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For the first time ever, the Student Bar Association is being audited. The umbrella association represents almost 1,000 students and more than thirty-six student groups and organizations at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Accountability is imperative in any

Opinion

Getting Paid to Drop Out of Law School? Not a Great Idea…

#Cardozo #Finance #law school #law students

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In November of last year, two Yale professors published an article in Slate magazine suggesting that the humane thing for law schools to do is �pay students to quit.� Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Ian Ayres recommended that law schools

Opinion

Springing Into the New Semester

#Cardozo #cardozo jurist #law school #law students #OCS

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Dearest Readers,

Welcome back to a new semester that has certainly started out with a bang! With this issue, the Jurist hopes to catch you up with some of the more interesting- and perhaps not too well known- happenings within our

Opinion

Sticks and Stones May Break Our Bones but Words Will Set Us Free

#Cardozo #religion #Sex #Staff Editorial #Yeshiva University

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In December, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate campuses became embroiled in a salacious controversy. A female student at Stern College published an anonymous first-person story in The Beacon, a student publication, in which she describes a hotel room sexual escapade and her

Community

Cardozo appoints Marcia Nan Levy as new OCS Dean

#Cardozo #Career #featured #Jobs #law students #OCS

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After months of searching, the wait is finally over: Cardozo has a new Dean of Career Services.
On January 5th, Dean Matthew Diller announced that Marcia Nan Levy would be taking over the position left vacant by Arthur Fama. Dean Fama

Community

BEACON SEX ARTICLE PROMPTS HEATED DEBATE

#Cardozo #religion #Sex #Yeshiva University

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While Cardozo students drank coffee and popped caffeine pills in preparation for finals, controversy was brewing at Stern College.
On December 5, 2011, the YU Beacon published a risqu� article written by a twenty year-old Orthodox woman describing a scandalous premarital

Community, The News

November Gets Hairy For Philanthropic Law Students

February 8, 2012 #Cardozo #Cardozo Events #Community #movember #philanthropy

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Sometimes it’s easy for law students to get caught in their academic bubble and forget about bigger issues. One solution involves keeping a thick, itchy and aesthetically questionable reminder right under your nose at all times.
That’s exactly what two Cardozo

Opinion

Making the Curve: An Inside Look at Cardozo�s Grading System

#Cardozo #curve #Grades #law students

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Ah�the dreaded curve. When I was first told that we would be graded using a standard bell -curve, the first thing I thought to myself was, �Please God, let me be the smartest person in my section.� Of course, with

Community

Administration Confronts Decrease in Course Evaluations

#Cardozo #class #law school #law students #Professor

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It’s been three years since Cardozo’s course evaluations traded in their Scantron sheets and No. 2 pencils for a more modern approach: the uniform online evaluations that put students a few clicks and keystrokes from opining on any professor or

Community, Uncategorized

Q&A with Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Kate Shaw

#Cardozo #Community #law school #staff

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When Justice John Paul Stevens was asked, �Is there anything more that the faculty and staff [of Northwestern University Law School] could do to help place more Northwestern Law clerks with your colleagues?� Stevens quickly retorted, �Sure, that’s easy.� Educate