CATALOG 2006-2007 - Syracuse University College of Law

Syracuse University College of Law 

CATALOG 2006-2007

Syracuse University 

(USPS 372-590) 

Volume 32, Number 19 

August 2006 

Syracuse University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution. 

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national 

origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or status as 

a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era or to any extent discrimination 

is prohibited by law. This nondiscrimination policy covers admissions, 

employment, and access to and treatment in University programs, services, 

and activities. 

Syracuse University welcomes people with disabilities and in compliance 

with Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 

and the Americans with Disabilities Act does not discriminate on the basis 

of disability. Services for students with disabilities are coordinated by the 

Office of Disability Services, Room 309, 804 University Avenue, 315-443- 

4498 (VOICE), 315-443-5019 (TDD). Syracuse University supports equal 

opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, or gender, and in compliance 

with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX 

of the Education Amendments of 1972, does not discriminate on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, or gender. 

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pursuing excellence in learning, 

professionalism, and service 

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contents 

2 | Syracuse University College of Law 

The Program 

3 Dean’s Message 

4 Tradition and Vision 

6 Excellence in Learning 

> The First Year 

> First-Year Course Descriptions 

> The Second and Third Years 

> Degree Requirements 

> Program Options 

> Academic Support 

9 Curriculum Outline 

12 Upper-Level Course Descriptions 

32 Innovation and Specialization 

34 Interdisciplinary 

Learning Opportunities 

35 Centers and Institute 

> Center for Indigenous Law, Governance 

and Citizenship 

> Disability Law and Policy 

> Family Law and Social Policy 

> Global Law and Practice 

> Institute for National Security and 

Counterterrorism; 

> Law and Business Enterprise 

> Technology Commercialization Law 

38 Offi ce of Clinical Legal Education 

> Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic 

> Community Development Law Clinic 

> Criminal Law Clinic 

> Externship Programs 

> Low Income Taxpayer Clinic 

> Public Interest Law Firm 

> Securities Arbitration Clinic 

41 Advocacy Skills 

Trial Advocacy, Moot Court, International 

Moot Court Competitions 

42 Other Opportunities for Specialization and 

Interdisciplinary Study 

43 Joint Degree Programs 

45 Other Joint Degree Opportunities 


The People 

46 Faculty 

60 Administrative Deans 

62 Professors Emeriti 

64 Professor of Practice 

64 Courtesy Appointments 

66 The Office of Student Life 

68 Law Student Senate and 

Student Organizations 

70 Law Student Publications 

72 Career Services 

74 Employment Information 

Type of Practice, Starting Salaries 

76 Selected Employers 

The Place 

84 The College of Law, The University, 

The City 

College of Law Complex, Barclay Law Library, 

The University, The Syracuse Community, 

Housing and Meals, Health Services 

90 Visiting Syracuse 

Directions, Campus Map 

92 Admission 

Admission Criteria and Requirements, 

Decision and Notification 

96 Financing Your Legal Education 

100 Excellence in Professionalism 

and Service 

102 Tuition, Fees, and Related Expenses 

104 Academic Calendar 

Forms and Instructions 

105 Admission Application Instructions 

107 Admission Application 

113 Recommendation Forms 

121 Financial Aid Instructions 

122 Financial Aid Application

dean’s 

message 

Hannah R. Arterian 

Dean 

Why study law? Each law student undertakes an exciting and rigorous 

journey. This journey expands analytical skills, knowledge in a professional 

discipline that informs all aspects of society—locally, nationally, and globally. 

Law graduates are distinctly capable of engaging the issues most critical to 

any community. More than ever in our history, every area of endeavor has 

some legal overlay—the law informs every issue. The law and the policies it 

drives interconnect with the environment, technology, media, foreign policy, 

architecture, the family, human rights, and medicine. In fact, the list is as 

long as your imagination takes you. These limitless connections make a legal 

education so compelling and so important. The agenda you create, the path 

you take, the intellectual interests you bring with you, and those you generate 

throughout your life, will be profoundly enhanced by an outstanding legal 

education. 

Legal education prepares you for meeting the challenge of an increasingly complex world. 

A law degree has value whether you choose to practice law or to join the foreign service; whether 

you start your own company or serve as counsel to a college or university; whether you work 

in the technology industry or in a hospital; whether you write a novel or edit a newspaper; 

and whether you serve as a public defender or work in the justice department. You name the 

career and law applies. 

Syracuse University College of Law provides every opportunity you need to create your future. 

This publication gives you a preview of what you can anticipate as a law student here. Read about 

our outstanding faculty, our wonderful facility and law library, the wide variety of courses, 

and the excellent programs, clinics, and joint degree opportunities designed to provide you with 

the skills you need to make full use of your education. We start with a firm grounding in courses 

you need to build on, and then you choose your direction, with the advice and assistance of 

faculty and staff who really care. All of this occurs on the campus of a great University with 

all it has to offer, at a law school with a long history and an eye on the future. 

No introduction can give you more than a taste of our community and what we have to offer. 

I hope you will look carefully at this catalog, and that you will think seriously about pursuing 

your legal education here at Syracuse. I encourage you to contact us with questions and to 

keep an eye on our web site (www.law.syr.edu), because new things happen all the time, 

and I hope they will interest you. 

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tradition and vision 

No two law schools are identical. 

Law schools differ by philosophy, 

faculty scholarship, student body 

composition, and programs offered. 

At Syracuse University College of 

Law we understand that the pursuit 

of excellence is a challenge that 

has to be met every day. That is 

why we promote a rigorous, 

dynamic, and interdisciplinary 

approach to the study of law. 

The College of Law celebrated its 

centennial in 1995-96 and is proud 

of its first 100 years of history. The 

college introduced interdisciplinary 

study in the 1930s, expanded the 

options it offers, and now, more 

than most law schools, encourages 

students to enrich their studies 

by pursuing interdisciplinary joint 

degree programs.

Initially, the college’s mission was to train 

lawyers for practice in upstate New York. In 

the 1950s, how ever, the college moved from 

a regional curricular viewpoint to one that 

embraces a national perspective of the law. 

The college’s interest in international law had 

its inception in the early 1960s, when American 

businesses needed lawyers to represent them 

in international transactions. The college’s 

30-plus years of experience with international 

legal education has developed into a wellregarded 

program in which students can 

pursue a concentration of study, international 

work experience, or writing for the respected 

Syracuse Journal of International Law and 

Commerce. Students may also pursue a joint 

degree in a field related to international law, 

such as international relations. 

In 1971, the college introduced its first 

full-scale clinical legal education program to 

provide students with both civil and criminal 

practice experience in a setting other than 

the classroom. Since the 1970s, that program 

has been expanded to allow students to 

represent real clients in a variety of legal 

contexts. Today, the college operates five 

distinct in-house clinics. 

Throughout its history, the college has 

listened to the concerns of its students and the 

profession and has adapted its program of 

study in response to the changing needs of the 

community. The college’s faculty is composed 

of an unusually talented group of lawyers and 

educators who share a single goal: to prepare 

students for the diverse opportunities available 

to them as trained professionals. They have 

extensive scholarship, prior law practice, 

and years of teaching experience. Students 

find their instructors accessible, candid, and 

dedicated to the teaching mission. 

At the heart of the College of Law commu nity 

is a talented and diverse student body that 

is actively involved in the process of learning 

and practicing the law. Syracuse law students 

represent more than 300 colleges and universities 

across the country. While many students 

choose to begin law study at Syracuse soon 

after com pleting their undergraduate work, 

some are nontraditional students, leaving 

careers as health care providers, engineers, 

business managers, teachers, and law enforcement 

professionals to pursue the study of law. 

Today, the college is com mit ted to providing 

innovative approaches to law study while 

retaining the strongest elements of a 

traditional legal education. Through research, 

coursework, joint degree programs, and 

interdisciplinary centers and institutes, 

students and faculty engage the broader 

community in a collaborative process of 

discovery and learning. 

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excellence in learning 


Pursuing excellence in learning 

at Syracuse means taking full 

advantage of our unique position at 

one of America’s leading research 

universities. Syracuse University 

is a member of the prestigious 

Association of American Universities 

(the AAU). The AAU is composed of 

sixty leading research universities in 

the United States. Within this group 

of outstanding institutions, there are 

only 17 private universities with law 

schools. 

At Syracuse University College of 

Law, students benefit in many ways 

from our unique university setting. 

They benefit from the reputational 

value and the educational value of 

an elite institution. Our university 

setting also benefits students in 

terms of our many joint degree 

programs, opportunities for 

interdisciplinary study, programs 

abroad, and our various centers, 

institutes, and certificate programs.

Fall 

Credits 

Contracts 

5 

Civil Procedure 

Legal Communication and Research I: 

4 

Legal Analysis and Writing 

2 

Torts 

5 

Total 

Spring 

Criminal Law 

Constitutional Law I 

Legal Communication and Research II: 

Legal Research and Rhetoric 

Legislation and Policy 

Property 

Total 

16 

3 

3 

2 

3 

5 

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As part of a leading research university, our 

curriculum combines a respect for tradition 

with a curiosity for innovation to create an 

exciting and dynamic learning environment. 

Our first-year curriculum provides the broad 

view and foundation necessary to begin the 

study of law. A strong foundation for legal 

education emphasizes the development of 

substantive legal knowledge along with analytical 

and communicative ability. Ultimately, 

the most crucial legal skills involve analyzing 

the law and effectively communicating that 

analysis to courts, other attorneys, and clients. 

The college believes the best legal education 

provides heavy concentration in legal research, 

analysis, writing, and oral argument 

The First Year 

Syracuse University College of Law is proud 

of the personal attention students receive 

beginning in their first year. The faculty 

considers interaction between student and 

teacher to be essential to a strong legal 

education. Students find their instructors 

committed to excellence in teaching and legal 

scholarship. During the first year of study, 

students learn the basics of public and private 

law. Because the first year provides necessary 

grounding in fundamental legal concepts, the 

following courses are required for all first-year 

students: civil procedure, constitutional law, 

contracts, criminal law, legal communication 

and research, property, and torts. In addition, 

a first-year legislation and policy course was 

introduced as an elective to all students in 

their spring semester. Except for legal communication 

and research, all courses taken in the 

first year are one-semester courses. Students 

may not enroll in or audit elective courses, 

seminars, or other offerings for academic 

credit during their first year. 

First-Year Course Descriptions 

Civil Procedure (4 credits) 

Procedural processes that guide the adjudication 

of civil actions in American courts; 

allocation of judicial power between federal 

and state courts, focusing on the Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure; fundamental policies 

underlying particular procedural rules. 

Constitutional Law I (3 credits) 

Problems arising under the U.S. Constitution; 

state and federal regulatory authority; judicial 

review; federal taxing and spending powers; 

separation of powers; due process and equal 

protection; and First Amendment issues, 

including freedoms of speech, of the press, 

and of religion. 

Contracts (5 credits) 

Legal protection afforded promissory 

agreements; contract interpretation; contract 

formation, including offer and acceptance, 

mutual assent, and consideration; parties 

affected by contracts and remedies for breach 

of contract. 

Criminal Law (3 credits) 

Elements of various crimes and problems 

of statutory construction and interpretation; 

substantive defenses, emphasizing the defense 

of insanity; as well as attempts and the specific 

crimes of conspiracy, theft, and homicide. 

Legal Communication 

and Research I (2 credits) 

Fall semester: Introduction to basic lawyering 

skills, including legal analysis, citation, and 

court hierarchy. Application of these skills 

to complex factual situations in a mock law 

firm setting. 


and Research II (2 credits) 

Spring semester: Skills introduced this 

semester include legal research, oral 

argument, and the written presentation of 

legal arguments in persuasive form. 

Legislation and Policy (3 credits) 

Introduction to the institutions and processes 

of public law making, including an examination 

of statutory interpretation and legislative and 

administrative process, as applied to a particular 

substantive area of law such as civil rights, 

federal Indian law, disability, employment 

discrimination, family, health, environmental, 

and labor law. 

Property (5 credits) 

Problems concerning the possession of 

land and chattels; methods of acquiring 

title to personal property; possessory 

and concurrent estates; landlord and 

tenant problems; historical introduction 

to real estate, including future interests, 

real covenants, and easements. 

Torts (5 credits) 

Imposition of liability for personal wrongs as 

viewed by traditional tort law and current 

alternatives; historical development and policy 

basis of liability for various types of injuryproducing 

conduct, including intentional torts, 

negligence, and strict liability. 

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The Second and Third Years 

A variety of opportunities in the second and 

third years allows students to learn more in 

areas that provide a strong grounding for 

issues likely to be encountered in the practice 

of law in the next century. 

Following the first year, students have 

only four prescribed course requirements to 

fulfill: Constitutional Law II, taken in the fall 

semester of the second year; Professional 

Responsibility, taken sometime during the 

second year; a third-semester research and 

writing course; and a writing requirement, 

usually completed in the third year. 

The remaining coursework toward the 

degree is completed through elective 

coursework, clinical experiences for credit, 

co-curricular activities for credit, and/or 

graduate-level coursework approved for credit 

toward the Juris Doctor degree. Law students 

may take as many as six credits in graduate 

coursework from other Syracuse University 

colleges with prior approval. 

Degree Requirements 

Syracuse University College of Law awards 

the Juris Doctor degree to students who 

successfully complete a minimum of 87 credits 

of prescribed and elective coursework taken 

during a period in residence equivalent to six 

full-time academic semesters. Each student 

must earn a cumulative grade point average 

and a final-year grade point average of 2.2 

on a 4.0 scale to satisfactorily complete the 

course of study. 

The Handbook of Academic Rules contains 

the complete academic rules and regulations 

of the College of Law. All degree requirements 

and other rules and regulations, including 

those summarized in this publication, are 

subject to continuing review and may change 

at any time. Copies of the current handbook 

are available in the Office of Student 

Administration. 


Three-Year Program 

Most students enroll in the six-semester 

program spanning three academic years. They 

must take at least 12 credits but not more than 

19 credits each semester. 

Four-Year Program 

Each year, the college admits a limited number 

of students to study part time in an eightsemester 

program spanning four academic 

years including intervening summer sessions. 

Part-time students must carry at least 8 but 

not more than 11 credits each semester. 

Although the College of Law recognizes that 

in certain instances it must modify its regular 

program for some nontraditional students, 

personalized course schedules are generally 

not possible, especially in the first year. The 

college does not operate an evening division. 

Accelerated Program 

An accelerated program allows students to 

complete the J.D. degree requirements in twoand-one-half 

calendar years. Students must 

complete six semesters in full-time residence, 

including two-and-one-half academic years 

and two half-semester summer sessions. 

Combination Program 

A limited number of undergraduate students 

with outstanding academic promise are admitted 

to the combination program. Through 

the combination program, the final year of 

baccalaureate work is satisfied during the 

first year of law study. Candidates for this 

program must have only elective coursework 

remaining in their baccalaureate program and 

present evidence that their undergraduate 

college or university agrees to accept credit in 

the first year of law study in lieu of the final 

year of undergraduate study. Students 

applying through the combination program 

must apply for admission in the same manner 

as first-year applicants. 

Joint Degree Programs 

Interdisciplinary study is an integral part of 

academic life in the College of Law. Students 

who desire a greater degree of specialization 

may select from a number of joint degree 

opportunities. Joint degree programs are 

structured so students can earn both degrees 

in substantially less time than required to 

earn each degree separately. Refer to 

page 45 for additional information about 

joint degree opportunities. 

Academic Support 

The College of Law recognizes that the transition 

to legal study presents special challenges 

for many students. The associate dean for 

student services is available for consultation 

on matters of academic or personal concern to 

students. During the first half of the fall 

semester, the Structured Study Group 

Program provides a weekly opportunity for 

all first-year students to learn effective legal 

study skills using torts material as the basis 

for learning and discussion. Tutoring is also 

provided for law students who encounter particular 

difficulty with first-year coursework. 

The Office of Student Services also helps to 

provide special accommodations for students 

for whom English is a second language and for 

students with disabilities or special needs.

curriculum 

outline 

Advocacy and Litigation 

Advanced Trial Practice 

Alternative Dispute Resolutions 

Alternative Dispute Resolutions Seminar 

Appellate Advocacy Skills 

Clinical Program Courses 

Conflict of Laws 

Conflict Resolution 

Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Adjudication 

Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Investigation 

Criminal Law Clinic 

Domestic Violence 

Evidence 

Externship Placement 

Externship Seminar 

Federal Courts 

Judicial, Advocacy, and Public Interest 

Externship Courses 

Lawyer as Negotiator 

Lawyers and Clients 

Lawyering Skills 

Medical Malpractice 

New York Civil Practice 

Problems in Case Analysis and 

Appellate Advocacy Seminar 

Trial Practice 

Business Transactions 

Agency/Partnerships 

Bankruptcy Law: Business 

Bankruptcy Law: Individual, State, 

Creditors’ Remedies 

Business, Finance, and Economics 

Community Development Law Clinic 

Federal Government Contracts 

International Business Transactions 

Mergers and Acquisitions 

Principles of Business Valuations 

Real Estate Transactions I 

Secured Transactions 

Securities Regulations 

Commercial Law 

Accounting for Lawyers 

Agency/Partnership 


Commercial Real Estate Practice 

Commercial Transactions 

Consumer Protection 

Corporations 

Federal Income Taxation II 


International Trade Law 


Constitutional Law 

and Civil Rights 

Advanced Constitutional Law 

Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic 

Civil Rights 



Constitutional Law II 

Disability Law 

Disability Law and Policy 

Education Law Seminar 

Employment Discrimination 

Environmental Law: 

Constitutional Issues Seminar 


Indigenous Peoples Under American Law 

International Criminal Law 

Jurisprudence of Human Rights 

Mass Communications 

Medicine and Law: The Removal 

of Life Support Systems Seminar 

National Security Law 

National Security and Counterterrorism 

Research Center 

Public Interest Law Firm Clinic 

Race and Law 

Refugee and Asylum Law 

Religion and the State 

Sexual Orientation and the Law 

Sovereignty, Colonialism, and 

the Indigenous Nations 

Women in the Criminal Justice System 

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Corporate Law 


Administrative Law 


Antitrust 

Bankruptcy Law 


Business Planning Seminar 


Copyright–Literary and Artistic Works 

Corporations 

Deferred Compensation 




Entertainment Law 

Entertainment Law and Practice 

Environmental Law 


General Counsel 

Insurance Law 

Intellectual Property 


International Environmental Law 


Law and Market Economy 

Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar 

Negotiating and Drafting International 

Transactions Documents 

Patents and Trade Secrets 

Perspectives on Terrorism 

Principles of Business Valuations 

Products Liability 

Real Estate Transactions 


Securities Arbitration/Consumer Law Clinic 

Securities Regulation 

Taxation of Passthrough Business Entities 

Unfair Competition 


Criminal Law and Procedure 

Administration of Criminal Justice Seminar 

Advanced Criminal Procedure 

Capital Punishment Seminar 

Comparative Criminal Justice 



Criminal Defense Clinic 


Jurisprudence of Criminal Justice 



Air and Water Pollution Control 

Environmental Crimes Seminar 


Environmental Law: 

Constitutional Issues Seminar 


Natural Resources Law 

Family Relations 

Adoption Law 

Adoption Law Seminar 

Advanced Family Issues 

Bioethics and the Law 

Children and the Law 


Decedents’ Estates and Trusts 





Elder Law 

Estate and Gift Taxation 

Estate Planning 

Family Law 

Health Law 

Genetics and the Law 

Lawyering Skills: Planning for the 

Non-Traditional Family 

Lawyering Skills: Family Law 

Mediation in Family Law 

Poverty Law 

Family Law and Social Policy Center Service 

Learning Program 


Women and the Law 

Government Regulation and 

Administrative Procedures 


Antitrust 


Bankruptcy Law: Individual, 

State, Creditors’ Remedies 







Environmental Law Seminar 

Government Regulations of Banks and Banking 

Immigration Law 



Labor Law 

Land-Use Control 



Natural Resources Law 


Patent Prosecution 


Regulation of Electronic Mass Communications 

Regulatory Law and Policy 

Sovereignty, Colonialism, and 

the Indigenous Nations 

Tax Practice and Procedures 

Unfair Competition

International Law 

Chinese Law 

Comparative Law 

Comparative Criminal Justice 


Counter-Terrorism and the Law 

European Economic Community 





International Human Rights 










Taxation of International Transactions 





Employment Law 


Please note that this is a general overview of courses offered. 

All courses may not be listed, including new and revised courses. 

This listing is subject to review and modification. 

Law and Society 

Anglo American Legal Tradition 

Bioethics 

Civil Rights 

Contemporary Legal Theories 






Law and Complementary 

and Alternative Medicine 


Law and Society Seminar 

Law and Social Sciences Seminar 

Law, Economics, and the State 







Law, Technology, and Management 

Computer Law 

Copyright–Literary and Artistic Works 



International and Foreign 

Intellectual Property Law 

Internet Law 






Technology Transactions Law 

Technology Commercialization Research 

Center 


Legal History and 

Professional Ethics 



Law and Literature 

Legal History: American Law 

Legal History: Modern Public Law 

Professional Responsibility 

Real and Personal Property 





Estate Planning Seminar 

Federal Income Taxation I 

Information Law and Policy 







Taxation 




Federal Income Taxation I: Individuals 

Federal Income Taxation II: Corporate 

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic 


State and Local Tax 

Tax Accounting 


Taxation of Foreign Transactions 


Taxation of Tax-Exempt Organizations 

Seminar 

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upper-level course 

descriptions 


Principles of financial accounting applied to 

business entities: proprietorships, partnerships, 

and corporations; accounting for and tax 

implications of business organizations; and 

problems with estates and trusts. Not open 

to students who have more than one year of 

accounting. Irregular course offering. 

Administration of Criminal Justice Seminar 

Jurisdictional and procedural rules in context 

of complex litigation. Relationship between 

procedural rules and the development of 

substantive law. 


Nature and function of the administrative process; 

procedural constraints on administrative 

investigation, adjudication, and rule making; 

and judicial review of agency action. 

Adoption Law 

Legal theories involved in adoption law, the 

attorney’s role in adoption practice, and the 

various legal documents involved. 

Adoption Law Seminar 

Focuses on both traditional and non-traditional 

domestic adoption. This course enables the 

student to understand the legal theories 

involved in adoption law, the role of the 

attorney in adoption practice, and the various 

legal documents involved. Emphasis on legal 

research and writing. Irregular course offering. 

Advanced Constitutional Law 

Selected topics concerning the First 

Amendment. Irregular course offering. 

Advanced Constitutional Law: First 

Amendment 

The course surveys the development of the 

First Amendment in the 20th century. 

Roughly a third of the course is devoted to the 

religion clauses, which prohibit establishment 

and guarantee free exercise. The remainder 

considers the free speech clause, with some 

notice of press and assembly issues as well.

Advanced Criminal Procedure 

This course is a two-semester applied learning 

course which will focus on pre-trial procedure: 

accusatory instruments, preliminary hearings, 

grand jury, discovery motions (covering 

suppression of evidence, dismissal for 

insufficiency, speedy trial, double jeopardy, 

etc.), plea bargaining and guilty pleas, and 

interlocutory appeals and sentencing. The 

course materials will consist of pertinent 

statutory materials and case files which will 

be the source of problems and simulations. 

Students will be required to draft documents, 

pleadings, motion papers, and memoranda for 

assigned cases. The course will focus on New 

York criminal law. 

Advanced Legal Research 

Advanced Legal Research expands upon the 

foundation of research skills acquired in the 

first year. The course addresses effective 

research methods and strategies, examines 

the structural and theoretical underpinnings of 

traditional and automated research systems, 

and explores specialized areas of research 

(such as legislative history, administrative 

law, and non-legal resources). Students will 

have ample opportunities to refine research 

techniques through hands-on practice sessions 

in the law library. 

Advanced Topics in Property Law Seminar 

This seminar will examine current important 

issues in property law and theory, topics to 

which students may have been introduced 

during their first year but that warrant 

investigation in further detail. The course will 

first review different notions of what property 

actually is, using historical and modern 

analyses both from political theory and from 

law. We will then consider the extent to which 

property concepts can be usefully employed to 

resolve an array of current social issues, such 

as the enforcement of surrogacy (parenting) 

contracts, the sale or other control of body 

parts, the fate of human embryos, eminent 

domain and takings, an individual’s control 

of personal information, employment rights, 

and environmental rights. Students will be 

exposed to and discuss the relevant law, where 

it exists, but will also pursue in more depth 

the conceptual and policy-based arguments 

that shape and underlie the public debates 

currently under way. 

Advanced Trial Practice 

Advanced training in direct and cross-examination, 

witness interviewing and preparation, 

negotiation techniques, voir dire and jury 

preparation, final arguments, discovery, 

pretrial and trial motions, pretrial conferences, 

jury trial techniques, and post trial procedure. 


The primary focus of the course will be on the 

many facets of agency and fiduciary law. Basic 

principles of fiduciary obligations, agency 

relationships, transacting business through 

agents, vicarious tort liability and long-term 

commercial relationships may be covered 

as well as basic partnership relationships. 

Irregular course offering. 

Alternative Dispute Resolution 

An introduction to the spectrum of processes 

other than courtroom litigation that 

are available for resolving disputes. This 

includes such “pure” processes as negotiation, 

mediation, and arbitration and such “hybrid” 

processes as the mini-trial and the summary 

jury trial. 


This is a legal history course that provides 

an overview of our Western legal heritage, 

beginning with Roman law and extending into 

the 20th century. Its principal focus will be 

on the development of English law and legal 

institutions, but it is not specifically an English 

legal history course. Rather, it is to provide 

students with a survey of the English roots of 

our own legal order and to demonstrate how 

the American legal system has developed from 

and blended with those English origins. 

Antitrust 

A survey of federal antitrust law and policy. 

This course will include horizontal restraints, 

monopolization, attempts to monopolize, 

vertical restraints and mergers. 

Appellate Advocacy Skills 

Development of skills used in the appellate 

process, including postjudgment practice, 

creation of the record, finding error, brief writing, 

and oral argument structure, emphasizing 

written skills. Required for second-year students 

seeking Moot Court Board membership. 

Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Law 

Seminar 

This seminar examines the ethical, legal, 

scientific, sociological, and political issues 

involved in the use of assisted reproductive 

technologies (ART) to treat infertility and 

create children. Each week there will be a two 

hour class requiring preparation of readings on 

topics such as infertility, assisted insemination, 

in vitro fertilization, collaborative reproduction 

(formerly called surrogacy), reimplantation 

genetic diagnosis (PGD), “designer babies,” 

cryopreserved (frozen) embryos and gametes, 

posthumous reproduction, multiple gestations, 

cloning and genetic enhancement, and ART 

mistakes. In addition to seminar preparation 

and attendance, students will select a topic 

on assisted reproductive, research and write a 

seminar paper under the professor’s guidance, 

and present their research and arguments to 

the class. Irregular course offering. 


This course will focus on business bankruptcy 

law under Chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy 

Code. The course will explore the rights of 

debtors and creditors in a liquidation 

proceeding under Chapter 7 and the power 

to restructure claims under Chapter 11 of 

the Bankruptcy Code to preserve a viable 

business entity. 

Bankruptcy Law: Individual, 

State, Creditors’ Remedies 

This course will cover state law remedies (how 

to collect a debt and how to defend a debtor) 

and representing debtors in individual liquidation 

and restructuring proceedings under 

Bankruptcy Code (Chapter 7 and 13). 

Bioethics 

This is an interdisciplinary analysis of problems 

that arise at the intersection of the medical 

and legal professions. Topics include the 

history of the American medical profession, 

ethical theory, procreative autonomy, distribution 

and allocation of medical services, death 

and dying, organ transplants, and the values 

and interests that inform the decision-making 

process on these matters. In alternating years, 

this course will be co-taught by professors 

from the medical school and law school and 

additional topics of study may include assisted 

reproductive technologies, genetic discrimination 

and enhancement, and cloning. 

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This course will cover basic accounting, 

economics, finance, very rudimentary taxation 

concepts, securities and investments, and 

other topics, such as life and hazard insurance. 

Capital Punishment Seminar 

Review of Eighth Amendment and capital 

punishment decisions of the U.S. Supreme 

Court, both recently and since Gregg v. Georgia, 

with critical and philosophical analysis of the 

foundations for those decisions. Examination 

of the views of particular justices. A paper 

satisfying the writing requirement will be 

required. 

Children and the Law 

Parent-child, child-state relationships. 

Education, health, welfare, child abuse, 

juvenile delinquency, and representation of 

children will be covered in this course. 


The Children’s Rights and Family Law 

Clinic addresses the unmet legal needs of 

children and their families by representing 

them in federal and state courts and before 

administrative agencies with respect to 

special education, school disciplinary and 

suspension hearings, emancipation, child 

custody and support, adoption, guardianship 

and divorce matters. They also assist clients in 

the Family Advocacy Program, a collaborative 

project with SUNY Upstate Medical University. 

Additionally, students have the opportunity to 

engage in non-litigation legal advocacy and 

educational outreach. 

Chinese Law 

Focus on the development of the Chinese legal 

system since the founding of the People’s 

Republic of China in 1949, with due attention 

to social, political, and economic factors. 

Close examination of areas of substantive and 

procedural law, such as constitutional law, 

professional responsibility, criminal law and 

procedure, and labor law. 

Chinese Law Seminar 

Overview of a legal system of another major 

power distinctive from the U.S. in terms of 

historical development, economic structure, 

and political organization; development of the 

Chinese legal system since the founding of 

the People’s Republic in 1949; social, political, 

and economic factors. Procedure, contracts, 

labor law, and foreign economic relationships. 



Civil Rights 

Focusing on race, gender, class, and sexual 

preference, this course examines the social, 

political, and legal structures that determine 

what civil rights are and who has them. 

Significant attention will be paid to the role 

of U.S. Supreme Court opinions and federal 

legislation. 

Commercial Real Estate Practice 

This applied learning course will build on the 

fundamentals of the Real Estate Transactions 

I course and will focus on the development of 

a regional shopping mall which will provide a 

framework for the course outline. The course 

will not only provide ways to convey many of 

the concepts found in this type of real estate, 

but will also provide the basis to explore the 

relationship between the real estate concepts 

and the business framework of which they 

become a part. Case law will be utilized to 

supplement certain interpretations of Real 

Property Law. Real Estate Transactions I is a 

prerequisite for this course. 


Commercial practices under the Uniform 

Commercial Code, particularly sales, 

commercial paper and bank collections, 

letters of credit, bulk transfers, and secured 

transactions; business background, planning, 

and counseling. 

Communications Law 

Examination of the market structure and 

regulation of the communications industry as 

well as the relationship between the 

communications industry and the several 

branches of government. Topics include the 

authority of state and federal government to 

license spectrum and to regulate broadcast 

communications and cable, satellite, landline 

and wireless services. Other topics may 

include broadcast fairness, political broadcasting 

and regulation of the Internet and 

emerging technologies. 


The Community Development Law Clinic 

provides representation for not-for-profit 

organizations involved in improving lowincome 

communities. Students enrolled in 

this clinic practice transactional law for clients 

engaged in activities such as the development 

of affordable housing; creation of business 

and job development programs; creation 

and development of community centers, 

after-school programs, day care centers; 

neighborhood advocacy organizations; 

disability advocacy organizations; and 

community development corporations 

Students may also represent individual clients 

in real estate closings and the development 

of start-up businesses. 

Comparative Law 

Comparative approach to the law, stressing 

purposes and methods of comparative study; 

classification of legal systems, a historical 

introduction to civil law; and selected topics 

in civil law. 

Computer Law 

Intellectual property protection relative to 

computer technology, including software and 

“methods of doing business” patents, copyrights, 

and trade secrets; anti-trust concerns 

in the computer industry; contract formation 

and enforcement in the computer industry; 

and international concerns with computer 

technology. 

Concept of a Lawyer 

Lawyers are men and women of action. They 

are also individuals with power. This course 

explores a basic question that every practitioner 

faces throughout his or her professional 

career and that bears directly on the exercise 

of that power, what does it mean to be a 

lawyer? Students will examine a variety of 

conceptions of “the lawyer,” including 

“neutral partisan,” “moral activist,” “public 

servant,” and “businessman/businesswoman.” 

Students will also consider the orientations 

toward lawyering as “an ethics of care” and 

“for the situation.” 


Legal rules applicable to disputes with 

contacts to more than one state or country; 

the historical development of such rules; and 

their application in contract, tort, property, 

and other cases. 

Constitutional Criminal Procedure— 

Adjudication 

Constitutional and statutory requirements 

for adjudicative procedures in criminal cases. 

Topics include accusatory instruments, bail, 

discovery, guilty pleas, double jeopardy, 

speedy trial, fair trial, jury trial, assistance of 

counsel, and confrontation. 

Constitutional Criminal Procedure— 

Investigation 

Constitutional and statutory requirements 

for investigative procedures in criminal cases. 

Topics include searches, seizures, lineups, 

confessions, and electronic surveillances. 

Constitutional Law II 

A continuation of Constitutional Law I for 

second-year law students. Must be taken fall 

semester of second year.



An introduction to the law of unfair and 

deceptive advertising practices, credit 

reporting and truth in lending, warranties, 

debt collection, and enforcement. Students 

will draft consumer complaints and discovery 

documents. Irregular course offering. 

Contemporary American Legal Thought 

This course will explore a variety of 

contemporary schools of legal thought, with 

an emphasis on their understanding of nature 

of law and, where applicable, the appropriate 

objectives of law and law reform. The course 

will begin with an overview of the historical 

roots of today’s thinking, exploring Langdell’s 

orthodoxy, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ reaction 

thereto, and the highly influential legal 

realists. The course will then turn to its more 

central focus: the legal process school and the 

contemporary progeny of legal realism (e.g., 

law and economics, critical legal studies, law 

and feminism). The course will also expose 

students to a powerful new alternatives to 

these popular schools of thought, namely the 

cultural study of law. 


Selected articles by thought-provoking 

contemporary legal theorists who challenge 

accepted models of legal reasoning and 

practice. By examining the role of law in society 

and the power dynamics that our legal system 

replicates, these writers offer new frontiers 

of legal thought and transformative visions. 

Readings will vary, but topics may include 

critical race theory, feminist legal theory, 

critical legal studies, and law and literature. 


Contemporary Issues in Atrocity Law 

International criminal law is a new discipline 

within the legal profession. Over the past 

12 years, the discipline has developed at an 

exponential rate. Cutting-edge rulings and 

decisions are setting the cornerstones in 

international criminal law for years to come. 

It is a rare opportunity for teachers, students, 

practitioners, and policy makers to be present 

at the beginnings of a new area of the law. 

Rarer still is the opportunity for students to be 

able to take a seminar from one of the senior 

international practitioners in the field, using 

his work as the basis for this seminar. Drawing 

upon unique experiences in West Africa, a 

great deal of the new ideas and fresh thinking 

began with his work as the chief prosecutor of 

the international war crimes tribunal in Sierra 

Leone, called the Special Court for Sierra 

Leone. The seminar will use, as a case study, 

the entire creative process in West Africa of 

establishing the Office of the Prosecutor of 

the Special Court for Sierra Leone, including 

planning, preparation, and executing the many 

tasks necessary to prosecute war criminals in a 

forgotten and tragic land. Using real-world and 

contemporary cases, vignettes, and scenarios, 

this two-credit seminar will give students a 

rare opportunity to study and do research 

with the practitioner who created the entire 

prosecutorial plan to prosecute those who bore 

the greatest responsibility for war crimes and 

crimes against humanity that resulted in the 

murder, rape, maiming, and mutilation of more 

than 1.2 million human beings. 

Copyright—Literary and Artistic Works 

Advanced copyright course. In-depth 

exploration of a number of copyright law areas 

in music, fine arts, and film, and issues on the 

boundaries of copyright law. Includes fair use, 

work for hire in both industry and academia, 

compensation for ideas, moral rights, right of 

publicity, the impact of new technologies on 

research, data bases and fact-based works, 

infringement on unpublished works, and 

international copyright protection. 

Copyright Protection of New Technologies 

Special adaptation of copyright law to 

computer programs, operating systems and 

microcode, screen displays, and electronic 

databases. Irregular course offering. 

Corporate Finance Seminar 

This seminar will study the basis for financial 

decisions of corporations and the shareholders, 

including an introduction to basic techniques 

of investment decisions, valuation and financial 

structure. We will concentrate on valuing the 

firm and its securities and senior securities 

(bonds, debentures, and notes). Interest 

and time permitting, we will explore capital 

structure and leverage and possibly do some 

work in mergers and acquisitions. Pre- 

or co-requisite: Corporations. 

Corporations 

This is a business organizations course 

covering both unincorporated businesses 

and corporations. The first half of the course 

pertains to small business forms: partnerships, 

LLCs, and close corporations. The balance 

covers public corporations, including regulation 

under securities laws. Students who have taken 

Business Associations or Public Corporations 

are not eligible to register for this course.

Counterterrorism and the Law 

This unique, interdisciplinary course provides 

insight into the dynamics of terrorism and 

counterterrorism. Specializations are offered 

in four areas: law, politics, history, and communications. 

Law and other graduate students 

may register in any of the four departments, 

with the permission of the instructor. Although 

some class sessions will include disciplinespecific 

discussions in small groups, 

participants will also converge in a large 

classroom for presentations, discussions, and 

examinations of fundamental problems 

associated with terrorism. 

Criminal Defense Law Clinic 

The Criminal Defense Law Clinic provides 

representation to clients charged with 

misdemeanors and violations in Syracuse 

City Court. Students enrolled in this clinic 

are engaged in extensive fact investigation, 

interviewing, client counseling and plea 

negotiations. They also conduct hearings 

and trials and may have the opportunity to 

represent clients on civil matters related to 

their criminal cases, such as school 

disciplinary hearings and benefits issues. 


Law governing interstate succession; execution 

and revocation of wills; inter vivos will 

substitutes; the creation, nature, and revocation 

of trusts; and fiduciary administration. 


Tax and other consequences of various plans 

of deferred compensation for executives and 

other employees. 


This class deals with federal laws prohibiting 

discrimination against people with disabilities, 

with particular emphasis on the American 

Disabilities Act of 1990. The goal of the course 

is to provide a legal, conceptual, and practical 

understanding of people with disabilities, 

forms of discrimination that occur on the basis 

of disability, and the protections against such 

discrimination that currently exist. 

Disability Law and Policy — Advanced 

This is a one-semester applied learning course. 

The goal of this course is to expose students 

to disability law and policy as applied to real 

situations. Each student will work on a project 

that has originated from a request from a “real 

client” or client organizations, such as the 

National Council on Disability, the World Bank, 

Mental Disability Rights International, or other 

organizations that work with and for people 

with disabilities. 

Disability Rights Advocacy Law Clinic 

The Disability Rights Advocacy Law Clinic 

is dedicated to providing representation to 

individuals with disabilities as well as groups 

representing the disabled community who 

are unable to secure representation elsewhere. 

Students enrolled in this clinic practice in 

federal and state courts and before 

administrative agencies in a broad range of 

disability discrimination matters. They also 

handle social security benefits cases, special 

education cases, and accessibility issues 

under federal and state law. 


This applied learning course will analyze case 

law as well as other text and articles applicable 

to domestic violence cases. One of the 

objectives of this course will be to expose, 

through class discussions, some of the 

misconceptions regarding domestic violence 

and its victims. Students will have the opportunity 

to participate in simulated exercises 

designed to develop interviewing and 

information-gathering techniques necessary 

for the thorough representation of the 

domestic violence victim in court. Visits to the 

class by guest speakers are also planned. The 

course will delve into all of the possible issues 

that need to be addressed in representing the 

domestic violence victim. 


This seminar will introduce students to the 

issues surrounding the provision of public 

and private education and to enable students 

to develop understandings of educational 

delivery systems that will help them to address 

education-related issues in their legal practice. 

Topics will include federal and state roles in 

public education, use of public funds for private/parochial 

education, public school choice 

and school vouchers, special education, gender 

equality in education, affirmative action and 

diversity in higher education, and public school 

desegregation. Irregular course offering. 


This course will address ethical issues related 

to the competency assessment of elder clients. 

Income maintenance, including Social 

Security, Supplemental Security Income, and 

other public and private pensions, as well as 

Medicare and Medicaid, will be considered. 

Guardianship, long-term care, and estate 

planning will be considered as well. Additional 

topics may include employment discrimination, 

housing, health care decision making, and 

elder abuse. 

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Eminent Domain Seminar 

The seminar provides an opportunity to discuss 

important issues related to the relationship 

between government’s power to regulate 

private land and other property for the public 

health, safety, and welfare on the one hand, 

and the right of owners to be secure in their 

property on the other. We will survey the tests 

the Supreme Court has developed in determining 

when government action that affects the 

use or value of property amounts to a “taking”. 

As the semester progresses, students will 

look closely at the types of takings that have 

evolved because of the Supreme Court’s 

decisions in this area, paying particular 

attention to the elements required to establish 

a taking, government action that does or does 

not constitute a taking, and remedies available 

once a taking is proven. Finally, special emphasis 

is given to more practical issues, including 

the appraisal process and condemnation 

procedures. Topics will cover both federal and 

typical state policies and procedures. 


Discrimination in employment on the basis of 

race, sex, age, and disability; consideration of 

constitutional, statutory, and other remedies; 

and safety and health in the workplace. 

Employment Law 

This course will cover a wide variety of 

topics in the employment relationship. It is 

a complex area covered by both federal and 

state statutes as well as common law. Topics 

that will be covered include establishing the 

employment relationship, terms and conditions 

of employment, health insurance and other 

fringe benefits, the work environment, and 

terminating the employment relationship. 

English Legal History 

This course surveys the development of the 

public and common law of England from its 

origins in Roman law and the Anglo-Saxon 

society of the first millennium, through the 

creation of feudal society, to the modern era, 

concluding some time around or in the 19th 

century. We survey the growth of the common 

law courts (as well as others), legal education 

and treatise writers, and the evolution of 

selected phases of the common law. We pay 

special attention to the revolutionary 17th 

century and the impact of the Protestant 

Reformation. 

Entertainment Law 

Will simulate actual entertainment law 

practice and will emphasize the process by 

which contracts are developed and entered 

into so as to make use of copyrighted 

properties. The student will be required to 

draw upon and further develop multiple 

legal skills, particularly substantive analysis, 

drafting, analysis of and otherwise dealing 

with “paper” from the other side, practical 

research, formulation of advice, and 

participation in various kinds of oral 

discussions. Irregular course offering. 

Environmental Crimes Seminar 

Survey of federal environmental crimes 

and defenses, investigatory practices and 

evidentiary restrictions, compliance protocols, 

sentencing guidelines, issue of professional 

responsibility and attorney exposure to liability, 

and an analysis of regulatory objections and 

the feasibility of attainment through criminal 

enforcement. Irregular course offering. 


Pollution control and toxic substance regulation; 

the ends and means of environmental 

protection; the institutional responsibilities of 

legislatures, agencies, and courts. 

Environmental Law Seminar: Constitutional 

Issues 

Selected problems in environmental law. 

Environmental Law Seminar: Climate Change 

Science, Perception and Policy 

Climate change (global warming) is rapidly 

becoming one of the most pressing issues 

of the 21st century. This course introduces 

students to the challenges posed by climate 

change through a unique multidisciplinary 

exploration of the scientific, economic, 

policy, communicative, and even philosophical 

dimensions of the issue. The course will cover 

such topics as the current state of scientific 

knowledge about climate change, the role of 

the media in shaping public opinion on the 

issue, competing discourses of climate change, 

risk and uncertainty in decision-making, costs 

and benefits of different types of policies, the 

Kyoto protocol and other policy initiatives, 

actions being taken to address the issue, and 

the ethical dimensions of the choices facing 

humanity. Faculty from SU and ESF in law, 

economics/public administration, earth science, 

and environmental studies will co-teach this 

course and bring to students a unique dialog 

that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. 

Moreover, emphasis will be placed on drawing 

out the general lessons obtained from a 

multidisciplinary approach to climate change: 

many of the insights will be applicable to other 

complex, highly technical environmental problems. 

This course is intended to bring together 

students from a diverse range of backgrounds 

and does not have specific prerequisites. 

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Environmental Law Seminar: Citizens’ Suits 

Environmental law statutes frequently rely 

upon private enforcement by the beneficiaries 

of environmental regulations. This seminar 

examines the law governing private enforcement 

of environmental law, probably including 

attorneys’ fees, justifiability, coordination with 

government enforcement, and notice requirements. 

It will require a short paper before the 

end of the semester and, for those fulfilling the 

substantial writing requirement and earning 

three credits, a longer paper due at the end of 

the year. 


Taxation of transfers during life and at death. 

Planning and alternative modes of disposition. 

Estate Planning Seminar 

This seminar will explore estate planning 

from two perspectives. First, it will deal with 

the substantive aspects of estate and gift tax 

and property law (including joint interests, 

life insurance, and retirement plan proceeds) 

which must be considered in developing an 

estate plan. Wills, trusts, and other planning 

techniques will be considered in detail. Second, 

the practical aspects of dealing with estate 

planning clients will be considered in depth, 

including how to explain difficult technical 

matters to the client, how to present documents 

to clients in an understandable format, 

and issues of ethics and professionalism. 

Short drafting and writing exercises as well as 

a substantial paper, consisting of a package 

of client memoranda and documents, will be 

required. 


European Economic Community 

Movement toward European integration and 

the status of the legal order of the European 

communities in relation to national and international 

law; specific community rules dealing 

with trade regulation, international commerce, 

agriculture, and social policy. Irregular course 

offering. 

Evidence 

Procedural and substantive rules of evidence, 

judicial notice, presumptions and burdens of 

proof, rules governing the receipt of oral and 

documentary evidence, impeachment, direct 

and cross-examination, competency, hearsay, 

privileges, and the best evidence rules. 

Externship Placement 

Students enrolled in the Externship Placement 

work in government offices, judges’ chambers 

and public interest organizations throughout 

upstate New York. Externs engage in 

challenging assignments, including drafting 

decisions, memos, pleadings or other legal 

documents, researching memoranda, 

interviewing and preparing witnesses, participating 

as co-counsel at trials and observing 

trials, appellate arguments or in-chamber 

proceedings. 

Externship Seminar 

As part of their externship experience, 

students participate in the externship seminar, 

which allows them to reflect on their legal 

experiences at their Externship Placements. 

The seminar consists of classroom discussion, 

writing assignments, journals, and individual 

meetings with the faculty supervisor. 

Family Issues — Advanced 

This is an advanced family law course which 

will provide applied learning opportunities for 

students. Students will study topics in greater 

depth and with more skills training than is possible 

in the survey Family Law course. Typically, 

the course would include interdisciplinary, 

international, and ethical issues. Topics will 

include the use of experts in child custody 

evaluations, domestic violence, international 

adoptions, the evaluation of professional 

practice goodwill and licenses for equitable 

distribution, and problems interviewing 

children and using children as witnesses. This 

course will meet the writing requirement. 

Family Law 

State regulation of family relations; family 

autonomy; marital and non-marital contracts; 

adoption. Issues in divorce, separation agreements, 

spousal and child support, property 

division, and child custody. 

Family Law and Social Policy Center Service 

Learning Program 

The primary focus of this course is to provide 

students with the opportunity to work with 

actual family law problems, especially those 

involving low-income persons, and to provide 

needed services to the community. Students 

will study substantive materials related to 

family law and the intersection of family and 

poverty law in the context of developing 

training and other materials; assisting pro 

bono or nonprofit legal service providers; and 

assisting other nonprofit organizations related 

to family law.


Essential functions of federal courts; and 

relationships between federal courts and the 

other branches of the federal government, the 

states, and the individual. 

Federal Government Contracts 

Overview of government contracts. Course will 

cover pre-contract activity leading to contract 

award, contract types, and the contractual 

document with specific emphasis on the Federal 

Acquisition Regulations. 

Federal Income Taxation I: Individuals 

Law and policy regarding the taxation of 

income of the individual taxpayer, including 

characteristics of income, personal and business 

deductions, principles of income splitting and 

tax accounting, dispositions of property, and 

capital gains. 

Federal Income Taxation II: Corporate 

Income tax problems of the corporation and its 

shareholders, emphasizing corporate organization, 

distributions, redemptions, liquidations, 

reorganizations, collapsible corporations, and 

S corporations. Prerequisite is Federal Income 

Taxation I. 

Forensic Evidence 

This course will survey the legal and 

scientific issues arising in forensic settings, 

such as fingerprint identification, handwriting 

identification, bite mark identifications, voice 

identifications, weapons identifications, DNA 

testing, alcohol and drug testing, and polygraph 

testing. 

Foundations in New York Law 

Focuses on the areas of New York law that are 

most frequently tested on the bar examination 

and provides practice opportunities to 

strengthen essay writing skills. 

General Counsel 

This applied learning course is designed to 

expose students to a number of areas of 

practice that are common for house counsel. 

Students will work individually and in teams 

and undertake simulations in litigation management, 

agreement negotiation and drafting, 

employment problems, and intellectual property 

practice. Students will learn how lawyers handle 

complex problems in such diverse areas and 

may conduct research, draft agreements and 

file memoranda, conduct interviews, and 

negotiate to resolve the issues found in the 

practical exercises that will be the backbone of 

the course. This course will meet the College of 

Law writing requirement. 


This new writing course examines the ways 

advances in genetics have affected law, ethics, 

and policy. No previous scientific expertise is 

required, but students must have a willingness 

to learn the basics of the science to understand 

the course materials. Readings cover eugenics, 

genetics research and its commercialization, 

genetics testing and reproduction, genetic 

screenings of newborns and children, genetic 

counseling and access to genetic services, 

gene therapy and pharmacogenetics, genetic 

enhancement, parentage and family law, 

forensics, behavioral genetics, privacy and 

confidentiality, and employment discrimination. 

In addition to doing the course readings and 

participating in the seminar discussions, each 

student will be expected to write a minimum 25page 

paper that meets the writing requirement. 

Government Regulations of Banks and 

Banking 

Federal and state laws and regulations 

affecting banks and banking in the United 

States. Irregular course offering. 

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Law as it affects the professionals and institutions 

that deliver health care in the United 

States. Will primarily address four major 

concerns: quality of health care, cost of health 

care, equitable access to health care, and 

respect for the patient. 


Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, 

exclusion and deportation, and nonimmigrant 

status. 


This course is designed to introduce students 

to the law of the United States controlling 

and regulating the Indigenous peoples and 

nations located within its borders. Topics to be 

addressed include Euro-American colonization, 

the sources of American power over Indian 

affairs, the scope of tribal governmental 

powers recognized by American law, the 

powers of states within Indian country, the 

trust responsibility, gaming and economic 

development, and decolonization. 


General principles of law that apply to casualty, 

life, and liability insurance, including modern 

developments like no-fault. Irregular course 


Insurance and Society Seminar 

This course will explore the manner in which 

insurance affects society. Issues such as tort 

reform, reinsurance, racial redlining, and the 

current crisis over Katrina will be discussed. 

The basic Insurance Law class is a prerequisite. 

Meets the College of Law writing requirement. 



Survey of the foundations of copyright, patent, 

unfair competition, and trade law. For students 

who wish to concentrate in intellectual property 

or who want a basic course as preparation 

for business planning or litigation practice. 

Co-requisite for Copyright—Literary and 

Artistic Works and for Copyright Protection of 

New Technologies. Patents course and Unfair 

Competition may be taken as co-requisites. 


International law problems of doing business 

abroad and advising foreign clients on domestic 

operations; sales of goods, techniques of 

private contract financing, dispute resolution, 

and restrictions on freedom of contract in the 

international context. 


This course will focus on topics involving 

prosecutorial tribunals, extraterritorial jurisdiction, 

extradition and abduction, cooperative 

investigation and enforcement, war crimes and 

gross human rights violations, terrorism and 

piracy, drug trafficking and money laundering, 

defenses, and new trends in international 

criminal law. Irregular course offering. 


Study of international laws safeguarding people 

and natural resources from environmental 

degradation; consideration of the structure 

and function of the international organizations, 

the effect of international environmental law 

on domestic rights and liabilities, environment 

and trade. Irregular course offering. 

International, Foreign, and Comparative Law 

Research Topics 

The purpose of this course is to offer students 

a working knowledge of legal bibliography and 

research methods, both in traditional print 

sources and in electronic formats, for conducting 

research in the laws of foreign countries, 

international law, and comparative law. 

International Environmental Law Seminar 

This seminar is a study of the general concepts 

of international environmental law, problems of 

enforcement, and problems in treaty-making. 

The course addresses endangered species, 

ozone depletion, climate change, marine mammal 

protection, and free trade’s relationship to 

environmental protection. 

International Human Rights 

Provides an apparatus for analyzing the major 

social, legal, and political changes occurring 

everywhere from St. Petersburg to Soweto 

and from Managua to Manila, for critiquing 

governmental policies that precipitate and 

respond to them, for understanding the 

conceptual underpinnings of the human rights 

system, and for acquiring the tools to conduct 

legal and political advocacy of human rights. 

A major research paper and oral presentation 

are required. 

International Intellectual Property Law 

The purpose of this course is to place intellectual 

property rights in global perspective, 

giving students a clear understanding of procedures 

and potential pitfalls. While emphasis 

will be on current mechanisms for obtaining 

and maintaining copyright, patent, and trademark 

protection abroad, major evolutionary 

steps in both foreign laws and international 

relations will also be presented. Key provisions 

of pertinent law will be explained. Significant 

U. S. case law construing U.S. obligations under 

these conventions will be scrutinized. Irregular 

course offering.


Provides an introduction to public international 

law, the system of norms, rules, institutions, 

and procedures that regulate the interaction 

between states and between states and 

individuals, including the UN Charter. Besides 

studying the basic building blocks of the 

system and the forces that are leading either 

to its breakdown or its transformation (or 

both), students engage in a seven-week 

simulation in group negotiation, research, 

and drafting of multilateral treaties to resolve 

some contemporary transnational problems. 

Use of the World Wide Web is integrated into 

the course. 


Intergovernmental trade regulation through 

the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/ 

World Trade Organization and regulation of 

unfair trade practices under U.S. law. 

Internet Law 

A survey of legal issues relating to computers 

and computer networks, including electronic 

commerce, the protection and enforcement of 

proprietary rights in software and electronic 

works, privacy and security, and content regulation. 

This course also explores the evidentiary 

use of computer records and other emerging 

issues in computer law. 

Jurisprudence of Criminal Justice 

Selected topics in criminal justice, such as 

sentencing, capital punishment, search and 

seizure, role of police, plea bargaining, and 

modes of determining guilt or innocence in 

light of jurisprudential reflection on goals of 

criminal justice. 

Jurisprudence of Human Rights 

Conflicting views of the legal decision-making 

process and the role of rights in that process, 

impact of judicial decisions, views of social scientists, 

and human rights in the international 

sphere. 


Organization and representation of employees; 

union collective action; and collective 

bargaining, including the administration and 

enforcement of collective agreements. 


This course involves an examination of basic 

land use and zoning laws. Attention is paid 

to a variety of zoning and regulatory tools as 

well as to local laws addressing environmental 

concerns. This includes basic zoning, density 

controls, variances, exceptions, special uses, 

exactions, inclusionary and exclusionary 

zoning, and the takings issue. Focus will be on 

the importance of private property rights and 

the protection of those rights in the context of 

public controls and regulations. The course will 

examine the way in which public and private 

claims to land are resolved through a mix of 

market and non-market mechanisms. Irregular 

course offering. 

Law and Literature 

The focus of this course/seminar will be the 

law, the legal process, and concepts of justice 

as they are treated in a number of works of 

fiction as well as by lawyers in judicial opinions 

and other writings. The fictional readings will 

be short stories (Tolstoy, Faulkner, Glaspell, 

Hawthorne, Cather, de Maupassant, Vonnegut, 

etc.) and two novellas. In-depth consideration 

of the materials should demonstrate to the 

student the wide gamut of emotions, human 

relationships, and ambiguities with which case 

law frequently does not adequately deal. The 

materials raise issues of morality, natural law, 

divine law, mercy, the limits of advocacy, and 

ethics, all of which must deeply concern any 

lawyer who strives to fulfill the true object of 

his or her profession. 


A basic introduction to understanding the 

form and structure of legal argument in a 

market context. The course will explore the 

basic terms and methods of economics that 

are relevant to understanding the ideas of 

competition, exchange, and transfer in a 

market context. Discussion of the relationship 

between law and markets will focus on the 

formulation of public policy. Students will 

study the practical implications, for law and 

legal institutions, of economic assumptions 

and conceptions. The course will explore the 

relationship between efficiency, externalities, 

the tragedy of the commons, the Coase 

theorem, transaction costs, public choice, 

game theory, cost/benefit analysis, and path 

dependency, among others, to create patterns 

of argument capable of strategically advancing 

particular substantive objectives. 

Law and Principles of Business Valuation 

Seminar 

Business Valuation covers valuation methodology 

and practices pertinent to income, 

estate and gift tax purposes, ESOPs, buy/sell 

agreements, etc. The income method, market 

method, asset-based method, and other 

methods of assessment will be studied. 

Students will learn fundamentals of financial 

analysis and evidentiary rules relating to 

business valuation. Irregular course offering. 

Law and Society Seminar 

The manner in which legal systems evolve 

and how they reflect the social structure, 

culture, and concepts of justice of the society; 

limits and prospects of effective legal action 

in effectuating social policy in contemporary 

American society. Irregular course offering. 

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Law and Social Sciences Seminar 

Legal study is increasingly interdisciplinary, 

making use of various other fields to challenge, 

inform, and assist legal theory and doctrine. 

This seminar will cover a number of social sciences—e.g. 

psychology, economics, sociology, 

political science, anthropology—to examine 

the connections between law and other 

disciplines. Topics to which these social science 

approaches will be applied may include capital 

punishment, juries, race, gender, paternalism, 

media violence, obscenity, expert witnesses, 

judicial decision-making, and others based on 

students’ interest. A thorough research paper 

designed to meet the College of Law writing 

criteria will be required. 

Law, Economics, and the State 

This course builds on ideas related to the 

course in Law and Market Economy, which is 

recommended but not required as a prerequisite. 

In this course, we will study the relationship 

between the state, the individual, and the 

community as relates to alternative forms of 

social organization. The course will touch on 

distinctions between the public, private, and 

not-for-profit sectors of the economy. It will 

explore the role of government and public 

administration in a market economy. Examples 

of ideas that may be discussed are: privatization, 

school and housing voucher programs, 

tax exemptions for not-for-profit enterprises, 

public/private partnerships for urban development 

and sports facilities, takings law, welfare 

reform, workfare, managed trade, industrial 

policy, and health care management, among 

others. Writing projects are required. 

Law, Economics, and the State Seminar 

This seminar focuses on the role of self-binding 

rules in today’s ever more interdependent 

societies. Like Ulysses tied to the mast, 

modern societies require the transfer of 

certain powers to controlling legal precepts 

(constitutions, international treaties) or 

institutions (national government institutions 

who share power, independent central banks, 

international organizations) that allow them to 

attenuate and possibly overcome the problem 

of opportunistic behavior. Democratic constitutions, 

independent central banks, trade 

agreements, and international conventions 

attempt to realize “good governance” goals 

by restricting the decision-makers’ ability to 

act freely and heavily discount the future in 

favor of short-term electoral or economic gain. 

While keeping such behavior in check, these 

self-binding mechanisms also provide cover 

for political leaders to undertake sound yet 

unpopular initiatives that, in the long run, are 

expected to greatly benefit society. 


The seminar will investigate different areas of 

the law (constitutional law/institutional design, 

economic law/monetary policy, and international 

trade law) where legislators and decision 

makers have used such self-binding tools, and 

ask whether self-binding mechanisms have 

contributed to outcomes that are not only 

economically efficient but also democratic. 

Lawyer as Negotiator 

A study of negotiation and the lawyer’s role 

in the negotiating process, ethical problems 

in negotiation, and negotiation skills taught 

through simulated negotiations. 

Lawyering Skills: Basic 

Attorney-client relationship, including interviewing, 

counseling and negotiation; preparation 

of pleadings and other legal papers; and 

local practice and discovery procedures. 

Lawyering Skills: Family Law 

This skills course will take students through a 

complex family law case. Students will draft 

pleadings, prepare interrogatories, prepare 

experts for trial, etc. The skills emphasized 

will be pretrial preparation and settlement 

strategies rather than trial advocacy. Family 

Law is a prerequisite. 

Lawyering Skills: Planning for the 

Non-Traditional Family 

Drafting of legal instruments for individuals 

and their loved ones who do not fit the 

traditional nuclear family model. Topics would 

include domestic partnership agreements, 

real property partnership agreements, estate 

planning instruments (e.g. wills, trusts, and 

corporate formations), tax planning, and 

second-parent adoptions. 

Lawyers and Clients 

Lawyers and Clients is a four-credit, onesemester 

applied learning course intended to 

introduce third-year law students to a variety 

of lawyering skills, including interviewing, 

counseling, negotiation, fact investigation, 

legal writing, financial and business concepts 

for lawyers, and time records and billing. 

The course relies heavily on simulations and 

participatory exercises. Throughout the course, 

the skills training will include the ethical and 

professional dimensions of the lawyering 

process. Irregular course offering. 

Law of Armed Conflict 

Mankind has attempted to regulate the horror 

of war for centuries. This seminar will review 

those attempts, focusing on the modern era. 

Particular attention will be paid to recent 

challenges related to the war on terror and 

the ramifications for future enforcement of 

these key principles. Any student interested in 

practicing national security law or going into 

international criminal justice must have a clear 

understanding of the law of armed conflict. 

This seminar will assist in that understanding. 

The student will have the opportunity to be 

involved in several practical exercises that will 

reinforce their learning and write a paper on 

various cutting-edge issues, of their choosing, 

related to the law of armed conflict. 

Legal Aspects of Future Wars 

The paradigm shifts we see through history 

affect our society, as well as our laws. These 

laws, however, are apt to lag behind the 

swift change in the social, political, and 

cultural dynamic of today’s information age. 

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the 

area of national security law, particularly 

after the declaration of the war on terror in 

September 2001. This seminar, a first for a 

law school, will allow both the law student and 

graduate student from the Maxwell School 

of Citizenship, to consider the new threats 

to our national security 5, 10, and 15 years 

out and review how the appropriate laws will 

need to be reviewed and to change. The field 

of national security law needs to be more 

preventative, proactive, and forward thinking, 

rather than reactive. The new threats and 

battlefields will be fought not on the desert 

plains of the Middle East, but in cyberspace, 

medical labs, nuclear reactors, corporate board 

rooms, bank vaults, and in dark corners of 

the world. The enemy may well be a soldier, 

but more likely a terrorist with sophisticated 

technology to attack asymmetrically and from 

places we have yet to imagine. This seminar 

will address these issues, looking for the next 

challenges, and will explore the ways the law 

can adjust to ensure we defend ourselves 

under the rule of law. 

Legal Communication and Research III 

Taken either in the summer following the first 

year or in either the fall or spring semester of 

the second year. The Legal Communication 

and Research program will offer a variety of 

courses that build on the skills learned in the 

first two semesters of the program. Course 

offerings will vary, but will include courses 

that focus more specifically on practice areas 

(such as civil litigation, criminal litigation, and 

transactional drafting), as well as courses that 

focus on legal writing (such as theories and 

strategies in persuasive writing and revising 

and editing legal prose).


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Legal History: American Law 

A history of American legal development and 

institutions from 1600 to present. Emphasis 

on the role of ideology, impact of the American 

Revolution, efforts to reform legal institutions, 

slavery and race, relationship between law and 

capitalism, impact of the frontier, formalist 

adjudication, legal realism, and legal 

education. 

Legal History: Modern Public Law 

A survey of American constitutional history 

from c. 1880 to the present. This course will 

include the emergence of substantive due 

process, the aggrandizement of presidential 

power in war time, all aspects of the First 

Amendment, various 20th-century schools 

of legal thought, the impact of the equal 

protection clause, and rights of privacy, 

autonomy, and association. Irregular course 


Litigation in Regional Human Rights Cases 

Students in this course will take a critical look 

at the international human rights litigation 

before regional bodies such as the European 

Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American 

Commission and Court, and the African 

Commission and Court. It will also analyze 

universal mechanisms established by the 

United States. Irregular course offering. 

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic 

The Low Income Taxpayer Law Clinic offers 

legal assistance to lower-income taxpayers 

who have controversies with the Internal 

Revenue Service. Students enrolled in this 

clinic handle income tax audits and examinations, 

administrative appeals, unfiled tax 

returns, and issues related to the collection of 

back taxes by the IRS. Students negotiate with 

IRS agents, and when necessary, file petitions 

in the U.S. Tax Court or complaints in the 

Federal District Courts. 



Selected topics examining law of the press, 

such as, defamation, privacy, reporters’ 

privileges, freedom of information, and access 

to judicial proceedings. 

Mediation Assistance 

This course is an applied learning seminar. 

Students learn about mediation from actual 

mediations and from exercises, simulations, 

and readings that are required for the course. 

Only students who have been accepted into the 

Mediation Assistance Program and have completed 

25 hours of training in the fall semester 

will be eligible to sign up for the course. The 

purpose of the Mediation Assistance Program 

is to train students in mediation so they can 

provide free mediation services to community 

groups who do not otherwise have access to 

such services. Irregular course offering. 

Mediation and Family Law 

This course is an intensive theoretical and 

practical introduction to mediation in family 

law. Focusing on the law and jurisprudence of 

mediation, and the roles of attorneys in mediation, 

as both mediators and counselors, the syllabus 

also draws upon interdisciplinary insights 

from the fields of anthropology, sociology, 

linguistics, psychology, and conflict resolution. 

It is intended to be a theoretical and analytical 

class with a strong skills component, consisting 

of three simulations. 

Medical Malpractice 

This is a survey course that considers the 

elements involved in starting a medical 

malpractice claim. The course will include the 

defenses against and possible consequences of 

bringing medical malpractice claims. 

Mergers and Acquisitions 

This course is for students with a strong 

interest in capital markets, public corporations, 

and modern corporate practice. Topics covered 

include source of gains in business combinations, 

duties and risks of sellers, buyers’ risks 

in acquisitions, and securities laws. 


Obtaining information about the government; 

restraints on publication; government surveillance; 

travel restrictions; war and emergency 

powers; nuclear weapons issues; civil disobedience 

and draft issues. 



The National Security and Counterterrorism 

Research Center serves as a working research 

laboratory for law and other graduate 

students interested in national security and 

counter-terrorism issues. Students will work 

in teams on research projects assigned by 

the director. Other faculty within Syracuse 

University and experts outside the University 

may also participate in the development 

and implementation of research projects. 

Typically, the projects will involve assessments 

of legal and law-related issues of concern to 

federal, state, and local government officials in 

responding to national security and terrorism 

threats. Other projects may examine private 

sector security concerns. Research projects 

may be pursuant to contract arrangements 

with sources external to Syracuse University, 

while others may be developed from within the 

College of Law or the University. 

Native American Law 

Legal principles governing the relationship 

between Indian nations, states, and the federal 

government on disputes concerning jurisdiction, 

land, and water. Irregular course offering.



In this two-semester applied learning course, 

students consider issues related to ethics and 

professionalism and will develop negotiating 

and drafting skills. In the first semester, the 

course will focus on an international sales 

agreement. Students will consider problems 

related to basic sales such as payment 

guarantees and products liability in the context 

of laws of different jurisdictions and trade 

agreements. In the second semester of the 

course, students will focus on a technological 

transfer and issues related to investment. This 

course will meet the College of Law writing 

requirement. 


Civil practice law and rules and interpretive 

cases and other aspects of civil litigation in 

New York. 

Not-for-Profit Organizations, Law, Taxation 

and Policy 

A study of the federal and state laws 

(corporate, tax, administrative) governing and 

regulating not-for-profit organizations, and 

the policy considerations underlying those 

laws. Among the many organizations to be 

considered are charitable, educational, and 

religious organizations; social clubs; civic and 

business leagues; political parties; and 

political action committees. The course will 

also examine the application of those laws in 

modern legal practice. 


This course is designed primarily for students 

who plan to practice in the area of Patent Law 

before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

(PTO), which permits only registered patent 

attorneys and agents to represent clients in 

the prosecution of patent applications. The 

course will cover the process of procuring a 

patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark 

Office. The course will also enhance students’ 

understanding of the legal standards for 

patentability (building upon the principles 

explored in Patents and Trade Secrets), will 

familiarize students with the PTO’s elaborate 

rules of practice in patent cases, and will 

provide students with practice applying these 

standards and rules to facts and situations 

encountered in basic patent prosecution practice. 

Patents and Trade Secrets is a prerequisite 

to this course. 


Traditional patent course focusing on protection 

of mechanical, chemical, and electrical 

inventions with a trade secrets component. 


Surveys significant issues in poverty law and 

policy. Looks at poverty, poverty programs, 

and access to the civil justice system. Against 

the background of historic change in law and 

policy, students examine issues from differing 

legal, political, and social philosophies. 

Students examine the changing nature of 

poverty law practice. Specific areas of study 

include the nature of poverty, the history of 

access to justice, the constitution in the welfare 

state, and substantive topics such as access 

to a subsistence income, shelter, health care, 

nutrition, safety, and a prosperous future. 

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Problems in Case Analysis and Appellate 

Advocacy Seminar 

Legal reasoning through practice in developing 

written and oral arguments and reaching 

solutions to legal questions taken from actual 

cases. The emphasis will be on analysis and 

reasoning, not on learning legal rules. Many 

of the problems will be modeled on cases in 

the New York Court of Appeals that resulted 

in four-to-three decisions where there is no 

“right answer.” A discussion of some of these 

cases will inevitably entail arguments concerning 

social policy and legal philosophy. 

Problems in Legal Writing 

Students will explore legal analysis, legal 

reasoning, and legal writing in a problemsolving 

context. Part I of the course will 

focus on instruction and reinforcement of 

basic skills. These include problem/issue 

assessment; hierarchy and weight of authority; 

research skills; logical reasoning; case and 

statutory analysis; analogical, policy-based, 

and principled reasoning; and deriving and 

synthesizing rules of law. Part II of the course 

will focus on legal writing and organizational 

skills, including writing styles, audience, basic 

macro- and micro-organization, “rule proofs,” 

the importance of comprehensive and succinct 

analysis, attribution, plagiarism, and professional 

responsibility. Part III of the course 

will offer a progressive series of analysis and 

writing exercises, each of which will culminate 

in the submission of a graded paper. Irregular 


Professional Writing for Lawyers 

This course offers second- and third-year law 

students an opportunity to develop further 

their written communication skills in the 

context of drafting civil litigation documents. 

Using civil litigation documents, students 

will learn/review/practice basic principles 

and strategies of effective writing, effective 

legal writing, and effective legal research. 

The course will emphasize the importance of 

organization, checklists, samples bank, point 

of view, audience, strategy, clarity, conciseness, 

self-editing, and teamwork. Further, the 

course will aim at helping students develop 

confidence in writing and create a personal 

writing style. 


Legal tools for dealing with defective and 

dangerous products, including common law 

remedies for breach of warranty, negligence, 

and strict liability in tort. Definition of 

“defective product” and the measure of 

damages to the injured person. 

Professional Responsibility 

Relationship of the lawyer to the profession, 

community, client, and society. ABA Code of 

Professional Responsibility, ABA Model Rules of 

Professional Conduct, and American Lawyer’s 

Code of Conduct. 

Prosecuting Terrorists in Article III Courts 

The course will examine the use of civilian 

Article III courts to prosecute terrorist by 

following the logical course of a prosecution 

—legal basis, investigative techniques, 

litigation, and sentencing issues. Major topics 

include: principles of counter-terrorism 

prosecutions, major legislative packages, 

definitions of terrorism, numerous selected 

criminal statutes, overview of the intelligence 

community, overview of federal law enforcement 

agencies, use and protection national 

security information, Fourth Amendment 

framework, the Attorney General’s Guidelines, 

U.S. agents acting abroad, electronic surveillance, 

interviews and interrogation, use of the 

grand jury, material witnesses, the Classified 

Information Procedures Act, physical security, 

witness protection, relevant United States 

Sentencing Commission Guidelines, litigation 

strategies, and case studies. 

Psychology and the Legal System 

An important goal of the legal system is 

to guide, constrain, and react to human 

behavior. In doing so the law makes numerous 

assumptions about people’s thoughts, beliefs, 

attitudes, and conduct—assumptions that 

may or may not be true. Psychology, as the 

empirical study of human thoughts, beliefs, 

attitudes, and conduct, is in an important 

position to evaluate such assumptions. Over 

the past several decades, increasing numbers 

of social scientists have devoted substantial 

attention to the systematic study of law and 

legal institutions. At the same time, social 

scientists themselves are testifying as experts 

in increasing numbers, and encouraging 

courts and policy-makers to use research 

evidence in adjudicating court cases and in 

setting public policy. This course will provide a 

survey of research in psychology as it relates 

to the legal and political process. Among the 

topics covered may be jury decision-making, 

the insanity defense, negotiation, race, trial 

consulting, obscenity and pornography, 

and capital punishment. Each topic will be 

considered from both a theoretical and an 

applied perspective. 


This course explores the historical foundations 

of selected current issues where race has legal 

significance. It is not a comprehensive civil 

rights course. Half of the course will consist of 

a historical survey of the intersection of race 

and law in what has become the United States, 

from 1600 to 1954. The course will focus 

primarily on the legal condition of African 

Americans, first in the slave societies that 

prevailed until 1865, then in the condition of 

servitude that followed for another century. 

The course will also briefly consider the legal 

experience of Spanish-speaking peoples in 

what was successively colonial Mexico and 

then Texas and the rest of the southwestern 

United States, will note problems faced by 

Chinese and Japanese immigrants to the 

United States, will look briefly at the racial 

implications of American empire, and will 

consider the constitutional status of the Native 

American peoples. The emphasis in this part 

of the course will be on a survey designed to 

familiarize students with historical experiences 

seldom taught, and never integrated, in high 

school and college. The second half of the 

course focuses on problems that arose after 

1954. These include the incidence of the death 

penalty; affirmative action; the desegregation, 

integration, and resegregation of American 

schools; voting rights; law-enforcement issues; 

and others. The course will also concern, 

almost exclusively, the legal opportunities 

and challenges facing African Americans. 

The focus of our work will be on answers to 

these questions: Is Brown v. Board of Education 

(1954) still the law of the land? To the extent 

that it isn’t, what has supplanted it, and what 

resemblance (if any) does that post-Brown 

society bear to the nation surveyed in the first 

half of the course? Irregular course offering. 

Race, Sex, Memory, and the Law 

Since the United States Supreme Court ruled 

antimiscegenation law unconstitutional in 

Loving v. Virginia (1967), commentators have 

heralded the onset of the “biracial baby 

boom.” This type of law and thought, productive 

as it may be, treats mixed race as a new 

phenomenon, as if interracial intimacy had not 

occurred before then. This seminar analyzes 

juridical and historical dialogues of miscegenation 

that refer to this seemingly nonexistent 

past, with a goal of questioning our collective 

memory of discrete and impenetrable racial 

lines. We will examine past and present legal 

conflicts of miscegenation, including testamentary 

disputes, presidential sex, racial 

passing, and the myth of Pocahontas. Our aim 

is to interrogate anachronistic conceptions 

of racial boundaries that incorrectly rely 

upon present recollections of the past as seen 

through the eyes of law, specifically the antimiscegenist 

regime that preceded Loving. We 

will take an interdisciplinary approach to this 

legal analysis by relying on fiction, film, and 

theory, including Samuel Clemens’ Puddn’head 

Wilson, Dion Bioucault’s The Octoroon, and John 

Sayle’s Lone Star. Readings include, among 

others, Charles Chesnutt, Vine Deloria Jr., 

Randall Kennedy, and Annette Gordon-Reed. 

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Standard residential and commercial real 

estate transactions, including consideration 

of brokerage arrangements, contracts of sale, 

methods of financing, methods of title protection, 

mortgage markets, construction loans, 

and permanent financing. 


The course lays out the historical, political, and 

philosophical background to the development 

of the concept of “refugee” in the 20th 

century, followed by the legal framework, 

illustrating how U.S. law complements—and 

sometimes contradicts—the standards 

developed in international law. The focus 

then shifts to the procedural and evidentiary 

requirements for making a claim for asylum 

before the I.N.S. through a simulation in which 

students interview a mock asylum applicant 

and research and prepare a legal petition 

on her behalf. The course concludes with a 

reconsideration of the international refugee 

regime and its most pressing problems, such as 

the internally displaced. 

Regulation of Electronic Mass 

Communications 

Regulation of radio, television, cable systems, 

and new technologies; economic and First 

Amendment implications of administrative 

oversight. Irregular course offering. 

Regulatory Law and Policy 

An advanced exploration of regulatory decision 

making, focusing on the reasons for and 

methods used in implementing regulation; 

how policy and politics impact on regulatory 

decisions and relate to the legal authority of 

agencies; case studies of regulatory programs, 

their successes and failures. Course requirements 

include one or more research papers, 

which will meet the College of Law writing 

requirement. Administrative Law or Public 

Administration and Law are prerequisites 

for this course. This one-semester course is a 

J.D./M.P.A. program requirement. 


Introduces the concept of the law/religion 

interaction and the methodology of 

comparative law. Will focus on general topic of 

fundamentalism. Focus will also be selected 

countries (including three democracies) that 

represent major religions: Catholic Ireland, 

Shiite Iran (bracketed by an introductory class 

on Islam and a case study on Salman Rushdie), 

Jewish Israel, and Hindu/Muslim India. 


Rethinking American Law 

This is a topical course focused on the study 

of contemporary issues in American Indian 

law. Several issues will be addressed in depth 

that related to the indigenous nations and 

peoples within New York State, including (i) 

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) land claims and 

their resolution; (ii) state efforts to require 

Indian nations to collect state sales taxes; (iii) 

Indian gaming and its proliferation within 

the state; (iv) federal agency efforts to apply 

general regulatory laws to Indian nations; and 

(v) criminal jurisdiction and its enforcement on 

Indian lands. Irregular course offering. 


This course deals in depth with the creation 

and perfection of security interests in personal 

property, priority of claims, and remedies 

upon debtor’s default under Article 9 of the 

Uniform Commercial Code. Additionally, some 

consideration is given to related concepts 

under the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Irregular 


Securities Arbitration/ Consumer Law Clinic 

The Securities Arbitration/Consumer Law 

Clinic represents small investors who have lost 

some or all of their investments as a result of 

improper conduct on the part of stock brokers, 

investment advisors, securities firms, and 

mutual funds, and who are required to use the 

arbitration process for the resolution of their 

disputes. Starting in fall 2006, students will 

also have the opportunity to handle a variety 

of consumer cases. 

Securities Regulations 

Securities Act of 1933: regulation of the distribution 

of securities, including the registration 

process, exempt securities, exempt transactions, 

enforcement, and liabilities; Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934: regulation of trading 

in securities and related market activities, 

including tender offers, proxy solicitations, 

market manipulation, disclosure requirements, 

insider trading, and express and implied civil 

liabilities. 


Legal issues as they affect the lives of lesbians, 

gays, and bisexuals in the United States. 

Constitutional law, employment law, family 

law, property law, criminal law, and estate 

planning are the areas of primary focus.

Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the 

Indigenous Nations 

This course will explore issues relating to the 

self-determination of Indigenous peoples and 

the sovereignty of Indigenous nations located 

within the Western Hemisphere generally and 

the United States in particular. Topics to be 

addressed fall into three main categories: (i) 

the meaning of Indigenous sovereignty and 

self-determination and the relationship of 

these concepts to the survival of Indigenous 

peoples and nations; (ii) the threats to 

Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, 

in particular the threat of colonialism; 

and (iii) the means by which Indigenous nation 

sovereignty can be developed and strengthened. 

By focusing on the legal, political, and 

economic systems of Indigenous nations and 

peoples, it is intended that students develop 

a greater understanding of non-western legal 

and political systems and possibly gain greater 

insight into the strengths and weaknesses of 

the American legal and political systems. 

Sports Law 

This course will examine various areas of the 

law as they relate to sports (both professional 

sports and intercollegiate sports), including 

such areas as contract law, antitrust law, labor 

law, law regulating player agents, gender 

discrimination law, and personal injury law. 


Study of procedural problems concerned with 

the administration of the Internal Revenue 

Code and the handling of tax disputes, 

including litigation. 

Taxation of International Transactions 

Taxation of nonresident aliens and foreign 

corporations on income earned in the United 

States and of U.S. citizens, residents, and 

corporations on income from foreign sources. 


Taxation of partnerships and subchapter S 

corporations. 

Technology Transactions Law 

The classroom component offered in coordination 

with the Technology Transfer Research 

Center, which includes extensive readings on 

law, technology and business topics; case study 

problems; software simulations; and lectures 

and discussions based upon assigned work. 

Technology Commercialization Research 

Center 

Will operate in conjunction with CASE 

Technology-Transfer Research Center. Interns 

will work in the CTRC and attend a series 

of classes devoted to technology transfer 

subjects. 

Theories and Strategies in Persuasive Writing 

Using theoretical principles of human nature 

identified in classical rhetoric, psychology, 

and literary theory, Theories and Strategies in 

Persuasive Writing will focus on why certain 

writing strategies are persuasive and how 

and when a legal writer might use a particular 

writing strategy. Specifically, the course will 

consider the function and use of literary 

references in persuasive writing, the various 

persuasive writing strategies based on classical 

rhetoric theory, and persuasive writing strategies 

based on psychology theory. Irregular 


Transitional Justice Seminar 

The study of the evolving legal and sociopolitical 

processes by which formerly repressive 

regimes transform themselves into rule 

of law states. (Note: The phrase “Transitional 

Justice” has become a common way to describe 

this process, which includes the replacement 

of old laws, officials and governmental institutions; 

prosecution of the former regime 

leadership; truth and reconciliation 

mechanisms; reparations for victims of human 

rights and humanitarian law violations, etc.) 

Students will write individual research papers 

(which will satisfy the College of Law writing 

requirement) and, as a group, the class will 

draft a new constitution for a hypothetical 

“transitional” country. 

Trial Practice 

Courtroom techniques and tactics drawing on 

substantive and procedural law and evidence 

courses. Students prepare and conduct trial 

exercises under direction of instructor. 


Common law tort and legislative remedies for 

civil wrongs arising from business conduct and 

commercial dealings; common law trade libel 

and product disparagement, mixed tort and 

contract remedies. 

Women and the Law 

Historical perspective of the legal problems of 

women in American society. 


This applied learning course will examine 

women’s increased involvement throughout 

the criminal justice system. The students will 

analyze the role of gender in criminal law 

doctrine, practice, and adjudication using an 

interdisciplinary approach to these subjects. 

In addition to the fall semester being devoted 

primarily to substantive discussions, visits 

by guest speakers, and initial development 

of student papers, and the spring semester 

being devoted to additional development of 

the drafts, presentations, and field trips, the 

course will also include a “community service” 

dimension. Students will devote approximately 

10 hours assisting battered women in the 

Family Court in Syracuse. Irregular course 


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innovation and 

specialization 

Innovation begins in a student’s 

first year of study at Syracuse. 

The legal communication and 

research courses and first-year 

Legislation and Policy elective 

courses introduce students to 

crucial legal skills and the legal 

environment. Following the first 

year, opportunities to specialize in 

one or more areas of the law are 

abundant at Syracuse. Students 

are able to explore and expand 

their career interests throughout 

their three years of law study.


and Research 

As part of an on-going plan to blend 

substantive legal education with practical 

skills training, the college has instituted an 

innovative first-year Course called Legal 

Communication and Research. Each student 

is assigned to a small-group class directed 

by a legal writing professor. In the Legal 

Communication and Research Course, 

students develop legal writing, research, and 

problem-solving skills in connection with 

hypothetical fact patterns based on actual 

cases and controversies. This course introduces 

students to the multifaceted role of the lawyer 

early in their studies. 

The low student-to-instructor ratio of the 

class ensures close, personal attention to development 

of the most crucial lawyering skills. 

In addition to intensive writing exercises, the 

course exposes students to a range of practical 

skills required in actual law practice. 

Ever mindful of the effect of technological 

advances on the practice of law, the College 

of Law provides technology training as part of 

the course. Instruction in computer-assisted 

legal research methods begins in the second 

semester of the first year with structured 

training sessions for computer-assisted legal 

research. 

First-Year Legislation 

and Policy Electives 

All first-year students now have the option 

of electing one course in the spring semester. 

Students choose from several specialized 

first-year electives that may include civil rights 

law, consumer protection law, federal Indian 

law, disability law, environmental law, employment 

discrimination, family law, health law, 

labor law, voting rights and electoral process, 

and securities law. In these courses, students 

explore the institutions and processes of legislation, 

including an examination of statutory 

interpretation and administrative processes, 

as applied to the particular substantive area of 

law. To facilitate innovative teaching strategies 

and individualized learning opportunities, each 

elective course is limited in enrollment to fewer 

than 40 students. 

Innovative Opportunities 

Innovation continues into a student’s second 

and third years at Syracuse. A variety of 

opportunities allow students to learn more in 

areas that provide strong grounding for issues 

likely to be encountered in the practice of law 

in the next century. 

Syracuse Law has developed special 

opportunities that provide outstanding 

educational experiences. These include 

training in advocacy skills, international law, 

technology law, family law and social policy, 

law and economics, disabilities law, national 

security, the law of indigenous people, and a 

wide array of interdisciplinary opportunities 

and diverse in-house clinical and externship 

experiences. 

Upperclass students may select from a 

variety of elective courses and seminars 

listed on pages 9 to 11 and from the offerings 

described on pages 12 to 31. 

The Writing Center 

The Writing Center offers individualized 

writing assistance to students based on 

the philosophy that “all written work needs 

improving; every writer can improve.” 

The Writing Center supports the writing 

activities of College of Law students by 

offering one-on-one conferences, as well as 

small-group workshops and large-group 

presentations. 

The center offers a variety of activities 

focusing on the writing process, including 

document organization and presentation, 

principles of composition, expository writing, 

argumentation techniques, legal usage and 

style, and presenting a completed product. The 

Writing Center uses a variety of instructional 

methods to accomplish its missions. 

For students, the Writing Center is a resource 

for improving their writing; for faculty, the 

Writing Center is a resource to supplement 

their classroom writing activities. 

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interdisciplinary learning 

opportunities 


Syracuse University College of Law’s 

mission is guided by the philosophy 

that the best way to educate lawyers 

to practice in today’s world is to 

engage them in a process of 

interdisciplinary learning while 

teaching them to apply what they 

learn in the classroom to real legal 

issues, problems, and clients. 

Beginning in the first year and 

continuing throughout the 

curriculum, students are exposed to 

educational settings that integrate 

opportunities to acquire a better 

understanding of legal theory and 

doctrine, develop professional skills, 

and gain exposure to the values and 

ethics of the legal profession. As a 

result, Syracuse students are better 

prepared for the practice of law.

Centers and Institute 

While law degrees do not include “majors,” by 

participating in a center or institute, students 

can specialize in certain areas and have 

real-life experiences related to the type of 

law they may choose to practice. Students can 

gain hands-on experience by working closely 

with faculty members and classmates in small 

groups on simulated or actual legal problems. 

Students may complete all requirements within 

the three-year course of study for the J.D. and 

receive certificates upon completion noting 

their accomplishments. 

Technology Commercialization 

Law Program (TCL) 

In a unique program designed to bridge theory 

and practice for students planning careers in 

intellectual property and technology management, 

the Technology Commercialization Law 

(TCL) Program emphasizes interdisciplinary 

and applied approaches to commercial 

development of new technology. 

In addition to law subjects, students are 

immersed in a business curriculum that 

includes business planning, finance, intellectual 

property licensing, venture capital, and tax 

issues. 

They are trained to research electronic 

databases and use computers and telecommunications 

systems as practice tools, and 

work in cross-disciplinary teams on real-world 

technology development arranged through 

SU’s Technology Commercialization Research 

Center with companies and research 

organizations. Although a background in a 

technical field is not required, the majority 

of TCL students have science or engineering 

degrees or have worked in technology-related 

occupations before entering law school. 

The TCL Program has recently been 

awarded a highly prestigious grant from the 

New York State Office of Science, Technology, 

and Academic Research (NYSTAR) to provide 

legal support services to university research 

centers and early-stage technology companies 

throughout New York State. TCL students will 

be actively engaged in this project. 

Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social 

Entrepreneurism (PCSE) 

When students study law in the Center on 

PCSE, they explore issues related to modern 

real estate transactions and finance; community 

development and housing; global property 

law systems; and access to ownership for 

inclusion of the elderly, the poor, and persons 

with disabilities. The PCSE curriculum provides 

students with the skills and knowledge that 

are essential to understanding the critical 

role of law in defining property, constituting 

markets, and fostering institutions of citizenship 

and governance. PCSE engages students 

in coursework, team projects, and research 

opportunities in all areas of property law and 

theory, including real, personal, intangible, 

intellectual, and cultural property. PCSE also 

addresses the special needs of business and of 

corporate counsel. Property issues are among 

the most hotly contested issues in the global 

marketplace and PCSE offers students a front 

row seat. 

Our curriculum is based on a belief that the 

modern lawyer must understand property and 

its regulation as part of the broader economic 

organization of society. This includes a need 

to understand relevant political, business, and 

financial factors. The curriculum prepares 

students for a variety of opportunities in law 

firms, government agencies, financial institutions, 

development organizations, business, 

and for graduate studies. Students may earn 

a Certificate in Advanced Property Studies, or 

the Corporate Counsel Certificate by successfully 

completing the core PCSE requirements. 

Both certificates are awarded by the College of 

Law at graduation, upon successful completion 

of all requirements. The core curriculum is 

outlined on our web site at www.law.syr.edu/pcse. 

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Global Law and Practice 

Technological developments, the end of the 

Cold War, and increasing economic interdependence 

among nations have challenged 

legal education to keep pace in the expanding 

field of global studies. For more than 35 years, 

Syracuse University College of Law has been 

a leader in international legal studies. Out 

of that tradition, the Center for Global Law 

and Practice emerged, offering students a 

broad variety of opportunities in and out of 

the classroom. 

Students who participate in the center 

choose courses in the international area 

from a varied menu. From their first year, 

students may be exposed to the field of global 

law by being selected for the International 

Section of the Legal Communication and 

Research course, from which participants are 

selected for the First-Year International Moot 

Court Competition. Students may join the 

International Law Society, which sponsors a 

number of extracurricular activities, or write 

for the Syracuse Journal of International Law 

and Commerce, one of the oldest student-edited 

international law reviews in the United States. 

Students who fulfill certain course requirements 

can earn the Certificate in Global Law 

and Practice. 

Selected students may become Global 

Law and Practice research associates 

or research assistants working on global pro 

bono projects, such as the Sierra Leone project. 

For academic credit, students in the project 

draft legal memoranda on issues of international 

criminal law requested by the office of 

the prosecutor of the U.N.-created War Crimes 

Court in Sierra Leone. 

Students may also apply classroom learning 

by competing in the Jessup International 

Law Competition, the Vienna Arbitration 

Competition on International Sales of Goods, 

or the tri-lingual Inter-American Human Rights 

Competition. Students can also receive handson 

experiences through work on related cases 

in our clinics and Syracuse’s summer abroad 

program in London. 

An added advantage for global law students 

is the opportunity to take international 

relations and other courses at the Maxwell 

School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 

consistently rated the premier graduate school 

in public administration in the United States. 

Family Law and Social Policy Center 

The Family Law and Social Policy Center 

prepares law students for a career in family 

law by engaging them in interdisciplinary 

research, providing them with applied learning 

experiences, and connecting them with the 

community to provide services that benefit 

families and children. 

Students participating in the Family Law 

and Social Policy Center Programs are eligible 

to receive a certificate that recognizes their 

concentration in either family law or estate 

planning. Students interested in earning the 

Family Law and Social Policy Certificate must 

take Family Law and four elective courses from 

the family law curriculum. Those who would 

like to obtain the Estate Planning Certificate 

must take 17 credits in estate planning coursework. 

It is possible for students to achieve 

both certificates upon graduation, as many of 

the course requirements overlap. The family 

law curriculum includes a variety of courses 

to choose from, including: Bioethics, Children 

and the Law, Estate Planning, Mediation, and 

Domestic Violence. Additionally, students have 

the opportunity to take courses and perform 

research in other graduate divisions that will 

count toward the Family Law and Social Policy 

Certificate requirements. Students often take 

family policy-related classes at the highly 

respected Maxwell School of Citizenship and 

Public Affairs or Syracuse University School of 

Social Work. 

Through its applied learning courses, such 

as the Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic 

and the Service-Learning Program, students 

participate in hands-on learning opportunities 

that combine in-depth classroom learning with 

actual problem solving. These courses provide 

opportunities to interact with professionals in 

other fields as well as with practicing attorneys. 

In the Children’s Rights and Family Law 

Clinic, students represent clients with legal 

needs that would otherwise go unserved. The 

Service-Learning Program enables students 

to assist pro bono or nonprofit legal service 

organizations in providing family law–related 

services to the low-income community. 

The Family Advocacy Program (FAP) is a 

medical-legal collaboration co-sponsored by 

the Family Law and Social Policy Center, the 

Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic (CRC), 

and Upstate Pediatrics and Adolescent Center 

of University Hospital and Upstate Medical 

University. Medical and legal professionals 

work together to provide legal assistance to 

address problems affecting a child’s health. 

Students have the unique opportunity to represent 

FAP clients in the clinic program or assist 

pro bono attorneys in providing legal services 

to clients ineligible for FAP services. 

From their first year, students are invited to 

participate in center events, such as speakers, 

conferences, and pro bono programs. Students 

are also encouraged to become involved in 

related activities such as the National Gabrielli

Family Law Moot Court Competition or the 

Family Law Society. 

The center includes a diverse faculty of 

experts and practitioners in various areas of 

family law such as bioethics, children’s rights, 

disability law, and elder law. The center also 

employs a full-time executive director 

dedicated to organizing conferences and 

speakers on various family law topics, coaching 

the Family Law Moot Court Team, and assisting 

students in planning for and obtaining center 

certificates. 

The center offers unique opportunities that 

blend interdisciplinary theory and practice in 

the field of family law in ways that are both 

challenging and rewarding to law students. 

These combined experiences allow students 

to emerge from the program with the 

professional skills and experiences necessary 

to launch successful and satisfying careers in 

family law. 

For more information, visit the center’s 

web site at www.law.syr.edu/family. 

Center for Indigenous Law, 

Governance, and Citizenship 

Established in 2003, The Center for Indigenous 

Law, Governance, and Citizenship at Syracuse 

University focuses on programmatic activities 

that include: conducting research relating 

to citizenship, rights and responsibilities of 

Indigenous peoples and the governance of 

Indigenous nations in the United States and 

Canada; providing technical assistance to 

Indigenous nations seeking to reform their 

governing institutions and administrative laws; 

assisting federal, state, local and provincial 

governments who seek to reform their Indian 

affairs laws; and promoting a greater 

under standing of the law, governance, and 

history of the Haudenosaunee (“People of the 

Longhouse”). The issues and activities of these 

areas are inherently complex and multidisciplinary. 

They delve into such disciplines as law, 

politics, administration, finance, anthropology, 

and sociology, necessitating collaboration and 

partnership with other schools on campus. 

Institute for National Security 

and Counterterrorism (INSCT) 

The Institute for National Security and 

Counterterrorism, a joint enterprise of the 

College of Law and the Maxwell School of 

Citizenship and Public Affairs, is dedicated to 

the interdisciplinary study of important 

questions of law and policy related to national 

and international security and counterterrorism. 

In furtherance of this mission, INSCT 

supports the development of new and existing 

courses; sponsors conferences, workshops, and 

lectures; and administers a student research 

center. 

Responding to the growing interest in 

terrorism and other security threats, the 

institute and its sponsoring schools have 

developed an extensive security studies curriculum 

and offer students two certificates in 

security and counterterrorism studies. A prime 

example of this curriculum is the Perspectives 

on Terrorism course, which is team taught by 

faculty from the disciplines of law, history, 

political science, communication, international 

relations, and public administration. Discipline- 

specific courses are also taught in almost 

all Maxwell School departments and at the 

College of Law, which offers such courses as 

National Security Law, Counterterrorism and 

the Law, Prosecuting Terrorists in Article III 

Courts, and Legal Aspects of Future War. 

Partnering with academic centers within 

Syracuse University, nationally, and internationally, 

the institute also sponsors conferences 

and lectures that are designed to further a 

research agenda in security or terrorism and 

bring together scholars, current and former 

government officials, and media representatives. 

Topics have included information sharing 

and homeland security, the global war on 

terrorism, reorganization of the intelligence 

community, terrorist financing, investigating 

and prosecuting terrorists, and violent extremists 

and the political process. Such topics are 

explored in more depth not only by faculty, but 

also by students in the National Security and 

Counterterrorism Research Center, where they 

conduct faculty and practitioner-supervised 

research and write reports for publication 

or dissemination to government and private 

entities. More information about the Institute 

is available at insct.syr.edu. 

Disability Law and Policy Program 

The College of Law’s new Disability Law and 

Policy Program is the first such certificate 

program of its kind in the United States. It 

offers law students the opportunity to gain 

legal research and practice experience in 

disability law and advocacy. The program 

sponsors courses, clinics, externships, research 

and advocacy opportunities, lectures, and 

co-curricular activities. A certificate in 

disability law and policy is available to those 

law students who complete the program’s 

academic requirements. The Disability Law 

and Policy Program also sponsors the nation’s 

first joint degree program in law and disability 

studies, as well as a joint degree in law and 

social work. 

The Disability Law and Policy Program is part 

of Syracuse University’s Center on Human 

Policy, Law, and Disability Studies which, 

itself, is the first such university-based 

multidisciplinary center, coalescing disabilityrelated 

teaching, research, academic and 

co-curricular programs, and national and 

international advocacy projects by SU faculty 

and students. The center promotes its mission 

of inclusion and equality of children and adults 

with disabilities in society by developing and 

sponsoring academic programs and courses, 

conferences and publications, research and 

training programs, and public education and 

advocacy efforts. The center is co-directed 

by Professor Arlene Kanter of the College of 

Law and Professor Steve Taylor of the School 

of Education. For more information about the 

Disability Law and Policy Program, see: 

www.law.syr.edu/academics/centers/dlp/index.asp. 

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Office of Clinical Legal Education 

Legal concepts learned in the classroom 

come to life for students who participate in 

the Syracuse University College of Law’s In- 

House Clinics and Externship Program. Clinic 

and externship students work with and as 

lawyers in law offices, becoming immersed 

in the actual practice of law through their 

work on real cases affecting real clients. At 

the same time, students reflect on their legal 

experiences through classroom discussion, 

writing assignments and one-on-one interactions 

with faculty members and supervising 

attorneys. The practical experience that our 

students receive through our In-House Clinics 

and Externship Program helps them develop 

professionally and fine-tune their lawyering 

skills. Additionally, by participating in our 

programs, students provide much-needed 

legal services to our community, as many of 

our clients are unable to afford private counsel. 

Essentially, clinic and externship students have 

the opportunity to become lawyers while still 

in law school. As such, all students are strongly 

encouraged to enroll in the In-House Clinics or 

Externship Program, which are offered during 

the summer and academic year. 


In-House Clinics 

The In-House Clinics comprise a small law firm 

located in the College of Law’s MacNaughton 

Hall. Students enrolled in the In-House Clinics 

represent clients in our law office under the 

supervision of College of Law faculty. They 

work directly with clients, conducting interviews 

and counseling sessions, developing 

case theories, preparing investigation plans, 

conducting research, writing memoranda, and 

appearing in city, state, and federal courts and 

before administrative agencies. At the same 

time, students participate in clinical seminars 

that include training in ethical issues, substantive 

law, lawyering skills, and professionalism, 

as well as ongoing discussions of clinic cases. 

They are encouraged to examine the legal, 

justice and social systems in which they work 

to resolve their clients’ problems, and to 

discuss the rewards and challenges of representing 

clients for the first time. Workspace, 

computers, and staff support are provided in 

the Office of Clinical Legal Education. 

Criminal Defense Law Clinic 

The Criminal Defense Law Clinic provides 

representation to clients charged with 

misdemeanors and violations in Syracuse City 

Court. Students enrolled in this clinic engage 

in extensive fact investigation, interviewing, 

client counseling and plea negotiations. They 

also conduct hearings and trials and may have 

the opportunity to represent clients on civil 

matters related to their criminal cases, such 

as school disciplinary hearings and benefits 

issues. 


The Community Development Law Clinic is one 

of the oldest community development law 

clinics in the country. Founded in 1988, it 

provides representation for not-for profit 

organizations involved in improving lowincome 

communities. Students enrolled in this 

clinic practice transactional law for clients 

engaged in activities such as the development 

of affordable housing; creation of business 

and job development programs; creation and 

development of community centers, 

after-school programs, day care centers; 

neighborhood advocacy organizations; 

disability advocacy organizations; and 

community development corporations. 

Students may also represent individual clients 

in real estate closings and the development 

of start-up businesses. The work in this clinic 

applies corporation law, tax law, business law, 

contract law, poverty law, intellectual property 

law, and real estate law. 

Disability Rights Clinic 

The Disability Rights Clinic is dedicated to 

providing representation to individuals with 

disabilities as well as groups representing the 

disabled community. This clinic represents 

those who cannot afford private counsel. 

Students enrolled in this clinic practice in 

federal and state courts and before 

administrative agencies in a broad range of 

disability discrimination matters. They also 

handle social security benefits cases, special 

education cases and accessibility issues under 

federal and state law.

“For me, the Criminal Defense Law Clinic acted as 

a bridge between Law School and the real world. 

My experience in the clinic encouraged me to seek 

employment in the area of indigent criminal defense 

because it helped me realize that I enjoyed being 

in court and litigating various aspects of criminal 

law, while working in the public interest arena at 

the same time. One of the most important things 

that participating in the clinic taught me was that 

as an attorney, I would always need to be open to 

learning new things, including how to interact with 

different types of people or how to think about different 

ways of approaching a case or an argument.” 

Melissa Kowalewski, L‘04 

New Hampshire Public Defender 

Nashua, NH 

“Participating in the Community Development Law 

Clinic was one of the most valuable experiences 

that I had while in Law School. It helped me to 

test what I had learned in the classroom, practice 

my legal skills and gain confidence and practical 

knowledge that I could take with me to a job when 

I graduated. It gave me the opportunity to learn 

how to relate to and communicate with clients and 

to understand the importance of using my legal 

experience to help them accomplish their goals.” 

Erica Levin, L‘05 

United States Department of Housing and 

Urban Development 

Washington, DC 

Children’s Rights and 

Family Law Clinic 

The Children’s Rights and Family Law 

Clinic addresses the unmet legal needs of 

children and their families by representing 

them in federal and state courts and before 

administrative agencies. Students enrolled in 

this clinic provide services in a variety of areas, 

including special education, school disciplinary 

and suspension hearings, emancipation, child 

custody and support, adoption, guardianship, 

and divorce matters. They also assist clients in 

the Family Advocacy Program, a collaborative 

project with SUNY Upstate Medical University. 

Additionally, students have the opportunity to 

engage in non-litigation legal advocacy and 

educational outreach. 

Low-Income Taxpayer Law Clinic 

The Low-Income Taxpayer Law Clinic offers 

legal assistance to lower-income taxpayers 

who have controversies or issues with the 

Internal Revenue Service. Students enrolled 

in this clinic handle income tax audits and 

examinations, administrative appeals, unfiled 

tax returns and issues related to the collection 

of back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service. 

Students seek to resolve these controversies 

and issues through negotiations with Internal 

Revenue Service agents and, when necessary, 

file Petitions in the United States Tax Court 

or Complaints in the Federal District Courts. 

Since its inception, students enrolled in the 

Law Income Taxpayer Clinic have helped their 

clients recover more than $201,000. 

Securities Arbitration/ 

Consumer Law Clinic 

The Securities Arbitration/Consumer Law 

Clinic assists small investors who have lost 

some or all of their investments as a result 

of improper conduct on the part of stock 

brokers, investment advisors, securities 

firms, and mutual funds. Students enrolled 

in this clinic represent eligible investors 

who are required to use the arbitration 

process for the resolution of their disputes. 

Starting in fall 2006, students will handle 

a variety of consumer cases, potentially 

including mortgage foreclosures, consumer 

protection act violations, unfair and 

deceptive trade practices, unfair debt 

collection, and lemon laws. 

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“Externs who are placed in our office will get 

hands on experience in legal research, writing 

briefs and troubleshooting problems that come 

up in our cases. This not only benefits our 

work, as they become an integral part of the 

office, but it also gives them the opportunity to 

experience what it is like to work in a District 

Attorney’s office and decide if it is something 

they want to pursue as a career path after 

graduation.” 

Jim Maxwell 

Chief Assistant District Attorney 

Syracuse, NY 

Externship Supervisor 

since 1990’s 


Externship Program 

Academic Year and Summer Externships in 

Upstate New York 

Students enrolled in the Externship Program 

work in government offices, judges’ chambers, 

and public interest organizations throughout 

Upstate New York. At the same time, students 

participate in the externship seminar, which 

allows them to reflect on their legal experiences. 

Students participating in the Externship 

Program will increase their understanding 

of the range of skills necessary for effective 

lawyering, improve their ability to perform 

lawyering skills, gain self-confidence in their 

lawyering abilities, and develop productive 

relationships with supervisors, clients, support 

staff, and peers. 

The Externship Program maintains relationships 

with offices that offer multiple externship 

positions to Syracuse University College of Law 

students each year in Syracuse, Rochester, 

Binghamton, Utica, Oswego, Auburn, Canandaigua, 

and Ithaca. The following have traditionally 

offered externship positions to our students, 

and the list continues to grow each year: 

Government Offices: 

United States Attorney’s Office 

Office of the United States Trustee 

New York State Attorney General’s Office 

New York State Attorney General’s Office- 

Civil Recoveries Bureau 

New York State Department of Environmental 

Conservation 

District Attorney’s Office 

Onondaga County Attorney’s Office 

Corporation Counsel’s Office 

Judges’ Chambers: 

United States District Court 

United States Bankruptcy Court 

New York State Supreme Court—Civil and 

Matrimonial Parts 

Onondaga County Family Court 

Oneida County Family Court 

Auburn City Court 

Fulton City Court 

Oswego City Court 

Public Interest Organizations 

The Office of the Federal Public Defender 

Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society 

Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York 

Legal Services of Central New York 

Legal Aid Society of Rochester 

Prisoners’ Legal Services 

At the beginning of each calendar year, 

students engage in a competitive application 

and interview process, which culminates in 

offers from the various externship placements. 

In addition to providing students with 

opportunities to practice their interviewing 

skills, this process also helps them meet and 

network with members of the local legal 

community, which will be important to their 

future job search. 

Externs engage in challenging assignments, 

including drafting decisions, memos, 

pleadings or other legal documents, 

researching memoranda, interviewing and 

preparing witnesses, participating as 

co-counsel at trials and observing trials, 

appellate arguments or in-chamber 

proceedings. Since they are enrolled in the 

program for an entire summer and/or 

academic year, externship students become 

an integral part of the law offices in which 

they work and receive valuable guidance and 

feedback from their supervisors, who 

are seasoned professionals in their fields. 

Summer Away Externships 

The Summer Away Externship Program 

offers students the opportunity to work at an 

approved placement anywhere in the United 

States or abroad during the summer. Typically, 

students identify their own placements, in government 

offices, judges’ chambers, or public 

interest organizations, which are then submitted 

for approval by the Externship Office.

Advocacy Skills 

Developing skills to be a lawyer requires more 

than briefing cases and interpreting statutes 

and law treatises. It means involvement with 

clients in real as well as simulated law problems 

and acquiring the knowledge necessary 

to solve these problems. Being a good lawyer 

requires superb advocacy skills. 

The College of Law is recognized for its 

award-winning advocacy programs. The 

college was honored with the Emil Gumpert 

Award for the best law school advocacy 

program in the United States by the American 

College of Trial Lawyers. The New York State 

Bar Association cited Syracuse as the best trial 

skills law school in New York State 11 times 

in recent years by awarding the college its 

coveted Tiffany Cup. 

Trial Advocacy 

Trial practice courses are among the most 

popular elective offerings for College of Law 

students. In beginning and advanced courses, 

experienced trial lawyers, judges, and college 

faculty members teach elements of trial 

process and techniques. Simulated trials take 

place in the college’s practice courtrooms 

throughout the semester. 

Moot Court 

A strong moot court program is an important 

part of legal education at Syracuse University 

College of Law. 

The student-run Moot Court Honor Society 

selects problems for the many intraschool 

competitions and invites students to compete 

in briefing and oral argument. 

The Lionel O. Grossman Trial Competition, 

held each fall, culminates in a championship 

moot court trial presided over by a 

distinguished jurist and a jury of the area’s 

leading trial attorneys. In the spring, the 

appellate advocacy program culminates in 

the Mackenzie Lewis Competition, in which 

finalists argue an appellate problem before a 

distinguished panel of nationally noted jurists 

and lawyers. 

Because of its extensive advocacy skills 

program, Syracuse dominates national moot 

court competitions. In the past 16 years, its 

teams have won three national trial championships, 

16 northeast regional first place awards, 

and five best-advocate-in-the-nation awards. 

Six times in the past seven years SU law 

has been invited to the National Invitational 

Tournament of Champions, featuring the 

nation’s 16 best teams. Syracuse has won other 

national awards in appellate, minority rights, 

and international tax competitions during the 

past two decades. 

International Moot Court Competitions 

Syracuse law students participate annually 

in a host of international moot court 

competitions. Working closely with faculty 

coaches, year after year the select group of 

students continues to uphold the high 

reputation of previous classes. 

Students can choose to specialize in 

international law as early as their first year 

by being selected for a special section of the 

Legal Communication and Research course. 

Eight students from this class participate in 

an interschool moot court competition in 

Canada. The team took first place in 2003 

and second place in 2005. 

A team of second- and third-year Syracuse 

law students competes annually at the Jessup 

competition, an intercollegiate event held 

under the aegis of the American Society of 

International Law. Teams compete at regional 

and international levels on a significant 

international law problem. In 2000, 2004, 

and 2006, the team won the “best memorial” 

award for the Northeast Region and in 2006, 

team members took home the “best oralist” 

award. 

Syracuse Law is one of a small number of 

U.S. law schools invited to participate with 

European and Australian law schools in an 

international moot arbitration in Vienna, 

Austria. The newest international team 

competes in the trilingual (Spanish, English, 

Portuguese) Inter-American Human Rights 

Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C. 

A member of the Syracuse team won “best 

English oralist” in 2005. 

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other 

opportunities 

for specialization 

and 

interdisciplinary 

study 

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Joint Degree Programs 

Syracuse University College of Law students 

who desire a greater degree of specialization 

may select from a number of interdisciplinary 

opportunities. In a joint degree program, a 

student may pursue concurrently a J.D. and a 

related master’s or doctoral degree. Formal 

joint degree programs exist in public administration, 

business administration, or accounting, 

communications, environmental law, education 

(disability studies), and engineering. The 

college will also assist students in tailoring 

other joint degree programs to fit particular 

career objectives. Joint degree programs are 

structured so students can earn both degrees 

in substantially less time than would be 

required to earn each degree separately. 

Students enrolled in a joint degree program 

must complete their first year of study in the 

College of Law. Students may apply to both 

programs before coming to law school, but 

most students elect to apply during their 

second semester of law school; regardless, 

students must apply and be admitted to 

both programs separately. Admissions 

requirements, including submission of 

standardized test scores, will vary by program. 

Consequently, applicants must check with 

individual departments about their program’s 

admissions requirements. Because a joint 

degree program involves the reciprocal application 

of electives, students are not awarded 

either degree until the requirements for both 

degrees are completed. In certain programs, 

this may necessitate a delay in taking the bar 

examination. 

J.D./Master of Business Administration and 

J.D./Master of Science in Accounting 

Business and industry must take public and 

private law into account in all decisions. The 

College of Law and the Martin J. Whitman 

School of Management have responded by 

creating joint degree programs in business 

administration and accounting. Students may 

obtain a J.D. and M.B.A. or M.S. in accounting in 

four years instead of the five years necessary 

when both programs are pursued separately. 

These programs are particularly appropriate 

for students with career objectives in corporate 

law, tax law, or labor law. 

At Syracuse, the M.B.A. curriculum is flexible 

enough to accommodate the interests of the 

law/management student. Students may pursue 

general management programs or specialize 

in such areas of concentration as finance, 

human resource management, international 

business, and marketing. J.D./M.B.A. students 

generally complete program requirements in 

four academic years. Program structure for 

the J.D./M.S. in accounting varies substantially 

depending on the student’s accounting 

background and desire for certification. 

J.D./Master of Science in Communications 

Joint degrees in communications, offered 

in cooperation with Syracuse University’s 

renowned S.I. Newhouse School of Public 

Communications, prepare students for careers 

in communications law and media public 

policy. Students may matriculate into one of 

a number of programs, including specialized 

sequences in advertising, media administration, 

newspaper, magazine, television/ radio, 

and public relations. The duration of the joint 

program in communications varies according 

to the program chosen and the student’s prior 

coursework. 

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“I chose Syracuse Law for a number of 

reasons, and I left with even more reasons 

for why I appreciate Syracuse so much. Just 

to name a few: my ability to concurrently 

earn a joint Master of Public Administration 

degree from the Maxwell School, Syracuse 

Law’s national reputation for its successful 

trial and appellate advocacy teams, and 

the ‘Cuse athletic teams that tell the world 

that our student-centered private university 

focuses on the education of the whole 

person. Specifically, Syracuse Law provided 

me with a solid foundation from which 

to build my legal career. Syracuse Law is 

truly a national law school with graduates 

at all levels of the practicing legal community, 

government, academia and business 

throughout the United States and the world. 

Aristotle Evia, L‘99 

Gordon & Rees 

San Francisco, CA 


J.D./Master of Science in Education with 

a Certificate in Disability Studies 

The College of Law’s newest joint degree 

program in law and education, with a 

concentration in disability studies was 

approved in January 2003 and offers students 

the opportunity to earn a J.D. and M.S. in 

education. Eligible joint degree students also 

may earn a Certificate of Advanced Study 

(CAS) in disability studies, which is a New 

York State-approved concentration. Disability 

studies applies legal, social, cultural, historical, 

and philosophical perspectives to the study 

of disability in society. This new joint degree, 

with a concentration in disability studies, is 

the first such degree in the nation. In 1996, SU 

also became the first American university to 

offer a graduate program in disability studies, 

and the only one with a law school component. 

Joint degree students enroll in selected courses 

with the School of Education, which is ranked 

among the best education graduate schools 

in the country; its Special Education and 

Cultural Foundations in Education Programs 

are consistently ranked within the top 10 

nationwide. Law students who graduate with 

the J.D./M.S. in law and education/disability 

studies are prepared to play leadership roles 

in the field of disability law and policy in such 

settings as federal and state government agencies, 

community service agencies, advocacy 

organizations, school districts, and law firms 

specializing in disability and/or education law. 

Students may obtain the J.D. and M.S. in 

three years instead of the four necessary to 

earn both degrees independently. 

J.D./Master of Engineering 

and Computer Science 

This unique combination of programs has 

been initiated by the College of Law and 

the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and 

Computer Science (ECS) to benefit students 

who are interested in technology-oriented 

practice. A J.D./M.S. from one of the many 

graduate programs offered through ECS 

significantly enhances the scope of a student’s 

legal education in such areas as intellectual 

property, technology, computers, health care, 

and environmental law. The added dimension 

that an M.S. in engineering and computer 

science brings to a student’s legal education 

increases marketability and broadens 

career opportunities. With an appropriate 

undergraduate background, a student may 

obtain both degrees in three academic years 

and a summer term. Those pursuing an 

ECS graduate degree in an area other than 

that of their undergraduate degree may be 

expected to complete additional remedial 

courses. Other requirements vary by program. 

M.S. degrees in ECS are offered in aerospace 

engineering, chemical engineering, civil 

engineering, computer engineering, computer 

science, electrical engineering, engineering 

management, environmental engineering, environmental 

engineering science, hydrogeology, 

manufacturing engineering, materials science, 

mechanical engineering, neuroscience, solidstate 

science and technology, and systems and 

information science.

J.D./Law and Environ mental Studies 

Students may earn a joint J.D./M.S. or 

J.D./Ph.D. in environmental science focusing 

on the legal aspects of resource conservation 

and environmental protection. Students 

enrolled in this program concentrate in: environmental 

land-use planning, water resources, 

environmental education/communications, 

environmental assessment and impact analysis, 

or policy administration. Students who are 

more interested in an applied degree may 

earn a joint J.D./M.S. of professional studies, a 

30-credit program with no thesis requirement. 

A background in science at the undergraduate 

level is desired for the master’s degree or 

Ph.D. Interested students may also earn a 

Certificate of Graduate Study in Environmental 

Decision Making, a 15-credit program 

designed for graduate students enrolled in 

law, management, public administration, or 

information studies programs at Syracuse 

University. Students take coursework at 

the State University of New York College of 

Environmental Science and Forestry, adjacent 

to the Syracuse University campus. The 

program exposes students to specialized 

environmental study relevant to their primary 

professional interests. The distinctive environmental 

orientation of this certificate program 

will help students understand the complexities 

of environmental decision making from their 

individual professional perspectives. 

J.D./Master of Public Administration 

A partnership of law and public administration 

is essential to effective government. The public 

administration program educates individuals 

to work in government agencies and in organizations 

that conduct substantial business with 

government agencies. 

The highly respected Maxwell School of 

Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse, 

where students pursue the M.P.A., is the oldest 

academic training program of its kind in 

the United States. Since its establishment in 

1924, the Maxwell School’s Master of Public 

Administration Program and its outstanding 

faculty have greatly influenced the growth and 

development of public administration. More 

than 6,000 Maxwell School alumni worldwide 

work in federal, state, and local governments; 

nonprofit agencies; private firms; and colleges 

and universities. 

Students may obtain the J.D. and M.P.A. in 

three years instead of the four necessary to 

earn both degrees independently. 

Other Joint Degree Opportunities 

The faculties of the College of Law and other 

SU graduate departments have authorized 

additional joint degree programs to accommodate 

student interests and career aspirations. 

Students may pursue master’s or doctoral 

degrees in conjunction with the J.D. in the 

following areas: 

> Economics > Library science 

> English > Philosophy 

> Fine arts > Political science 

> History > Resource managment 

> Information studies 

> International relations 

> Social work 


In addition to the formal joint degree 

programs, an array of interdisciplinary study 

opportunities exists for students during their 

three years of study at the College of Law. 

Interdisciplinary course credit may be awarded 

for courses in such areas as philosophy, education, 

business, communications, international 

relations, psychology, social work, and public 

administration, to name a few. 

Students who do not enroll in a joint degree 

program may, upon petition, earn up to six 

academic credits toward the J.D. degree by 

successfully completing graduate-level 

offerings in other Syracuse University colleges 

or other accredited colleges or universities. 

The Syracuse University graduate catalog 

contains course descriptions for all graduatelevel 

courses at SU. A copy of the catalog may 

be obtained from the Graduate Enrollment 

Management Center, Suite 303 Bowne Hall, 

Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244-1200; 

315-443-4492. 

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faculty 

College of Law faculty are committed teachers, 

distinguished scholars, and experienced 

lawyers. Most practiced law before their 

academic careers and some still practice in 

their particular areas of interest. All faculty 

members engage in scholarly research and 

publication to remain current in and contribute 

to the theory and practice of law. They are 

strongly committed to blending legal theory 

with skills training. 

Furthering the college’s interdisciplinary 

vision, a number of professors possess 

other graduate degrees and teach courses 

that combine law with such fields as public 

affairs, management, health care, psychology, 

economics, and sociology. The faculty, 

wide-ranging in backgrounds as well as 

scholarship interests, creates a multi-faceted 

law school experience rich in opportunity.

Administration 


Dean 

Lisa Dolak 

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 

Robin Paul Malloy 

Senior Associate Dean for the College 

Robert Odawi Porter 

Senior Associate Dean for Research 

Ronald M. Denby 

Assistant Dean for Information Technology 

Cheryl A. Ficarra 

Associate Dean for Enrollment Management 

and Chief Financial Offi cer 

Thomas R. French 

Associate Dean, Barclay Law Library 

Tomás A. Gonzalez 

Assistant Dean for Student Life 

Mary E. Harblin 

Director of Career Services 

Janice Herzog Donohue 

Assistant Dean for External Relations 

and Administration 

Jo Ann Larkin 

Registrar 

Anikka S. Laubenstein 

Director of Admissions 

Lowell H. Lustig 

Associate Dean for Advancement 

Keith E. Sealing 

Assistant Dean for Student Administration 

and the Registrar 

Gina M. Soliz 

Director of Financial Aid 

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Aviva Abramovsky 

Rakesh K. Anand 


Aviva Abramovsky 

Assistant Professor of Law 

B.S., Cornell University 

J.D., University of Pennsylvania 


While at law school, Professor Abramovsky 

was the managing editor of the Journal of 

Constitutional Law, where she was published 

in the field of ethics. She was then associated 

with the New York law firm Anderson Kill 

& Olick, where she was a member of the 

insurance coverage group. Before joining the 

College of Law, Professor Abramovsky taught 

at the Florida State University. Her courses 

include commercial transactions, professional 

responsibility, and insurance law. 

Rakesh K. Anand 


A.B., Stanford University 

J.D., Yale Law School 

Professor Anand graduated from Stanford 

University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in 

political science (with honors and distinction) 

and from Yale Law School in 1994 with a Juris 

Doctor. After graduating from law school, he 

clerked for Justice Ahon Barak of the Supreme 

Court of Israel and, from 1995-2001, he was 

a litigation associate at Heller Ehrman White 

& McAuliffe in San Francisco. Before coming 

to Syracuse University, Professor Anand was 

a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at 

Chicago-Kent College of Law, during which 

time he taught classes in legal ethics and 

criminal law and received the 2003-2004 

Faculty Member of the Year award. Professor 

Anand’s scholarly interests focus on legal 

ethics and the legal profession. 


Dean and Professor of Law 

B.S., Elmira College 

J.D., University of Iowa 

Dean Arterian received a bachelor’s degree 

in English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 

from Elmira College and a J.D. degree (with 

high distinction) from the University of Iowa. 

She was notes and comment editor of the 

Iowa Law Review and a member of the Order 

of the Coif. Dean Arterian was associated with 

the New York law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, 

Bushby, Palmer & Wood, where she practiced 

corporate tax law. Before coming to Syracuse, 

she taught at Arizona State, the University 

of Houston, and the University of Iowa law 

schools. She served as associate dean at 

Arizona State for 10 years. Dean Arterian has 

written in the area of Title VII, particularly 

the dilemma of the employment of women in 

fetally toxic work environments. 

Donna E. Arzt 

Robert H.A. Ashford 

Elizabeth A. August 

Donna E. Arzt 

Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar 

Professor of Law 

B.A., Brandeis University 

J.D., Harvard University 

LL.M., Columbia University 

Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Arzt 

practiced public interest law in Boston and 

was an assistant attorney general for the state 

of Massachusetts in civil rights and regulation 

of charitable solicitation. She has published 

numerous articles on human rights in the 

Soviet Union and the Middle East and served 

as a consultant to the Association for Civil 

Rights in Israel, Human Rights Watch, and the 

U.N. special rapporteur on population transfer. 

She received the Michael J. Tryson Memorial 

Award for the Excellence and Leadership 

in the field of human rights law. Her book, 

Refugees into Citizens: Palestinians and the End 

of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, was published by 

the Council on Foreign Relations in 1997. At 

the College of Law, she serves as director of 

the Center for Global Law and Practice and 

the Sierra Leone Project. 

Robert H.A. Ashford 


B.A., University of South Florida 


Professor Ashford was in private practice and 

served as chief operating officer and general 

counsel for a leading investment banking firm 

in San Francisco. Before attending law school, 

he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Stanford 

University. He has written or co-written 

articles on binary economics, implied liability, 

presumptions, professional responsibility, 

public utility regulation, securities regulation, 

socio-economics, tax, and workers’ 

compensation. 

Elizabeth A. August 

Legal Writing Professor 

B.A., St. Lawrence University 

J.D., Syracuse University 

Before joining the law faculty, Professor 

August practiced law in Syracuse, both as a 

sole practitioner and with the firm of Bond, 

Schoeneck & King LLP. A graduate of Syracuse 

University College of Law, where she served as 

lead articles editor of the Syracuse Law Review, 

she has practiced in the areas of education, 

business, and corporate law. Her clients have 

included large corporations, as well as small 

businesses and not-for-profit agencies.

William C. Banks 

Peter A. Bell 

William C. Banks 

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor 

for Teaching Excellence 

Board of Advisors Professor of Law 

Professor of Public Administration 

Director, Institute for National Security and 

Counterterrorism 

B.A., University of Nebraska 

M.S., J.D., University of Denver 

Professor Banks is recognized internationally 

as an expert on constitutional and national 

security law. Since 1987, when the Federation of 

American Scientists asked him to provide a legal 

perspective on the first use of nuclear weapons, 

Banks has helped set the parameters for the 

relatively new field of national security law. 

Working with Steven Dycus, Arthur Berney 

and Peter Raven-Hansen, Banks wrote the 

definitive text in the field. National Security 

Law was first published in 1990 and is now 

in its third edition. Professor Banks lectures 

extensively on these and other national 

security and constitutional law-related 

topics and on comparative legal systems 

throughout the United States and Canada 

as well as in South and Central America, the 

Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Banks’ 

current research interests include domestic 

and international terrorism, emergency 

powers, covert war powers, problems of 

official corruption, civil/military relations, and 

appropriations powers. 

Professor Banks served as special counsel 

to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 

1994 and worked with the committee on the 

confirmation hearings for Supreme Court 

nominee Stephen G. Breyer. 

Peter A. Bell 


B.A., Wesleyan University 

J.D., Stanford University 

After graduation from law school, where he 

was an editor of the Stanford Law Review, 

Professor Bell served as a law clerk to a 

U.S. district judge in Philadelphia, practiced 

law for a leading Washington law firm, and 

represented the impoverished throughout New 

York State as an attorney with a statewide legal 

services backup center. He writes extensively 

on tort law and theory, health law and patients’ 

rights, and the interface between law and 

science. He is past-president of the board of 

directors of the Central New York chapter of 

the New York Civil Liberties Union. During 

the 1987-88 academic year, Professor Bell 

was a Fulbright Professor of Law at Wuhan 

University, People’s Republic of China. During 

the 1995-96 academic year, he served as 

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at 

Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, 

Central Java, Indonesia. His latest book is 

Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort Law (Yale 

University Press). 

Leslie Bender 

Peter Blanck 

Leslie Bender 


B.A., Chatham College 

J.D., University of Pittsburgh 

LL.M., Harvard University 

Professor Bender graduated Phi Beta Kappa 

from Chatham College and magna cum laude 

from the University of Pittsburgh School of 

Law. She served as a law clerk for Justice Sam 

Harshbarger, Chief Justice of the West Virginia 

Supreme Court, and as an assistant attorney 

general, Antitrust Division, West Virginia 

Attorney General’s Office. After five years of 

practice, she returned to school and received 

an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Professor 

Bender taught at Ohio Northern University Law 

School and Washington and Lee Law School. 

She was a Research Fellow at the Five Colleges 

Women’s Studies Research Center in 

Massachusetts and a Visiting Scholar at the 

University of Arizona Law School, where she 

also taught. Professor Bender publishes articles 

on tort law, feminist legal theory, bioethics, 

civil rights, legal education, and constitutional 

law. She is co-author, with Daan Braveman, of 

Power, Privilege, and Law: A Civil Rights Reader. 

Peter Blanck 

University Professor 

B.A., University of Rochester 

Ph.D., Harvard University 

J.D., Stanford University 

Professor Blanck is University Professor at 

Syracuse University, which is the highest 

faculty rank, granted to only nine individuals 

in the history of the University. He is chair of 

the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse 

University. In addition to his appointment at 

Syracuse University College of Law, Professor 

Blanck holds appointments at the College of 

Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, 

the College of Human Services and Health 

Professions, and the Maxwell School of 

Citizenship and Public Affairs. Blanck has 

written more than 125 articles and books on 

the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 

related laws, received grants to study disability 

law and policy, represented clients before the 

U.S. Supreme Court in ADA cases, and testified 

before Congress. His work has received 

national and international attention. He is a 

board member of the National Organization on 

Disability (N.O.D.), Disability Rights Advocates 

(DRA), and the Disability Rights Legal Center 

(DRLC). His recent writings include a treatise 

and casebook on disability civil rights law and 

policy. At Stanford Law School, Blanck was 

president of the Stanford Law Review. Blanck is 

a former member of the President’s Committee 

on Employment of People with Disabilities, 

former Senior Fellow of the Annenberg 

Washington Program, former Fellow at 

Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, 

and a Mary Switzer Scholar. 

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Jeremy A. Blumenthal 

Sonya G. Bonneau 


Jeremy A. Blumenthal 


A.B. / A.M. / Ph.D., Harvard University 

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School 

Professor Blumenthal graduated cum laude 

from the University of Pennsylvania Law 

School, where he was editor-in-chief of 

the University of Pennsylvania Journal of 

Constitutional Law and received several 

writing prizes. Most recently, he was a Faculty 

Fellow at Seton Hall Law School, teaching 1L 

Property and Law and the Social Sciences. 

Previously, he clerked for the Honorable 

Maryanne Trump Barry of the U.S. Court of 

Appeals for the Third Circuit and was an 

Associate for Latham & Watkins, LLP, in 

the Newark, New Jersey, office. Professor 

Blumenthal has published widely on topics 

in law and psychology, including demeanor 

evidence, the reasonable woman standard, 

victim impact statements, and more generally 

on the role of social science in assisting the 

legal system. He has also published in the 

areas of evidence and comparative law. His 

most recent publications focus on the role of 

emotions in the legal system; current research 

projects address topics in capital punishment, 

empirical work in law and psychology, and 

topics in property theory. 

Sonya G. Bonneau 


B.A., Cornell University 

J.D., University of California at Berkeley 

Boalt Hall School of Law 

Professor Bonneau graduated from Cornell 

University, magna cum laude, and pursued 

graduate studies at the Institute of Fine Arts, 

New York University before attending law 

school at Boalt Hall. She has practiced at 

Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP in New York City 

and Hancock & Estabrook, LLP in Syracuse, 

focusing on the areas of commercial litigation 

and appellate practice. Professor Bonneau 

also served as a law clerk to the U.S. District 

Court for the Northern District of New York. 

Sanjay Chhablani 

Juscelino F. Colares 

Sanjay Chhablani 


B.A., University of Chicago 

J.D., Yale Law School 

Professor Chhablani began his legal career 

as a litigation associate at a private law firm 

where, in addition to litigating commercial 

disputes, he represented death row inmates 

on a pro bono basis. After receiving an 

ABA Death Penalty Representation Project 

Fellowship, Professor Chhablani joined the 

Southern Center for Human Rights. During 

the past several years, he has represented 

indigent persons on death row in Alabama 

and Georgia on direct appeal and in state 

and federal post-conviction proceedings. 

Professor Chhablani is a member of the 

Illinois, Georgia, and Alabama State bars 

and teaches courses in criminal law, criminal 

procedure, capital punishment, and evidence. 

Juscelino F. Colares 


LL.B., Universidade de Brasília 

(UnB)/Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil) 

Ph. D. / M.A., Political Economy, 

University of Tennessee 

J.D., Cornell Law School 

Professor Colares teaches International 

Trade/WTO Law; International Business 

Transactions; Law and Economics, and Civil 

Procedure. Originally trained as a Brazilian 

attorney, he began his legal career in private 

practice in Brazil, where he represented 

clients on export-related matters. He 

began his graduate studies at Université de 

Montpellier in France where he specialized in 

international economic law. Subsequently, 

as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. 

from the University of Tennessee, writing a 

dissertation on the political economy of the 

U.S./Japan automobile trade. After five years 

as a professor in Brazil, Professor Colares 

returned to the United States to pursue a 

J.D. degree at Cornell Law School, where he 

served as lead articles editor of the Cornell 

International Law Journal. Before graduation, 

he published a comparative piece on law 

and monetary policy in the United States 

and Argentina. He later returned to practice 

in Washington D.C., where he worked on a 

variety of international trade disputes before 

the U.S. Commerce Department, the U.S. 

International Trade Commission, NAFTA, and 

WTO dispute settlement bodies. He recently 

published an article titled “The Evolving 

Domestic and International Law Against 

Foreign Corruption,” in the Washington 

University of Saint Louis Global Studies Law 

Review.

Christian C. Day 

Lisa Dolak 

Christian C. Day 

Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished 

Professor 


A.B., Cornell University 

J.D., New York University 

Professor Day came to Syracuse from the 

faculty of the Wharton School, the University 

of Pennsylvania. Following graduation from 

New York University, where he was a law 

review editor, he practiced real estate law and 

litigation with a leading Philadelphia firm. 

Professor Day is the associate director of the 

Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social 

Entrepreneurism. At Syracuse, he has been 

involved in moot court, where he has coached 

regional championship teams in appellate, 

trial, and international law competitions. 

Professor Day writes articles on corporate 

finance, real estate finance, legal history, and 

foreign affairs. He served as co-chair of the 

MacNaughton Hall Building Committee. 

Lisa Dolak 

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 


B.S., Duquesne University 


Professor Dolak practiced at a large, general 

practice firm, where she handled intellectual 

property litigation and prosecution. She is a 

registered patent attorney and a summa cum 

laude graduate of Syracuse University College 

of Law. Before attending law school, Professor 

Dolak worked for several years as a synthetic 

organic chemist in pharmaceutical research 

aimed at the development of new drugs. Her 

research centers on issues at the intersections 

of patent law and judicial procedure and 

patent law and legal ethics. She has written 

on declaratory judgment jurisdiction in 

patent cases, the use of electronic evidence 

to prove dates of invention, and ethics issues 

for intellectual property practitioners. During 

a recent sabbatical leave, she served as law 

clerk to the Hon. Paul F. Michel, now Chief 

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal 

Circuit. Professor Dolak teaches patent law, 

patent prosecution, Internet law, and civil 

procedure. 

Samuel J.M. Donnelly 

David Driesen 

Samuel J.M. Donnelly 


A.B., Fordham University 

LL.B., Harvard University 

LL.M., New York University 

Before he came to Syracuse, Professor 

Donnelly was law secretary to a justice of 

the New Jersey Supreme Court, a teaching 

fellow at Harvard Law School, and a private 

practitioner in New York City. He served 

four terms as president and chairman of 

the board of Legal Services of Central New 

York. With Mary Ann Donnelly, his wife, he 

co-wrote Bankruptcy, Arrangements, and 

Reorganizations and Bankruptcy, Arrangements, 

and Reorganizations: 1974 Rules Supplement. He 

recently published A Personalist Jurisprudence, 

the Next Step. A Person-Centered Philosophy 

of Law for the Twenty-First Century (with 

forward by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.). A 

previous book was The Language and Uses of 

Rights, A Biopsy of American Jurisprudence in the 

Twentieth Century. 

David M. Driesen 

Angela S. Cooney Professor of Law 

Visiting Professor, University of Michigan 

Law School, Fall 2006 

B.A. Music Oberlin Conservatory of Music 

M.A. Music Yale School of Music 

J.D. Yale Law School 

Professor Driesen teaches environmental 

law (domestic and international) and 

constitutional law. His publications include 

Environmental Law: A Conceptual and 

Pragmatic Approach (Aspen 2007) (with 

Robert Adler), The Economic Dynamics 

of Environmental Law (MIT Press 2003), 

Standing for Nothing: the Paradox of 

Demanding Concrete Context for Formalist 

Adjudication (Cornell L. Rev. 2004); What is 

Free Trade?; The Real Issue Lurking Behind 

the Trade and Environment Debate (Virginia 

J. Int’l L. 2001); Is Emissions Trading an 

Economic Incentive Program?; Replacing the 

Command and Control/Economic Incentive 

Dichotomy (Washington & Lee L. Rev. 1998); 

and The Societal Cost of Environmental 

Regulation: Beyond Administrative Cost- 

Benefit Analysis (Ecology Law Quarterly 

1997). He came to Syracuse from the Natural 

Resources Defense Council, a public interest 

environmental organization. 

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Richard A. Ellison 


Martin L. Fried 

Richard A. Ellison 


B.B.A., City College of New York 

LL.B., St. John’s University 


Professor Ellison left the private practice of 

law to become a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow 

at the University of Pennsylvania School of 

Law. He worked for a number of years as a 

legal services attorney and joined the faculty 

in 1970 to teach in the clinical education 

programs. He has been active in alternative 

dispute resolution and is experienced in divorce 

mediation. In addition to teaching and writing 

in the family law area, Professor Ellison 

teaches constitutional law and health law. 


Associate Dean, Barclay Law Library 


B.A., State University of New York at Oswego 

M.L.S., State University of New York at Geneseo 

M.A., University of Cincinnati 

J.D., Northern Kentucky 

While in law school, Professor French was 

executive editor of the Northern Kentucky Law 

Review. He has held positions in either court 

or academic law libraries in Ohio, Kentucky, 

Maine, and North Carolina. Before assuming 

his present position at Syracuse, Professor 

French was the associate director of the law 

library at the University of North Carolina 

at Chapel Hill. His special interests include 

Canadian law, legal research, library 

management, and Eritrean legal bibliography. 

He has published in the areas of historic 

preservation, Native American history, legal 

research using the Internet, and Eritrean legal 

bibliography. Professor French has served as a 

consultant for the United States Information 

Agency and the U.S. Agency for International 

Development in Africa. 

Martin L. Fried 

Crandall Melvin Professor of Wills and 

Trusts 

B.A., Antioch College 

J.D., Columbia University 

LL.M. (in Taxation), New York University 

Professor Fried was a Harlan Fiske Stone 

Scholar at Columbia Law School. He was in 

private practice in New York City and taught 

at Washington University, the University of 

Iowa, and the University of Cincinnati. He 

wrote Taxation of Securities Transactions 

and numerous articles on tax and trusts and 

estates. 

Elton Fukumoto 

Ian Gallacher 

Gregory L. Germain 

Elton Fukumoto 


B.A., Harvard University 

M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 

J.D., University of Washington 

Professor Fukumoto was a law clerk for Chief 

Justice Richard P. Guy and Justice Bobbe J. 

Bridge of the Washington State Supreme 

Court. He is a graduate of the University 

of Washington Law School, where he was 

executive articles editor of the law review. 

Before going to law school, Professor 

Fukumoto was an assistant professor of 

English at the University of Hawaii. 

Ian Gallacher 


Director, Legal Communication and 

Research 

B.A., University of Leeds 

M.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University 

J.D., Washington College of Law, American 

University 

Professor Gallacher received a bachelor’s 

degree in music, with honors, from the 

University of Leeds, a master of fine arts 

degree in orchestral conducting from 

Carnegie-Mellon University; and a J.D., magna 

cum laude, from the Washington College of 

Law. After a two-year clerkship with U.S. 

District Judge Frederic N. Smalkin, Professor 

Gallacher practiced complex civil litigation 

in Baltimore as an associate and later as a 

partner at Goodell, DeVries, Leech, and Dann, 

LLP. In 2002, he returned to the Washington 

College of Law, first as an instructor and then 

as associate director of legal rhetoric. He has 

published a book, A Form and Style Manual 

for Lawyers, and has written articles on class 

action litigation, legal research, and legal 

history. 

Gregory L. Germain 

Associate Professor of Law 

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz 

J.D., University of California, Hastings College 

of Law 

L.L.M., (Tax) University of Florida 

Professor Germain was a partner in a 

leading San Francisco law firm, specializing 

in bankruptcy litigation. While in practice, 

Professor Germain taught debtor/creditor 

law as an adjunct professor. After 15 years 

of practice, he went back to school and 

obtained an L.L.M. degree in tax law. He 

recently served one term as a legal advisor to 

a judge of the tax court. He specialized in tax, 

bankruptcy, corporate, and commercial law.

Richard I. Goldsmith 

Theodore M. Hagelin 

Margaret M. Harding 

Richard I. Goldsmith 


A.B., University of Rochester 

LL.B., New York University 

Professor Goldsmith spent his formative years 

on the sidewalks (and in the schoolyards) 

of New York City. At New York University, he 

was a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar and a law 

review member. Before coming to Syracuse, 

he was in private practice, specializing in 

corporate litigation. At Syracuse, he directed 

the Environmental Law Clinic; organized 

the Public Interest Law Firm; and currently 

teaches administrative law, environmental 

law, government regulation, and federal civil 

procedure. 

Theodore M. Hagelin 


Director, New York State Science and 

Technology Law Center 

Director, Technology Commercialization 

Law Program 

B.S., University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School 

J.D., Temple University 


While a student at Temple, Professor Hagelin 

was editor in chief of the law review. After 

graduation, he was in private practice with 

a Philadelphia law firm and taught at the 

University of Cincinnati. He specializes 

in technology commercialization law and 

intellectual property. Professor Hagelin is 

the director of the Syracuse University New 

Technology Center (SUNTEC). He also serves 

as the director of the newly designated 

NYSTAR Science and Technology Law Center. 

Margaret M. Harding 


B.A., Boston University 

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center 

Professor Harding graduated with honors 

from Georgetown University Law Center, 

where she was articles and notes editor 

of the American Criminal Law Review. After 

graduation, she entered private practice with 

a leading New York City law firm, specializing 

in corporate and commercial litigation. She 

teaches torts, alternative dispute resolution, 

and courses in the business law area. 

Professor Harding writes and publishes on 

arbitration law. 

Paula C. Johnson 

Hilary K. Josephs 

Paula C. Johnson 


B.A., University of Maryland at College Park 

J.D., Temple University 

LL.M., Georgetown University 

Professor Johnson practiced criminal law 

and housing law in Massachusetts before 

becoming a teaching fellow at Georgetown 

University’s Center for Applied Legal Studies. 

She taught at Northern Illinois University 

and the University of Baltimore before 

coming to Syracuse. Professor Johnson was 

a member of the ABA’s International Law 

Section’s delegation to Ghana and Côte 

d’Ivoire, investigating issues of democracy, 

development, law, and legal education. 

She serves on the boards of the Frank H. 

Hiscock Legal Aid Society and the Center 

for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. 

Professor Johnson has written and spoken 

extensively on matters of race, gender, 

sexuality, and law in academic arenas, the 

popular press, and community forums. Her 

most recent publications include the book 

Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in 

Prison (NYU Press 2003) and “Ad-In/Ad-Out: 

Deciding Victory and Defeat in Affirmative 

Action Legal Contestations”, 66 Albany Law 

Review 443 (2003). She is the immediate past 

co-president of the Society of American Law 

Teachers (SALT). 

Hilary K. Josephs 


A.B., Radcliffe College 

J.D., University of Hawaii 

Ph.D., Harvard University 

Professor Josephs graduated from Radcliffe 

College summa cum laude and Phi Beta 

Kappa. She received a Ph.D. in East 

Asian languages and civilizations with 

a specialization in Chinese history and 

literature. Before her law teaching career, she 

clerked for the Supreme Court of Hawaii and 

spent several years in private practice in New 

York City as a corporate attorney. She has 

published articles on labor law, international 

law, foreign investment, conflict of laws, and 

comparative law. Her publications include 

the book Labor Law in China: Choice and 

Responsibility (1990), and Labor Law in China 

(rev. ed. 2003). She has lectured extensively 

in China. She has served on the Executive 

Committee of the Board of Directors, 

American Society of Comparative Law, and 

as chair, Comparative Law Section, American 

Association of Law Schools. 

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Arlene S. Kanter 

Gary T. Kelder 


Arlene S. Kanter 




Co-Director, Center on Disability Studies, 

Law, and Human Policy 

Director, Disability Law and Policy Program 

B.A., Trinity College 

J.D., New York University 

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center 

Professor Kanter is recognized internationally 

as an expert in domestic, international, and 

comparative disability law. She is co-director 

of SU’s Center on Disability Studies, Law, and 

Human Policy, which is the first universitybased 

multidisciplinary center dedicated to 

disability rights-related research, advocacy, 

policy, and public education. At the College of 

Law, Professor Kanter directs the Disability 

Law and Policy Program, which houses the 

nation’s first joint degree program in law 

and disability studies. Professor Kanter has 

served as associate dean for academic affairs 

(1997-2000), and the director of clinical 

legal education (1989-2005), and in 1991, she 

developed the Externship Program, which she 

directed until 2006. 

Professor Kanter has taught at Georgetown 

University Law Center and Hebrew University 

in Israel. Before joining the law faculty, she 

represented clients with mental disabilities 

before the United States Supreme Court, 

Congress, and in federal and state courts. 

Professor Kanter writes and lectures 

extensively, and is the co-author of Cases and 

Materials on International Human Rights and 

Comparative Mental Disability Law (Carolina 

Press, 2006). Professor Kanter holds a 

courtesy appointment in the SU School of 

Education, and in 2005, Professor Kanter 

was awarded SU’s most prestigious teaching 

award, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith 

Professor for Teaching Excellence. 

Gary T. Kelder 


B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz 

J.D., Boston University 


Professor Kelder came to Syracuse following 

service on the law faculty at Cleveland State 

University. He was a Criminal Law Education 

and Research Fellow at New York University. 

Deborah Kenn 

Nina A. Kohn 

Deborah Kenn 


B.A., Eisenhower College 

J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo 

Professor Kenn practiced environmental law 

and housing law before joining the faculty. 

Her teaching and work in the Community 

Development Law Clinic, of which she is 

director, reflect her expertise in affordable 

housing development, community economic 

development, and public interest law. She 

lectures and publishes on housing law, 

alternative forms of property ownership, and 

community development law. 

Nina A. Kohn 


A.B., Princeton University 

J.D., Harvard Law School 

Professor Kohn earned her A.B. summa cum 

laude from Princeton University and her 

J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law 

School. She clerked for the Honorable Fred 

I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 

Second Circuit. Following her clerkship, she 

was awarded a fellowship by the Skadden 

Fellowship Foundation to work as a staff 

attorney with Legal Assistance of the 

Finger Lakes, where she provided direct 

representation to nursing home residents and 

frail elders. Professor Kohn’s current research 

focuses on elder law and elder right’s issues. 

Her work can be seen in the Stanford Law 

and Policy Review and in the Michigan Journal 

of Gender and Law. Professor Kohn is also a 

faculty affiliate with the Syracuse University 

Gerontology Center.

M. Louise Lantzy 

Laura G. Lape 

Lynn S. Levey 

M. Louise Lantzy 


B.S., Pennsylvania State College 

M.L.S., Drexel University 


Professor Lantzy began her library career at 

the T.F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library, which 

serves the legal needs of the Philadelphia 

Bar Association. She served as the director 

of the Barclay Law Library for 10 years. Her 

research interests focus on accreditation and 

standards relating to law school libraries, 

restructuring the academic law library for 

the digital age, and staff organizational 

structure in academic law libraries. In recent 

years, Professor Lantzy presented programs 

on reengineering academic libraries for the 

digital age to the regional gathering of the 

Association of American Law Librarians, the 

New England Law Librarians, and the Canadian 

Association of Law Librarians. Professor 

Lantzy has also written The Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act: Annotated Guide to its 

Literature and Resources, 1980-1991. 

Laura G. Lape 


A.B., Smith College 

M.A., J.D., University of North Carolina at 

Chapel Hill 

Professor Lape graduated with highest 

honors from the University of North Carolina 

at Chapel Hill. She practiced as an associate in 

the probate department at a leading Boston 

law firm before beginning a teaching career. 

She taught at Temple University and at UNC 

at Chapel Hill before coming to Syracuse. She 

writes on copyright law. 

Lynn S. Levey 


B.A., Clark University 

M.A., Syracuse University 


Before joining the law faculty, Professor Levey 

was the upstate director for the Center for 

Court Innovation, a think tank that functions 

as the New York State court system’s 

independent research and development arm. 

As director, Professor Levey worked closely 

with judges, attorneys, and administrators 

across the state to develop problem-solving 

courts, including community, domestic 

violence, drug, and mental health courts. 

Before that she worked at the National 

Center for State Courts in Williamsburg and 

Arlington, Virginia, where she trained criminal 

justice personnel on implementation issues 

related to the Violence Against Women Act of 

1994. She has taught at the College of William 

and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and at 

Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. 

Kevin Noble Maillard 


Kevin Noble Maillard 


B.A., Duke University 

M.A., University of Michigan 


Ph.D., University of Michigan 

Professor Maillard’s research merges legal 

history, trusts and estates, and family law, 

with a specific focus on mixed race. He has 

written and presented papers on interracial 

will disputes and membership issues in 

American Indian tribes. His current book 

project questions the denial of mixed race in 

America as evidenced in law, literature, and 

culture. Before joining the faculty, he was an 

associate at Hughes, Hubbard, and Reed in 

New York, where he worked with the Native 

American practice group. As a Ford Foundation 

Fellow, he earned a Ph.D. in political theory from 

the University of Michigan. At the University 

of Pennsylvania Law School, he was symposium 

editor for the Journal of Constitutional Law. 

He is a member of the Seminole Nation of 

Oklahoma (Mekusukey Band). 


E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor 

of Law 

Senior Associate Dean for the College 

Director, Center on Property, Citizenship, 

and Social Entrepreneurism 

Professor of Economics (by courtesy 

appointment), Maxwell School of 

Citizenship and Public Affairs 

B.S., Purdue University 

J.D., University of Florida 

LL.M., University of Illinois 

Professor Malloy writes extensively on law and 

market theory, and on real estate transactions 

and development. He has published 10 books, 

more than 25 articles, contributed to 10 other 

books, and advised on BMW vs. Gore in the 

Supreme Court. His case book, Real Estate 

Transactions, is used in law schools across the 

country, and his recent book, Law and Market 

Economy (published by Cambridge University 

Press), is being translated into Chinese and 

Spanish. His latest book is Law in a Market 

Context: An Introduction to Market Concepts in 

Legal Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 

2004). 

Professor Malloy spent three summers in 

China advising on law and market economy, 

several weeks in Finland working on similar 

issues, and worked with The World Bank to 

develop a series of student projects on land 

and property issues for emerging economies. 

He was the 1996-97 Sun Life Research Fellow 

at Oxford University. Professor Malloy serves 

as chair of the Real Estate Transactions 

Section of the AALS and is a past chair of the 

Law and Humanities section of the AALS. 

Malloy is the series editor for Law, Property, 

and Society from Ashgate Publishing. He is the 

founder of a New Working Group on Property, 

Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism 

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(PCSE).

Thomas J. Maroney 

Janis McDonald 

Thomas J. Maroney 


B.A., LL.B., Syracuse University 


Professor Maroney has been a member of 

the faculty since 1967. His areas of expertise 

include Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, 

Federal Criminal Law and Procedure, 

Federal Court Jurisdiction, and Alternative 

Dispute Resolution. He is a magna cum laude 

graduate of both Syracuse University (1961) 

and its College of Law (1963). He is a member 

of the New York bar and is admitted to 

practice before the federal trial and appellate 

courts for New York and the U.S. Supreme 

Court. Professor Maroney was associated 

with the New York City law firm of White and 

Case (1965-67), served as the Assistant State 

Attorney General in Charge of the Syracuse 

Regional Office (1979-81), and as the United 

States Attorney for the Northern District of 

New York (1994-99). 

He has been a visiting professor at the 

Cornell (1975) and Colorado (1969-1970) law 

schools and a lecturer at the U.S. Naval War 

College (1969, 1971). He is a labor arbitrator 

for various appointing agencies and by direct 

appointment of numerous parties. Professor 

Maroney has been active in many community 

organizations. He was chair and volunteer 

attorney for the New York Civil Liberties 

Union (1970-77). He is active in the United 

States Coast Guard Auxiliary and is past 

commander of Flotilla 2-1 of the Auxiliary. 

Janis McDonald 


B.A., George Washington University 

J.D., Hofstra University School of Law 

LL.M., Yale Law School 

Before joining the law faculty, Professor 

McDonald litigated cases in federal and local 

courts in the District of Columbia and the 

Commonwealth of Virginia. Several of her 

cases established new sexual harassment 

and medical malpractice laws. She taught at 

Ohio Northern University College of Law and 

Yale Law School. She was a Ford Foundation 

Fellow in Public and International Law and 

wrote articles on civil rights litigation and 

American legal history. Several federal courts 

have cited her civil rights article. She served 

as president of the National Conference of 

Women’s Bar Associations. Her publishing 

and teaching interests include employment 

discrimination law, American legal history, 

critical race theory, criminal law, legal ethics, 

and women in the law. She is lead editor of 

a new casebook, Employment Discrimination 

Law: Problems, Cases and Critical Perspectives 

(Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005). 

Mary Helen McNeal 

Suzette M. Meléndez 

Mary Helen McNeal 


Director of Clinical Education 

B.A., Georgetown University 

J.D., University of Maryland 

Professor McNeal specializes in clinical 

teaching. Before joining the law faculty, 

Professor McNeal was the clinic director 

at the University of Montana School of 

Law, where she also taught Public Interest 

Lawyering. Her prior teaching experience 

includes clinical teaching at the University 

of Maryland School of Law and Boston 

College Law School. She has been active in 

the Association of American Law Schools 

and served as chair of its clinical section in 

2001-2002. She is also very active in equal 

justice issues, having served as chair of the 

Montana Supreme Court’s Equal Justice Task 

Force and as a member of the Montana State 

Bar’s Access to Justice Committee. Professor 

McNeal’s scholarly writing focuses on ethical 

issues in legal services practice, equal justice 

issues, and clinical teaching. 

Suzette M. Meléndez 


Director, Children’s Rights and Family Law 

Clinic 

B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton 

J.D., University of Connecticut 

Professor Meléndez recently joined the 

faculty of the Office of Clinical Legal 

Education to direct the Children’s Rights and 

Family Law Clinic. Professor Meléndez came 

to the College of Law as an adjunct professor 

teaching a course on domestic violence in 

the fall 2002 semester. Before coming to 

Syracuse, Professor Meléndez supervised the 

statewide Domestic Violence Representation 

Project at Legal Services of New Jersey and 

served as a staff attorney at Essex Newark 

Legal Services in the area of family law. She 

also has worked at the Legal Aid Society in 

New York City, representing clients in the 

areas of housing and public entitlements. In 

addition to her litigation experience, she has 

engaged in policy work on issues affecting her 

clientele at various levels, including state and 

county domestic violence working groups, 

local and state bar associations, and judicial 

committees.

Aliza M. Milner 


Aliza M. Milner 



J.D., George Washington University Law School 

Before joining the College of Law, Professor 

Milner served for seven years as an appellate 

law clerk to Judges Andrew L. Sonner and 

Patrick L. Woodward on the Court of Special 

Appeals of Maryland, as well as to Judge 

Alan M. Wilner on the Court of Appeals of 

Maryland. Professor Milner also served as 

Assistant Legal Counsel to Maryland Governor 

Parris N. Glendenning and provided legal 

assistance to individuals seeking protective 

orders from abusive partners. She was a 

Dean’s Fellow in the Legal Research and 

Writing program at George Washington 

University Law School and an articles editor 

for the George Washington University Journal of 

International Law and Economics. 


Senior Associate Dean for Research 


Dean’s Research Scholar of Indigenous 

Nations Law 

Director, Center for Indigenous Law, 

Governance and Citizenship 

B.A., Syracuse University 


Professor Porter is a citizen (Heron Clan) of 

the Seneca Nation of Indians and was raised 

on its Allegany Territory in upstate New York. 

After practicing corporate transactional 

law for two years in Washington, D.C., he 

served his own nation, the Seneca Nation of 

Indians, as its first attorney general for four 

years. During this time, he also served as an 

adjunct professor at the University of Buffalo 

School of Law and as a visiting assistant 

professor at the University of Tulsa College 

of Law. In 1995, Professor Porter left his 

position with the Seneca Nation to become an 

associate professor of law at the University 

of Kansas and adjunct professor at Haskell 

Indian Nations University. At the University 

of Kansas, he founded and directed the 

Tribal Law and Government Center. In 2002, 

he left Kansas to join the law faculty at 

the University of Iowa. He joined the SU 

community in 2003. Professor Porter has 

served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme 

Court of the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri and 

is a consulting expert or counsel to several 

Indian nations and Indian organizations. 

His many writings have appeared in such 

publications as the Yale Human Rights & 

Development Law Journal, the Harvard Journal 

on Legislation, the Buffalo Law Review, and the 

Arizona State Law Journal. 

Jill M. Paquette 

Robert J. Rabin 

Sarah H. Ramsey 

Jill M. Paquette 


B.A., Fordham College 

J.D., Harvard Law School 

While in law school, Professor Paquette 

represented indigent clients in connection 

with disability and public benefits claims for 

the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, 

Massachusetts. She has served as law clerk 

to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second 

Circuit and has most recently been in private 

practice with leading firms in New York City 

and Albany. She has practiced in the areas of 

commercial litigation, employment law, and 

civil rights litigation. 

Robert J. Rabin 


A.B., Cornell University 

LL.B., Harvard Law School 


A former Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties 

Fellow at New York University School of Law, 

Professor Rabin practiced labor law as a labor 

union counsel and as an associate with a New 

York firm. He remains active in the field as a 

labor arbitrator, mediator, and fact-finder. He 

co-wrote a case book on labor law and a book 

on the rights of employees. He is the editor 

of the American Bar Association’s The Labor 

Lawyer. 

Sarah H. Ramsey 





M.A., J.D., University of North Carolina 

LL.M., University of Michigan 

Professor Ramsey has taught at Syracuse 

since 1983. She was an associate dean from 

1993-1997 and was a visiting professor at 

Stanford Law School in 1990-91. In 2002 

she was named a Laura J. and L. Douglas 

Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence. 

In 2005 she was named a Board of Advisors 

Professor. She is the co-author of the popular 

casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, 

Policy, and Practice (2d ed. 2003) and of 

Children and the Law in a Nutshell (2d ed. 

2003). She has written numerous articles on 

legal and policy issues relating to children, 

families, and stepfamilies that have appeared 

in both law and social science journals. She 

teaches courses on children and the law, 

family law, and advanced family law. She is a 

member of the American Law Institute and 

the Children and Law Committee of the New 

York State Bar Association and was chair of 

the Association of American Law Schools 

Family and Juvenile Law section. Professor 

Ramsey is the director of the Family Law and 

Social Policy Center. 

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LaVonda N. Reed-Huff 

Richard S. Risman 

LaVonda N. Reed-Huff 


B.A., University of Virginia 

J.D., University of Southern California 


Before joining the Syracuse University faculty, 

Professor Reed-Huff was a member of the 

faculty of the Brandeis School of Law at the 

University of Louisville, where she taught for 

five years. While at the University of Louisville, 

she taught courses in communications law, 

property, and decedents’ estates and trusts. 

She previously was a judicial clerk for the 

Honorable Donald W. VanArtsdalen of the 

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of 

Pennsylvania and was an attorney in private 

practice with the international law firm of 

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in the 

firm’s Washington, D.C., and Atlanta offices. 

While in practice, she represented businesses 

and financial institutions in various aspects of 

communications and corporate law. Professor 

Reed-Huff’s scholarly interests include the 

intersection of communications law and 

policy and property law. She has published 

articles and spoken on topics such as the 

placement of satellite dishes, the economics 

of broadcast ownership, minority ownership 

of broadcast stations, and broadcast diversity. 

Professor Reed-Huff is admitted to practice in 

Maryland and the District of Columbia. She is 

a member of the Federal Communications Bar 

Association and the American Bar Association. 

She serves on the executive committee of the 

Section on Mass Communication Law of the 

Association of American Law Schools, as well 

as on a number of other committees. 

Richard S. Risman 


B.A., J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo 

Before coming to Syracuse, Professor 

Risman served on the faculty of Albany Law 

School. There he devoted nearly 10 years to 

its Lawyering Skills Program. He was also 

active in Albany’s Moot Court, Clinical Legal 

Education, and Continuing Legal Education 

programs and took part in a variety of other 

law school, college, and community-based 

legal education and skills training programs. 

During this time, and for some years prior, 

Professor Risman also practiced in the 

areas of commercial law, civil rights, and 

art law. He served as director of the College 

of Law’s first-year legal skills program 

between 1998 and 2001 and revised the 

program’s curriculum. He now teaches Legal 

Communication and Research and Problems 

in Legal Writing, an upper-level course. 

Jenny Roberts 

Michael A. Schwartz 

Jenny Roberts 


Director, Criminal Law Clinic 

B.A., Yale University 

J.D., New York University School of Law 

Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Roberts 

was a Senior Research Fellow at New York 

University School of Law’s Center for Research 

in Crime & Justice. She was previously a 

member of the NYU faculty, where she taught 

for three years in the first-year Lawyering 

Program. Professor Roberts worked as a trial 

trainer and a staff attorney at the Criminal 

Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society. 

Just before joining Legal Aid, she was a law 

clerk for Judge John S. Martin in the Southern 

District of New York. Professor Roberts 

graduated magna cum laude and Order of the 

Coif from NYU School of Law in 1995, where 

she was an Arthur Garfield Hays civil rights 

and civil liberties fellow and a notes and 

comments editor for the NYU Law Review. 

Michael A. Schwartz 


Director, Public Interest Law Firm 

B.A., Brandeis University 

M.A., Northwestern University 

J.D., New York University Law School 

LL.M., Columbia University Law School 

Ph.D., Syracuse University School of Education 

Once an actor with the National Theater 

of the Deaf, Professor Schwartz began his 

legal career as a law clerk to a Southern 

District of New York judge. He then served, 

in chronological order, as assistant district 

attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s 

Office; trial attorney in the Civil Rights 

Division of the U.S. Department of Justice 

in Washington; solo practitioner in the New 

York City metro region; and assistant attorney 

General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New 

York State Department of Law. A member of 

the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut 

bars, Professor Schwartz directs the Disability 

Rights Advocacy Law Clinic, where he 

supervises students in disability litigation and 

teaches disability law. He just successfully 

defended his dissertation in education and 

disability studies at Syracuse University.

Roderick Surratt 

Terry L. Turnipseed 

Roderick Surratt 


B.A., Baylor University 

J.D., University of Texas 

After graduating from law school, where 

he was an editor of the Texas Law Review, 

Professor Surratt served as a law clerk to the 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 

andtaught at the law schools of Southern 

Methodist University and Florida State 

University. Before coming to Syracuse, he 

was in private practice with a leading firm 

in Dallas. His pro bono activities have included 

representation of plaintiffs in school 

desegregation litigation in Texas and 

presentation of testimony before committees 

of the New York State Legislature. He 

currently teaches in the areas of evidence, 

sports law, products liability, and torts. 

Professor Surratt also has served as associate 

dean for academic affairs and has taught as a 

visiting professor at Cornell University 

Law School. 

Terry L. Turnipseed 


B.S., Mississippi State University 

M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

J.D., Georgetown University 

LL.M., Georgetown University 

Professor Turnipseed is an experienced estate 

planning and tax advisor. As an attorney with 

Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., he 

developed and implemented complex tax 

planning strategies for more than $1 billion in 

assets. Professor Turnipseed also represented 

a number of large trust beneficiaries with 

fiduciary issues. He has expertise in complex 

domestic and international estate planning, 

including substantial asset protection. 

Prior to joining Covington & Burling, Professor 

Turnipseed was an estate and gift tax 

specialist with Deloitte & Touche’s national 

office. He has an LL.M. in Tax, cum laude, and 

a J.D. from Georgetown University and two 

graduate degrees from MIT, where he was a 

National Science Foundation Fellow. Professor 

Turnipseed received a bachelor’s degree in 

nuclear engineering, summa cum laude, from 

Mississippi State University, where he was a 

Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholar. Professor 

Turnipseed has written in the areas of trust 

fiduciary law, spousal property rights upon 

death, and transfer taxation. He teaches 

courses in eminent domain, estate and gift 

taxation, estate planning, wills and trusts, 

and property. 

Steven Wechsler 

William M. Wiecek 

Steven Wechsler 



M.B.A., J.D., University of Michigan 

Professor Wechsler was an associate editor 

of the Michigan Law Review. Before joining 

the Syracuse law faculty, he was associated 

with a major Denver law firm and taught at 

the University of Colorado School of Law. His 

recent research and publications deal with 

various professional responsibility issues. 

Professor Wechsler serves as Associate 

Reporter to the New York State Bar 

Association’s Committee on Standards of 

Attorney Conduct. 

William M. Wiecek 

Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of 

Public Law and Legislation 

Professor of History 

B.A., Catholic University of America 

LL.B., Harvard University 

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Professor Wiecek practiced law in 

New Hampshire and taught legal and 

constitutional history at the University of 

Missouri-Columbia for 16 years before coming 

to Syracuse. He has written nine books and 

numerous articles on republicanism, slavery 

and its abolition, 19th-century legal and 

constitutional development, nuclear power, 

and the United States Supreme Court. His 

most recent publication, The Birth of the 

Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme 

Court, 1941-1953 (Cambridge University 

Press), was published in 2006. 

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Administrative Deans 




Assistant Dean for Information Technology 

B.S., Syracuse University 

C.A.S., Syracuse University 

Assistant Dean Denby has more than 20 

years experience in managing networks 

and information systems. In his present 

position he manages a department with 

responsibility for information systems, web 

design and administration; client-server 

systems implementation and support, 

network installation and maintenance; 

database management; computer desktop 

support; computer cluster support; audio 

visual services; computer and technology 

training; and research and developement 

for the College of Law. Before his career in 

computing, he spent 13 years in banking 

with responsibilities that included managing 

secondary market portfolios, mortgage 

lending, branch management and auditing, 

and loan servicing. He currently serves 

as president of the board of directors for 

Onondaga Community Living, a not-for-profit 

agency that provides services to adults with 

mental retardation and other 

developmental disabilities within the 

Syracuse area and nearby communities. He 

is a 2007 candidate for a master of science 

degree in telecommunications and network 

management from Syracuse University’s 

School of Information Studies. 




Associate Dean for Enrollment 

Management and Chief Financial Officer 

B.Mus., Ithaca College 

M.S., Syracuse University 

Associate Dean Ficarra has more than 20 

years of experience in higher education 

administration, including student 

recruitment, admissions, enrollment 

management, financial aid, career services, 

administrative computing, budget planning, 

and operations. She is a member of the 

Council for the Advancement and Support 

of Education and the National Association 

for Women in Education. She has served on 

committees for the Law School Admission 

Council and as a member of the planning 

committee for The Access Group Financial 

Aid Conference. Most recently, she serves 

as a member of the Program Planning 

Committee for the Law Student Debt Summit 

that is being co-sponsored by the National 

Association of Law Placement and The Access 

Group. 


Assistant Dean for Student Life 

B.A., Ithaca College 

M.A., Buffalo State College 


Assistant Dean Gonzalez oversees the newly 

created Office of Student Life, which is 

responsible for the overall quality of student 

life, academic counseling, diversity initiatives, 

leadership development, community service/ 

pro bono program, special needs 

accommodations, bar preparation, and 

academic support at the College of Law. His 

expertise includes leadership and community 

development, academic support programs, 

diversity education, and student success/ 

recognition programs. 

During his 16-year career in student affairs, 

Assistant Dean Gonzalez has held positions 

at Syracuse University, Alfred University, 

Buffalo State College, SUNY Cortland, and the 

University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 

He joined SU’s Division of Student Affairs 

in 2002 as assistant director for the Office 

of Greek Life and Experiential Learning. 

At SU, Gonzalez has been the recipient 

of an Exemplary Achievement Award for 

Faculty/Staff and an ALPHA Award given 

by students to recognize staff representing 

student-centered values and contributions to 

student life. 

His professional affiliations include the 

American College Personnel Association; the 

National Association of Student Personnel 

Administrators; College Student Personnel 

Association, New York; and the Association of 

Student Judicial Affairs.

Janice Herzog 

Donohue 


Janice Herzog Donohue 

Assistant Dean for External Relations and 


Assistant Dean Herzog Donohue has 

supported decanal affairs and the 

administrative operations of the Office of the 

Dean and offices of the faculty for more than 

18 years. She is a member of the American 

Management Association and served as a 

member of the annual meeting planning 

committee for the American Society of 

Comparative Law. She was co-coordinator 

of a three-day symposium on the Impact of 

German Émigré Jurists on Modern Law in 

Bonn, Germany, sponsored by the University 

of Bonn and the German Research Council. 

As an advocate for women’s issues, she was 

invited by a member of the state legislature 

to serve on a Women’s Advisory Council. She 

is a past recipient of the Graduating Class 

Award in recognition of her continued and 

extraordinary dedication to students. She 

was a presenter at the 2006 Council for 

Advancement and Support of Education 

(CASE) District II Annual Conference. 

Assistant Dean Herzog Donohue works closely 

with alumni in her role as liaison to the Board 

of Advisors. 


Associate Dean for Advancement 

B.A., Hunter College of the City University 

of New York 

J.D., Capital University Law School 

Associate Dean Lustig has more than 25 

year’s experience in the nonprofit sector, 

including social services, health care, and 

higher education. He served as the first 

executive director of the American Sleep 

Apnea Association and has an extensive 

background in institutional advancement, 

non-profit administration, and board 

development. He has served in leadership 

positions with such organizations as the 

American Lung Association, B’nai B’rith 

Foundation of the United States, Children’s 

Hospital of Columbus, Ohio, and the Hebrew 

Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. 

Before assuming his current position at the 

College of Law, he directed the Campaign for 

the Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life at 

Syracuse University. 



Assistant Dean for Student Administration 

and the Registrar 

B.S., University of Northern Colorado 

J.D., Temple University School of Law 

Assistant Dean Sealing graduated magna 

cum laude from the Temple University School 

of Law, where he was a member of the law 

review. Before beginning his teaching career, 

Assistant Dean Sealing was in private practice 

with major national and international law 

firms in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., 

and Atlanta, where his practice emphasis 

was international tax and trade. He has 

previously taught at Emory University School 

of Law, Georgia State University School of 

Law, and the John Marshall Law School. He 

has researched and published in the areas 

of constitutional law and international law, 

and his most recent scholarship includes 

NAFTA’s Elimination of Agricultural Tariffs: Will 

Globalization be Allowed to Destroy 7,000 Years 

of Indigenous Culture?, (18 American U. Int’l 

L.Rev. 101) and “State Sponsors of Terrorism” 

is a Question not an Answer: the Terrorism 

Amendment to the FSIA Makes Less Sense Now 

Than It Did Before 9/11, (38 Tex. Int’l L.J. 121. ) 

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Professors Emeriti 

Joseph A. Barrette 

Daan Braveman 

Joseph A. Barrette 


B.S., Providence College 

J.D., Catholic University 


Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Barrette 

served as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow 

with the Onondaga Neighborhood Legal 

Services Corporation and as a law clerk to the 

Onondaga County Court. He was in private 

practice, where he engaged in extensive 

litigation in commercial law and criminal 

defense and was supervising attorney and 

acting director of the Syracuse University 

Project for Prisoners’ Rights. Professor 

Barrette was a Fulbright lecturer at Sind 

Muslim Government Law College in Karachi, 

Pakistan. He has also lectured extensively 

on the law of Dharma and Buddhism and 

regularly teaches mediation to first-year law 

students as well as individuals and groups 

in Central New York. Professor Barrette has 

developed and teaches a Complementary 

and Alternative Medicine (CAM) law course, 

the first to be taught in a U.S. law school. He 

has written a legal manual for practitioners 

of CAM and an article that analyzes the legal 

issues that affect physicians who practice 

CAM. He is a member of the American College 

of Legal Medicine. He is an adjunct faculty 

member with the College of Human Services 

and Health Professions. 

Daan Braveman 


A.B., University of Rochester 


Before joining the Syracuse faculty, 

Professor Braveman was a law clerk for 

the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and an 

attorney for the Greater Upstate Law 

Project of Monroe County, New York, Legal 

Assistance Corporation. He served as dean 

of the College of Law from 1994 to 2002. 

Professor Braveman is an American Law 

Institute member and was the reporter to the 

Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group. He 

has published numerous articles on federal 

jurisdiction and constitutional law. He is the 

author of Protecting Constitutional Freedoms: 

A Role for Federal Courts and co-author of the 

casebooks Constitutional Law: Structure and 

Rights in Our Federal System and Power, Privilege 

and Law. Professor Braveman left the College 

of Law to become the ninth president of 

Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. 

Patricia Hassett 

Peter E. Herzog 

Patricia Hassett 


B.A., Elmira College 

LL.B., Syracuse University 


Formerly a prosecuting attorney and a 

municipal government attorney, Professor 

Hassett served with the Lord Chancellor’s 

Advisory Committee on Legal Education 

and Conduct in England, advising on the 

education and professional conduct of 

persons providing legal services. She has also 

served as a consultant to the English Home 

Office on a project to improve the quality of 

bail decisions. Professor Hassett writes in 

the field of artificial intelligence and the law 

and has constructed a prototype of an expert 

system that makes bail recommendations. 

Peter E. Herzog 

Crandall Melvin Professor of Law 

A.B., Hobart College 

LL.B., Syracuse University 

LL.M., Columbia University 

Professor Herzog was a New York assistant 

attorney general and Columbia University 

Project on International Procedure staff 

member. He was associate director of the 

Columbia University Project on European 

Legal Institutions, consultant to the New 

York Commission on Eminent Domain, and a 

visiting professor at the universities of Paris 

I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Dijon, and Fribourg. 

He writes and co-writes many books and 

articles on comparative law, conflicts of 

law, the European Communities, and torts. 

Professor Herzog received the Chancellor’s 

Citation for Academic Excellence in 1983.

Travis H.D. Lewin 


B.A., LL.B., University of South Dakota 

S.J.D., University of Michigan 

Travis H.D. Lewin 

Professor Lewin was in private practice and 

served as an assistant U.S. attorney before 

entering law teaching. He served as a 

consultant to the Michigan Department of 

Mental Hygiene, the Syracuse Department 

of Police, the U.S. Courts for the Northern 

District of New York (as reporter to the 

Speedy Trial Act Planning Group), and the 

legislative commission on the proposed New 

York Code of Evidence. He was interim dean 

of the College of Law and visiting clinical 

professor of law at the New York School of 

Psychiatry. He co-wrote two books and writes 

many articles on mental health, criminal law, 

and administering criminal justice. In 1984, 

he received the first Richard S. Jacobson 

Award for Distinguished Trial Advocacy 

Teaching by the Roscoe Pound American Trial 

Lawyers Association. He has also received the 

Chancellor’s Citation for Academic Excellence. 

Richard D. Schwartz 

Wilhelmina 

Reuben-Cooke 

Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke 



J.D., University of Michigan 

Professor Reuben-Cooke came to Syracuse 

from the Georgetown Law Center, where she 

was an associate director of the Georgetown 

Institute for Public Representation. A Phi Beta 

Kappa graduate of Duke, she was a Woodrow 

Wilson Fellow at Harvard University and 

John Hay Whitney Fellow at Michigan. She 

practiced law for a leading Washington law 

firm and the Citizens Communications Center. 

She earned commendations for her work and 

publications in telecommunications law from 

the Washington Association for Television and 

Children, and Black Citizens for a Fair Media, 

among other groups. Professor Reuben-Cooke 

left the College of Law to become the Provost 

at the University of the District of Columbia 

College of Law in Washington, D.C. 

Richard D. Schwartz 

Ernest I. White Research Professor of Law 

and Professor of Sociology 

B.A., Ph.D., Yale University 

Professor Schwartz came to Syracuse after 

almost 25 years as a distinguished teacher 

and scholar in both law and sociology. He is 

the author of many scholarly publications 

in both fields, including the books Society 

and the Legal Order, Unobtrusive Measures, 

Criminal Law: Theory and Process, and the 

Handbook of Regulation and Administrative 

Law. He is recognized as a leading authority 

on law and society. He taught on the law 

and sociology faculties at Northwestern and 

Yale universities and was dean and professor 

of law at State University of New York at 

Buffalo. Professor Schwartz was the founding 

editor of the Law and Society Review. 

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Professor of Practice 

David M. Crane 

David M. Crane 

Professor of Practice 

B.G.S., Ohio University 

M.S., Ohio University 



Professor Crane joined the faculty of 

the College of Law in August 2005 as a 

Distinguished Visiting Professor. Before joining 

the faculty, he was an undersecretary general 

at the United Nations and chief prosecutor 

of the international war crimes tribunal in 

West Africa, called the Special Court for 

Sierra Leone. Appointed to that position by 

the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, Professor 

Crane’s mandate was to prosecute those who 

bore the greatest responsibility for war crimes 

and crimes against humanity stemming from 

the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone 

in the 1990s. He is the first American since 

Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg, in 1945, 

to lead an international tribunal. 

Professor Crane has a long history of 

public service, having served in the federal 

government of the United States as an officer 

in the United States Army and as a member of 

the Senior Executive Service for 30 years. He 

has published and spoken widely on human 

rights issues and holds numerous honors, 

including being named a Paramount Chief by 

the civil society organizations of Sierra Leone 

in 2005. 

Professor Crane teaches international 

criminal law, international law, and national 

security law. He is also a member of the 

faculty of the Institute for National Security 

and Counterterrorism, a joint venture between 

the College of Law and the Maxwell School of 

Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse. 

He holds a bachelor of general studies 

degree, summa cum laude, in history and a 

master of arts degree in african studies from 

Ohio University. Additionally, he holds a juris 

doctor degree from Syracuse University. 

Courtesy Appointments 

Keith J. Bybee 

Keith J. Bybee 

Associate Professor of Political Science 

Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional 

Law and Politics 

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public 

Affairs Institute 


(by courtesy appointment) 

A.B., Princeton University 

M.A., University of California, San Diego 

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

Before joining Syracuse University in 2002, 

Professor Bybee was a faculty member in 

the Department of Government at Harvard 

University. Bybee holds the Michael O. Sawyer 

Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics 

in the Maxwell School, and he directs the 

Sawyer Law and Politics Program (SLAPP). 

He also directs the Institue for the Study 

of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media 

(IJPM), an institue jointly sponsored by the 

College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the 

Newhouse School of Public Communicaitons. 

Bybee’s teaching interests include American 

public law, legal theory, political philosophy, 

American politics, the politics of race, and 

LGBT politics. He is the author of Mistaken 

Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics 

of Minority Representation (Princeton, 1998; 

second printing, 2002), a book that focuses 

on theories of political identity at stake in the 

debate over race-conscious redistricting. He 

is also editor of Bench Press: The Collision of 

Courts, Politics, and the Media (forthcoming, 

Stanford University Press), a collection of 

essays on judicial independance written by 

legal scholars, sitting judges, and working 

journalists. He is currently at work on a booklength 

project examining the role of courtesy 

and hypocrisy in the judicial process.

Patricia H. Longstaff 

Patricia H. Longstaff 

Associate Professor, Television, Radio, Film 

J.D., M.S., University of Iowa 

M.P.A., Harvard University 

Professor Longstaff is an educator and analyst 

specializing in the business and public 

policy issues affecting the communications 

industry in the United States and 

internationally. She is also a research associate 

at Harvard University’s Center for Information 

Policy Research, where she works on issues of 

global communications policy. Her most recent 

work there involves the role of communications 

in the resilience of local populations who 

suffer a “surprise” such as a terrorist attack or 

natural disaster. She is also a member of the 

U.S. State Department Advisory Committee 

on International Communications Policy, and 

a member of the board of directors of the 

International Telecommunications Society. Her 

most recent book, The Communications Toolkit: 

How to Build or Regulate Any Communications 

Business, was published by MIT Press in 2002. 

Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. L’68 of Delaware was the 

keynote speaker at Syracuse University College of Law’s 2006 

commencement, as well as at the 1994 commencement, when 

his son Joseph III was among the J.D. recipients. Biden is the 

top Democrat on both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 

and the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. 

“I went to law school to become a lawyer, but my professors 

at Syracuse taught me about a lot more than the mere 

mechanics of the law. 

“Despite the upheavals and uncertainties that characterized 

the sixties, I arrived at Syracuse with a strong sense of 

purpose: I saw the law as an instrument for change, and I 

believed much in the world needed changing. What I learned 

from my Syracuse professors made that sense of purpose 

more powerful still. 

“They showed me that the personal values that led me to 

the study of law in the first place match the principles that 

underpin the Constitution: intolerance for the abuse of power, 

a respect for personal integrity and individual autonomy, 

and a sense of responsibility to family and community. They 

taught me that it is our system of law that has enabled us to 

apply those principles as a society. For an apprentice lawyer, 

that was an empowering discovery, and it made me confident 

I could serve the best in myself and in others through the 

practice of law. 

“I also discovered something else, no less important to 

me, about my professors, about the College of Law, and 

about Syracuse. If you earn their confidence, they repay you 

with their loyalty—and it is impossible to overstate the value 

of such support to students and to graduates of Syracuse. 

“Those of us who graduated from Syracuse 30 years ago 

could be no more certain of the outlines of our future than 

today’s students are, but the Syracuse University College Law 

endowed us with conviction that if we pursued the noble 

aspirations of our profession, could build lives of meaning 

and, in the process, improve our world. I believed that then 

and I believe it now. 

“That’s how it was when I was a student, and my older 

son who is a recent graduate from the College of Law tells 

me that’s how it remains at Syracuse today. I don’t think 

much more could be said for any law school.” 

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the office of 

student life 

The Office of Student Life is 

dedicated to working with our 

students to develop a shared 

sense of pride and ownership 

within the College of Law. 

The office has a friendly, 

open-door policy, and students 

are encouraged to stop in, ask 

questions, give suggestions, 

and get involved.

The Office of Student Life provides a broad 

range of student support services, including: 

> academic and personal counseling 

> academic support 

> tutoring 

> leadership/professionalism training 

> community service/pro bono activities 

> diversity initiatives 

> wellness programs 

> accommodations for students with 

disabilities 

> support for student organizations and 

moot court activities. 

The Office of Student Life works with 

College of Law students, faculty, and 

administrators, as well as with a variety 

of University-based offices, in developing 

programming to meet the needs of students. 

The office also informs students about 

opportunities to explore an assortment of 

University-wide student organizations and 

activities, ranging from trips to the worldrenowned 

Finger Lakes wine country, to 

law symposia with world renowned speakers. 

The Office of Student life is dedicated to 

enhancing legal education with a commitment 

to student development and individual success 

through quality co-curricular programming 

and student services. 

“Working as a litigation associate at a large law firm like Clifford Chance in New York 

means being able to juggle many tasks from many senior attorneys all at the same 

time. I could be working on a brief for a pro bono criminal case, researching securities 

laws and managing a discovery project for billion dollar litigation simultaneously. 

There is no doubt I received strong classroom preparation at the College of Law. 

But for me, it was the opportunities the law school provided outside of the classroom 

that have given me the additional skills I’ve needed to succeed. The legal journals, 

moot court opportunities, and research assistant positions, along with the clincal/ 

externship programs are great opportunities. These programs helped me gain practical 

experience while also teaching me to juggle multiple tasks and issues at the same time. 

No matter where my legal career leads me, these experiences helped me form an 

invaluable foundation for working with colleagues and managing my workload. There 

is no doubt that Syracuse University College of Law was the right choice for me.” 

Juan Renteria, Jr., L‘04 

Adjunct Professor 

University of Texas at San Antonio 

San Antonio, TX

law student 

senate and student 

organizations 


Students take active roles in decisions that 

help shape the law school experience by 

participating in the Law Student Senate. 

In addition to representing student views 

on important issues, the senate appoints 

student representatives to faculty 

committees and administers expenditure of 

a substantial budget. Officers and senators 

are elected from each class.

The Law Student Senate takes an active role 

in many community service projects, regularly 

providing volunteers for such activities as Habitat 

for Humanity, the Hurricane Katrina Alternative 

Spring Break trip, and the Special Olympics. 

Each year, the senate sponsors a local charitable 

organization (such as AIDS Community Resources 

or the Big Brother/Big Sister program) in the 

5K “Ambulance Chase” fund-raiser. In addition, 

senate members have served as mentors at a local 

elementary school, have volunteered at area soup 

kitchens, and routinely organize food and clothing 

drives for local charities. 

The senate also hosts a series of social events 

throughout the year. The winter formal, known 

as the Barrister’s Ball, and the spring comedy 

production, known as the Libel Show, highlight the 

year for many law students. 

The senate serves as the umbrella organization 

for law student groups. The following 

organizations are recognized by the senate: 

Actual Innocence Society (AIS) 

American Bar Association (ABA) 

American Constitutional Society (ACS) 

Asian Pacific American Law Student Association 

(APALSA) 

Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) 

Black Law Students Association (BLSA) 

Christian Legal Fellowship (CLF) 

Corporate Law Society (CLS) 

Criminal Justice Society (CJS) 

disAbility Law Society (dLS) 

Environmental Law Society (ELS) 

Family Law Society (FLS) 

Federalist Society Feminist Action League (FAL) 

Grant Opportunity (GO) Program 

Intellectual Property Law Society (IPLS) 

International Law Students Association (ILSA) 

Irish-American Law Students Association (IALSA) 

Islamic Law Society (ILS) 

Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) 

Korean Law Students Association (KLSA) 

Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) 

Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA) 

National Security Association (NSA) 

National Women’s Law Student Association 

(NWLSA) 

Native American Law Society (NALS) 

Outlaw 

Phi Alpha Delta 

Republican Law Caucus 

South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA) 

Student Association on Terrorism and Security 

Analysis – Law Student Division (SATSA) 

Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) 

St. Thomas More Society 

Syracuse Tax Society 

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Melanie Gray L‘81 

Partner and Bankruptcy Litigation Co-chair 

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Houston, TX 

Member, Syracuse University 

Board of Trustees and College of Law 

Board of Advisors 

“Early in my education at Syracuse 

University College of Law, I learned 

a life-long lesson that has continued 

to serve me well: preparation and 

commitment are the foundation for 

success in every facet of life. 

“By absorbing the knowledge 

shared by faculty and exploiting the 

experiential learning opportunities, 

I left SU College of Law aptly prepared 

and fully committed to tackle a 

profession in commercial litigation. 

Those principles of preparedness and 

commitment have guided my career 

from entry-level associate to partner, 

while navigating intricate bankruptcy 

cases for notable corporations, including 

representation of Enron in the most 

complex chapter 11 case in history.” 

“I extend those principles to every 

lecture I give and to every hour I 

donate to altruistic organizations, 

such as Girls, Inc. I do this because 

I learned another valuable lesson 

while attending Syracuse University: 

we are each responsible for serving 

the communities in which we live and 

thrive through the continual imparting 

of knowledge and generous giving of 

our time. These are the kinds of 

lessons learned at Syracuse 

University that make us good 

lawyers and good people.” 


Syracuse Law Review 

The most effective 

advocates possess 

exceptional skills in legal 

research and writing. 

Students can perfect 

these skills by editing the 

Syracuse Law Review. 

Now in its 57th year 

of publication, the law 

review provides an intense legal research and 

writing program for student editors and a 

national forum for contributing scholars. The 

editorial board publishes four law review issues 

annually, one of which is the Annual Survey of 

New York Law. 

Law review membership is a prized honor at 

Syracuse. Students are invited to join the law 

review based on their first-year grades or their 

achievement in an open writing competition 

held at the conclusion of the first year. Secondyear 

editorial staff members write notes for 

possible publication in the Syracuse Law Review 

and assist in editorial activities. The third-year 

editorial board supervises all aspects of publication, 

including the process of editing articles 

and notes selected for publication. 

Syracuse Journal of 

International Law and Commerce 

First published in 1972, 

the journal has the 

distinction of being one 

of the oldest studentedited 

international law 

reviews in the United 

States. It features 

works by leading 

private and public 

international law scholars and practitioners. 

The journal also includes student notes and, 

at times, symposia organized by the College of 

Law faculty. 

Students are selected for journal membership 

based on academic ranking or success 

in an open writing competition held at the 

conclusion of the first year. Members must 

demonstrate mastery of legal research and 

writing skills by submitting scholarly articles 

of publishable quality. 

The Digest 

The Digest is the law 

journal of the National 

Italian-American 

Bar Association. The 

Digest is a professional 

law journal 

publishing articles of 

general interest to 

the profession. It also 

publishes articles on 

issues related to Italian and American trade, 

jurisprudence, and comparative law. 

The student board of editors, which 

represents a diverse student population, is 

selected based on writing competition results 

and personal interviews. Students write and 

publish case comments while engaging in a 

full range of editorial activities. In this way, 

students obtain valuable hands-on experience 

in the law and in improving their own writing 

skills, while performing a service for the bar 

and community. 

The Labor Lawyer 

The Labor Lawyer is 

the official publication 

of the American Bar 

Association’s Labor 

and Employment Law 

section. The College of 

Law has the privilege 

of being one of a small 

number of law schools 

that edit an ABA publication. 

With more than 22,000 subscribers 

nationwide, The Labor Lawyer is a distinguished 

law journal aimed at bringing useful insights 

and current legal trends in the area of labor 

and employment law to its readers. 

The staff of The Labor Lawyer is responsible 

for selecting and editing the articles for each 

annual issue. Students apply for a position 

on The Labor Lawyer editorial board at the 

end of their first year. Selections are based 

on a writing sample, editing exercise, and 

personal interview.

law student 

publications 

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career services 


takes pride in its reputation as a 

distinguished national law school. Its 

graduates are employed throughout 

the United States and around the 

world. The Office of Career Services 

provides a full range of services to 

students, including a broad mix of 

innovative and traditional support, 

empowering students with the 

confidence and skills necessary to 

conduct an effective job search.

The college’s Office of Career Services is dedicated 

to assisting current students and alumni 

with their individual job searches. The Office 

of Career Services hosts seminars during the 

year to teach students effective job search 

techniques and sponsors programs in which 

attorneys representing dozens of practice 

areas speak to students about what their 

jobs are really like. The office also conducts 

specialized workshops for students interested 

in judicial clerkships, career opportunities 

outside the traditional legal realm, and long 

distance job searching. Individual counseling 

and mock interviews are provided by the 

career services staff as well. 

The office takes pride in its specialized 

services and publications designed to assist 

first-year law students with skills assessment, 

career exploration, and the fundamentals 

of job searching. Beyond these services, the 

office maintains a reference library that 

houses many resources to assist students and 

alumni with career exploration. 

To keep students apprised of summer, full- 

and part-time job opportunities, the Office 

of Career Services electronically publishes 

and maintains this information on its web site 

(www.law.syr.edu). The web site also details 

upcoming seminars, writing competitions, 

fellowships, judicial clerkship opportunities, 

and other items of interest to job-seeking 

students. 

Every year, employers from across the 

country recruit Syracuse students through 

interview and resume collection programs. 

Throughout the academic year, the Office 

of Career Services schedules on-campus 

interviews for students and coordinates offcampus 

fall interview programs in New York 

City and Washington, D.C. 

Alumni Connection 

Syracuse law’s network of more than 8,500 

graduates helps keep the college informed 

of employment opportunities. Our extensive 

alumni database is a source for providing 

possible employment contacts in a variety 

of practice areas throughout the country. In 

addition, many alumni serve as mentors to 

current students. Alumni are an important 

source of information about current trends 

and opportunities in various practice areas 

of the law and geographic areas. The Career 

Services Office and our law students benefit 

greatly from our alumni’s eagerness to share 

information and provide assistance. 

The Office of Career Services also assists 

alumni with lateral moves or career transitions. 

Individual counseling services and job 

searching resources continue to be available 

beyond graduation to meet the needs of 

alumni. Current job opportunities for alumni 

are posted on our web site. 

The Grant Opportunity Program 

The Grant Opportunity (GO) Program is an 

organization that encourages, supports, and 

funds summer employment for law students in 

the public interest sector. It is run primarily by 

students with the guidance, support, and 

assistance of the Office of Career Services. 

Each summer, a number of students receive 

grants to assist them financially while they 

work in public interest positions. Grant 

recipients must participate in GO fund-raising 

activities and complete a public service 

requirement duringthe academic year to be 

eligible for summer funding. A total of 

$44,000 was awarded to GO recipients for 

the summer of 2006. GO recipients typically 

engage in work for legal service organizations, 

nonprofit groups, and government entIties 

across the country. In the past, students have 

found summer internships with the following 

organizations: 

> Legal Assistance of the Finger Lakes 

Geneva, New York 

> National Coalition Against Censorship 

New York, New York 

> Los Angeles County Attorney’s Office 

Los Angeles, California 

> American-Arab Anti-Discrimination 

Committee 

Washington, D.C. 

> Onondaga County District Attorney’s 

Office 

Onondaga County, New York 

> Center for Community Alternatives 

Syracuse 

> Office of the Public Defender, 

County of Winnebago 

Rockford, Illinois 

> Legal Services of Central New York Inc. 

(AIDS Law Project) 


> Office of the Conflict Defender, 

Family Court Division 


> State of Delaware, Department of Justice 

Delaware 

> Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society 


> Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York Inc. 

Binghamton, New York 

> U.S. District Court - NDNY; 

Hon. David E. Peebles 


> U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of 

Columbia 


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employment 

information 

Syracuse College of Law 

graduates have acquired impressive 

employment rates during the past 

several years. A survey of the Class 

of 2005 indicates that 43 percent 

entered private practice, 19 percent 

were employed by private sector 

corporations, 16 percent joined 

government agencies and other 

public employers, 13 percent 

became judicial clerks, and five 

percent entered public interest 

law practice.

Type of Practice 

The chart on the upper right indicates the 

various types of practice selected by members 

of the Class of 2005. Many Syracuse graduates 

pursue traditional careers in private practice 

with specialized or full-service law firms or as 

judicial clerks in one of the many local, state, 

and federal courts. Other graduates choose 

employment in government, business, and 

academia. 

Starting Salaries 

Practice type and geographic location influence 

the starting salaries of law graduates. 

Compensation also varies widely between the 

public and private sectors and among employers 

within each sector of the marketplace. Other 

factors that may influence initial earnings for 

recent graduates are law school academic 

achievements and co-curricular activities. 

For members of the Class of 2005 who provided 

salary information, salaries ranged from 

$140,000 for large firm practice to $30,000 

for public interest law employment. The 

average salary reported by those in private 

practice law firm positions was $69,000. 

The average salary reported by those in 

public sector government jobs was $46,800, 

while the average salary reported by those in 

private sector jobs was $64,300. 

The average starting salary for all 

employment types was $56,300. 

Salaries vary widely among geographic 

locations, with larger metropolitan areas 

typically offering higher starting salaries. 

The chart on the right displays the geographic 

distribution of the survey respondents from 

the Class of 2005. 

“SU Law provided me with the tools I needed to succeed as an attorney. I learned how to think critically through the hands-on 

training in the classroom. I was part of a team in my memberships on moot court and the journals. I was a leader through my 

roles as moot court coach for the Women’s Law Caucus and APALSA, class senator, and founder of the South Asian Law Students 

Association. But most importantly, I experienced the value of being a part of a community through my friendships with classmates, 

professors, administrative staff, and my mentor through the Alumni Association. In essence, SU Law laid the foundation for an amazing 

career in the legal field. Currently, I am a member of the health law practice at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where I represent 

health care facilities in civil and criminal investigations of alleged violations of the Medicare Anti-Kickback Law, the Stark Law, and 

the False Claims Act. I also advise health care facilities on regulatory and compliance matters involving Medicare fraud and abuse 

laws and reimbursement regulations. My regulatory and litigation practices allow me to pursue two aspects of the law: counselor as 

well as advocate.” 

Ritu Singh L’00 

Associate 

Jones Day, Washington, D.C. 

Type of Practice 

Private Practice 43% 

Business and Industry 19% 

Government Agency 16% 

Judicial Clerkship 13% 

Public Interest 5% 

Other 4% 

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 

Geographic Distribution 

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 

New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) 

6% 

Middle Atlantic (*NY, NJ, PA) 

Midwest (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD) 

6% 

South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) 

18% 

South (AL, KY, TN, AR, MS, LA, OK, TX) 

2% 

Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY) 

3% 

Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA) 

5% 

International 

3% 

*Graduates employed in NYS working in NYC: 28% 

57% 

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selected 

employers 

College of Law graduates have 

many employment options— 

from large private law firms 

to government agencies to 

Fortune 500 companies. The 

following is a sampling of 

employers who have sought or 

hired Syracuse University 

College of Law graduates. 

“As a Special Agent with the United States 

Secret Service, I draw upon the legal education 

I obtained at the Syracuse University College 

of Law on a daily basis. The legal intricacies of 

conducting criminal investigations and providing 

physical protection to the President of the United 

States are complex. SU not only provided me 

with an exceptional education, it gave me the 

opportunity to tailor my law degree towards 

specific career interests.” 

Christopher C. McCauley L’02 J.D./M.A. 

Special Agent 

United States Secret Service

Alaska 

Palmer 

Alaska Superior Court 

Arizona 

Mesa 

Schmeiser Olsen & Watts 

Phoenix 

Jones, Skelton & Hochuli 

O’Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, 

Killingsworth & Beshears 

Raven, Kirschner & Norell 

Riley, Carlock & Applewhite 

Siegal, Bellovin & Karnas 

Snell & Wilmer 

Stender & Larkin 

Steptoe & Johnson 

Scottsdale 

Bennett, Burke & Carmichael 

Klimow & Associates 

Tucson 

Raven Kirschner & Norell 

Siegal Bellovin & Karnas 

California 

Irvine 

Ayco Company 

Los Angeles 

Christensen, White, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, 

Glaser & Shapiro, LLP 

Condon & Forsyth 

Gilbert & Sackman 

Internal Revenue Service 

Levy, Stern & Ford 

Littler Mendelson 

Los Angeles Superior Court 

Monroe & Shapiro 

O’Melveny & Myers 

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker 

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold 

Newport Beach 

Gordon & Rees 

Knobb, Martens, Olson & Bear 

Riverside 

Reid & Hellyer 

Sacramento 

Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehart 

San Diego 

Chapin, Fleming & Winet 

Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum 

Cruse & Hough 

Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye 

Hecht, Solbert, Robinson & Goldberg 

Latham & Watkins 

Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos 

Naval Legal Services Office 

State Attorney’s Office 

San Francisco 

Gordon & Rees 

Limbach & Limbach 

Sarrail, Lynch & Hall 

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold 

Shook, Hardy & Bacon 

Steinhart & Falconer 

Colorado 

Boulder 

Caplan & Earnest 

Gerald C. Sloat, P.C. 

Lamm, Freeman, Butler, L.L.C. 

Moses, Wittemyer et al 

Denver 

Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber & Madden 

Colorado Court of Appeals 

Hall & Evans 

Holme, Roberts & Owen 

Minor & Brown 

Office of Federal Public Defender 

Office of the Attorney General 

Parcel, Mauro, Hultin & Spanstra 

Patton Boggs 

Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons 

Sheridan Ross 


University of Denver College of Law 

Walker & Associates 

Connecticut 

Cheshire 

Nuzzo & Roberts 

Greenwich 

Bentley, Mosher & Babson 

Ivey Barnum & O’Mara, LLC 

Groton 

O’Brien, Shafner, Stuart & Kelly 

Hartford 

Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP 

Cooney, Scully & Dowling 

Day, Berry & Howard 

Dechert LLP 

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 

Halloran & Sage, LLP 

Hartford Superior Court 

Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney 

Office of the Governor of Connecticut 


Pepe & Hazard 

Reid & Reige 

Robinson & Cole 

Shipman & Goodwin 

Sullivan, Campine & Connon 

Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn 

United Technologies Corporation 

Updike, Kelly & Spellacy 

New Haven 

Wiggin & Dana 

Stamford 

Benedict & Depuy 

Curtis, Brinckerhoff & Barrett 

Cummings & Lockwood 

Deloitte & Touche 

Kelley, Drye & Warren 

Ryan, Ryan, Johnson, Clear & Deluca 

Shipman & Goodwin 

Waterbury 

Carmody & Torrance LLP 

Moynihan, Reskin, Mascolo & Minella 

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Delaware 

Georgetown 

Delaware Department of Justice 

Wilmington 

Potter Anderson & Corroon 

Richards Layton & Finger 

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 

District of Columbia 

Washington 

Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn 

Arnold & Porter 

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll 

Blooston, Mordkofsky, Jackson & Dickens 

Booz Allen & Hamilton 

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 

Central Intelligence Agency 

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton 

Clifford Chance 

Cohn & Marks 

Comptroller of the Currency 

Covington & Burling 

Crowell & Moring 

Dechert 

Dickstein Shapiro 

Dorsey & Whitney 

Dow, Lohnes & Albertson 

Electronic Data Systems 

Executive Office of the President, 

Office of Management and Budget 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Federal Communications Commission 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

Federal Election Commission 

Federal Trade Commission 

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, 

Garrett & Dunner 

Free Congress Foundation 

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 

Fulbright & Jaworski 

Graham & James 

Howrey LLP 


Jackson Kelly PLLC 

Jones Day 

The Lewis Law Firm 

Liniak, Berenato, Longacre & White 

Lyon & Lyon 

Mayer, Brown & Platt 

McKenna, Long & Aldridge 

Morgan Lewis 


Morrison & Foerster 

Muldoon, Murphy & Aggugia 

National Labor Relations Board 

Overseas Private Investment Corporation 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman 

Proskauer Rose 

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 

Steptoe & Johnson 

Stewart & Stewart 

Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman 

Tucker, Flyer 

U.S. Department of the Air Force JAG Corps 

U.S. Department of the Army JAG Corps 

U.S. Department of Commerce 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security 

U.S. Department of Housing 

and Urban Development 

U.S. Department of the Interior 

U.S. Department of Justice 

U.S. Department of Labor 

U.S. Department of the Navy JAG Corps 

U.S. Department of State 

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

U.S. General Accounting Office 

U.S. Marine Corps SJA 

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission 

U.S. Sentencing Commission 

U.S. Tax Court 

Van Ness Feldman 

White & Case 

Wiley, Rein & Fielding 

Willkie, Farr & Gallagher 

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 

Zuckerman & Spaeder 

Florida 

Bartow 

10th Circuit Public Defender’s Office 

Boca Raton 

Anderson St. Denis & Glenn, PA 

Broad and Cassel 

Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear 

Hunt, Cook, Riggs, Mehr & Miller, PA 

Fort Lauderdale 

Holland & Knight 

Hollywood 

Conroy, Simberg & Ganon 

Jacksonville 

Draughon 

Melbourne 

Gray, Harris & Robinson 

Miami 

Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson 

Baker & McKenzie 

Brumer & Kaufman 

Cole, Scott & Kissane 

Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott 

Gunster, Yoakley, Valdes-Fauli & Stewart 

Katz, Barron, Squitero & Faust 

Lott & Friedland 

Muller, Mintz, Kornreich, Caldwell, Casey, 

Crosland & Bramnick 

Schmachtenberg & Associates 

Steel, Hector & Davis 

Taylor, Brion, Buker & Greene 

Wampler, Buchanan & Breen 

Weil, Gotshal & Manges 

Tampa 

Gallagher & Howard 

West Palm Beach 

Palm Beach Public Defender 

Georgia 

Atlanta 

Altman, Kritzer & Levick 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Fisher & Phillips 

Ford & Harrison 

Georgia Legal Services Program 

Hunton & Williams 

Jones Day 

King & Spalding 

Morris, Manning & Martin 

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, LLP 

Proctor & Chambers 

Thomas, Means, Gillis, Devlin, Robinson & Seay 

Troutman Sanders 

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit 

Weinstock & Scavo, PC

Hawaii 

Honolulu 

Chun, Chipchase, Takayama 

Chun, Kerr, Dodd, Beaman & Wong 

Lee, Kim & Wong 

Oliver, Lau, Lawhn, Ogawa & Nakamura 

Tokildson, Katz, Jossem, Fonseca, 

Jaffe, Moore & Hetherington 

Verner, Liipfert & Bernhard 

Idaho 

Boise 

Ada County District Attorney's Office 

Illinois 

Chicago 

Allegretti & Witcoff 

Aronberg, Goldgehn, Davis & Garmisa 

Bell, Boyd & Lloyd 

Brand & Novak 

Chicago Mercantile Exchange 

Cohn & Russell 

Cook County State Attorney’s Office 

PricewaterhouseCoopers 

Crowley, Barrett, Karuba 


Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers 

Gessler, Hughes & Sucol, Ltd. 

Glick & Simon 

Haskell & Perrin 

Jones Day 

Kelley, Drye & Warren 

Larson & Nierling 

Leahy, Eisenberg & Fraenkel 

Mayer, Brown & Platt 

Price, Hunney, Lughname & Brittare 

Rooks, Pitts & Poust 

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal 

Willian, Brinks, Olds, Hofer, Gilson & Lione 

Kentucky 

Frankfort 

Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy 

Louisiana 

New Orleans 

Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & 

Hutchinson 

Maine 

Auburn 

Skelton, Taintor & Abbott 

Augusta 

Farris, Foley & Dick, PA 

Natural Resources Council of Maine 


Bangor 

Rudman & Winchell 

Bath 

Conley, Haley & O’Neil 

Portland 

Bennett & Associates 

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson 

Drummond & Drummond 

Friedman & Babcock 

Maine Supreme Court 

Pretti, Flaherty, Belivau & Pachios 

Verril & Dana 

Maryland 

Baltimore 

Ashcraft & Gerel 

Hogan & Hartson 

Maryland Circuit Court 

Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver 

Smith, Somerville & Case 

Massachusetts 

Boston 

Anderson Adler Cohen & Harvey 

Bingham McCutchen, LLP 

Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, LLP 

Dike, Bronstein, Roberts & Cushman 


Ernst & Young 

Goodwin, Procter & Hoar 

Investors Bank & Trust 

Morrison Mahoney 

Nixon Peabody 

Nutter, McClennen & Fish 

Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster 

Ropes & Gray 

Suffolk County DA’s Office 

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 

Quincy 

Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane 

Worcester 

Bowditch & Dewey 

Seder and Chandler 

Michigan 

Dearborn 

Ford Motor Company 

Detroit 

Dickinson Wright 

Dykema Gossett 

General Motors Corporation Legal Staff 

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn 

Kerr, Russell and Weber 

Lewis & Munday, A Professional Corporation 

UAW Legal Services Plan 

Southfield 

Sommer, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz 

Traverse City 

Smith & Johnson 

Troy 

Harness, Dickey & Pierce 

Minnesota 

Minneapolis 

Bowman and Brooke, LLP 

Churchill Capital, Inc. 

Dorsey & Whitney, LLP 

Faegre & Benson 

Fredrikson & Byron, PA 

Leonard, Street & Deinard 

Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stegvers 

Merchant & Gould 

Merchant, Gould, Smith & Edell 


Saint Paul 

Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly 

Missouri 

Kansas City 

Polsinelli, White, Vardeman & Shalton 

St. Louis 

Senniger, Powers, Leavitt and Roedel 

Thompson Coburn 

Nebraska 

Lincoln 

University of Nebraska 

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Nevada 

Las Vegas 

Alverson Taylor Mortensen and Sanders 

Clark County District Attorney 

Conway & Connolly 

Deaner, Deaner, Scann, Curtas & Malan 

Gordon & Silver, LTD 

Hunterton & Associates 

Jones, Jones, Close & Brown 

Rawlings, Olson, Cannon, Gormley & 

Desruisseaux 

Schreck, Bregnone & Godfrey 


New Hampshire 

Laconia 

Normandin, Cheney & O’Neil 

Littleton 

New Hampshire Public Defender 

Manchester 

Devine, Millimet & Branch 

McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton 

Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green 

Wiggins & Nourie 

New Jersey 

Annandale 

Exxon Mobil Corporation 

Hackensack 

Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard 

Deutsch, Resnick & Green 

Jersey City 

New Jersey Superior Court 

Morristown 

Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, LLP 

Graham, Curtin & Sheridan 

Hersh, Ramsey & Berman 

McElroy, Deutsch and Mulvaney 

Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch 

Porzio, Bromberg & Newman 

Rand, Algeier, Tosti & Woodruff 

Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti 

Schenck, Price, Smith & King 


Newark 

Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey 

Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & 

Vecchione 

Hollander, Strauss & Mastropietro 

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP 

Levy, Ehrlich & Petriello 

McCarter & English 

New Jersey Attorney General’s Office 

New Jersey Superior Court 

New Jersey Supreme Court 

Saiber Schlesinger Satz & Goldstein 

Stryker, Tams & Dill 

Tomkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry 

United States Attorney’s Office 

Roseland 

Brach, Eichler, Rosenberg, Silver, Bernstein, 

Hammer & Gladstone 

Ravin, Sarasohn, Cook, Baumgarten, Fisch & 

Rosen 

Sellar & Richardson, PC 

Wolff & Samson 

Springfield 

McDonough, Korn and Eichhorn 

Woodbridge 

Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer 

New Mexico 

Las Cruces 

Holt & Babington 

Santa Fe 

Scheuer, Yost, Patterson, PA 

New York 

Albany 

Ayco Company 

Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & 

Laird 

Girvin & Ferlazzo 

Hinman Straub 

Nolan & Heller 

NYS Supreme Court Appellate Division 3rd 

Department 

NYS Court of Appeals 

Shanley, Sweeney, Reilly & Allen 

Armonk 

IBM Law Department 

Binghamton 

Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP 

Hinman, Howard & Kattell 

Levene, Gouldin & Thompson 

O’Connor, Gacioch, Pope & Tait 

Bronx 

Bronx County DA’s Office 

Brooklyn 

Kings County DA’s Office 

Supreme Court Appellate Division 2nd Dept. 

Buffalo 

Chamberlain, D’Amanda, Oppenheimer & 

Greenfield 

Damon & Morey 

Hamberger & Weiss 

Hodgson & Russ 

Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel 

National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation 


Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber 

Saperston & Day 

Central Islip 


Elmira 

Chemung County Attorney’s Office 

Garden City 

Weinstein, Kaplan & Cohen 

Ithaca 

Shaw Law Firm 

Kew Gardens 

Queens County DA’s Office 

Mineola 

Nassau County DA’s Office 

Latham 

Gordon, Siegel, Mastro, Mullaney, Gordon 

& Galvin 

Melville 

Lamb & Barnosky

New York (continued) 

New York City 

Ann Israel & Associates 

Aronauer, Goldfarb, Sills & Re 

Beveridge & Diamond 

Buchanon Ingersoll 

Burlingham Underwood 

Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft 

Cahill Gordon & Reindel 

Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 

Clifford Chance 

Cravath, Swaine & Moore 

D’Amato & Lynch 

Darby & Darby 

Davis Polk & Wardwell 


Dewey Ballantine 


Entwistle & Capucci 

Epstein, Becker & Green 

Ernst & Young 


Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy 

Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & 

Vecchione 

Holland & Knight 

Kaye Scholer, LLP 

Kelley Drye & Warren 

KPMG 

Latham & Watkins 

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae 

Legal Aid Society 

Martin Clearwater & Bell 

McCarthy, Fingar, Donovan, Drazen & Smith 

Meister, Seelig & Fein 

Mendes & Mount 

Moses & Singer 

New York City Administration for Children’s 

Services 

New York City Dept. of Law 

New York City Human Resources 


New York County DA’s Office 

New York State Insurance Fund 

New York State Supreme Court, 

Commercial Division 

Nixon Peabody 

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 

Postner & Rubin 


Proskauer Rose 

Renzulli & Rutherford 

Rosen & Livingston 

Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman 

Schulte Roth & Zabel 

Shearman & Sterling 

Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett 

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 

Smith Mazure Director Wilkins Young 

Yagerman & Tarallo 

Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld LLP 

Standard & Poors 

Sullivan & Cromwell 

SunAmerica 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 


White & Case 

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker 

Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf 

Wisehart & Koch 

Oneida 

Oneida Indian Nation 

Queens 

Queens County DA’s Office 

Riverhead 


Rochester 

Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson 

Chamberlain D’Amanda Oppenheimer 

& Greenfield 

Eastman Kodak Company 

Ernstrom & Dreste 

Forsyth, Howe, O’Dwyer, Kalb & Murphy 

Goldman, Newman, Shinder and Franklin 

Harris Beach & Wilcox 

Harter, Secrest & Emery 

Lacy, Katzen, Ryen & Mittleman 

NYS Supreme Court Appellate Division, 

4th Department 

Nixon Peabody 

Thompson West 

Underberg & Kessler 

U.S. District Court, WDNY 

Verizon Communications 

Woods Oviatt Gilman 

Saratoga Springs 

Lemery MacKrell Greisler 


Alderman & Alderman 

American Tower Corporation 

Baldwin & Sutphen 

Blitman & King 

Bond, Schoeneck & King 

Burr & Brown 

Center for Community Alternatives 

Cherundolo, Bottar & Leone 

Costello Cooney & Fearon 

Devorsetz Stinziano Gilberti Heintz & Smith 

Green & Seifter 

Hancock & Estabrook 

Hiscock & Barclay 

Hiscock Legal Aid Society 

Jon B. Felice & Associates 

Legal Services of Central New York 

Mackenzie Hughes 

Martin Ganotis Brown Mould & Currie 

McDermott, Doerr & Britt 

Melvin & Melvin 

Menter Rudin & Trivelpiece 

National Grid 

O’Hara & O’Connell 

Onondaga County DA’s Office 

Onondaga County Dept. of Law 

Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Lawler 

& Burstein, P.C. 

Setright & Longstreet 

Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet 

Sugarman Law Firm 

UAW - Chrysler/General Motors 

U.S. Attorney’s Office 

U.S. District Court, NDNY 

Wolff, Goodrich & Goldman 

Utica 

Calli, Calli & Cully 

Kowalczyk, Tolles, Deery & Johnston 

Utica National Insurance Group 

Watertown 

Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, 

Maloney and Laird 

White Plains 

Baxter & Smith 

Kissel & Pesce 

Law Office of Joseph Senn, Jr. 

McCarthy, Fingar, Donovan, Drazen & Smith 

O’Connor, McGuinness, Conte, Doyle & Oleson 

Texaco Inc. Legal Dept. 

Westchester County District Attorney’s Office 

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North Carolina 

Charlotte 

Alston & Bird 

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 

Kilpatrick Stockton 

Rayburn, Moon & Smith 

Smith, Helms, Milluss & Moore 

Greensboro 

Elrod, Lawings & Sharpless 

Smith, Helms, Milluss & Moore 

Principal Financial Group 

Raleigh/Durham 

Citizen Action Group 

Duke University 

Maupin, Taylor & Ellis 

Winston-Salem 

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice 

North Dakota 

Bismark 

Zuger, Kirmis & Smith 

Ohio 

Cincinnati 

Cors & Bassett 

Hamilton County Prosecutors Office 

Helmer, Martins & Morgan 

Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss 

Procter & Gamble 

Thompson Hine 

University of Cincinnati College of Law 

Cleveland 

Baker & Hostetler 

Calfee, Halter & Griswold 

Jones Day 

McDonald Hopkins, LPA 


Thompson Hine 

Weston Hurd Fallon Paisley & Howley 

Columbus 

Baker & Hostetler 

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease 

Dayton 

Porter Wright Morris & Arthur 


Oregon 

Portland 

Bennett & Hartman 

Callahan & Shears, PC 

Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue 

Gosgrave, Vergeer & Kester, LLP 

Lane, Powell, Spears & Lubersky 

Seidl & Rizzo 

Tooze, Shenker, Duden & Cremer 

Salem 

Attorney General’s Office 

Department of Justice 

Willamette University 

Pennsylvania 

Allentown 

Lea and Lea 

Erie 

Shapira, Hutzelman, Berlin & May 

Harrisburg 

McNees, Wallace, & Nurick 

Pennsylvania State Education Association 

Philadelphia 

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll 

Blank Rome 

Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg 

Connolly, Epstein, Chicco Foxman Oxholm & 

Ewing 

Cozen O’Connor 

Daller Greenberg & Dietrich 

Dechert 

Dilworth Paxson 

Drinker Biddle 

Fox, Rothschild, O’Brien & Frankel 

Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers 

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 

Morgan Lewis 

Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel 

Philadelphia District Attorney 

Post & Schell 

Saul Ewing 

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis 

Segal, Wolf, Berk, Gaines & Liss 

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 

Temple University School of Law 


U.S. Court of Appeals 

U.S. Department of Justice 

U.S. Veterans Administration 

Weber Goldstein Greenberg & Gallagher 

White and Williams 

Pittsburgh 

Brown & Levicoff 

Buchanan Ingersoll 

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham 

Klett, Lieber, Rooney & Schorling 

Margolis Edelstein 

Meyer, Unkovic & Scott 

Nagel & Goldstein 

Strassburger, McKenna, Gutnick & Potter 

Thorp Reed & Armstrong 

Reading 

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas 

Rhode Island 

Providence 

Adler Pollock & Sheehan 

Blish & Cavanagh 

Calenda & Iacoi 

Decof & Decof 


Gunning & LaFazia, Inc. 

Higgins, Cavanagh & Cooney 

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder 

Lovett Schefrin Harnett 

Lynch & Greenfield 

Morrison, Mahoney & Miller 

Partridge Snow & Hahn 

Powers, Kinder & Keeney 

Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental 

Management 

Rice Dolan & Kershaw 

Winograd, Shine & Zacks 

Tennessee 

Chattanooga 

Wooden, Fulton & Scarborough 

Texas 

Austin 

Baker Botts LLP 

Dallas 

Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal 

Gardere & Wynne, LLP 

Haynes & Boone 

Jackson Walker 

Jones Day 

Meadows, Owens, Collier, Reed, Cousins & Blau 

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr 

Sayles Lidji & Werbner 

Texas Instruments

Houston 

American Tower Corporation 

Bisk & Fitch 

Branch Law Firm 

Exxon Mobil Corporation 

Harris County DA’s Office 

Howrey LLP 

U.S. Bankruptcy Court 

Vinson & Elkins 


Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C. 

Woodard, Hall & Primm 

San Antonio 

Clemens & Spencer 

Cox & Smith Inc. 

Crofts, Callaway & Jefferson 


Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate 

Utah 

Salt Lake City 


Snow, Christensen & Martineau 

Virginia 

Alexandria 

Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis 

Oliff & Berridge 

SOS Children’s Villages 

The American Bankruptcy Institute 

UPS Worldwide Logistics Inc 


Arlington 

BTI Americas Inc. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association 

Gannett CO Inc. Legal Department 

Levine & Yates 

Longacre & White 

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland & Maier 

Office of the Secretary of Defense 

Phillip Morris, Inc. 

Shapiro & Burson 

U.S. Patent & Trade Office 

McLean 

Troutman Sanders 

Richmond 

Crews & Hancock 

Hazel & Thomas 

Hunton & Williams 

Kerns, Kastenbaum & Reinhardt 

Phillip Morris, Inc. 


U.S. Court of Appeals 

Washington 

Seattle 


Garvey, Schubert & Barer 

King County Prosecutor’s Office 

Tacoma 

Washington State Court of Appeals 

Wisconsin 

Milwaukee 

Bass & Moglowsky 

Foley & Lardner 

Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan, LLP 

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek 

International Employers 

London, England 

O’Melveny & Meyers 

Shearman & Sterling 

Sullivan & Cromwell 

France 

Fodor, Masson, Piernn, Swartz & Beaucort 

Zurich, Switzerland 

Baker & MacKenzie 

Amsterdam, Netherlands 

International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation 

The Hague 

The U.N. International Tribunal 

Jerusalem, Israel 

Kliminst & Sher 

Hong Kong/Chiyoda-Ku, China 

Lovell, White & Durrant 

Braun, Moriay, Hoashi & Kubota 

Kyoto, Japan 

Procter & Gamble, International 

Tokyo, Japan 

NEC Software 

Bangkok, Thailand 

Deacons, Graham & James 

Seoul, Korea 

Bae, Kim & Lee 

Kim & Chang 

Kim, Shin & Yu 

“My education from Syracuse University College of Law, combined 

with the strong network of contacts I developed while attending, 

are two key factors contributing to my continued success in this 

field. I frequently call upon my growing network of colleagues 

to assist me in managing Starbucks Coffee Company’s litigation 

throughout North America.” 

Zabrina Jenkins L’00 

Corporate Counsel 

Starbucks Corporate Offi ce 

Seattle, WA 

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the college of law, 

the university, the city 


Syracuse is located in the center 

of New York State, approximately 

260 miles northwest of New York 

City. In the midst of a metropolitan 

area within Central New York with 

a population of 500,000, the College 

of Law is located on Syracuse 

University’s 200-acre Main Campus. 

It commands a panoramic view 

of downtown Syracuse and the 

Onondaga Valley.

The College of Law Complex 

Students find the law complex conveniently 

self-contained. Designed with the student in 

mind, the law complex features comfortable 

classrooms with wireless access for students’ 

laptops and multimedia teaching stations with 

computer platforms, document cameras, and 

VCRs. The classrooms are intimate, designed to 

allow lively discussion and interaction. 

Students have room to study and relax. The 

facility houses a dining room and cafe; a comfortable 

student lounge with a TV, microwave, 

and vending machines; and student lockers 

and mailboxes. 

The building features two moot courtrooms. 

The larger courtroom, equipped with high-tech 

videotaping capabilities, provides the setting 

for mock trials and moot court competitions. 

The caliber of this courtroom is so high that 

judges may hold actual hearings there. 

MacNaughton Hall and White Hall are joined 

by an open-air courtyard and connected by 

hallways on the first and second floors. White 

Hall houses the deans’, admissions, financial 

aid, career services, student life, student 

administration and registrar, and advancement 

suites; faculty offices and two medium-sized 

classrooms. Offices for the Clinical Legal 

Education Program, the Technology 

Commercialization Law Program, the NYS 

Science Technology and Law Center, and the 

Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism 

are housed in MacNaughton Hall. 

Grant Auditorium accommodates large 

gatherings such as public lectures. Nearby 

parking, with a walkway to the law complex, 

allows easy access to the buildings. 

The H. Douglas Barclay Law Library 

The mission of the H. Douglas Barclay Law 

Library is to promote and to serve the educational 

and research needs of the College of 

Law community and to advance the development 

of legal scholarship and law librarianship. 

The Law Library creates, develops, and 

supports appropriate services, resources, 

and facilities; promotes the dissemination of 

information and creation of knowledge; and 

serves as a gateway to information sources 

beyond the scope of its collections. 

The Law Library’s four spacious levels 

house more than 450,000 volumes in print 

and microform; more than 3,300 serials; and 

extensive audio, video, and CD-ROM holdings—all 

accessible thought the Universitywide 

online library catalog. The Law Library 

adds approximately 2,500 new titles to 

its catalog each year, including a growing 

number of licensed electronic databases. The 

Law Library’s collection is continually being 

expanded and updated through access to 

resources on its web site. 

The Rosen Reading Room offers an elegant 

and comfortable study area with easy access 

to adjacent open reserves room. The circulation 

and reference desks offer conveniently 

located services and research support in close 

proximity to the Electronic Research Center. 

The Electronic Research Center features 18 

workstations for integrated research across 

electronic formats. The Law Library offers 

full-text electronic collection, web-based 

indexes, and e-mail access. The Law Library’s 

service points are significantly expanded 

through the Law Library web site, where 

electronic research sources, library information, 

and services request forms are available 

24 hours a day. 

All of the College of Law’s computer clusters 

and classroom teaching stations offer access 

to the Law Library’s online research services. 

These resources are also available to students 

via the Internet. In addition to the College of 

Law’s 24-hour White Computer Cluster, the 

Law Library has two computer clusters for 

convenience of students who wish to integrate 

print and electronic research. Wireless connectivity 

for laptops is available throughout all 

areas of the Law Library. 

The Law Library works in partnership 

with faculty to build print and electronic 

collections in support of the College’s centers 

and institute. Law librarians work closely with 

faculty in the classroom to offer instruction 

in topic-specific legal research. In addition to 

the standard primary and secondary tools of 

American legal research, the Law Library has 

important collections in the areas of legal education, 

legal history, trial practice skills, New 

York State Law, tax law and policy, and law, 

technology, and management. The Law Library 

is a congressionally designated depository for 

U.S. government documents. 

The Barclay Law Library is named in honor 

of H. Douglas Barclay, a member of the Class 

of 1961, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of 

El Salvador, former New York State Senator, 

distinguished member of the bar, and former 

chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. 

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Donald T. MacNaughton L’68 recently 

retired as a partner at White and Case, L.L.P., 

in New York City, where he concentrated on 

international arbitration and international 

litigation. In addition to his work in the 

New York offi ce, he practiced in the fi rm’s 

Washington, D.C., offi ce in the mid-’70s and 

in its Hong Kong offi ce from 1984 to 1989. 

“My legal training at the College of Law 

was first class. I came to a major Wall 

Street law firm in the late ‘60s at a time 

when most of the first-year lawyers at 

such firms came from 

well-known Ivy League law schools. I 

found that at Syracuse, I had received 

a better and more rigorous education 

in New York law than these other 

schools provided. 

“My class was a particularly strong 

one. The competition among us—while 

it was friendly competition—was also 

excellent preparation for living and 

working in the real world. 

“We have a number of SU alumni 

at White and Case and interview at 

Syracuse every year. We think it is a 

law school worthy of national stature. 

The SU graduates hired into White 

and Case are well prepared and 

very reliable. 

“White and Case is now an 

international law firm with more offices 

outside of the United States than inside 

and more lawyers practicing outside 

of the country than in the U.S. Almost 

all the litigation I’ve done has involved 

some international ramifications; 

either the events occurred overseas or 

some of the parties involved are from 

overseas. I believe that Syracuse’s 

curriculum offers excellent preparation 

for students who are interested in 

international work.” 


The University Campus 

The University, situated on a hill in the 

southeast section of the city and overlooking 

downtown Syracuse and the surrounding 

countryside, is a sprawling 900-acre campus 

of grassy lawns, tall trees, and wide walkways. 

The buildings surrounding the University’s 

central quadrangle are a blend of contemporary 

architecture and landmark historical 

structures—a blend that reflects Syracuse’s 

rich heritage and the University’s commitment 

to providing the most modern technology and 

research facilities available. 

The University’s Main Campus houses 170 

academic buildings, libraries, laboratories, 

and studios, providing the academic resources 

and facilities of a major research university. 

The Schine Student Center houses student 

organization offices, dining facilities, a large 

auditorium, and the main branch of the 

Syracuse University Bookstore. 

Hendricks Chapel is the focal point for all religious 

activities on campus. It offers counseling, 

study, and fellowship groups, as well as weekly 

religious services for many faiths. 

Surrounding the campus are residential 

neighborhoods and a small shopping center 

with a bookstore, shops, and restaurants 

catering to students. There are public schools 

nearby, and a day care center and nursery 

school are located on South Campus. 

University Resources 

Syracuse University is a private research 

university with more than 15,000 baccalaureate, 

master’s, professional, and doctoral 

students enrolled in 12 schools and colleges. 

SU students represent every state, almost 

100 countries, and varied economic and social 

backgrounds. SU is proud of its reputation as a 

comprehensive university that provides study 

opportunities in many professional areas as 

well as in traditional liberal arts fields. 

Law students have access to the University’s 

collection in the Ernest Stevenson Bird Library 

and its branches that include more than 2.8 

million volumes, 15,000 serials and periodicals, 

and 7 million micro forms, as well as audio and 

videocassettes, laser disks, CD-ROMs, and a 

variety of electronic resources and databases. 

Beyond the Classroom 

Even the most conscientious and studious law 

student occasionally requires the rejuvenation 

of enriching leisure activities. The array of 

activities available to law students extends 

beyond the College of Law. Students can 

attend any of the numerous lectures and discussions 

offered by the University, individual 

colleges, and student organizations. 

First-run movies and classics are shown on 

campus almost every night. At the Carrier 

Dome, music fans gather for concerts featuring 

internationally famous entertainers—while 

jazz, reggae, and other musical events are 

presented in the Goldstein Auditorium. 

The Carrier Dome, the only domed stadium 

in the Northeast and the largest facility of 

its kind on any college campus, is the home 

of SU’s Division I football, basketball, and 

lacrosse teams. The campus also hosts soccer, 

track, and women’s field hockey, and softball 

competitions. 

Law students can use campus swimming 

pools; courts for handball, tennis, basketball, 

and squash; dance studios; ice rink; and other 

recreational facilities.

The Syracuse Community 

The history of Syracuse dates to the origins 

of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee 

Confederacy, formed hundreds of years ago. 

This region also has a long and illustrious 

history in major American social movements, 

particularly abolitionism and women’s rights. 

Located in the center of New York State, the 

city is approximately 265 miles northwest 

of New York City. Major interstate highways 

provide direct access to Boston, Toronto, 

Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, 

Cleveland, and Washington, D.C., each less than 

a day’s drive away. Syracuse is also accessible 

by rail, bus, and air transportation. 

Syracuse offers a wealth of cultural activities. 

The Landmark Theater, Syracuse Stage, and 

Syracuse University Department of Drama 

present many excellent stage productions. The 

Onondaga County Civic Center is home for the 

Syracuse Symphony and a resident opera company; 

it also hosts touring Broadway shows. 

Syracuse’s historic Armory Square district 

features specialty shops, contemporary arts 

and crafts galleries, clubs and a popular nightlife. 

The OnCenter Convention Center and War 

Memorial complex offers major rock concerts, 

sports events, circus performances, ice shows, 

antiques sales, and international festivals. 

The Everson Museum of Art, designed by I.M. 

Pei, features traveling art exhibitions. Minor 

league sports in Syracuse include the Syracuse 

SkyChiefs baseball team and the Syracuse 

Crunch hockey team. The Milton J. Rubenstein 

Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) 

offers innovative, hands-on science exhibitions 

and one of the only IMAX movie theaters in the 

state outside of New York City. These downtown 

attractions are all a short walk or bus ride 

from campus. The city bus system connects all 

of Syracuse, including the University area. 

Syracuse is the seat of county government. 

The state capital, Albany, is only 140 miles 

away. Major corporations located in Syracuse 

include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carrier 

Corporation, Cooper Industries/Crouse-Hinds, 

and Lockheed Martin. More information 

on business and industry in Syracuse can 

be obtained by contacting the Syracuse 

Chamber of Commerce, 572 South Salina 

Street, Syracuse NY 13202, 315-470-1800. 

The Chamber of Commerce will send a relocation 

package of materials about the area 

on request. 

Syracuse is situated amid some of New York 

State’s most spectacular scenic areas. Nearby 

are Lake Ontario, the Finger Lakes, the 

Thousand Islands, and the Catskill and 

Adirondack mountains. Opportunities abound 

for swimming, boating, hiking, camping, 

downhill and cross-country skiing, fishing, 

golfing, ice skating, and horse-back riding. 

For additional information, visit syracuse.com. 

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Theodore A. McKee L’75, Commencement 

2000 speaker, is a federal appeals court 

judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for 

the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. He 

graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse 

University College of Law, where he 

was active with the Project for Prisoners’ 

Rights and worked as a research 

assistant to Professor Thomas Maroney 

who was nominated by President Clinton 

and confi rmed by the United States 

Senate to serve as U.S. Attorney for the 

Northern District of New York, a position 

he held until 1999 when he returned to 

the College of Law. 

“Upon graduating from Syracuse 

University College of Law, I worked 

as an associate at a Philadelphia law 

firm, and then became an assistant 

U.S. attorney for the Eastern District 

of Pennsylvania. From there I became 

the deputy city solicitor for the City 

of Philadelphia, and, subsequently, 

general counsel to the Philadelphia 

Parking Authority. 

“In 1984 I was sworn in as judge 

to the Court of Common Pleas for the 

First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. I 

spent 10 years in that position until my 

recent appointment. 

“I feel that my legal education at 

Syracuse University gave me a broadbased, 

well-rounded legal education 

that allowed me to succeed at a very 

competitive law firm and at each of 

the positions that I have since held.” 


Housing and Meals 

All academic buildings and many undergraduate 

residence halls are located on 

Syracuse University’s Main Campus. Additional 

on-campus housing is available about two 

miles from the law complex on the University’s 

South Campus. Free bus service is available 

between Main Campus and South Campus each 

weekday during the academic year and on a 

limited schedule during the summer months. 

Law students new to the Syracuse community 

find the convenience of on-campus living 

to be an attractive option. Campus housing 

allows students to live within minutes of all 

major campus facilities and among others 

who share similar academic and personal 

interests. Such advantages as fixed costs, 

security, and interaction with student peers 

make on-campus housing a popular choice 

among first-year law students. All housing 

is furnished and utilities are included. 

Students interested in campus housing 

can apply for an apartment in the Slocum 

Heights housing complex for graduate 

students and families. 

Law students living on or off campus may 

purchase meal plans and/or SUpercard food 

accounts. Meal plans enable students to choose 

from many dining halls located near the law 

complex. Students may use SUpercard food 

accounts at the cafe in the law complex or at 

any other cafe or snack bar on campus. 

For further information about on-campus 

graduate housing and meal plans, contact 

the South Campus Housing Office, 206 

Goldstein Student Center, Syracuse University, 

Syracuse NY 13244, 315-443-2567. 

Law students who opt for off-campus 

accommodations can access the Office of 

Off-Campus Student Services (OCSS). The 

OCSS is dedicated to providing services and 

programs to support University students living 

off campus. Students can obtain information 

about finding suitable housing or learn about 

the network of education and community services 

available to them. For more information 

about OCSS, stop by the office at 754 Ostrom 

Avenue, call 315-443-5489, or visit the web 

site: students.syr.edu/offcampusliving/. 

Orange Housing, a local company not affiliated 

with Syracuse University, maintains an 

off-campus housing directory listing of available 

apartments as well as notices from people 

looking for roommates to share apartments. 

For more information about Orange Housing, 

visit its web site: www.orangehousing.com.

University Health Services 

Syracuse University Health Services has a 

staff of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, 

and other health care professionals who 

provide primary services. These include, but 

are not limited to, routine exams and 

consultations, evaluation and treatment of 

acute illness or injury, immunization, and 

support for some chronic health problems. 

Referrals to nearby acute care facilities or 

specialists are made as needed. Office visits 

are provided by appointment. 

Medical Services 

315-443-9005 

It is strongly recommended that students 

have health insurance to assist with medical 

costs not covered by the health fee and 

services provided at other facilities and hospitals. 

The University offers a student health 

insurance plan that meets student needs. For 

more information, see 

www.haylor.com/student/ or call our insurance 

coordinator at 315-443-2668. 

SU Ambulance 

Call 711 from a campus phone, #SU (#78) 

from a cell phone, or 315-443-4299. 

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The College of Law encourages prospective 

students to visit the campus. A structured 

visitor program is offered each spring semester. 

The schedule of visitor program dates and 

times is mailed to admitted applicants. At 

other times of the year visits are scheduled on 

an individual basis through the Admissions and 

Financial Aid Office at 315-443-1962. 

Appointments to visit are encouraged; VIP 

parking can be arranged in most instances for 

visitors who call in advance of their arrival. 

Directions to the College of Law 

Syracuse is accessible from major metropolitan 

areas such as New York City, Boston, 

Washington, Philadelphia, Montreal, and 

Toronto. Each is an hour away by air and within 

a day’s drive. 

Visitors arriving in Syracuse by plane, bus, or 

train, will find taxi service convenient for the 

short drive to campus. 

Visitors driving to campus who take the New 

York State Thruway east or west to Syracuse 

should exit at Interstate 81 (Thruway Exit 36) 

and proceed south. 

Northbound and southbound travelers 

should also follow Interstate 81 to Syracuse. 

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From Interstate 81, exit at Adams Street (Exit 

18). Proceed up the Adams Street hill to the 

light at Irving Avenue. Make a right on Irving 

and proceed to the end. At the end of Irving 

Avenue, make a right on East Raynor Avenue 

and a quick right onto Stadium Place. Irving 

Garage is the first building on your right. VIP 

parking can be reserved for you in the Irving 

Garage on Stadium Place if you call and make 

arrangements with the Admissions Office in 

advance of your visit. 

The College of Law building is to the left 

of the Carrier Dome and is accessible via the 

walkway on level five of the Irving Garage. 

After crossing the walkway, bear left and enter 

the first door to the College of Law. 

The Admissions and Financial Aid Office is 

located in Suite 340 of White Hall. The office 

is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday during the academic year 

(including breaks), and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday during the 

summer.

Syracuse University Main Campus 

To Interstates 

81, 690, and 90 

(NYS Thruway). 

DIRECTIONS TO THE WAREHOUSE Syracuse University has extended its campus 

in the newly renovated Warehouse at 350 West Fayette Street, which currently 

houses the School of Architecture and several arts programs. Served by frequent 

free shuttle buses, campus visitors can reach the Warehouse by traveling WEST 

on HARRISON STREET, turning RIGHT onto SOUTH SALINA STREET and then 

taking a LEFT onto JEFFERSON STREET. Curve RIGHT at ARMORY circle, taking a 

RIGHT onto FRANKLIN STREET and then LEFT onto WEST FAYETTE STREET. The 

Warehouse is at 350 West Fayette Street. 

Alibrandi Catholic Center 6 

Archbold Gymnasium, Financial Aid 

Office, and Bursar Operations 48 

Biological Research Lab 60 

Bird Library 27 

Boland Hall 71 

Booth Hall 15 

Bowne Hall 52 

Brewster Hall 72 

Brockway Hall 73 

Butterfield House 31 

Carnegie Library 51 

Carrier Dome 49 

Center for Science and Technology 61 

Counseling Center 8 

Crouse College, College of Visual 

and Performing Arts 41 

Crouse-Hinds Hall, 

Office of Admissions 23 

Day Hall 67 

DellPlain Hall 30 

Eggers Hall 40 

113 Euclid Avenue 58 

Flanagan Gymnasium 50 

Flint Hall and Graham Dining Center 66 

Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center 28 

Hall of Languages, 

The College of Arts and Sciences 36 

Haven Hall and Dining Center 12 

H.B. Crouse Hall 37 

Health Center, 

Office of Residence Life 21 

From Downtown Syracuse, 

Interstates 81, 690, and 90 

(NYS Thruway). 

Hendricks Chapel 46 

Heroy Geology Laboratory 44 

Hinds Hall, 

School of Information Studies 35 

Holden Observatory 42 

Hoople Building 22 

Human Services and Health 

Professions, College of 57 

Huntington Hall, 

School of Education 20 

International Living Center 64 

Kimmel Hall and Food Court 16 

Lawrinson Hall 69 

Link Hall, College of Engineering 

and Computer Science 55 

Lowe Art Gallery 54 

Lyman Hall 32 

Machinery Hall 34 

Marion Hall 17 

Martin J. Whitman School 

of Management 10 

Maxwell School of Citizenship 

and Public Affairs 39 

Newhouse School 

of Public Communications 24 

Physics Building 47 

Place of Remembrance 25 

420 Ostrom Avenue 13 

426 Ostrom Avenue 14 

Sadler Hall and Dining Center 70 

Schine Student Center, 

SU Bookstore, 

Goldstein Auditorium 26 

To ComArt, Lampe Athletics Complex, 

South Campus, Skytop Offices, 

Bernice Wright Nursery School 

Shaffer Art Building 53 

Shaw Hall 62 

Sheraton University Hotel 

& Conference Center 18 

Sims Hall, Department of 

Public Safety 59 

Slocum Hall, 

School of Architecture 56 

Slutzker Center for 

International Services 19 

Smith Hall 33 

Steele Hall, Registrar 45 

SUNY Environmental Science 

and Forestry Campus 68 

Syracuse University Abroad 5 


Continuing Education 9 

Theaters, Department of Drama 

and Syracuse Stage 2 

Tolley Hall 38 

WAER 63 

Walnut Hall 11 

Warehouse 1 

Washington Arms 3 

Watson Hall 29 

White Hall, Winifred MacNaughton Hall, 

College of Law 43 

Winnick Hillel Center 4 

Women’s Building 65 

University Avenue Parking Garage 7 

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admission 


Individuals of demonstrated ability are 

invited to consider Syracuse University 

College of Law. Syracuse Law is proud 

of its talented and diverse student body. 

The class that entered in the fall of 2005 

represents 147 colleges and universities, 

37 states, and 8 foreign countries. Of the 

266 matriculated students, 47 percent 

were women and 21 percent were students 

of color. The College of Law recognizes the 

racial and gender imbalance that exists in 

the legal profession and the public interest 

in augmenting the number of lawyers 

from traditionally underrepresented groups 

in the profession. Therefore, the college 

encourages qualified members of these 

groups to apply for admission.

Criteria for Admission 

In some cases, academic performance at the 

undergraduate level and Law School Admission 

Test (LSAT) score(s) are reliable measures for 

predicting probable success in law study. Thus, 

after review by the Admissions Committee, 

some applicants are admitted primarily on the 

basis of an index combining undergraduate 

grades and LSAT test score(s). The source and 

formula for the index are described more fully 

on below. However, the admission decision 

process at Syracuse is more complex than 

merely rank-ordering applicants based on a 

numerical formula. The Admissions Committee 

analyzes undergraduate transcripts closely 

for significant progression in grades earned 

or unusually difficult coursework. In addition, 

the LSAT Writing Sample is reviewed to assess 

an applicant’s skill level, writing ability, and 

preparedness to start learning to “write like a 

lawyer.” The committee also considers subjective 

factors such as undergraduate institution 

attended, graduate study in another discipline, 

work experience, leadership ability, and 

community service. The committee considers 

an applicant’s level of motivation by reviewing 

personal experiences indicating determination, 

patience, and perseverance. Past success in 

overcoming personal hardship, including such 

burdens as poverty or disability, are viewed as 

important indicators of motivation. 

Applicants are encouraged to provide pertinent 

information in writing for the Admissions 

Committee to consider. A personal interview 

is not part of the admission decision-making 

process at Syracuse; however, we welcome 

and encourage prospective students to visit 

the College of Law. Refer to page 90 for more 

information. 

The Index 

The Law School Data Assembly Service 

(LSDAS) provides to law schools a report that 

displays an applicant’s LSAT score(s) and index 

number(s) and summarizes undergraduate 

performance in a standardized format. The 

index number(s) results from combining the 

LSAT score(s) with the applicant’s undergraduate 

grade point average (UGPA), using weights 

selected by the College of Law based on validity 

studies conducted for Syracuse by Law 

Services. Validity studies show the relationship 

between LSAT score(s), UGPA, and first-year 

law school grades at Syracuse. The index currently 

calculated by Law Services for Syracuse 

is derived by applying the following formula: 

Index = [0.220 x LSAT] + [2.489 x UGPA] - 

4.00. The index formula is subject to regular 

review and modification. 

Admission Requirements 

At the time of matriculation, all applicants for 

admission must either have been awarded a 

bachelor’s degree by an accredited college 

or university or have been offered admission 

through the combination program (described 

on page 8) after successfully completing three 

years of undergraduate study. Applicants 

must be at least 18 years of age at the time 

of matriculation. All students are admitted to 

begin study in the fall semester only. 

Personal Notebook 

Computer Requirement 

Syracuse University College of Law requires 

new students to purchase a personal computer 

for their own use. Having a personal notebook 

computer will enhance your classroom 

experience and allow you access to Air Orange, 

Syracuse University’s wireless network, which 

is available throughout most of the College of 

Law. 

Although Apple MacIntosh computers may 

work well for word processing and other 

needs, our exam administration software is 

not compatible with MACs. For that reason, 

we strongly encourage students to purchase a 

computer designed to run Microsoft Windows. 

If you have questions about what to buy or if 

you are wondering if the notebook you already 

own fulfills the requirement, please contact 

Information Technology Services via e-mail at 

lawhelp@law.syr.edu. 

The Syracuse University Bookstore sells 

notebook computers and offers significant 

savings on educationally priced software. Go to 

http://bookstore.syr.edu/computers/index.html for 

additional information or call 315-443-4089 or 

1-888-284-5908. 

Legal Education Opportunity Program 

Syracuse University is committed to a diverse 

student body as an integral part of its educational 

program and mission. Diversity within 

the law student body, generated through the 

selection of individuals having a range of experience 

and interests, greatly enhances each 

student’s legal education by encouraging a 

broad exchange of thoughts and ideas. 

Recognizing that numerical indicators are not 

always the best predictors of success in law 

school—even when considered in combination 

with other factors—the College of Law admits 

a limited number of students each year 

through the Legal Education Opportunity 

(LEO) Program. The program’s dual objectives 

are to recruit and admit persons who may 

have been deprived of equal education 

opportunities due to race, poverty, or other 

factors beyond their control and persons with 

unusual accomplishments, backgrounds, and 

experiences that suggest traditional admission 

criteria may be inadequate predictors of likely 

success in law study. 

Applicants are selected for admission through 

the LEO Program on the basis of grades, test 

score(s), and writing samples, but special 

weight is given to subjective factors pertinent 

to the program objectives. 

Students admitted through the LEO Program 

are required to complete an intensive threeweek 

summer program in legal methodology 

and legal writing before enrolling in the fall 

semester entering class. 

Explicit application for admission through 

the LEO Program is not required; all applicants 

not regularly admitted are considered for 

possible LEO admission. However, candidates 

who believe they may qualify for admission as 

a LEO candidate may include a separate statement 

along with their admission application 

explaining why they believe traditional quantitative 

admissions criteria may be inadequate 

predictors of success in their circumstances. 

LEO candidates who are recent undergraduate 

or graduate students are encouraged to submit 

three academic letters of recommendation. 

Detailed resumes and samples of written work 

may also be helpful in evaluating potential LEO 

students. 

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Transfer Applicants 

Law students in good academic standing who 

have completed at least one full year of study 

leading to a J.D. degree in schools accredited 

by the American Bar Association (ABA) or the 

Association of American Law Schools (AALS) 

may apply for admission to Syracuse as transfer 

students. Admission is competitive; the number 

of transfer applicants granted admission 

depends on available spaces in the second-year 

class. After transferring, students must earn 

at least 58 of the credits required for the J.D. 

degree at Syracuse University College of Law. 

Transfer applicants must apply for admission 

in the same manner as first-year applicants. In 

addition, transfer applicants must forward the 

following information: 

> written certification from the dean of the 

applicant’s law school stating that she or he 

is in good academic standing and is 

unconditionally eligible to return 

> an original LSDAS report from Law Services 

(We will also accept a file copy sent directly 

from the Office of the Registrar at the 

applicant’s law school.) 

> at least one letter of recommendation from 

a faculty member at the applicant’s law 

school; and 

> a current official transcript of all course 

work completed at the applicant’s law 

school. 


The deadline for transfer application is June 1, 

2007. Transfer applications are typically 

considered between July 10 and August 10 each 

year. Transfer applications will not be reviewed 

until all first-year grades have been received in 

official form. 

Visiting Applicants 

A limited number of students from other ABA- 

or AALS-approved law schools may be permitted 

to complete their third year as visiting students 

at Syracuse University College of Law. 

Students applying for visiting status must complete 

a current admission application. In addition, 

prospective visiting students must submit 

a letter from the dean of the applicant’s current 

law school verifying that the student is in good 

academic standing and that the law school will 

award the J.D. degree after the student completes 

all requirements. The letter must also 

state that the school approves of the student’s 

curriculum choice at SU, list any special course 

requirements that need to be completed, and 

provide the minimum grade acceptable for 

coursework completed at Syracuse. A current, 

official law school transcript is also required. 

The deadline for visiting student application is 

June 1, 2007. 

International Applicants 

Applicants who are not United States citizens 

must submit all materials required of 

domestic applicants, as well as the following 

documentation: 

>Educational Records: Syracuse University 

College of Law requires that your foreign 

transcripts be submitted through the LSAC JD 

Credential Assembly Service. If you completed 

any postsecondary work outside the U.S. 

(including its territories) or Canada, you must 

use this service for the evaluation of your 

foreign transcripts. One exception to this 

requirement is if you completed the foreign 

work through a study abroad, consortium, 

or exchange program sponsored by a U.S. 

or Canadian institution, and the work is clearly 

indicated as such on the home campus 

transcript. This service is included in the LSDAS 

subscription fee. A Foreign Credential Evaluation 

will be completed by the American Association 

of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers 

(AACRAO), which will be incorporated into your 

LSDAS report. 

>Test of English as a Foreign Language 

(TOEFL) and Test of Written English (TWE): 

Applicants whose native language is not English 

must submit a Test of English as a Foreign 

Language (TOEFL) score, no more than two 

years old, as evidence of language competency 

sufficient to undertake law study. The Test of 

Written English (TWE) is also required. The 

Educational Testing Service (ETS) must be 

contacted to request that TOEFL scores be sent 

directly to LSAC. LSAC’s TOEFL code for the JD 

Credential Assembly Service is 0058. Your score 

will be reported in the Foreign Credential 

Evaluation document that will be included in 

your LSDAS law school report.

To use the JD CAS, log in to your online account 

and follow the instructions for registering for 

the service. Be sure to print out a Transcript 

Request Form for each institution and send it 

promptly to them. More time is usually required 

to receive foreign transcripts. 

Questions about the JD Credential Assembly 

Service can be directed to LSAC at 

215-968-1001 or LSACINFO@LSAC.org. 

TOEFL and TWE scores will be waived for 

non-resident students who have completed a 

four-year undergraduate program or minimum 

of two years of graduate work in a U.S. college 

or university. 

> Proof of Financial Support: International 

applicants, including Canadian applicants, 

must submit proof of sufficient funding to 

cover the cost of attendance for at least one 

academic year’s expenses ($52,000). This 

proof is required before an appropriate visa 

can be issued to the student and is therefore 

required as part of the admission application. 

Acceptable proof for privately sponsored 

applicants is an original signed letter of support 

from the sponsor that includes the U.S. dollar 

amount of support and certified bank 

statements indicating funds sufficient to cover 

at least the student’s first-year expenses. For 

government-sponsored applicants, acceptable 

proof is an official or certified copy of the 

award letter that includes the U.S. dollar 

amount of the award per year and any special 

billing instructions. Photocopies are not 

acceptable. 

> Part C of the admission application: 

Complete Part C to comply with Immigration 

and Naturalization Services (I.N.S.) regulations. 

Joint Degree Program Admission 

Applicants who are interested in pursuing 

a joint degree program must apply and be 

admitted to both the College of Law and the 

other Syracuse University graduate school or 

college. Students admitted to the College of 

Law are not guaranteed acceptance into other 

graduate programs. Refer to page 43 for more 

information about joint degree opportunities. 

Joint degree students are required to 

complete their first year of study in the College 

of Law. Accordingly, most students apply for 

admission to joint degree programs during the 

first year of law school. However, applicants 

may apply for joint degree candidacy before 

beginning the first year of law study. 

Candidates for joint degree programs must 

obtain advance approval from the College of 

Law. Minimum academic requirements apply 

to joint degree program participation for law 

students. 

Admission Decision and Notification 

Complete application files are reviewed on 

a rolling basis between December and May. 

Applicants will be notified in writing, via U.S. 

mail, of their admission, rejection, or wait 

list decision as soon as the decision is made. 

Final decisions on wait-list applicants may 

not occur until well into the summer. 

Admission to Practice Law 

Successful completion of law study at an 

ABA-approved law school does not guarantee 

admission to the bar of the various states. 

Most states require applicants to take and 

pass a written bar examination in addition 

to meeting certain character and fitness 

requirements. The written examinations, as 

well as the other requirements, may differ 

considerably from state to state. Prospective 

law students are strongly encouraged to fully 

inform themselves of the admission requirements 

of those states in which they may have 

an interest in seeking state bar admission 

prior to matriculation in law school. 

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financing 

your legal 

education 


The cost of attending a professional 

graduate program represents 

a significant financial commitment. 

Applicants must fully understand 

the long-term financial obligation 

that may be associated with 

earning a professional degree and, 

consequently, develop a financial 

plan. 

Syracuse College of Law is 

committed to assisting students 

in financing their legal education 

through a comprehensive financial 

aid program. Awards are made 

from a variety of sources, including 

merit-based Chancellor’s and Dean’s 

scholarships; College of Law tuition 

grants; University fellowships; and 

from federal sources, including the 

work-study program and the Perkins 

and Stafford Loan programs. 

The College of Law operates its 

own Financial Aid Office, which is 

separate from the University’s 

Financial Aid Office. This allows for 

personal, individualized service to 

our students.

At Syracuse, approximately 80 percent of law 

students receive some form of institutional 

financial aid. Our financial aid program 

consists of both merit-based and need-based 

awards. An applicant’s financial need is determined 

using data from the Free Application 

for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) report, the 

College of Law Financial Aid application, and 

copies of student and parent signed federal tax 

returns and W2s. All applicants under 30 years 

of age, unless they have a dependent other 

than a spouse, are not considered for College 

of Law tuition grants unless their parents 

complete the parent section of the College of 

Law Financial Aid application. 

The financial aid application process is a 

separate process that should be undertaken 

simultaneously with the admissions application 

process. Prospective students should not wait for 

an admission decision to apply for financial aid. 

Students who plan to apply for financial aid 

should complete the required forms by the 

Priority Deadline: February 15, 2007. 

Instructions for completing the financial 

aid process are detailed on page 121 of this 

publication. Part-time students with demonstrated 

financial need may be considered for 

modest tuition grants. Part-time students are 

not eligible for scholarships, Perkins loans, or 

federal work-study awards. 

Scholarships 


Graduate Fellowships 

Syracuse University awards fellowships each 

year to selected graduate students—including 

law students—who exhibit exceptional academic 

promise. Awards consist of a full tuition 

scholarship plus a generous stipend. 

Full-time matriculated graduate students in 

all fields of study at the University are eligible 

to hold these fellowships. The College of Law 

considers applicants with outstanding records 

of academic achievement at the undergraduate 

and/or graduate level for these 

prestigious awards. 

Applicants who believe they may qualify for a 

university fellowship are urged to complete the 

application process for admission by January 31. 

Fellowship candidates who are recent undergraduate 

or graduate students are encouraged 

to provide academic letters of recommendation 

along with their admission application. Fellowship 

candidates who are not recent students should 

provide recommendation letters from persons 

familiar with their qualifications for the study 

of law. 

College of Law Scholarships 

The College of Law awards Chancellor’s and 

Dean’s scholarships to incoming first-year 

students to recognize their prior outstanding 

academic achievements and to incoming 

first-year students who demonstrate 

exceptional promise for law study. Scholarships 

are awarded without regard to financial need. 

Scholarships are renewable from year to 

year as long as the recipient remains in good 

academic standing and maintains a minimum 

grade point average. 

Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent 

residents and be enrolled full time to 

receive a Chancellor’s or Dean’s scholarship. 

Scholarships may be applied only toward 

tuition charges. 

Entering students who believe they may 

qualify for a scholarship are urged to complete 

the application process for admission by 

January 31. Scholarship candidates who are 

recent undergraduate or graduate students 

are encouraged to provide academic letters of 

recommendation along with their admission 

application. Transfer and visiting students are 

not eligible for these scholarships. 

Syracuse University College of Law’s loyal alumni and friends make possible by their contributions many of the tuition grants and scholarships awarded to 

law students. Students are automatically considered for these scholarships when they submit the College of Law Financial Aid Application and the FAFSA. 

These scholarships are awarded based on financial need, merit, or both. 

Adoption Law Scholarship 

Robert M. Anderson Scholarship 

Black Law Students’ Association Scholarship 

John and May Boland Scholarship 

Bond, Schoeneck, and King Scholarship 

Hon. Theodore and Erna Bowes Scholarship 

Dean Daan Braveman Scholarship 

Joseph Brecher Memorial Scholarship 

Helen and Leo Breed Scholarship 

Neal Brewster Scholarship Fund 

Helen and Irwin Brodsky Scholarship 

Oscar J. Brown Memorial Scholarship 

Leon E. and Inez C. Bushnell Scholarship 

Edward M. Byrne Scholarship 

Class of 1965 Scholarship 




Arthur L. Cohen Scholarship 

Jeffrey S. Cook and Alan M. Epstein Scholarship 

Irving S. Devorsetz Memorial Scholarship 

Robert E. and Carolyn Bareham Dineen 

Scholarship 

Charles J. Dittmar Memorial Scholarship 

Dorn-Sparrow Scholarship 

Harry A. Dunsmoor Scholarship 

William H. Emerson Scholarship Fund 

David G. Fellows Scholarship 

J. Gordon Flannery Law Scholarship 

James P. Fox Scholarship 

Gerry Foundation Scholarship 

Christopher G. Gillam Scholarship 

George and Leora Gray Memorial Scholarship 

Melaine Gray/Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP 

Scholarship 

Lionel O. Grossman Scholarship 

Anthony Grosso Scholarship 

Kerry Hanlon Scholarship 

Peter H. Heerwagen Scholarship 

Barbara Dowling Heintz and Henry H. Kirwin 

Scholarship 

Dana B. Hinman Scholarship 

Hiscock & Barclay Scholarship 

Hon. T. Blake Kennedy Law Scholarship 

Ralph E. Kharas Memorial Fund 

Knight Scholarship 

Geraldine Koch Scholarship 

Robert F. Koretz Scholarship 

Labor Law Scholarship 

Joseph O. Lampe Bar Award 

Lampe Public Service Award 

Arthur L. and Rose Lewis Scholarship 

Lombino Family Scholarship 

Edward Hillyer MacKenzie Scholarship 

Mackenzie Strickland Scholarship 

Charles L. Mancuso Scholarship 

George C. McCrillis Scholarship 

Herbert and Ruth Meyer Scholarship 

Dean Robert W. Miller Scholarship 

Robert W. Miller ’29 Memorial Scholarship 

Monroe County Bar Association Scholarship 

Judge C. Leonard O’Connor Scholarship 

William E. Pelton Scholarship 

Rose and Norman Pinsky Scholarship 

Herman A. Pomeranz Scholarship 

Judge Edmund Port Memorial Scholarship 

Gerald Resnick Memorial Scholarship 

Rochester Bar Association Fund 

J. Russell Rogerson Fund 

Bruce B. Roswig Memorial Scholarship 

Gregory S. Rubin Scholarship 

Judge Bertha Schwartz Memorial Scholarship 

Lt. John A. Shaffer Memorial Fund 

Maurice Shapiro Scholarship 

Ralph and Bessie Shulman Scholarship 

Sylvia and Joseph Swarthout Scholarship 

Ferdinand Tremiti Memorial Scholarship 

Jay and Martha Wason Scholarship 

Louis Waters Memorial Scholarship 

David Weiss Memorial Scholarship 

Moses J. Winkelstein Scholarship 

Alfred Wohl Memorial Scholarship 

Louis and Harriet Young Scholarship 

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Irving and Pola Zwirn Scholarship

“I have always been curious about 

government because there were many public 

policies that I didn’t understand as a child 

immigrant growing up in Houston, Texas. 

Getting degrees from the College of Law and 

the Maxwell School was the right decision 

for me. After graduating from Syracuse, I 

entered the Presidential Management Intern 

program and completed rotational assignments 

at the Office of Management and 

Budget, the Social Security Administration, 

and the Department of Defense. As a 

program analyst with the Internal Revenue 

Service, I now work on the taxpayer compliance 

burden of our nation’s $2 trillion tax 

system. Education opens doors.” 

Peter S. Lee, L‘01 

Program Analyst 




College of Law Tuition Grants 

The College of Law awards partial tuition 

grants to students who qualify based on their 

demonstrated financial need. Tuition grants are 

not automatically renewable; as with all needbased 

financial aid, students must reapply each 

year. Tuition grants may only be applied toward 

tuition charges. 

Federal Work-Study Program 

Federal work-study (FWS) funds are awarded 

to a limited number of students on the basis of 

demonstrated financial need. These awards 

provide compensation for part-time 

employment opportunities. FWS students may 

be employed at the College of Law as research 

assistants or library aides, in other University 

departments or offices, in government 

agencies, or in nonprofit organizations. 

Pay rates vary from minimum wage to 

approximately $14 per hour. The College of Law 

awards work-study funds to first-year students 

as well as returning students. 

Federal Perkins Loans 

Federal Perkins Loan funds are awarded to 

a limited number of students based on demonstrated 

financial need. The Federal Perkins 

program enables students to borrow a specified 

amount without interest until nine months after 

graduation or withdrawal from school. The 

interest rate is currently fixed at 5 percent. The 

repayment period may extend up to 10 years 

and may be postponed up to 3 years if students 

actively serve in the U.S. military, Peace Corps, 

VISTA, or similar national programs. Students 

may not borrow more than $30,000 in Perkins 

funds for all post-secondary education. The 

availability of these funds for law students 

depends on their financial need and the amount 

of Federal Perkins Loan funds allocated to the 

University. 

New York State Tuition 

Assistance Program (TAP) 

New York State residents may be entitled 

to TAP awards for law study from the State 

Education Department. The awards vary in 

amount from $75 to $550 for each academic 

year of professional school and are awarded 

based on the student’s New York State net 

taxable family income. Only students who are 

New York State residents should submit a TAP 

application. TAP applications should be filed 

online immediately after the FAFSA on the web 

has been completed. 

Federal Veterans 

Administration Benefits 

Financial assistance is available to qualified 

veterans and/or their dependents who attend 

law school. Students who believe they may 

qualify should contact their local Veterans 

Administration Office.

Other Funding Sources 

A number of federal, state, regional, and private 

funding sources are available to law students 

who meet specific qualifications. 

The College of Law recommends that students 

research these outside funding sources. Local 

libraries offer catalog reference guides and 

books that identify financial aid funding sources. 

The College of Law Financial Aid Office 

maintains an outside scholarship directory containing 

notifications of outside awards. 

In addition, the web is another source of 

information about financial aid programs. 

Below are a few web sites containing financial 

aid information: 

> National Association of Student Financial Aid 

Administrators (NASFAA): 

www.studentaid.org 

> New York State Financial Aid Administrators 

Association (NYSFAAA): www.nysfaaa.org 

> Syracuse University Financial Aid: 

http://financialaid.syr.edu 

> New York State Higher Education Services 

Corporation (HESC): www.hesc.com 

> U.S. Department of Education: www.ed.gov 

> FAFSA on the Web: www.fafsa.ed.gov 

> Mapping Your Future: 

www.mapping-your-future.org 

> The Access Group: 

www.accessgroup.org 

> Fastweb Scholarship Search: 

www.fastweb.com 

> The Financial Aid Homepage: 

www.finaid.org 

> Office of Indian Education Programs: 

www.oiep.bia.edu 

> Veterans Benefits and Services: 

www.gibill.va.gov 

Federal Stafford Loans 

The Federal Stafford Loan Program consists 

of both subsidized and unsubsidized loans. 

Currently, banks and other lending institutions 

throughout the country administer the Federal 

Stafford Loan Program. Graduate students 

may borrow up to $18,500 per academic year 

and as much as $138,500 in Federal Stafford 

Loan funds for all post-secondary education. 

Beginning on July 1, 2006, the interest rate will 

be fixed at 6.8 percent. The standard repayment 

period is 10 years, extended repayment is 

up to 25 years, and federal loan consolidation 

can extend the repayment period to 30 years. 

Students who apply for a Federal Stafford 

Loan must file the Free Application for Federal 

Student Aid (FAFSA). 

Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans 

Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans are awarded 

to students demonstrating financial need. The 

federal government pays interest on these 

long-term loans until repayment begins six 

months after graduation or withdrawal from 

school. Students may qualify, on the basis of 

their financial need, to borrow up to $8,500 

per academic year through the Subsidized 

Stafford Loan. 

Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans 

Students may borrow their remaining 

eligibility, up to the maximum of $18,500, 

through the Unsubsidized Stafford Loan. The 

government does not pay the in-school interest 

on these loans; therefore, interest begins to 

accrue immediately. 

Federal Graduate PLUS Loans 

Through the Graduate PLUS loan, students 

may borrow up to the cost of attendance, less 

financial aid, each academic year. To qualify, 

students must file the FAFSA and exhaust federal 

Stafford eligibility. Additionally, students 

must pass the lender’s basic credit check for 

loan approval. The interest rate is fixed at 

8.5 percent and interest begins to accrue at 

disbursement. Borrowers will be charged up to 

a 4 percent fee, depending on their lender and 

guarantee agency, which is deducted at the 

time of disbursement. The standard repayment 

period is 10 years. 

Private Loan Programs 

Through private loans, students may borrow up 

to the cost of attendance, less other aid, each 

academic year. Interest on these loans begins 

to accrue upon disbursement. Interest rates for 

these loans are variable. Recipients may defer 

payments up to 9 months after graduation. The 

maximum repayment period is 20 years. 

Because there is no interest rate cap, we 

highly recommend that students borrow from 

the federal loan programs before pursuing 

private loans. Only students who do not qualify 

for Federal Stafford and Federal Graduate 

PLUS loans should consider applying. Some 

private loans may be available to international 

students who have a credit-worthy co-borrower 

who is a U.S. citizen or permanent 

resident. A poor credit score from any of the 

three major reporting agencies may prevent 

applicants from obtaining private loan funds. 

Applicants who expect to use the private loan 

programs to finance their legal education are 

strongly encouraged to investigate their credit 

worthiness prior to enrollment. The inability 

to access adequate private loan funds has 

hindered some students in pursuing their law 

study. 

Additional Information 

The financial aid programs described in this 

publication, particularly those funded by 

government agencies and private organizations, 

are subject to change at any time. 

Accordingly, applicants should consult their 

undergraduate financial aid office, the related 

government agencies and private organizations, 

or Syracuse University College of Law’s 

Financial Aid Office for current details on 

these programs. 

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excellence in professionalism 

and service

Voluntary Pro Bono and 

Community Service Program 

Lawyers are professionals with an obligation 

to serve the legal profession and their community. 

This obligation begins with enrollment in 

law school. In order to meet this obligation and 

to implement a process for instilling a sense 

of service in our students, we encourage every 

student at the Syracuse University College of 

Law to participate in pro bono and community 

service activities. 

We undertake this as part of our commitment 

to the pursuit of excellence in learning, 

professionalism, and service. Pro bono and 

community service can take on a variety of 

forms. In order to count as pro bono and community 

service in our program, it must be done 

without compensation and not for credit. 

Activities that qualify as pro bono and community 

service under this requirement include 

providing services to: 

> people served by legal services and legal 

aid organizations; 

> low- and moderate-income people served by 

Bar-sponsored programs designed to promote 

access to justice and the legal system; 

> nonprofit charitable and community groups 

and organizations (excluding political parties); 

> schools (grades K-12) in programs designed 

to advance an understanding of the legal 

system. 

Special Recognition for Pro Bono 

and Community Service 

Because the College of Law is proud of our 

students’ commitment to pro bono and community 

service work, we have created a special 

recognition program. In order for a student 

to receive special recognition at graduation, 

a student must be in good academic standing 

and have completed at least 30 hours of 

pro bono and community service within this 

program. There are two categories of Pro Bono 

and Community Service Recognition Awards. 

> Blue Pro Bono Community Service Award: 

(complete the recommended 30 hours of 

service) 

> Orange Pro Bono Community Service Award: 

(exceed the recommended 30 hours of 

service by at least 1 full hour) 

> In addition, the top three graduating students 

providing the most pro bono and community 

service hours shall be individually recognized. 

The Special Recognition Awards will be 

given out in connection with the end-of-year 

graduation and convocation exercise and 

will be noted in the graduation materials. In 

addition, students will be permitted to wear 

a special signifier at graduation, as provided 

by the college. 

In the spirit of supporting our students 

in their efforts to provide pro bono and 

community service, faculty also strive to 

provide pro bono and community service on 

an annual basis. 

Serving the Community 

Syracuse Law students devote hundreds of 

hours of service to the community. They 

mentor children in local elementary schools, 

coach Special Olympic teams, build homes 

for Habitat for Humanity, collect food and 

clothing for agencies, raise funds for local 

charities, and visit children in hospitals. 

Students also participate in the Lawyers in 

Action project, providing free legal assistance 

to agencies who assist low-income clients in 

Western New York. Each year, law students 

also work in our six law clinics, providing legal 

representation to those with limited means. 

Participation in community and pro bono 

service activities helps students to develop 

professionalism and an understanding of 

a lawyer’s responsibility to the community. 

Moreover, it facilitates students’ involvement in 

the community and increases the availability 

of legal services to needy populations. Students 

also benefit by gaining practical experience 

and developing their lawyering skills. 

The Grant Opportunity (GO) Program 

This program provides summer grants to 

students who accept summer employment 

in nonprofit or certain governmental offices. 

In the past 12 years, more than 225 summer 

grants have been awarded through the GO 

Program. A total of $45,000 was awarded to 

GO recipients for the summer of 2006. 

The Joseph and Shawn Lampe 

Public Service Awards 

These one-time awards are available for two 

students who choose to work in public service 

positions after graduation. They provide an 

additional incentive for those who may consider 

beginning their legal career in nonprofit 

organizations or governmental agencies. 

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tuition, fees, and 

related expenses 

Tuition and fees for each 

academic year are established 

in the spring of the preceding 

academic year. Accordingly, 

applicants should be aware that 

the fee schedule displayed is for 

the 2006-2007 academic year and 

may not be current at the time 

of their enrollment. Applicants 

offered admission will be informed 

of the current tuition and fee 

schedule for the appropriate 

academic year.

Application Fee: 

(required with admission application; 

nonrefundable) 

Deposit: $400 

(required upon acceptance; 

nonrefundable) 

Tuition (first year students): $35,120 

Activity Fee (full-time students): 

Activity Fee (part-time students): $49 

Health Fee (full-time students): $468 

Duplication/Computer Services Fee: 

$ 70 

$60 

$70 

Legal Communication and Research Fee: $70 

Tuition and fees are due on August 1, 2007, 

for the fall semester and December 15, 2007, 

for the spring semester. If payment of the full 

amount at one time imposes financial hardship, 

students may arrange a monthly payment plan 

with the University. The Monthly Payment 

Plan spreads charges for each semester over 

monthly installments. There is an annual nonrefundable 

application fee of $55 to enroll. 

There is no interest charge or finance charge 

for using this plan. For further information 

concerning payment plans, students should 

contact the Bursar’s Office, 102 Archbold 

North, Syracuse NY 13244-1140; telephone: 

315-443-2444. The Bursar homepage is 

http://bfasweb.syr.edu/bursar/index.html 

The University reserves the right to change 

or add to tuition and fees at any time. 

School-Related Expenses 

Average costs for the typical law student are 

estimated to be as follows for 2006-2007: 

Books and supplies $1,160 

Housing and meals $11,270 

Additional expenses $3,590 

(including health insurance, 

personal expenses, and transportation) 

The housing and meals figure represents 

an average cost both for students living in 

campus housing and those living off campus. 

Syracuse University College of Law requires 

new students to have a notebook computer 

for their own use. The estimated cost of a 

new notebook computer puchase is $2,500. 

Students are not required to purchase a 

new notebook computer if the computer 

they already own meets the minimum 

specifications. 

Tuition, Fees, and Related Policies 

For further information on the cost of attending 

and residing at the University, please 

refer to the publication Syracuse University 

Bulletin: Tuition, Fees, and Related Policies, available 

from the Bursar’s Office, 102 Archbold 

North, Syracuse NY 13244-1140, telephone: 

315-443-2444. 

Charges for tuition, on-campus housing and 

meals, and fees will increase annually. Such 

cost increases are necessary to secure the 

highest quality instruction, facilities, programs, 

and services for students. The University 

considers carefully all increases in fees to 

ensure that they are reasonable. 

Information about refund policies is also 

contained in the publication Syracuse University 

Bulletin: Tuition, Fees, and Related Policies. 

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academic 

calendar 


Fall Semester 2007 

July 5 

12-Month Payment Plan 

enrollment deadline 

August 1 

Tuition payment deadline 

August 20 - 22 

Entering student orientation 

August 23 

First day of classes (first-year students) 

September 3 

Labor Day–no classes 

September 22 

Yom Kippur–no classes 

October 12 

Eid Ul-Fitr–no classes 

November 21-25 

Thanksgiving vacation 

December 7 

Last day of classes 

December 8-9 

Reading period–no classes 

December 10-20 

Examination period 

Spring Semester 2008 

November 20 

12-Month Payment Plan 

enrollment deadline 

December 15 

Tuition payment deadline 

January 14 

First day of classes (all students) 

January 21 

Martin Luther King Day–no classes 

March 9-16 

Spring vacation 

March 21 

Good Friday–no classes 

April 22 

Mayfest–no classes 

May 2 

Last day of classes (first-year students) 

May 3-4 

Reading period–no classes 

May 5-16 

Examination period 

May 17 

Awards Convocation 

May 18 

Commencement

Admission 

Application 

Instructions 

Our application may be obtained in the following ways: 

• In electronic format through the Law School Admission Council 

(please contact LSAC at either 215-968-1393 or www.lsac.org for 

information). The electronic application may also be accessed 

through the Syracuse University College of Law website at 

http://www.law.syr.edu/admissions/applyonline.asp 

• From the 2006-2007 College of Law catalog; or 

• Downloaded from the College of Law’s web site: www.law.syr.edu 

1. You must complete and submit the admission application form, Parts A and B, and, 

if applicable, Part C, together with a $70 check or money order payable to Syracuse 

University. This application fee is neither refundable nor will it be credited toward 

tuition and fees. Applications should be mailed to: Syracuse University College of Law, 

Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, Suite 340, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. 

2. You must take and obtain a score on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and register 

with the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS). Registration materials for the 

LSAT and LSDAS are available directly from all of the following: your Pre-Law Advisor; 

Law Services, Box 2000, Newtown, PA 18940-0998, telephone 215-968-1001, 

www.lsac.org; or the College of Law. 

3. The College of Law recommends that you take the LSAT no later than December 

of the year prior to the year you wish to enroll. Scores from the February test will be 

considered, but may delay the admission decision. Scores from the June test will 

not be considered for admission in the same year. LSAT scores cannot be more than 

five years old (test date in 2002 or later). 

4. You must submit transcripts of all previous college or university study through the 

LSDAS. Graduate and prior law study transcripts also must be submitted to LSDAS. 

Failure to submit all transcripts will delay review of your application. 

5. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit up to three letters of recommendation. 

Statements from persons familiar with your qualifications for the study of law, 

especially professors under whom you have studied, often prove helpful. If you are currently 

in an undergraduate or graduate program, or have recently completed one, the 

Admissions Committee will expect to see letters of recommendation from professors 

under whom you have studied. 

We recommend that applicants submit their letters of recommendation through the 

LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service (refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Book 

for details). Your letters will be copied and sent to us along with your LSDAS/LSATonly 

Report, or as received by Law Services. However, letters of recommendation sent 

directly from the writer or from a career services office will also be accepted. 

Forms for recommendations are provided beginning on page 113. 

6. Transfer and visiting student applicants must submit the additional documents 

outlined on page 94. 

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Application Checklist 

■ Application forms, Parts A and B, 

dated and signed 

■ Application form, Part C, if you are 

a non-resident alien 

■ Resume or employment history 

■ Personal Statement (include name 

and Social Security number) 

■ $70 application fee, check or money order, 

made payable to Syracuse University 

■ Signed Certification Statement 

(if applying electronically) 

■ All Financial Aid application materials 

(by February, 15th) 


7. Students applying for the four-year (part-time) program should apply to the College 

of Law using the same application process as students applying for full-time status. 

Additional information about the four-year program is outlined on page 8. 

8. Applicants who are not United States citizens must submit all materials required of 

domestic applicants as well as the additional documentation outlined on page 94. This 

documentation includes educational records, TOEFL and TWE scores, and proof of 

financial support. 

9. If you are interested in a joint degree program, you should check the appropriate space 

on the application form. Joint degree applicants must apply separately to the College of 

Law and to the other Syracuse University graduate program. Application information 

and supporting documentation submitted to the College of Law will not be shared with 

or photocopied for other Syracuse University departments. In addition, joint degree 

candidates should be aware that consistent with Law School Admission Council policy, 

LSAT scores may be used for purposes of admission to law schools only. The College of 

Law and LSDAS will not report LSAT scores to other graduate departments. Potential 

joint degree applicants may have to take additional standardized tests, such as the 

GRE or GMAT. Candidates should request the Syracuse University graduate catalog and 

application from Syracuse University, Office of Graduate Admissions, 303 Bowne Hall, 

Syracuse NY 13244-1200; telephone 315-443-4492. 

10. The deadline for receipt of ALL application materials is April 1 to be considered for 

admission in the fall semester of the same year. An application is complete and ready 

for review after the College of Law receives the LSDAS report from Law Services. If 

your recommendation letters will arrive after receipt of the LSDAS report, be advised 

that your file may be reviewed before receipt of the letter(s). Materials should be 

submitted through LSDAS no later than February 15 to enable LSDAS to compile and 

submit them to the College of Law before the April 1 deadline. 

11. Students applying for financial aid must submit the Free Application for Federal 

Student Aid (FAFSA) by January, 2007. The College of Law financial aid application 

forms, and all supporting documents, must be submitted to the College of Law by 

February 15th. See financial aid application instruction form for more details on this 

process. 

12. It is your responsibility to make certain that all necessary materials and credentials 

are received by Law Services and the College of Law in a timely manner. You should 

retain for your records copies of all correspondence forwarded to Law Services and 

the College of Law, including your admission application forms, financial aid 

application forms, and all attachments and enclosures. 

13. For additional information contact, the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid 

by telephone at 315-443-1962 or by e-mail at admissions@law.syr.edu 

The College of Law’s web site is located at http://www.law.syr.edu

PART A 

All applicants must complete this form. Refer to the instructions (on page 105) before completing this form. 

This form must be typed or printed legibly. 

1. Full legal name ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL SUFFIX (i.e., JR) 

2. Personal data 

■ Female ■ Male 

3a. Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ 

3b. LSAC Account Number __________________________________ 

4. Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ (see statement on inside back cover) 

MONTH DAY YEAR 

Country of Birth _______________________________ 

5. Citizenship 

■ U.S. citizen 

■ Permanent resident 

■ Nonresident alien 

6. Is English your native language? ■ Yes ■ No 

If no, please indicate your native language:___________________________________________________________________________ 

7. If you wish to identify your race/ethnic background, please indicate: _________________________________________________ 

(see statement on inside back cover) 

8. E-mail address ________________________________________ 

9. Permanent telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 

10. Permanent address ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 

STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER 

___________________________________________________________________________________________ 

CITY STATE ZIP CODE 

11. Present telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 

12. Present mailing address __________________________________________________________________________________________ 


__________________________________________________________________________________________ 


13. Last date on which mail will reach you at this address. __________ / ________ / __________ 


14. Enrollment Status for Fall 2007 ■ Full time ■ Part time 

15. Application Category 

■ First-year J.D. candidate ■ Undergraduate/J.D. (3/3) candidate 

■ Transfer student, J.D. candidate ■ Visiting student, non-J.D. candidate 

16. Indicate the date(s) you took the LSAT, or when you intend to take the LSAT. _____ / ______ ; ____ / ______ ; _____ / ______ 

MONTH YEAR MONTH YEAR MONTH YEAR 

17. Have you registered with LSDAS? 

■ Yes, give date of your current registration with them. __________ / ________ / __________ 


■ No, give date that you anticipate registering with them. __________ / ________ / __________ 


18. Have you ever registered at any law school, taken any law classes on a matriculated or non-matriculated basis at a law 

school, or participated in any law school conditional acceptance program? 

■ Yes ■ No 

If yes, give dates and details on a separate page and include complete official transcript(s) for all prior law study. 

19. Have you previously applied to Syracuse University College of Law? 


If yes, give dates and details, including the decision, on a separate page. 

20. Have you ever been censured for misconduct, subject to disciplinary action, or are any disciplinary charges pending 

or expected to be brought against you, for academic or other reasons (including academic or disciplinary probation, 

suspension, warning, or dismissal), in any educational institution you have attended or place of employment? 


If yes, give dates and details, including the specific action, on a separate page. See statements on pages 95 and 110. 

(Note: Misrepresentation may result in administrative sanctions. Refer to the certification statement on page 110.) 


Application for J.D. Admission 

Fall ’07 

Office Use Only: 

SUID: ___________________________ 

Fee status: S W I 

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PART A 

21. Have you ever been arrested, charged with, convicted of, plead guilty to, or are you currently under indictment for any 

violation of law other than minor traffic violations? Note: Although a conviction may have been expunged from your 

record by an order of the court, it nevertheless should be disclosed in answer to this question. Misrepresentation may 

result in administrative sanctions. Refer to the certification statement on page 110. 


If yes, give dates and details, including the disposition of such charge, on a separate page. See statements on pages 95 and 110. 

22. Has your college, university, graduate school, or professional school course been interrupted for one or more terms 

for any reason? 


If yes, give dates and details on a separate page. 

23. Have you ever been separated from any branch of the armed forces of the United States, the Peace Corps, or any 

other service organization under conditions other than honorable? 


If yes, give dates and details on a separate page. 

24. List all colleges and universities attended, most recent first (other law schools must be listed here). 

Attach additional page(s) if necessary. 

Name ______________________________________________________________ Dates attended: _____ / ______ to _____ / ______ 

MONTH YEAR MONTH YEAR 

Date of Graduation: month/year _____ / ______ Degree Awarded ________ Major ________________________________ 







25. On a separate page, provide a listing of any coursework you intend to complete prior to law school. This includes courses 

in your senior year of college or graduate coursework. If this coursework will be noted “in progress” on your transcript, 

please note this on a separate page. Include course number and title. 

26. Who (please include names, as appropriate) or what (prelaw handbook, prelaw advisor, meeting with a recruiter, College 

of Law alumnus, etc.) prompted you to apply to Syracuse University College of Law? 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

27. Joint Degree Applicant (Refer to instruction item 9.) 

■ J.D./Public Administration (M.P.A. or Ph.D.) ■ J.D./M.A. in International Relations 

■ J.D./Management (M.B.A. or Ph.D.) ■ J.D./M.S. in Engineering and Computer Science ___________________ 

■ J.D./Accounting (M.S. or Ph.D.) ■ J.D./M.A. or M.S. in _______________________________________________ 

■ J.D./Communications (M.S., M.A. or Ph.D.) ■ J.D./Ph.D. in ______________________________________________________ 

■ J.D./M.S. in Disability Studies 

28. In what areas might you concentrate while in law school? Please rank (1 highest) your responses in the corresponding 

boxes for your top 3 choices. 

■ Bioethics 

■ Civil Rights 

■ Communications Law 

■ Corporate and Business Law 

■ Criminal Law 

■ Disability Studies 

■ Environmental Law 

■ Family Law 


■ Indigenous Law, Governance 

and Citizenship 

■ Intellectual Property 

■ International Law 

■ Labor Law 

■ Law and Economics 

■ National Security and 

CounterTerrorism 

■ Public Interest Law 

■ Real Estate Law 

■ Taxation 

■ Technology Law 

■ Trial Practice 

■ Women's Rights 

■ Other ___________________________

PART B 

All applicants for admission must complete this form. This form must be typed or printed legibly. 

Name ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ 



Fall ’07 

29. On a separate page, list the following information (a current resume may be attached): 

a) scholastic honors received; 

b) extracurricular activities in college and your role in each; 

c) jobs and number of hours worked per week while in college (distinguish between school year and 

vacation employment); and 

d) positions you have held if you have worked after college, including employer, dates of employment, 

and reasons for leaving employment. 

30. Personal Statement: On a separate page, indicate as concisely as you can how your experiences, talents, 

and interests would add diversity to the law school student body or would benefit the educational 

experiences of your law school classmates. 

31. On a separate page, provide any additional information about yourself or your experiences which you 

believe may be helpful to the Admissions Committee in evaluating your application. 

32. Students who are interested in being considered for merit scholarships are strongly encouraged to provide responses to 

the following two questions (32 a & b). Responses should be typed on a separate page and limited to no more than 500 

words per question. 

a) Syracuse University is a member of the prestigious American Association of Universities (AAU). The AAU is comprised 

of sixty leading research universities in the United States. Within this group of outstanding institutions there are only 

seventeen private universities with law schools. Syracuse University is one of the seventeen private universities; 

SU College of Law is intellectually and physically embedded within Syracuse University. Studying law at an elite research 

university provides advantages and educational opportunities that are not readily available at other private institutions. 

Many of these benefits are tangible in specific program opportunities, and other benefits are intangible as in the value 

of the intellectual environment of a major research institution, and in the name recognition it brings to one’s degree. 

With limited scholarship resources available, only some admittees will be offered a scholarship. If you were the 

person responsible for selecting scholarship recipients for the entering class, what factors would you use to determine 

who would be offered a scholarship? 

b) Syracuse University College of Law has dedicated alumni who have generously donated to our scholarship fund. 

What responsibilities do you think scholarship recipients have to their law schools during the time they are enrolled as 

students and upon graduation as alumni? 

33. List the name, position, and business address of each individual you have asked to provide a letter of recommendation 

on your behalf. Please note: Syracuse University College of Law recommends that applicants submit letters of recommendation through 

the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Information Book for details. 

Letters of recommendation received directly from your recommendation writers will also be accepted. 

Name _______________________________________________________________ Position _________________________________ 

Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _________________________________ 

Name _______________________________________________________________ Position _________________________________ 

Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


Name _______________________________________________________________ Position _________________________________ 

Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


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PART B 

Certification Statement 

It is the policy of Syracuse University not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, 

sexual orientation, status as a disabled veteran, or as a veteran of the Vietnam Era in its educational programs, admis sions policies, employment 

practices, and other University-administered programs. Further information regarding this policy is set out in the statement of nondiscrimination 

on the inside back cover. Applicants should consult the statement of nondiscrimination before completing this form. 

Applicants answering “yes” to question 20 and/or 21 are strongly encouraged, depending on individual circumstances, to check with the state bar 

examiner’s office of the states in which they intend to practice law, regarding character and fitness for admission to the bar. 

I understand that all information submitted to the College of Law Admissions Office as a part of my application for admission will be used to evaluate 

my candidacy to the College of Law only. No documents from my application file will be copied or forwarded to other departments or individuals, 

including myself. 

I certify that the information I have provided in this application and in any related material is true and complete. I accept responsibility to promptly 

notify Syracuse University College of Law in writing of any change in the information that I have provided in this application. I certify that I am the 

author of the statements and/or additional information included with this application. I understand that the statements made herein are the basis 

upon which my application will be decided. I also understand that any misrepresentation can result in administrative sanctions and be cause for denial 

or cancellation of admission, removal from program if matriculated, and additional sanctions by the bar of any jurisdiction during their investigation 

of character and fitness for the practice of law. 

Signature ________________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ 


PART C 

You must complete this portion of the application if you are a non-resident alien. 

U.S. citizens and permanent residents do not need to complete this portion of the application. 

The United States is tracking all student visas through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). This is a 

database currently in use by the U.S. consulates around the world and all ports of entry to the U.S. In order to give you the best 

chance of securing a visa and arriving for study in a timely fashion, Syracuse University must have accurate information about your 

official name, permanent address in your home country, and any dependents who would accompany you while you are engaged in 

your studies. If you are admitted to the College of Law, this information will appear on your SEVIS I-20 form and the SEVIS 

I-20 forms of any dependents that you bring with you, so it is important that it is consistent with any information you provide 

for other official or travel purposes. If it is incomplete, inconsistent with other documents (such as your passport), or otherwise 

inaccurate, it may make getting a visa more difficult or impossible. 

1. Full legal name (as shown on passport) 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


2. Personal data 


4. Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ 




Fall ’07 

5. Foreign Address: Identified by INS as the address to which you intend to return after you have completed your studies. 

This cannot be left blank. 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


6. Current U.S. Address: The address at which you are currently living. INS does not allow the reporting of post-office boxes. 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


7. Country of Birth ____________________________________________________________________________________ 

8. City of Birth ________________________________________________________________________________________ 

9. Country of Citizenship ______________________________________________________________________________ 

10. Current Visa Status _________________________________________________________________________________ 

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Dependents: 

The information below must be completed for EACH dependent that you plan to bring with you. 

Attach additional page(s) if necessary. 

Name of Dependent (as shown on passport) 

________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


Dependent’s Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ 


Dependent’s Country of Birth ________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Dependent’s City of Birth ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Dependent’s Country of Citizenship __________________________________________________________________________________ 

Personal data 


Dependent’s Relationship to You (i.e. husband, wife, son, daughter) __________________________________________________ 

If you are bringing dependents with you, you must also provide proof of financial support documentation for each dependent. 

This documentation should demonstrate sufficient proof as follows: 

Cost of Housing and Meals 

Student only: $11,270 

Spouse only: $5,600 

1 Child: $3,000 

2 Children: $6,000 



Cost of Insurance: 

Student only: $2,000 

Student and Spouse 

(or 1 child): $4,068 

Student and Family 

(Spouse and 1 or more children): $6,180 


To the applicant: 

Do NOT use this form if you are submitting letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation 

Service. Refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Information Book for details. 

If you choose not to use the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service, follow the instructions outlined below. 


This form should be given to an individual under whom you have studied or worked and who is able to comment on your 

qualifications for law school. Please fill in the upper portion of this side. Have each recommender return this form directly to 

Syracuse University College of Law. 

Your name (as listed on the application) 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL 

Your Address (as listed on the application) 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 



The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, provides an applicant with a right of future access to the 

contents of this recommendation once the applicant is enrolled as a student in this institution. The Act also allows an applicant 

to waive the right of future access, but prohibits a school from requiring an applicant to waive this right as a condition either of 

admission or review and evaluation of application for admission. I have read and understand this statement of the federal law 

governing my right of access to this recommendation form. 

■ I have retained my right to access this recommendation. 

■ I have waived my right to access this recommendation. 

Applicant’s Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ 

Name of recommender __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

To the recommender: 

Please give your appraisal of the applicant in terms of the qualities listed below. Rate the applicant in comparison with others 

applying for law school whom you have known. 

Characteristic 

Intelligence 

Independence of Thought 

Oral Communications 

Written Communications 

Initiative and Motivation 

Leadership 

Judgment and Maturity 

Outstanding 

Top 5% 

Unusual 

Top 10% 

Good 

Top 25% 


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Above Average 

Top 40% 

Average 

Mid 20% 

Below Average 

Low 40% 

Unable to 

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Please provide a narrative description of the applicant’s qualifications for law school. In this regard, please include a candid 

assessment of how this applicant compares to others whom you have taught or with whom you have worked. Please type below 

or attach a separate letter on official letterhead to completed form. 

Name of recommender (type or print legibly) 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _______________________________________ 

Position ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 

Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ 

Return this recommendation to Syracuse University College of Law, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, 

Syracuse NY 13244-1030. Thank you. 











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Top 10% 

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Top 25% 



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Position ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 















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Financial 

Aid 

Application 

Instructions 

Deadlines 

January 

Submit FAFSA to Federal Processor 

February 15 

Submit SU College of Law 

Financial Aid Application 

February 15 

Submit your (and your spouse’s 

and parents’, if applicable) signed 

federal tax returns and W2s 

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The financial aid application is a separate procedure that should be undertaken 

simultaneously with the admissions application process. Do not wait for 

an admission decision to apply for financial aid. The Priority Deadline to apply 

for financial aid is: February 15, 2007. 

To apply for financial aid from the College of Law, you must submit: 

A. the 2007-2008 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) 

to the federal processor, 

B. the Syracuse University College of Law Financial Aid Application, 

C. a signed copy of your 2006 federal tax return 

(include all schedules and W2s), and 

D. a signed copy of your parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal tax return, whichever 

is available (include all schedules and W2s). 

Read the more detailed instructions below. 

1. To apply for all types of financial aid, you must submit the enclosed College 

of Law Application for Financial Aid, the Free Application for Federal Student 

Aid (FAFSA), a copy of your (and your spouse’s) signed 2006 federal income 

tax forms and W2s, and a signed copy of your parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal 

income tax forms and W2s. 

You should complete the FAFSA on the web at: www.fafsa.ed.gov or you can obtain 

the FAFSA from high school guidance offices or financial aid offices of most colleges 

and universities in the United States, or you can request it directly from the Federal 

Student Aid Information Center by calling 1-800-433-3243. Your financial aid application 

will be complete when we receive your College of Law Application for Financial 

Aid, the processed FAFSA information, your signed 2006 federal tax returns and W2s, 

and your parents’ signed 2005 or 2006 federal tax returns. 

2. Complete the FAFSA on the web at: www.fafsa.ed.gov or mail your Free Application 

for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the federal processor in January 2007 to 

ensure our receipt of the processed information by the financial aid application 

deadline (which is February 15). 

The estimated FAFSA processing time is two to four weeks. We strongly advise you to 

complete your FAFSA online in January to ensure our receipt of the processed information 

by the February 15, 2007 financial aid deadline. The College of Law is not responsible 

for failure of the processing agency to forward reports in a timely fashion. 

3. To be considered for a financial aid award from the College of Law, you must complete 

both the admission and financial aid application processes by the published 

deadlines—February 15, 2007 for financial aid and April 1, 2007 for admission. 

Financial aid funds from the College of Law are limited and will be awarded until 

expended, consequently, students are encouraged to submit applications by the published 

deadlines. Late applicants should still complete all of the required applications in 

order to be considered for all remaining sources of funding and to begin the process to 

apply for student loans. 

4. Do not delay the submission of your FAFSA beyond January 2007. 

If actual income amounts for 2006 are not available, you (and your spouse) should 

make the most accurate estimates available at that time. If necessary, you can report 

changes to original estimates at a later date. 

5. We will receive your processed FAFSA information only if you use the appropriate 

school name and identification number. 

Name: Syracuse University College of Law, 

Title IV institution code: 002882 

6. Retain for your records copies of all application forms and correspondence 

submitted in support of your financial aid application. 

Financial aid applicants must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and send it to the Federal Processor 

in January, 2007. 

This form must be received no later than February 15, 2007 to be considered for a financial aid award from the College of Law. 

In addition, a signed copy of your (and your spouse’s, if applicable), 2006 federal tax returns, including all schedules and 

W2s, must be submitted to the College of Law Financial Aid Office. A signed copy of your parents’ (if applicable) 2005 or 

2006 federal tax return, including all schedules and W2s, must be submitted. If you are under 30 years of age and do not have 

dependents other than a spouse, you will not be considered for a College of Law tuition grant unless your parents’ tax return 

is submitted and the “Family Information” (Section III) questions are answered. 

Retain for your records copies of all application forms and correspondence submitted in support of your financial 

aid application. 

Section I. Student Information 


Financial Aid Application 

J.D. Candidates 

Filing Date: February 15, 2007 

1. Full legal name ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 


2. Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ 

3. Citizenship 

■ U.S. citizen 

■ Permanent resident 

■ Nonresident alien *If you are in the U.S. on an F1 or F2 student visa, you are not eligible for federal or institutional financial aid. 

4. Present mailing address __________________________________________________________________________________________ 


__________________________________________________________________________________________ 


5. Last date on which mail will reach you at this address. __________ / ________ / __________ 


6. E-mail address ________________________________________ 

7. Permanent telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 

8. Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ 


9. Fall 2007 Student Status 

■ First-year J.D. candidate ■ Second-, ■ third-, or ■ fourth-year J.D. candidate 

■ Advanced Transfer student, J.D. candidate 

10. Check one: ■ Single ■ Engaged ______ / _____ / ______ ■ Married ■ Separated ■ Divorced ______ / _____ / _______ 

EXPECTED DATE OF MARRIAGE DATE OF DIVORCE/SEPARATION 

11. Number of children in 2007-2008 (if any) for which you will provide more than one-half of their support ______________ 

Ages of children _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 

Number of other dependents in 2007-2008 (if any; don’t include your spouse) ______________ 

State their age and relationship to you __________________________________________________________________________________ 

12. Spouse’s Information 

Name _________________________________________________________________________________________ Age ____________ 

Present Occupation _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Present Employer ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Will your spouse be a matriculated student enrolled in a degree-granting program in the 2007-2008 academic year? 


If yes, full-time? ■ Yes ■ No or at least half time? ■ Yes ■ No 

If yes, give name of school and indicate graduate or undergraduate and year in school: 

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Section II. Financial Information 

Student (and spouse, if applicable) financial information is required from every financial aid applicant. Do not leave blank. 

1. Please check one of the following: 

■ Enclosed is a copy of my 2006 federal tax return and W2s. 

■ I will forward a copy of my 2006 federal tax return and W2s. 

■ I am not required to file a 2006 federal tax return. 

If you did not file a 2006 tax return, please list all sources of taxable and non-taxable income 

you received in 2006, and enclose all W2s, if applicable: 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

2. Employment Information 

Your Present Occupation: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Your Present Employer: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Please enter your total current balance for questions 3-8. Answer “zero” if applicable. Do not leave any questions blank. 

3. Value of your and your spouse’s cash, savings, and checking accounts: $ __________________________________ 

4. Net worth of your current investments (mutual funds, certificates of deposit, stocks, bonds, education IRAs, 

and real estate, not including your home): $ __________________________________ 

5. Value of all trusts of which you and your spouse are the beneficiary: $ __________________________________ 

6. Value of your and your spouse’s IRA and/or Keogh accounts: $ __________________________________ 

7. Amount of child support received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 

Amount of child support paid in 2006: $ __________________________________ 

8. Amount of Social Security benefits received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 

Section III. Family Information 

Parental information is required from every financial aid applicant under 30 years of age, regardless of your marital status or 

established financial independence, unless you have a dependent other than a spouse. Do not leave any questions blank. 

■ If you are a student returning to the College of Law and your parents’ information 

is already on file for financial aid, please check this box and proceed to Section IV. 

■ If you are 30 years of age or older and/or have dependents other than a spouse, please check 

this box and proceed to Section IV. 

■ If you are a new financial aid applicant at the College of Law, please check this box 

and complete Section III as instructed above. 

Parent’s Information 

1. Full legal name ____________________________________ Age: __________/____________________________________ Age: _________ 

MOTHER FATHER 

2. Parent’s Home Address 

__________________________________________________________________________________________ 

STREET NUMBER AND NAME 

__________________________________________________________________________________________ 


3. Parents’ Occupation and Employer: 

Mother: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Father: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

In the case of divorced or separated parents, please answer the following questions about the parent who most 

recently provided more financial support. (If that parent is re-married, you must supply information about your 

parent and his/her spouse.) 

4. Value of parents’ cash and savings: $ __________________________________ 

Net worth of parents’ real estate (other than primary home): $ __________________________________ 

Net worth of parents’ investments (do not include retirement accounts): $ __________________________________ 

Net worth of parents’ business: $ __________________________________ 

5. Amount of child support received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 

6. Amount of Social Security benefits received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 

7. ■ Enclosed is a signed copy of my parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal tax return and W2s. 

■ I will forward a copy of my parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal tax return and W2s. 

■ My parents were not required to file a 2005 or 2006 federal tax return. 

If your parents did not file a tax return in 2005 or 2006, please list all sources of taxable and 

non-taxable income they received in 2006 and enclose all W2s, if applicable: $ __________________________________ 

Section IV. Additional 

1. Financial assistance for the 2007-2008 academic year from your parents and/or other relatives: $ ______________________ 

2. Financial aid for the 2007-2008 academic year from outside sources 

(do not include student loans for which you may apply): $ __________________________________ 

Sources of aid: 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

3. If you receive veteran’s education benefits, for how many months will you receive these benefits during 

the period of 7/1/07 to 6/30/08 ________ (number of months); 

what amount will you receive per month?: $ __________________________________ 

4. Indicate the total principal amount owed on the following educational loans as of 08/15/2007: 

Federal Perkins/NDSL $ ______________________ Other educational loans $ ______________________ 

(please list type of loan) 

Federal Stafford Student Loan $ ______________________ 

(formerly GSL) 

Spouse’s total educational loans $ ______________________ 

5. Do you intend to apply for a Federal Stafford Student Loan for the 2007-2008 academic year? ■ Yes ■ No 

6. Do you intend to apply for additional educational loans for the 2007-2008 academic year? ■ Yes ■ No 

7. Will you (or your spouse) own or operate an automobile during the 2007-2008 academic year? If yes, please indicate: 

Own? ■ Yes ■ No Operate? ■ Yes ■ No 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

MAKE/YEAR AMOUNT STILL OWED 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

MAKE/YEAR AMOUNT STILL OWED 

8. Will you be covered by major medical health insurance during the 2007-2008 academic year? 


If yes, please indicate: 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

POLICY HOLDER INSURANCE COMPANY 

Yearly premium: $ ______________________ 

9. Sources of Aid: List type(s) and amount(s) of any unusual expenses you expect to incur during the 2007-2008 year 

(i.e., child care). Attach a separate sheet if necessary. Documentation of these expenses may be requested. 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

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Whenever there is a change in a financial aid recipient’s economic circumstances that may in any way reduce present financial need, the recipient has 

the responsibility to report that change in writing to the College of Law Financial Aid Office. Failure to report such changed circumstances may result 

in the reduction or cancellation of financial aid. 

Sign and return this form to the Financial Aid Office, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. This form must be received no later 

than February 15, 2007 to be considered for a financial aid award from the College of Law. Complete your FAFSA in January. 

I certify that the information I have provided in this application and in any related material is true and complete. I understand that any misrepresentation 

may result in the denial or cancellation of financial aid. I accept responsibility to promptly notify Syracuse University College of Law in writing of 

any change in the information that I have provided in this application. 


It is the policy of Syracuse University not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, 

sexual orientation, status as a disabled veteran, or as a veteran of the Vietnam Era in its educational programs, admissions policies, employment 

practices, and other University administered programs. Further information regarding this policy is set out in the statement of nondiscrimination on 

the inside back cover. Applicants should consult the statement of nondiscrimination before completing this form. 

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Syracuse University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution. 

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national 

origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or status as 

a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era or to any extent discrimination 

is prohibited by law. This nondiscrimination policy covers admissions, 

employment, and access to and treatment in University programs, services, 

and activities. 

Syracuse University welcomes people with disabilities and in compliance with 

Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the 

Americans with Disabilities Act does not discriminate on the basis of disability. 

Services for students with disabilities are coordinated by the Office 

of Disability Services, Room 309, 804 University Avenue, 315-443-4498 

(VOICE), 315-443-5019 (TDD). 

Syracuse University supports equal opportunity regardless of race, color, 

national origin, or gender, and in compliance with Title VI and Title VII of the 

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 

does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or gender. 

Questions about any of the University’s equal-opportunity policies, including 

compliance with Title VI, Title VII, and Title IX, may be directed to Neil 

B. Strodel, Associate Vice President for Human Resources, Office of Human 

Resources, Skytop Office Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244- 

5300; telephone 315-443-4224. 

The information concerning academic requirements, courses, and programs 

of study contained in this publication does not constitute an irrevocable 

contract between the student and the University. The University reserves 

the right to change, discontinue, or add academic requirements, courses, 

and programs of study. Such changes may be made without notice, although 

every effort will be made to provide timely notice to students. It is the 

responsibility of the individual student to confirm that all appropriate degree 

requirements are met. 

Campus Security Act 

It is Syracuse University’s policy to provide all prospective students, upon 

request, with a printed copy of the University’s policies and procedures 

regarding campus security and safety, as well as crime rates and statistics for 

the most recent three-year period. 

Copies of Your Safety and Security at Syracuse University, a handbook which 

provides this important information, are available from SU’s Department of 

Public Safety, 130 College Place, 005 Sims Hall, Syracuse NY 13244, 

315-443-5480. You may also view the handbook on the Department of Public 

Safety’s web site at sumweb.syr.edu/pubsafe/safety.html.


Office of Admissions and Financial Aid 

Syracuse, NY 13244-1030 

PERIODICALS 


Offi ce of Admissions and Financial Aid 

Syracuse, NY 13244-1030 

PERIODICALS 

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