Free Law School!
Thinking of going to law school? Worried that the loans you’ll have to take out to fund your legal education will force you into a accepting a Big Law position?
Here’s a solution.
The University of California, Irvine is opening a new law school next year. And to attract top students, it plans to give full scholarships to every member of the first class. The value of the scholarships is about $100,000. The anticipated class size is 60. The school has already received donations sufficient to fund about 1/3 of the scholarships.
The school has signed up a fairly impressive founding faculty – plenty of diversity in disciplines with a definite trend toward public interest. And the promise, at least, that writing skills will be deemed important.
Of course, it takes a certain amount of faith to attend a brand new law school. Provisional accredidation cannot occur until the end of the second year. But it seems likely that this school will be able to comply with the requirements. And there is already a lengthy list of employers lined up for on campus interviewing in 2010. Lots of public interest agencies listed, but law firms are ont he list, too.
Apply to UCI Law here.
See the story at ABA Journal:: Law School Free for UC Irvine’s Entering 2009 Class
