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South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. Interest in J.D.

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Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School, has had a storied career in the fields of law, bioethics, data protection, and privacy.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

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He studied political science in college because he’d always been interested in politics, and when he graduated without “employable skills,” he joked, he went to law school. Caron said he gravitated toward and eventually ended up working professionally in tax law, given its research-intensive nature.

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Vice-President, AAUP, 2012-18, 2019-20; Chair, AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2012 2021; Chair, AAUP Foundation, 2013-2021. And the federal government says, look, we’re not going to tell you you have to have a law school. You can’t have an engineering school or the other way around.