UNH Law News

• Scalia’s Critique of Legal Education Echoes UNH Law’s Practice-Ready Philosophy

  Mar 25–
  In his keynote address at UNH Law’s annual alumni dinner on March 22, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered an extensive critique of several trends in contemporary legal education. Tracing the rise of the legal academy over the past 140 years, Scalia lamented courses that move beyond the traditional curriculum to incorporate other disciplines, and how this allows students to graduate without having studied all the necessary areas of the law. This development, in Scalia’s view, is connected to the …

• UNH Law Moves up 23 Positions in the U.S. News Rankings

  Mar 12–
  In the law school rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report in the 2014 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools, UNH Law rose to #119, a significant increase over last year’s #142 position. “While there’s certainly cause to question the importance these rankings have assumed in legal education, we cannot deny their influence,” said Dean John Broderick. “Our improvement in the rankings is consistent with the progress we are making at UNH Law, such as admitting the strongest class …

• Legal Writing Program Gives First-Year Students Real-World Experience

  Mar 11–
  UNH Law’s Legal Skills Program is challenging first-year students to solve real legal problems for New Hampshire organizations. Students in this year’s Legal Writing and Analysis II class are the first to participate in the new program, which brings together the students and a local nonprofit with an access-to-justice issue that it has neither the time nor resources to solve. The class is currently working on behalf of New Hampshire Legal Assistance on a challenge involving state constitutional law. The goal of …

• Students in Criminal Practice Clinic Turn “Slam-Dunk Case” Into Split Verdict

  Mar 8–
  Third-year students Mary Weber and Adam Woods, through UNH Law’s Criminal Practice Clinic, brought a complicated and at times “bizarre” felony-level case from trial through sentencing this past semester. “These two just couldn’t have done a better job for this particular client,” said Professor Chuck Temple, the clinic’s director. “Mary and Adam tried this case like seasoned trial attorneys from beginning to end and were a complete pleasure to work with The client was a woman who had been found by the …

• UNH Law Sports Law Professor Interviews Armstrong in ‘Sports Illustrated’ Exclusive

  Mar 6–
  Professor Michael McCann, the director of UNH Law’s upcoming Sports Law Institute and a legal analyst and writer for Sports Illustrated and SI.com, talked with Lance Armstrong at his home in Austin, TX, last week. The interview, McCann writes on SI.com, “was an intense, sometimes contentious, conversation that lasted for about three hours.” This was the first time Armstrong had been interviewed since his much-talked-about January interview with Oprah Winfrey. McCann’s interview with Armstrong, which he writes about in this week’s issue …