law Association hosts a minority students an oppor- (BMDC) is another example and restaurant outings, to welcoming event at the tunity to explore legal of law students donating help its members take a beginning of each academic careers, and an annual their time and energy to a break from their studies. year and recently hosted a scholarship banquet. BLSA's good cause. In 2006 BMDC ALSA also recently hosted an lawyer from the Human annual Thanksgiving Basket raised more than $11,500 to attorney from the Asian Rights Campaign who spoke Contest is one of the group's help cover tissue typing American Legal Defense and about the struggle of gay and many charitable endeavors. expenses so that students Education Fund who spoke lesbian people for marriage The contest benefits local and members of the local to the law school community equality. The Black Law families in need and takes community could enter the about Asian-American Students Association (BLSA) stereotypes in the media and hosts many events such as the form of a spirited General Edwin Meese, a key competition as student and advisor to President Reagan. staff groups vie against each Both groups co-sponsored a other for top honors in both February 2006 event which quantity of food collected pitted William & Mary and artful display. The Professor William W. Van Christian Legal Society and Alstyne against Professor the Jewish Law Students John Eastman of Chapman Association provide students University Law School in a with opportunities for debate about the use of the spiritual growth and fellow- words "under God" in the ship. For example, the Pledge of Allegiance. | Jewish Law Students Associa- A number of student The Lettie Pate. White/lead Evans Residences are adjacent to the Law School. tion hosts dinners on Jewish groups bring together holidays and the Christian students with similar aca- annual symposium which, in the Law School. This complex Legal Society hosts Bible demic interests and host 2006, included a panel features two-, three-, and four- study and game nights. speakers and programs to discussion on new technol- bedroom apartments William & Mary law enrich students' knowledge ogy and the challenges its overlooking a central court- students are passionate of the law. The Military Law poses to intellectual property yard. The apartments are about their views on politics Society, for example, brings protections and a mock furnished and air condi- and judicial interpretation. together students who are artist-venue negotiation. tioned, have private outside Organizations such as the interested in national Students interested in entrances, full kitchens with American Constitution security and military law patent, trademark, and major appliances, one or two Society and the Federalist issues. The group recendy copyright law benefit from full bathrooms, and living/ Society provide opportuni- hosted a discussion with the endeavors of the Student dining areas. Each resident ties for lively discussions and judge advocates who had Intellectual Property Society. has a private bedroom, bring noted scholars and participated in Operation Joy L. Bryant '03, a patent telephone number, and policymakers to campus. The Iraqi Freedom, and also attorney and founder of the voicemail. Each bedroom and Federalist Society, for toured a nuclear submarine. National Association of living room is equipped with example, recently hosted a The Sports and Entertain- Patent Practitioners, was both a direct connection to visit by former U.S. Attorney ment Law Society hosts an among recent guest speakers the College's computer and spoke to the group network, including email and about planning a career in Internet access (network card J. ALEX CHASICK the intellectual property and software required), and Class of 2008 • Milford, CT field. cable television. All utilities are Alex earned a B.A. in American politics and policy from Tulane University. While These are just some of the included in the rent, which at Tulane he was a member of the political science honor society and worked for organizations active at the averages $4,640 for the 2006- WTUI, New Orleans, the University radio station. During his undergraduate Law School that contribute 07 academic year. Additional studies, Alex spent a semester interning on Capitol Hill and researching a paper on new media, and a semester in London, studying European history, politics, to life outside the classroom information is available and art. Before law school he worked at Commonfund, an investment at William & Mary. For more through the corporation for nonprofit organizations. Alex received a 2006 Katrina Summer Office of Residence Life Corps Fellowship from Equal Justice Works to volunteer with the Pro Bono information, and a complete Project in New Orleans, helping the city rebuild in the wake of Hurricane list of active organizations, College of William & Mary Katrina. please visit our website at P.O. Box 8795 www.wm.edu/law Campus Center Room 212 You will never hear a law /prospective/studentlife Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 student complain of a dearth /student_orgs.shtml. (757) 2214314 [email protected] of possibilities for public Housing Options www.wm.edu/reslife service. The Law School has Many housing options are /residenceHalls /graduate.php such an abundance of available to students includ- ing both privately owned and Off-campus housing options options that the challenge university-owned apartments. are available in the Williamsburg area. will be deciding which William & Mary offers graduate students housing in opportunities appeal to the Lettie Pate Whitehead you most. Evans Residences adjacent to KELLY L. HART Living in bargains offered on Rich- Class of 2007 • Cumberland, Rl Williamsburg mond Road at Williamburg's Kelly earned a B.A. in English magna cum laudefrom Connecticut College, where multiple outlet malls. she was awarded membership to Phi Beta Kappa. During college she captained the varsity women's volleyball team, worked as a writing tutor, rowed women's Williamsburg offers a The main campus of unique blend of small-town crew, and studied Czech and Russian literature in Prague. As a first-year law William & Mary offers many student, Kelly served her classmates as a Student Bar Association representative. hospitality and big-city concerts and cultural She is an active participant of the Public Service Fund, was selected as a Dean's Associate and Student Admission Ambassador, is a team and board member of amenities. Whether you're a activities for law students to history buff, a lover of the the Moot Court Program, and was named a Benjamin Rush Scholar. During enjoy, including a recent summer 2005 she interned in Washington, DC, with the U.S. Trade Representa- great outdoors, an avid performance by Wilco and tive for Southeast Asia. During summer 2006 Kelly worked for ABC News' Law and Justice Unit Correspondents in New York City. shopper, or a connoisseur of numerous plays, readings, fine restaurants, this is the and lectures. Justice Sandra / adtm Williamsburg. With place for you. Day O'Connor, College so much history, beauty, and While Williamsburg boasts chancellor, is a frequent all the comforts of a college visitor. There also is a character, it is the perfect town - major chain restau- vibrant, local arts scene place for law school. I enjoy rants and retail stores, coffee offering a full calendar of shops and movie theaters - it chamber and classical music studying in the quaint, also has a charm you won't concerts, art exhibits, and student-friendly atmosphere. find anywhere else. Family- community theater produc- owned restaurants serve up tions. There are plenty of unique favorites of Southern cuisine William & Mary's newly- restaurants and coffee shops such as peanut soup, renovated Rec Center offers barbecue, and sweet tea. The a wide range of athletic and a few solid watering Student Bar Association's facilities which include a holes! I love leaving the library and going for a run through Thursday night Bar Review pool, basketball court, and programs will introduce you running track. Tennis Colonial Williamsburg on my ioay home—it's safe and quickly to the town's enthusiasts will enjoy playing refreshing. nightlife, from pints with on the courts of the your friends at a favorite College's McCormack- local deli, to live music Nagelsen Tennis Center, warm temperatures, beauti- posing for pictures in the performances and karaoke located next door to the Law ful spring blooming season, stockade. A short drive down nights at area restaurants School. and vibrant fall foliage the scenic Colonial Parkway and hotels. You can stroll Whether you're up for beckon everyone outside. will take you to Jamestown, along Williamsburg's historic canoeing on Lake Matoaka Thrill-seekers will enjoy the site of our nation's first Duke of Gloucester Street, on the main campus, braving the roller coasters at permanent English settle- two blocks from the Law sunbathing on a beach along Busch Gardens or riding the ment, or Yorktown, the School, and browse in shops the James River, hiking and waves at Water Country USA, scene of the Revolutionary selling pottery, silver, and biking on nearby trails, or while the more laid-back War battle that triggered the glassware made by Colonial golfing at any of the area's may prefer sipping a choice British surrender. Williamsburg's artisans. Or, more than one dozen golf vintage on the local winery's Richmond, Norfolk, and you can travel further down courses, Williamsburg's outdoor patio. Virginia Beach are less than the road to peruse the many Countless activities provide an hour away by car. Wash- entertainment and a taste of ington, DC, is just 150 miles local history. Just a short away. Atlanta, Boston, New walk from the Law School, York City, and Philadelphia Colonial Williamsburg has are at the end of quick been restored to appear as it flights available from any of did during the Revolutionary three nearby airports. An War, when it served as capital AMTRAK station is less than of Virginia. You can enjoy a mile from the Law School. strolling through its stately All this and more makes brick homes and English- Williamsburg a great place to style gardens, engaging in live...and study. conversation with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, or even 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 percentage 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 gradua- tion, 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 consideration individual skills and characteristics that might not necessarily be directly related to academic Therefore, admission to the study of law based largely potential. Law School will be granted to upon the LSAT score and those applicants who, in the writing sample; and (3) other opinion of the admission relevant personal qualities personnel, will make the most and characteristics of the ROBERT E. FAY significant contribution to applicant, including factors Class of 2007 • York, PA society as members of the such as the location of the Bob is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where he majored in economics with a double-minor in sociology and business. He was a legal profession. Factors used applicant's permanent Penn State Evan Pugh Senior Scholar, chair of the senior class gift campaign, in making decisions regard- residence, the applicant's president and founder of Schreyer Honors College Student Council, and a Penn ing admission include: (1) career goals, ethnic status, State Lion Ambassador. Prior to law school Bob interned with Midpenn Legal Services in York, PA, where he interviewed clients, conducted legal research, the applicant's general cultural, economic, and assisted in coordinating the pro bono program, and prepared and filed pleadings. academic ability based upon a educational background and At William & Mary, he is a member of the William and Mary Law Review, has careful examination of the experiences, moral character, earned honors in legal skills, volunteered for Student Legal Services, and is a Legal Skills Program teaching assistant. During summer 2005 he worked for the undergraduate (and gradu- leadership qualities, commit- U.S. Department of State at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in ate, if any) transcript, ment to community service, Washington, DC. During summer 2006 Bob held a summer associate position including factors such as the ability to undertake indepen- with the law firm of Hogan 8c Hartson in Washington, DC. grade-point average, die dent and creative research, Wittiam & Mary combines a quality of the school at- and communication skills. tended, the difficulty of the The applicant should discuss theoretical understanding of major or department in his or her own characteristics the law with training in which the degree was earned, and qualities in the personal the hours spent on outside statement required as part of practical application that my employment or other time- the admission process and friends at other schools have consuming extracurricular should seek to have those activities, and the length of persons writing letters of not experienced. The Law time elapsed since gradua- recommendation discuss such School community is tion; (2) the applicant's factors. capacity for the academic amazingly supportive and collegial. An offer of admission to DIRECTIONS the school is valid only for Arriwng by Car the year stated in the William & Mary is 150 admission letter. Deferment miles south of Washington, requests will be considered DC, midway between Rich- on an individual basis if a mond and Norfolk on 1-64. written request is submitted with an explanatory state- From the east, take Exit 242A ment. An admitted applicant (Route 199 West) toward Jamestown and Williamsburg. who does not enroll that Turn right at the second traffic year may reapply by filing light onto South Henry Street the application for a subse- (Route 132 North). The Law quent year and will be School is located on the right considered with other 1.5 miles from the intersection. students applying that year. Coming from the west, take Admission one year does Exit 238 (Route 143 East) not ensure admission for a toward Colonial Williamsburg and proceed four-tenths of a subsequent year. mile. Bear right on Route 132 At the stop light, turn right Arriving by Plane onto South Henry Street. The Visiting W&M South — the Law School is Newport News/Williamsburg located 2.5 miles from this turn. Law School is approximately Airport is approximately 30 two blocks on the left. Law School Proceed through the first light minutes from campus. and move to the right lane — Parking is available at the Law We invite you to visit! Williamsburg is also served by bear right continuing on Route School. Obtain a parking Richmond International and INDIVIDUAL 132 South. The Law School is permit from the Administrative Norfolk International airports, APPOINTMENTS the second large building on Office located to your left as each one hour away. Ground the left after passing Newport you enter. Visitors with parking transportation companies meet You may call the Admis- Avenue. permits may park in any flights at all three airports with sion Office to arrange an From the William & Mary faculty/staff or student space. limousine or shuttle service to informational meeting with the College available with campus, the Law School is Arriving by Bus or Train an admission dean, arrange located several blocks to the advance reservations. to observe a class and/or east. Nationwide transportation is schedule a student-guided provided by Greyhound/ • From Richmond Road (at the Railways. Visitors may use direct tour of the Law School. College Corner "V") go AMTRAK service to Tours may be scheduled straight onto South Boundary Williamsburg from Boston, New weekdays during the Street. York, Philadelphia, Baltimore academic year at 9 a.m. or • From Jamestown Road (at the and Washington, DC. The 2 p.m. To schedule College Corner "V") go right combined bus and train station a visit, please contact us at onto South Boundary Street. is less than one mile from William & Mary. Taxi service is (757) 221-3785 or at At the next block turn left onto available. [email protected] at least Francis Street (Route 5 East). one week in advance. Should your visit not coincide with a time when We look for students who have tours are scheduled, self- guided, recorded tours may strong academic backgrounds be obtained from the Admission Office during and a sharp intellect during the business hours or the Library Circulation Desk admission process, but we also during Law Library hours (because library hours vary look for those with drive, during the year, please call (757) 221-3255 to confirm commitment, and compassion. availability).
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The majority of conferred when fewer than status must complete and or paid; driver's license; decisions are finalized and the final 30 semester hours submit the "Application for motor vehicle registration; mailed during the last week were earned while in Virginia In-State Tuition voter registration; employ- of March. residence at William & Mary. Privileges" with their applica- ment; property ownership; Transfer application tion for admission. A student sources of financial support; REAPPLYING procedures can be found at whose domicile has changed location of checking or William & Mary Law www.wm.edu/law may request reclassification passbook savings; and social School retains files for two /prospective/admissions from out-of-state to in-state. or economic ties with years and applicants may /otherapps_advstanding.shtml. Students seeking reclassifica- Virginia. reapply by: Visiting student status tion must complete and • Submitting the current for one semester or one application with the applica- academic year is considered tion fee — where indicated for applicants with the Applicant Profile—2006 provide the year of entrance approval of their home law The figure to the left of the slash represents 2006 entering class admittees, for which your application (s) school to accept course while the figure to the right of the slash represents applicants (e.g., 2/10 in a box means 2 of 10 applicants with that combination of LSAT and GPA were was previously submitted. credits for the law degree to accepted). Totals reflect all first-year applications as of 5/01/06. • Including an updated be awarded by the home personal statement or school. LSA1 Score Percentile Range specifying direction to 508. 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100 Total Visiting Student applica- below use the prior statement tion procedures can be GPA and updated supporting found at www.wm.edu/law 3-7581 5/60 2/38 5/85 11/149 49/199 369/406 442/944 materials. Above /prospective/admissions 3-74- 5/110 4/47 1/114 2/171 30/306 269/377 311/1130 • Registering with LSDAS /otherapps_visiting.shtml. 3-5» unless the transcript on file 3-49- 5/138 6/47 1/82 5/158 8/214 111/304 134/946 3-15 with LSAC is complete with 3-24- 2/119 1/23 4/72 2/76 3/111 36/187 48/592 degree conferral. 3.00 « Submitting additional 2.99- 4/81 1/23 2/36 0/37 0/51 5/81 14/3H 2-75 letters of recommendation if 2.74- 1/44 0/8 0/12 1/13 1/21 3/37 6/136 desired — recommendations 2.50 from previous file may be 2.49- 0/40 0/7 0/11 1/8 0/8 0/14 1/88 2.00 used. Below 0/3 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/4 2.00 NO LSDAS Summary 0/11 0/2 0/6 o/5 0/6 3/6 3/53 CPA Total 20/606 "4/195 13/419 22/617 91/916 796/1412 959/4207
35 All applicants selected for students may apply for a JOSHUA M. GREER admission are automatically Graduate PLUS loan to Class of 2007 • Gilbert, AZ considered for merit bridge the gap between the Josh, a magna cum laude graduate of Arizona State University, earned a degree scholarships and fellowships cost of attendance and any in English literature. At William & Mary, he is a member of the William & Mary awarded by the Law School other aid. The Grad PLUS is BillojRightsJoumalznd theJ. Reuben Clark Law Society, a Legal Skills Program teaching assistant, and a student admission ambassador. During summer 2005 using the criteria submitted a federal loan similar to the he worked for the Maricopa County (AZ) Attorney's Office andJudge Daniel to complete the application Stafford loan and these A. Barker of the Arizona Court of Appeals. Josh spent summer 2006 working for the Phoenix law firm of Fennemore Craig. for admission. Awards are loans can be consolidated based on information upon graduation. It has a William & Mary's cost required in the application fixed interest rate of 8.5 for admission. Students percent which can be and quality are hard to applying for need-based reduced by choosing to beat. Students get a funds and/or educational borrow through one of loans are required to file William & Mary's three top-notch education the Free Application for preferred lenders. without the burden of Federal Student Aid William & Mary students (FAFSA) by February 15 excessive debt. qualify for favorable lender (www.fafsa.ed.gov). William terms and rates — three & Mary's Title IV code is preferred lenders have been 003705. No other financial identified. Additional infor- aid application is required mation may be obtained by by William & Mary Law contacting the Financial Aid School for scholarships or Office. grants. Stafford loans are (757) 221-2420 Financial Information available to students Fax (757) 221-2515 whether or not they have COST OF ATTENDING [email protected] demonstrated financial www.wm.edu/financialaid/ William & Mary's relatively modest fees, cost of living, and need. The annual Stafford comprehensive financial aid program make financing a loan limit for a law student STUDENT EMPLOYMENT legal education more manageable than at many other law is $20,500, of which $8,500 The American Bar Associa- can be subsidized. The tion requires that full-time schools. federal government pays the law students devote "substan- Tuition and fees for law students during the 2006-07 interest on a subsidized loan tially all working hours to the academic year total $16,600 for Virginia residents and while the student is en- study of law." Students at $26,800 for nonresidents. The Office of Student Financial rolled. However, the interest William & Mary Law School Aid prepares standardized student budgets. Examples for on an unsubsidized loan may not exceed 15 hours of the 2006-07 academic year are presented below. The living accrues from the date of employment per week except receipt and must be paid by with permission of the dean. allowance is an estimate and many students, through careful the borrower. The student In no case will permission be budgeting, shared living arrangements, and money manage- must be a citizen or perma- granted to work more than ment, find their expenses are less than those quoted. nent resident of the United 20 hours a week. Individuals who meet the requirements for Virginia resi- States to be eligible for dency during their time of enrollment are eligible for the federal funds. Most Stafford in-state tuition rate. loan lenders will allow the interest to accumulate, with FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE administers the scholarship no payment necessary until after graduation or enroll- We are committed to program and selects Gradu- ment ceases. Additionally, helping students meet the ate Research Fellows. costs of their legal educa- Approximately half of our tion. William & Mary students benefit from these VA Resident Nonresident administers a financial programs. Work-study funds Tuition & Fees $16,600 $26,800 assistance program includ- and educational loans are ing both merit and administered by the Living Allowance $12,350 $12,350 need-based scholarships, University's Financial Aid Books $1,250 $1,250 work-study, and education Office. loans. The Admission Office Total $30,200 100 T A TtT T T A TV/T ^WU£T wmiam & Mary Law Sch°o1 VVlJLiJLJ./\lVl IXJU Admissio(757) 221n 378Offic5 e [email protected] u Application for Admission Juris Doctor Program Starting August 200
Applications should be submitted as early as possible and no later than March 1. A nonrefundable processing fee of $50 (U.S. dollars) must accompany this application or be paid online by credit card via LSAC.
1. Full Name: , , Last First Middle Former last name (if applicable)
2. Sex:* Male Q 3. Date of Birth:* 4. Social Security:* Female I I Month Day Year LSAC Account Number: L_
5. Racial/Ethnic Category:* | | Asian or Pacific Islander 6. Citizenship: | | U.S. Citizen | | Black/African American | | U.S. Permanent Resident I | Hispanic | | Nonresident Alien I | Native American or Alaskan Native Country of Citizenship D White D Other *Note: Provision of this information is not required. You are assured both by school policy and by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act that the information will be confidential and accessible only to school officials, government agencies, and others with a legitimate educational interest in the information.
7. Present Mailing Address: 8. Permanent Home Address: (where you wish admission correspondence sent) (through which you can be reached at any time)
Street or Box Street or Box
City State Zip Code City State Zip Code
If other than U.S., give country If other than U.S., give country
Day Area Code/ Evening Area Code/ Day Area Code/ Evening Area ('ode/ Telephone Number Telephone Number Telephone Number Telephone Number
Email Address
9. After what date should correspondence be sent to your permanent address: Month Day Year 10. Do you claim Virginia domiciliary status for tuition purposes? Yes I I No I I If yes, the application for Virginia In-State Tuition Privileges must be submitted and is available at www. wm.edu/regis trar/forms/tuition/Application_for_Virginia_In-state_Tuition_Pri vileges.pdf.
11. What type of admission do you seek? First Year I I Transfer I I Visiting I I
12. Have you previously applied to this Law School? If yes, year(s) and decision(s):
13. Two letters of recommendation are required and the application will not be complete until their receipt. Please check method of submission: I I LSDAS Recommendation Service I I Enclosed with application materials I I Submitted directly to the Law School by the recommender or university
37 14. Identify the undergraduate college from which you received (or expect to receive) a degree:
Name: Location: Title of Degree Date Conferred Attended: from (mo/yr) to (mo/yr) (such as B.A., B.S.): or Expected:
Major: Minor:
15. List in chronological order all other colleges and universities attended including law school(s):
Name: Location: Title of Degree Date Conferred Attended: from (mo/yr) to (mo/yr) (suchasBA., B.S.): or Expected:
Major: Minor:
Name: Location: Title of Degree Date Conferred Attended: from (mo/yr) to (mo/yr) (suchasB.A., B.S.): or Expected:
Major: _ Minor:
Name: Location: Title of Degree Date Conferred Attended: from (mo/yr) to (mo/yr) (suchasBA., B.S.): or Expected:
Major: Minor:
16. State your positions of full-time employment, including summer employment. Use the space below or submit a supplementary sheet of all employment. Those with military service may provide positions held.
Dates Employer Position Reason for Leaving
17. Check if you were employed during any academic year while an undergraduate. Yes D No If yes, describe positions held:
Hours per week: 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year 18. List all scholastic or academic honors you have received after secondary school including scholarships, fellowships, prizes, honor societies, and so forth:
19. Check if you have been involved in community and extracurricular activities and, if so, identify those Yes | | No [ that have been important to you, your level of involvement, leadership positions held, and the year(s) of your involvement:
20. Check if you have participated in intercollegiate sports/athletics and, if so, list participation and Yes | | No | | your level of involvement:
21. Have you served or are you now serving on full-time active duty in the U.S. military? Yes Q No | | If yes, complete the following:
Branch of Service: U.S.A. D ; U.S.A.F. D ; U.S.N. D ; U.S.M.C. D ; U.S.C.G. D ; Other D
Tour of Duty: from (mo/yr) to (mo/yr)
Rank or Rate (Current or at time of discharge/separation):
Type of Discharge/Separation: Reserve Status (Current):,
22. Will you be eligible for veteran's educational benefits while at William & Mary? Yes | | No | |
23. List relatives who have been students at William & Mary.
Name Relationship Degree (s)
39 Questions 24-30 must be answered. If the answer to any of questions 24-30 is yes, explain fully on a supplementary sheet. CHECK ONE
24. Were there any personal, cultural, or economic factors which, in your opinion, adversely Yes Q] No Q affected your academic performance?
25. Has your college, university, graduate, or professional school attendance been interrupted Yes | | No | | for any reason for one or more terms while you were enrolled in a degree program?
26. Have you ever been separated from a branch of the Armed Services of the United States Yes | | No | | under conditions other than honorable?
27. Have you ever been subject to disciplinary action for scholastic or other reasons in any of the Yes Q] NoQ colleges, universities, graduate, or professional schools you have attended?
28. Are there any disciplinary charges pending or expected to be brought against you? Yes | | No | |
29. Have you ever been convicted of or pled guilty or no contest to a felony charge, or to a Yes Q] No Q misdemeanor charge, including any charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants or other self-administered drugs, but not including a minor traffic charge?
30. Are there any criminal charges pending or expected to be brought against you? Yes Q] No Q
31. List all dates on which you have taken (or expect to take) the LSAT: 32. Indicate the date by which you will have registered with the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS), paid the LSDAS fee, and requested transcripts to be sent to LSDAS: . All materials must be sent to LSDAS by February 1, in order to be processed by March 1. 33. William & Mary Law School evaluates applicants in many areas beyond test scores and academic transcripts. Indeed, important academic objectives are furthered by classes comprised of students having talents and skills derived from diverse backgrounds. Please attach a brief personal statement which might identify factors such as activities or accomplishments, personal or cultural background, career goals, or special talents that you believe would contribute to the Law School community and would support your application to William & Mary Law School. 34. An additional essay may be submitted. This optional essay should describe an event in your life of which you are especially proud. Provide information not included in your required personal statement that focuses on academic achievement, situations in which you have overcome significant challenges, or any other event that you think will help us obtain a sense of your ability to function successfully in a complex world. 35. Optional essay (s) may be submitted by applicants especially interested in William & Mary Law School's Institute of Bill of Rights Law D, Center for Legal and Court Technology D, Law Library D, or George Wythe Society of Citizen Lawyers D. For more information, see www.wm.edu/law/prospective/admissions/fellowships.shtml. Check selections. The essay(s) should note your interest in, and qualifications for, involvement in one or more of these programs. The applicant has the responsibility to ensure that the admission office receives all supporting materials prior to die March 1 deadline. The deadline for transfer and visiting applicants is July 1.
I certify that I have read the foregoing document and have answered all questions fully and frankly. I will notify William & Mary Law School of any changes with regard to the information given in answer to questions on the application. Any omission or misstatement of a material fact on the application, or any of its supplemental information or attachments, could be the basis for denial of admission or, if admitted, dismissal from the Law School.
Date Signature
The Law School will consider your application complete when two recommendations and the LSAT/LSDAS Law School Report are received.
Application Checklist
D 1. The completed and signed or electronically certified application form and personal statement(s). D 2. The $50 (U.S. dollars) nonrefundable application fee payable to College of William & Mary or paid by credit card via LSAC. D 3. Explanations to yes answers for questions 24-30 (identify by using number of the question). D 4. Application for Virginia In-State Tuition Privileges. Send only if you claim Virginia domicile for tuition purposes (Question 10).
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