{"id":810,"date":"2015-12-16T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/?p=810"},"modified":"2017-12-18T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:39:58","slug":"law_school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/2015\/12\/16\/law_school\/","title":{"rendered":"A different type of law school opens at University of North Texas at Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August 2014, the University of North Texas at Dallas welcomed the inaugural class of its new law school. Out of 600 applicants, 152 students\u201488 full-time students and 64 part-time students began a new law curriculum focused on practical application of the law over theoretical exercises.<\/p>\r\n

At a time when law school applications were declining nationwide, and with nine other law schools already established in the state of Texas, UNT envisioned a program focused on making the law profession accessible to previously underrepresented groups and emphasizing comprehensive testing and student-teacher interactions over a traditional end-of-term exam. [1]<\/a> Admissions for the inaugural class focused less on grades and LSAT scores and more on life experiences and recommendations. [2]<\/a><\/p>\r\n

That inaugural class of the UNT Dallas College of Law was the culmination of more than ten years of planning and an investment of $5 million from the Texas legislature in 2011. The school’s first and current dean is Judge Royal Furgeson, a former federal judge for the Western District, and later the Northern District, of Texas. Judge Furgeson left the bench in 2013 to oversee the founding of a law school with a different vision: a vision of \u201clawyers as public servants.\u201d[3]<\/a><\/p>\r\n

— by Robert Lay, Special Collections Librarian<\/p>\r\n

[1]<\/a> Samantha McDonald, \u201cTurning a Blind Eye to Law School Recession,\u201d NT Daily<\/em>, 4 September 2014, p. 4.<\/p>\r\n

[2]<\/a> \u201cNew Law School Only Accepts Students Who Want to Be Lawyers for \u2018Right\u2019 Reasons.\u201d Huffington Post, last modified 18 April 2014, accessed 31 August 2015. http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/04\/18\/new-law-school-right-reasons_n_5170124.html<\/p>\r\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\r\n\"Royal<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August 2014, the University of North Texas at Dallas welcomed the inaugural class of its new law school. Out of 600 applicants, 152 students\u201488 full-time students and 64 part-time students began a new law curriculum focused on practical application of the law over theoretical exercises. At a time when law school applications were declining… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[222,220,221,223,219],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010s","tag-dallas","tag-law-school","tag-lawyers","tag-royal-furgeson","tag-unt-dallas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/unt125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}