NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center was recently named one of the best law schools in the nation, according to the Princeton Review, a college admission services company, in its 2015 book “The Best 169 Law Schools.” The results were determined by a survey completed by more than 19,500 students at 169 law schools across the […]
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Students donate surplus food from competition to the homeless
Eric Arckey, third–year law student and president of the SBA, said students recognized that the displaced community is not only in need of monetary donations or time, but food as well.
Faculty Spotlight: Ronald Brown
Students sometimes ask him what William the Conqueror, a man who lived a thousand years ago was like, but Ronald Brown, tenured professor at the Shepard Broad Law Center, is more than just a professor who has been at NSU since it was a war surplus airfield, he’s a professor who knows the value of history and flexibility.
Law students out of touch with their professors
The 2010 Law School Survey of Student Engagement, conducted by the Association of American Law Schools and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, found that only 20 percent of law students frequently discuss course concepts with their professors and 29 percent discuss career plans with them.
Diary of…a madman in law school!
Joshua Rasco joined NSU this fall as a first-year law student at the Shepard Broad Law Center. This native Floridian may have graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Florida State University, but he is “a ‘Cane at heart.” Rasco has also been a drummer for 16 years, and plays in the band Thick Wet Fire. He hopes to practice intellectual property law when he graduates. His philosophy is “Life is short, laugh it up.”
NSU Raises the Bar
NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center ranked third in the state according to the results of the bar passage rate among Florida law schools last year. The school also ranked first out of all the law schools in South Florida. The bar exam is a government-issued test that law students must pass before they can practice […]