Although it may appear trivial, writing a legal essay is not as easy as writing a simple paper. Obviously, like with all kinds of writing, you need to form a three-part structure: introduction, body ...

Those are among the myriad new questions law schools are asking applicants this year—the first admissions cycle following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision banning race-conscious admissions at ...

Many say that the modern graduate education system desperately needs reforms. Unfortunately, the cases are not rare when the technical information and skills that the freshmen learn in their first ...

SYRACUSE, New York – July 06, 2023 – Isabel Valentín, a rising senior at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), earned first-place honors in the Benjamin and David Scharps Legal ...

There is no magic formula that guarantees anyone admission to law school. Admissions committees look at many factors when deciding to extend offers to applicants. LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs ...

The Scharps Award was established in memory of attorneys Benjamin and David Scharps, and is given on the basis of an essay describing the role and relevance of law in dealing with a current legal ...

SUNY Cortland senior Rebekka Higgins received an email over this past winter break from assistant professor Timothy Delaune of the Political Science Department. How would she like to enter the ...

When Central York senior Zachary Sowers was writing his award-winning 2023 Law Day essay, he had no idea his words about civility would receive affirmation from a federal court judge. Judge Jennifer P ...

John G. Browning’s recent essay on Inside Higher Ed fires many of the traditional bullets at student-edited law journals: They are overly theoretical, redundant, costly, and despite being edited by 20 ...