UMass School of Law Points of Distinction Brochure

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Points of Distinction

Dustin Marlan, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law B.A., Indiana University • Courses: Business Organizations; Community Development Clinic; Intellectual Property • Prior Position: Fellow, University of Michigan Law School Community Development Clinic • Recent Publications: “Is the Word ‘Consumer’ Biasing Trademark Law?,” Texas A&M Law Review (2021) “Unmasking the Right of Publicity,” Hastings Law Journal (2020) “Beyond Cannabis: Psychedelic Decriminalization and Social Justice,” Lewis & Clark L. Rev. (2019)

Elizabeth McCuskey, Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law B.A., University of Pennsylvania • Courses: Civil Procedure; Food & Drug Law; Health Law • Prior Position: Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law • Recent Publications: “Subject-Matter Jurisdiction: The Power of Interests and the Interests of Power,” (Coleman, Malveaux, Pedro, & Porter, eds)., A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (2021) “Federalism, ERISA, and State Single-Payer Health Care” (with Erin C. Fuse Brown), University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2020) “Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style” (with Erin C. Fuse Brown, Matthew Lawrence, & Lindsay Wiley), The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Fall 2020)

Geoffrey McDonald, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., Emory University School of Law Ph.D., in Religion: Ethics & Society, Emory University M.A.R., in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University B.A., Wesleyan University • Courses: Contracts, Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Jurisprudence • Prior position: Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services NYC-Bronx • Recent Publication: Kierkegaard as Antinomian: Ethics, Politics, Law (book manuscript under submission)

Danya Reda, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., Harvard Law School M.St., University of Oxford (Islamic Law and Philosophy) A.B., Brown University • Courses: Civil Procedure; Comparative and Islamic Law; Torts • Prior Position: Associate Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law • Recent Publications: “Orientalizing Procedure,” A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, Elizabeth Porter, eds., forthcoming 2021) “What Does it Mean to Say That Procedure is Political?,” Fordham Review (2017)

• Bar Exam Passage • Employment Success &

• Affordability

Law

“How the Anchoring Effect Might Have Saved Civil Rule-Makers Time and Money (and Face),”Review of Litigation (2015)

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UMass Law’s Distinctive Value Bar Pass Rates & Tuition UMass Law prepares you for bar exam success and offers a tuition rate that is one of the most

Ultimate Bar Passage Rates Law School

Class of 2017 ABA Std. 316 “Ultimate” Bar Passage Rate

affordable in New England. In addition to affordability and the pursuit of justice, the third

Tuition & fees* (2020-2021)

Harvard

99%

$67,081

Boston College

97%

$59,648

Boston University

95%

$58,962

The ABA’s Standard 316 ultimate bar passage

Northeastern

95%

$54,870

rate–the percent of law school graduates

UMass Law

90%

$29,551**

New England Law

80%

$51,118

Suffolk Law School

79%

$52,156

Western New England

75%

$45,102

pillar of our mission is a firm commitment to academic excellence.

who pass the bar exam within two years of graduation–is generally considered one of the best measures of the quality of a law school’s legal education. You can compare our Class of 2017 passage rate (the most recent year for which ABA data is available), along with our

Source: abarequireddisclosures.org/BarPassageOutcomes.aspx *In-state: $29,511, Regional (RI/VT): $31,437, Non-residents: $38,419

tuition, in the adjacent chart. For the Class of 2018, UMass Law’s ultimate bar passage rate is already 92%.

Class of 2019 Employment Rates

Employment Success UMass Law prepares you to pursue

Full-time, long-term, bar-required

All bar-required + JD advantage

justice in any field of law. We were

Harvard

87.5%

93.3%

nationally recognized by preLaw

Boston College

83.4%

90.7%

magazine for achieving an employment

Boston University

83.3%

90.9%

rate substantially higher than predicted

Northeastern

71.4%

90.6%

UMass Law

60.9%

80.4%

Roger Williams

58.2%

72.4%

ranked UMass Law among the top law

Suffolk

58.0%

82.0%

schools in the U.S. for practical training,

Western New England

51.9%

74.1%

placing 3rd in Massachusetts and 5th in

New England

51.4%

69.9%

for the Class of 2019, placing UMass Law on the Employment Honor Roll. For the past two years, the same publication

New England in 2020.

Source: abarequireddisclosures.org/employmentoutcomes.aspx

Class Size Smaller class sizes engender a stronger sense of community and enable greater student-faculty interaction. According to ABA data for academic year 2019-20, UMass Law offered the smallest first-year doctrinal class sizes of any law school in Massachusetts.

Class Size Comparison Massachusetts Law Schools

UMass Law

46 students

Northeastern

75

Boston University

77

Harvard

80

Western New England

80

Boston College

84

Suffolk

86

New England

140

Source: abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx

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