Regent University School of Law ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. GLOBAL IMPACT.
“ Regent Law students receive a rigorous legal education from an accomplished faculty that is deeply committed to students’ professional development and success.”
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
10
TOP
Faculty Nationally The Princeton Review, 2013 & 2014
MICHAEL V. HERNANDEZ Dean, Regent University School of Law
25%
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Judicial Clerkship Placement Nationally
Our Center for Global Justice has placed more than 100 interns in the past five years with public interest law firms, government agencies, and non-profit organizations dedicated to combating human rights abuses. Recent faculty global justice scholarship includes: Tessa Dysart, Child, Victim, or Prostitute? Justice Through Immunity for Prostituted Children, 21 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y, (2014) Tessa Dysart, The Protected Innocence Initiative: Building Protective State Law Regimes for America’s Sex-Trafficked Children, 44 Columbia Human Rights L. Rev. (2013)
95%
of third-year law students evaluate their experience as "Good" or "Excellent" National Avg. 81%
Michael Hernandez, The Rule of Law, Historical Equity, and Mexican Contra Prohibition Immigrants, 9 Regent J. Int’l L. 29 (2012) Lynne Marie Kohm, A Prospective Analysis of Family Fragmentation: Baby Mama Drama Meets Jane Austen, 29 B.Y.U.J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 101 (2015) Lynne Marie Kohm, A Brief Assessment of the 25-Year Effect of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 23 Cardozo J. Int’l. & Compar. L. 323 (2015) Lynne Marie Kohm, The Challenges of Teaching Gender Equality in a World of Gendercide, 6 Regent J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 1 (2014) Lynne Marie Kohm (co-author), Are We There Yet? Immigration Reform for the Best Interests of Children, 23 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 77 (2014) Lynne Marie Kohm and Kathleen McKee, Examining the Associations between Sustainable Development Population Policies and Human Trafficking, 23 Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev. 1 (2014) Craig Stern, Human Rights or the Rule of Law—The Choice for East Africa?, 23 Michigan St. Int’l L. Rev. 1 (2015)
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17 %
for bar passage rates outperforming incoming LSAT scores OVERALL FIRST-TIME BAR PASSAGE RATES CONSISTENTLY ABOVE NATIONAL AVERAGE
94%
Pass Rate for LSAT Above 160
91%
Pass Rate for LSAT Above 155
86%
Overall Pass Rate for LSAT Above 150
Gloria Whittico, If Past is Prologue: Toward the Development of a New Freedom Suit for the Remediation of Foster Care Disproportionalities among African-American Children, 43 Cap. U. L. Rev. 407 (2015) Our Center for Ethical Formation and Legal Education Reform, which collaborates with other law schools to develop curricular reforms to prepare ethical attorneys, paired 114 Regent Law students with mentors this past year. The co-directors of the center, Benjamin V. Madison, III and L.O. Natt Gantt, III, authored a chapter entitled Teaching the Newly Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Values in a Changing World in the most recent edition of Building on Best Practices in Legal Education. Our Center for Advocacy coordinates our intensive skills programs and training. Our moot court program ranked 8th in 2014-15 and thus was invited to compete in the 2016 Andrews Kurth National Moot Court Championship. Among other awards, our students earned the Best Memorial (Brief) and Second Best Oral Advocate award at the 2015 Price Media Moot Court Programme in Oxford, England.
OUR FIRST HONORS PROGRAM GRADUATING CLASS, WHICH HAD A PROFILE OF A TOP 30 LAW SCHOOL
92%
First Time Bar Passage Rate
29%
Judicial Clerkship Placement Rate