Hispanic bar raps 'dirty dozen' - institutions without Latinos

Article Abstract:

The Hispanic National Bar Assn publishes an annual list of a 'dirty dozen' law schools which have no Latinos on their faculty despite their large Latino student population, location in states with large Latino populations and their production of a large number of law professors. Some faculty members at the 'dirty dozen' schools point out that minority hiring is high on their agenda, but that Hispanics are only one minority and inclusion on the list disregards the representation of other minorities on the faculties.

Political activity, Hispanic Americans, Minority college faculty, Minority law teachers, Minority law school faculty, Hispanic American teachers, Minority teachers, Hispanic National Bar Association

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ABA annual convention mantra: give more power to institutions

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One of the issues at the ABA's 1996 convention was a Mississippi State Bar Ass'n proposal on choosing the deans of law schools that critics said would have taken too much power from law school faculties and given it to university governing boards. This matter came up as part of a redoing of accreditation standards for law schools. The compromise worked out gives faculty significant authority in selecting deans but does not require schools to give them veto authority in order to be accredited.

United States

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The dean is young, gifted, black and trying to right rocky ship

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Maya L Harris is the new dean of Lincoln Law School in San Jose, CA, and at age 29, arguably the country's youngest law school dean. Dean Harris has little experience in legal education but believes her other professional experience will help her in her new position. Lincoln is a state-accredited evening institution with about 175 studying on a part-time basis and about 25 part-time faculty. The school broke off from San Francsico's Lincoln University three years ago.

Practice, California, Harris, Maya L., Lincoln Law School

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