Brooklyn Law School ( BLS ) is a law school founded in 1901. It is located in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, in the United States, and has about 1,100 students.
The law school's dean is Nicholas W. Allard, who took the role in 2012 and resigned in May 2018, and the President's role in 2014. Brooklyn law faculty includes 64 full-time faculty, 6 emeriti faculty, and a number of additional faculties, many among which are prominent law scholars.
By 2017, 78.6% of first-time school-taking takers pass the exam, placing law school as the 8th highest among the 15 law schools of New York. Of the 369 graduates in 2016, nine months after the graduation 323 were employed. Alumni live in 49 states and more than 25 countries after graduation. The law school is ranked 36th of all national law schools by the Journal of the National Law in terms of sending the highest percentage of 2015 graduates to 100 of the largest law firms in the US (9.25%).
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History
The origins of Brooklyn Law School can be traced back to the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, when in the 1890s schools established the Department of Commerce. Due to his tremendous popularity, the Commerce Department quit the main Institute and established its own school, under the guidance of Norman P. Heffley, personal secretary to Charles Pratt. The Heffley School of Commerce, formed from the Commerce Department of Pratt, initially shared the facility with Pratt.
In 1901, William Payson Richardson and Norman P. Heffley reorganized the Heffley School to Brooklyn Law School, the first law school on Long Island. Using the space provided by Heffley's business school, law school opened on 30 September 1901, with five faculty members (including Richardson as dean and Heffley as president), and two special lecturers.
The year begins with five students, and ends with 28. By the end of 1901, the New York State Bupati Council granted the charter to the Law School. The Law School became fully accredited by the American Bar Association through its Part Board on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and is a member of the American Law School Association. The School of Law curriculum is registered and approved by the New York State Department of Education.
From the very beginning, Brooklyn Law School opened its doors to minorities, women and immigrants, and offered a nightclub for those working full time. Dean Richardson also allows students who have difficulty paying tuition to stay enrolled in credit. The school moved twice between 1901 and 1928, when it finally moved into the first building designed and built specifically for it at 375 Pearl Street in downtown Brooklyn. Although schools do not have campuses, dormitories, and cafeterias, students may engage in extracurricular activities.
World War II hit Brooklyn Law School very hard, and in 1943 enrollment became 174 students. St. John's University Lawrence, who until then operated the Brooklyn Law School and awarded a degree, decided to close the school. Prominent alumni are encouraged into action, and negotiate the repurchase of school assets, ensuring that Brooklyn Law School will operate as an independent institution.
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Ratings
- The 2008 Leiter Report places the 25th Brooklyn Law School rankings, in the "Most Prestigious" Law Placement Category.
- The 2009 Leiter Report ranked the 39th Brooklyn School of Law nationally in Student Quality, by in-class in 2008.
- 2013 Edition US. News puts Brooklyn Law School to-80, in the list of top 100 law schools.
- 2015 edition from US. News of Brooklyn Law School's 78th rank, in the list of top 194 law schools.
- The New York Law Journal places Brooklyn Law School as the 2nd Best Public Law School by 2017.
- Business Insider places Brooklyn Law School as one of "The Best Law Schools in the Northeast" by 2016.
- Billboard Magazine enrolled at Brooklyn Law School at Top Music Attorney Top School by 2017.
- Hollywood Reporter enrolled Brooklyn Law School at 12 Schools of Top Entertainment Laws in 2017.
- The 2016 Leiter Report places the faculty of the 26th Brooklyn School of Law in this country because it has the highest percentage of the most quoted professors.
- The 2017 Leiter Report places the faculty of the 30th Brooklyn School of Law in the country for "scientific excellence".
Path level and career prospects bar
In 2013, 94% of first-time test takers of law schools passed the New York exam exam, the third best among the 15 law schools of New York. By 2017, first-time takers going through the bar dropped to 78.6%, ranked the best 8 in the state.
In 2012, five Brooklyn Law School graduates filed a class action lawsuit, which was dismissed the following year, accusing consumer fraud and general legal fraud. As part of a series of lawsuits that are identical to national law schools, the complaint alleges that the administration of law schools misreported employment and wage information for the purpose of attracting students to attend law school. Prior to the lawsuit, the Brooklyn Law School claimed that 95% or more of graduates found employment within 9 months of graduation, without always distinguishing between the full-time, part-time, and non-JD required employment (which elaborates ABA/NALP rules do not require when the statistics at issue in the lawsuit, but which damage has been necessary since 2012). In April 2013, NY State Judge David Schmidt dismissed the lawsuit, finding that school denials on employment and wage data alerted graduates that their own post-graduate income might not be in accordance with the data.
Of the 478 graduates of law faculty in 2013, nine months after graduation all work out of 39 who are looking for work, and 5 are not looking for work (employment status 8 is unknown); 316 has gotten a job practicing law, and 74 has taken a favorable position J.D. Brooklyn Law School Law School The transparency score under-employment is 22%, indicating the percentage of the 2013 Class that is unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.
Of 382 graduates in 2014, nine months after graduation 38 are unemployed, and 7 from unknown employment status.
The law school is ranked # 36 of all national law schools by the Journal of the National Law in terms of sending the highest percentage of 2015 graduates to 100 of the largest law firms in the US (9.25%).
Locations and facilities
The academic and administrative buildings of Brooklyn Law School and the main student residence are located in Downtown Brooklyn, near many federal and state courts and corporate law offices and the public interest. The main academic building of Brooklyn Law School at 250 Joralemon Street has classrooms, faculty offices, student journals, conference centers, dining rooms and a four-storey law library with a volume of 586,000. The office building near 111 Livingston Street houses many legal school clinics, legal writing centers, and administrative offices.
Brooklyn Law School guarantees housing in residence for all incoming students. The largest residence is Feil Hall, a 22-storey building on 205 State Street that opened in 2005. Designed by renowned architect Robert AM Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, it accommodates about 360 students in 239 fully equipped apartments of various sizes, and includes a center conferences and cafà ©  ©.
Faculty
The faculty of Brooklyn law school includes 64 full-time professors, 6 emeriti faculty, and a number of additional faculties. The Law School uses many practitioners, public officials and judges as an additional faculty to teach specialized subjects in many areas of the law, including international sales law, securities law, real estate development, court advocacy, business crime, corporate litigation, sports law, and border security law and homeland. In addition, in each semester, visiting professors come from all over the world to teach at school.
The Law School is home to some notable scholars, including deputy professor Aaron Twerski, and Elizabeth Schneider, a gender expert, law, and civil procedure. Both have high ratings in Brian Leiter's survey of "Professor of the Praised Law by Specialists".
Other notable professors include Roberta Karmel, former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and columnist for The New York Law Journal, and Susan Herman, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In recent years, the Law School has hired a number of new junior faculty members whose work utilizes various influences to contribute scholarships in areas such as copyfraud, law and religion, international business law, land use planning, and market secondary mortgages.
Journals and competitions
Journal
The Law School publishes four law journals edited by students: The Brooklyn Law Review, International Journal of Laws, Journal of Law and Policy, and the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law. More than 290 second and third year students have the opportunity to write for one of the journals.
The four student journals select new members based on writing skills and academic achievement. Each journal selects members with the submission of membership competition and the value received during the first year of law school. Each journal requires that members be above 75% of their class.
Moot Court
The Law School has a court advocacy division of court advocacy and appeals. Each year enter about 30 teams in national pseudo court competition. The competition covers all areas of law, including family law, criminal procedures, white-collar crime, and international law.
In 2011, Brooklyn Law School brought home the top international, national, and regional titles. His team won first place at Moot Court Competition Irving R. Kaufman, and became the first champion in the National Family Law Competition Domenick L. Gabrielli. They are also Semi-Finalists in New York Region New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition, Semi-Finalist in Moot Court Law Competition Phillip C. Jessup (student won Third Best Brief and Sixth Best Oralist), Semi- Finalist in Legal Competition of Legal Debate National Environment (student won Best Oral in Preliminary round), Semi-Finalist in Law Moot Court Competition Evan A. Evans, Semi-Finalist for JAG Navy Corps Corps Competition, and Semi- Finalist in Moot Bankruptcy Court Duberstein Competition.
Jerome Prince's Proof Competition
Every year, Brooklyn Law School hosts the Jerome Prince Memorial Competition, a national pseudo-court competition. Named in honor of the late Dean of Brooklyn Law School and famous proof scholar, the competition attracted over 30 legal school teams from across the country. Many students from the Moot Court Honor Society are involved in the coordination of the Prince's Competition, and some students have the opportunity to work with faculty members to research and write issues at the forefront of the law of evidence - used in a competition.
Academic offerings
Brooklyn Law School offers students over 190 courses and seminars in the field of law.
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Each Brooklyn Law School center focuses on specific areas of the law and conducts lectures, symposia, forums, and round table discussions that address emerging issues.
- Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE): Explores the legal issues surrounding entrepreneurship, and provides effective legal representation and support for new and non-profit commercial businesses, while also training business-oriented law students to provide advice and participate in this sector.
- Center for Legal Studies and Business Regulations: Unify the Law School's diverse business law and commercial law programs by providing a forum for scholarships that offer new perspectives and solutions to real-world business law and regulatory issues.
- Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law Studies: Established by the Law School to study and shape international business law and policy.
- Language Center for Law and Cognition: Explores how developments in cognitive science - including psychology, neuroscience and linguistics - have implications for law at theoretical and practical levels.
- Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy: Offers students substantive knowledge and practical skills related to health and science law. Clan
- The Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic, (BLIP), operates like a law firm representing the Internet, new media, communications, and other technology entrepreneurs as well as innovators in business and policy advocacy. Students work with clients in transactional, litigation, policy, and other advocacy projects and interact and strategize with members of the entrepreneurship, technology and finance community, as well as with legislators, regulators and other policy makers.
- The Federal Habeas Capital and Defense Clinic gives students the opportunity to represent death-row inmates in other states and defendants in New York who have filed federal habeas corpus petitions. This work consists of petitioning in the US Supreme Court.
- The Community Development Clinic provides opportunities for students to represent community development companies, cultural institutions, affordable housing providers, and small businesses serving under-represented communities.
In 2009, the Brooklyn Law School clinical program ranked 28th in the country. In 2010, The National Jurist placed the fourth BLS in the country for its public service work, strongly influenced by its clinical program. The clinic specializes in bankruptcy, securities arbitration, immigration, entrepreneurship, technology, criminal law, real estate practice, intellectual property, and mediation. Students represent clients, groups, and individual businesses and appear in state, federal, and administrative courts, both at trial and appeal levels. Brooklyn Law School creates a new mandate by 2014 that requires students to complete at least one clinic or graduate course before graduation. Among the Faculty of Law's clinics include: Clinic represents low-income New Yorkers and their families on civilian issues affecting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and provides an opportunity for students to advocacy in various fields of law ranging from public benefits, guardianship, housing and access to government services.
fellowship program
Brooklyn Law School offers some paid scholarships for students who want to enrich their legal interests further.
- Public Interest/Public Service (PipS): Full-time scholarship recipients at entry level positions in nonprofit or government agencies who partner with Brooklyn Law School receive proper training and supervision, and attend classroom components at night at Brooklyn Law School. After nine months working with one of Brooklyn Law School's partners, after graduation, Fellows took a break to study the exam exam before returning to their full-year Fellowship placement.
- International Human Rights Guild: Choose students involved in studies concentrated in international human rights and conduct international human rights work overseas.
- Health Sciences and Public Policy Scholarships: Students who have demonstrated academic or professional achievements in health, public health, science, and biotechnology undertake a major research project on legal or policy issues related to this field./li>
- International Business Law fellowships: Students planning to pursue a career in international business law participate in a program organized by Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law Studies, as well as a range of mentoring and enrichment experiences.
- Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship: Students selected for this nationally recognized program are placed in public interest organizations throughout the United States and abroad.
- Fellowship The Secret Service of Commerce: The scholarship recipients in this program are responsible for identifying key cases to be incorporated into the database of the Trade Secret Institute through research on the doctrinal issues relating to trade secrets.
- Students work with lecturers and alumni who are members of the Zaretsky committee to develop program content and materials for the annual Zaretsky Roundtable, a discussion of current commercial law and bankruptcy topics.
LL.M. Degree program
Brooklyn Law School offers an LL.M. program for trained foreign lawyers. The program facilitates special studies in three subject areas: business law, intellectual property law, and refugee and immigration law.
Joint Degree Program
Brooklyn Law School offers five joint degree programs:
- JD/Master of Business Administration: Brooklyn Law School and Baruch College jointly sponsor courses leading to Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees in Business Administration and Policy.
- J.D./Master in Urban and Regional Planning: Brooklyn Law School and Pratt Institute jointly sponsor programs leading to Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Science (M.S.) levels in Urban and Regional Planning.
- The JD/Master in Urban Planning: Brooklyn Law School and the Hunter College Postgraduate Program in Urban Planning Department (Urban Affairs and Planning) jointly sponsor programs leading to Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Urban Planning (MUP).
- JD/Master in Library and Information Science: Brooklyn Law School and the Pratt Institute's Library of Information and Library School jointly sponsor programs leading to Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science (MSLIS).
- LL.M./Master in Library and Information Science: Brooklyn Law School and Pratt Institute jointly sponsor a double degree program for those who have earned J.D. This program leads to M.S.L.I.S. and LL.M. in Law and Information Society.
Certificate program
Brooklyn Law School offers five certificate programs:
Public Service Program
Brooklyn Law School has created one of the leading public service programs in the country. It has a public service community championed by the Office of Public Service. The Office provides individual counseling and information in the summer and academic year, encourages students toward pro bono opportunities, and helps students apply for postgraduate scholarships and job opportunities.
Study abroad
Summer abroad
Brooklyn Law School, along with Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, sponsors two summer programs abroad each year. Students study international law and comparison for two or three weeks in one of two locations: Beijing or Bologna.
- The Beijing program is hosted at China International Business and Economics University (UIBE). This program offers students the opportunity to study international bankruptcy and Chinese law. Courses are taught in English by faculty from BLS and Loyola, with lectures by members of UBIE's Law Faculty. The program also allows time for visits to local cultural and legal institutions and to meet Chinese law students.
- The Bologna program is hosted by the University of Bologna. Founded in the 11th century, it is the oldest university in Europe, and the center of legal studies since the Middle Ages. Courses in international business law and comparative topics are taught by faculty from American and European law schools.
Semester abroad
- Exchange Program with Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany
Every year, the Law School selects two students to attend Bucerius Law School during the fall semester while two Bucerius students study at Brooklyn Law School. The Bucerius Law School Program in International Business and Comparative Law is designed to develop and expand students' understanding of the forces that shape international business law and offers a unique opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of German, European, and international law. Courses are taught in English by a combination of American law school professors and international law professors.
- Exchange Program with University of Essex in Colchester, England
The University of Essex exchange program allows two Brooklyn Law School students every semester to study at the University of Essex while two UK students are selected to study at the Law School for a full academic year. The focus of the program is on international human rights and EU law.
- Exchange Program with University College Cork in Cork, Ireland
The Brooklyn Law School exchange program with University College Cork (UCC) provides two Brooklyn Law School students every semester of opportunity to study at UCC, a college founded in 1845 with the Law Faculty which is the largest department at the University. Two Cork students spend an academic year at the Law School. Brooklyn Law School students have the ability to study many legal subjects from an Irish legal perspective, as well as many topics of international and comparative attitudes.
- Exchange Program with Hong Kong University in Hong Kong, China
Two Brooklyn Law School students have the option of studying in Hong Kong for a semester in exchange for two Hong Kong University students attending Brooklyn Law School for this year. Due to China's rapid economic and social development and Hong Kong's Pacific Rim location, the program focuses primarily on Chinese trade law, human rights law and international corporate and financial law. Except for some courses offered at LL.M. programs (eg, Chinese Law), course instruction in English.
- Exchange Program with Universidad Torcuato Di Tello in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brooklyn Law School has recently added this program to enable students to study law in Spanish from the perspective of the Civil Law system. The program highlights courses in tax law, law and economics, business law, law and finance, criminal law, and public law and policy.
- Exchange Program with Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel
Two Brooklyn Law School students in their second year also have a new opportunity to attend Tel Aviv University, the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research Law, in the spring semester. Students will be able to take various courses touching international law and comparison, as well as the option to learn Hebrew.
Student organization
The total attendance cost (indicating tuition fees, fees, and living expenses) at Brooklyn Law School for the 2013-14 academic year is $ 78,604. The total attendance cost for the 2015-16 academic year will be $ 70,534 as a result of the 15% tuition reduction plan applicable in May 2015. The estimated cost of a three-year debt-funded attendance is $ 204,197.
See also
- New York Law
References
External links
- Official website
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