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academic years Mixed American Bar Association American Law Schools Association of American Attendance autumn 1923 autumn of 1922 bar examination Equivalent begin their law beginning law study CARNEGIE FOUNDATION College of Law Council on Legal course of less definite amount Diploma privilege entrance requirements Equivalent of high Five academic four academic full-time and part-time Full-time schools requiring IIE4 IIM3 lc Illinois law course Law Department law office Law School University Law St Law University Legal Education mentioned in rules Mixed full-time North Carolina North Dakota Northeastern University office students office study part-time and mixed Part-time schools requiring period of law prescribe a definite prior to beginning prior to taking quirement Equivalent recently changed required for admission School of Law School University schools requiring three study during Three taking bar ex taking bar examination three academic Three or four Three years Three University of Dayton Valparaiso University Washington West Virginia
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Page 6 - ... not a full-time course), which shall have an adequate library and a sufficient number of teachers giving their entire time to the school to ensure actual personal acquaintance and influence with the whole student body, and which shall not be operated as a commercial enterprise. The Yale...
Page 14 - ... (a) It shall require as a condition of admission at least two years of study in a college. (b) It shall require its students to pursue a course of three years duration if they devote substantially all of their working time to their studies, and a longer course, equivalent in the number of working hours, if they devote only part of their working time to their studies.
Page 14 - A full-time school shall require of its candidates for the first degree in law resident study of law during a period of at least ninety weeks and the successful completion of at least ten hundred and eighty hours of classroom instruction in law.
Page 8 - Three years full-time work in a day law school or in a law office, four years in an evening law school Three years in a law school or four years in a law office...
Page 5 - ... than the authority of the law school of which he is a graduate. No state has adopted the recommendation that all applicants for admission to the bar shall be graduates of a law school. West Virginia has gone farthest by requiring "three years of diligent study as a resident student in a law school" certified by the Association of American Law Schools as complying with the American Bar Association -standards. The West Virginia rule determines the method of evidencing graduation from such a school...
Page 13 - It shall require of all candidates for its degree at the time of their admission to the school the completion of a four years' high school course, or such a course of preparation as would be accepted for admission to the State university or to the principal colleges and universities in the State where the Law School is located: Provided...
Page 13 - Arts of the state university or of the principal colleges and universities in the state where the law school is located and, after September 1.
Page 12 - In legal education, bar admission requirements, the Council on legal education and the Association of American law schools, statistics and list of law schools.
Page 6 - ... per week. You remember an amendment was proposed and voted down. Members of the Executive Committee were rather glad that amendment was voted down, because the feeling, I think, of every member of the present Executive Committee has been that the problem in the case of these part-time schools has not been so much their requiring a sufficient number of hours per week, but rather requiring too much, and certainly the attitude of the present Executive Committee has been that eight hours a week should...
Page 14 - Upon establishment of curricula in their parttime schools covering a period of at least 160 weeks distributed over not less than four years, exclusive of holiday and vacation periods, and their compliance in other respects with the requirements [for membership, certain schools] will be eligible for membership. Library...