idealic, residenial law schools????

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Anybody know of any law schools in which the culture and way of life is somewhat “residential” and/or community centric and/or idealic (resembling a residential liberal arts campus?) </p>

<p>It seems to me that since these are professional schools, most law students are kind of pushed away from campus life in regards to living quarters. And on top of that the law facilites end up being structures built without much organization or planning in mind and therefore a sense of community while in law school is somewhat lost.</p>

<p>I’ve read how harvard was remodeling it’s law campus and putting up new buildings to foster a more residential/community/idealic experience, as well as building new high quality yet traditional dorms.
And i’ve read how stanford is doing the same thing but in addition they are trying to create shared housing among all graduate students to create a real inderdisciplinary and residential situation.</p>

<p>are there any law schools out there that are particularly residential, community centric, or structurally idealic? or any graduate schools in general for that matter?</p>

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<p>Yale and Michigan probably come the closest to the ideal you describe.</p>

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<p>Do you mean “idyllic” instead of “idealic”?</p>

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<p>yeah, that’s what i meant.</p>

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<p>is this typically not how law school is?</p>

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<p>Probably not the urban schools. Certainly not Columbia or NYU. I would also suggest not focusing on this in choosing a school.</p>

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<p>why not have this be a consideration, especially if you have options in a similar range of the rankings?</p>

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<p>I would have thought that about half the T14 are like this: Yale, Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, Duke, Cornell? (Georgetown?)</p>

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<p>i would say any non-urban school with an enrollment of 250 or less per class. </p>

<p>yale
stanford
duke
cornell</p>

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<p>reallllly dont think duke should be on tha tlist. but I think michigan, cornell, yale, stanford, and uva are good contenders. though in this economy, i think collegiality is falling apart at every school but yale and stanford</p>

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<p>I think it’s a question of what the OP is asking for. I interpreted his request as being for a “classic appearing college campus.” In that case, I’ll stand by my post #8.</p>

<p>But if – as FH seems to – the question should be interpreted as partly speaking to the feel of the community, then I’ll have to plead ignorance.</p>

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<p>I’d take a guess and say schools that are non-urban with not that much entertainment on campus would be community-centric, like William & Mary.</p>

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<p>flowerhead, what do you mean when you say that the economy is impacting the collegiality?</p>

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<p>It’s difficult to imagine that you would have options that were so similar that this would be a valid consideration. It’s sort of like choosing a firm because you like the way their name sounds.</p>

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<p>Presumably that the really bad job market is making everyone more competitive with their classmates. There was a time when the majority of top 14 students could count on getting a biglaw offer, so the environment at the schools was much less cutthroat than at TTTs where anyone outside of the top 15% was screwed.</p>

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<p>“Presumably that the really bad job market is making everyone more competitive with their classmates.”</p>

<p>I haven’t seen actual cutthroat behavior increase, but the really bad job market is definitely making students grouchy. I think every school’s community feeling has moved in a grouchy direction this year.</p>