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Greetings,
As Wildcats come roaring back to campus and into
the new school year, I want to extend a hearty thank you
to the seven alumni and students who took over the
Letter of the Law during the summer -- Jillian
Andrews ('17), Mike King ('79), Kate LaFosse ('14), Dev
Sethi ('97), Leah Lussier Sixkiller ('10), Jonelle Vold
('01), and Barry Wong ('84).
Last week the Arizona Law
community welcomed our newest Wildcat JD, LLM, MLS, and
SJD students to campus. I'm excited to share some fun
facts about this dynamic group and invite you to get to
know them well in the coming years at our alumni and
career networking events and other opportunities both on
and off campus. They're an impressive
group.
Until the footnotes,
Marc |
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Welcome Our Newest
Wildcats |
Today, we can boast of 125 new JD students,
17 new LLM students, 6 new SJD students, and 23 new MLS
students. This is a larger group of new graduate law
students than joined the college last year.
There are also now more than 430 BA in law majors
across campus and 170 more BA students in Qingdao,
China, at Ocean University.
Our new graduate degree students come from 25
states, 26 countries, and 12 indigenous nations or
groups from North America and around the world. I read
the names of each of these states, countries, and
nations in one alphabetical list to the new students at
orientation.
Argentina
Arizona
The Aymara
Australia
Bolivia
Brazil
California
Cameroon
Canada
Cherokee Nation
Chickaloon Native Village
Chile
China
Colombia
Connecticut
Costa Rica
Delaware Tribe of Indians
Ecuador
France
Ghana Hawaii |
Honágháahnii (Diné)
Illinois
India
Indiana
Iowa
Iran
Isleta Pueblo
Italy
Kansas
Kenya
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Mexico
Missouri
Navajo Nation
Nebraska
Nebraska Omaha Tribe
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico New
York |
Nigeria
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pakistan
Peru
Saudi Arabia
Sac and Fox Nation
South Carolina
South Korea
Standing Rock Sioux
Tanzania
Texas
Tohono O'odham Nation
Ukraine
USA
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia Wiradjuri
Nation |
Our new students join a student body that is
already an international learning lab. They join
upper-division students from 13 additional states and 13
additional countries, bringing our totals to 38 US
states and 39 countries across the current student
body. That is a good
percentage of all US states (and we have alumni working
in all of those states); a fair percentage of all
nations; and a tiny fraction of the 5,000 or so
indigenous groups in the world.
Our new graduate
students have been educated at more than 70
undergraduate institutions. The majority of our JD
students who were educated in the US come from outside
of Arizona.
The class includes first-generation Americans and
several who are the first in their family to go to law
or graduate school. Some are the first in their families
to have attended college. A significant number are older
than 30, and many came with spouses, partners, and
kids.
These new students already have a passion for the
law and for service to others. More than a dozen
participated in mock trial or were leaders in an
undergraduate pre-law fraternity. Ten have already
worked in law firms. Two have served in Americorps.
Seven have served our country in the Armed Forces, in
positions from corporal to captain, and one is still
considered active military. Most in the group have had
deep experiences serving as volunteers or through
membership in an NGO. One founded an organization to
help people out of homelessness.
They are also singers, dancers, writers,
journalists, scientists, rock climbers, hikers,
chess-players, and competitive athletes (NCAA
included).
The Arizona Law community is much
richer with the addition of our newest Wildcats. Please
join me in extending a warm Arizona Law welcome to these
great students, who have chosen us as much as we have
chosen them. In a very short amount of time, these 171
new students will join all of you as members of our
Arizona Law alumni
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New Mexico Alumni
Reception
Last Friday, the College of Law hosted a
reception for its New Mexico alumni in conjunction with
the New Mexico State Bar Convention. The gathering took
place at Buffalo Thunder Resort &
Casino.
Thank you to everyone
who joined us!
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Pre-Game Happy Hour in
Glendale, Sept. 3
Alumni, friends, and family are invited to our
happy hour prior to the BYU vs. Arizona game on
Saturday, September 3. Here are the details:
Happy hour
from 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. (The
game starts at 7:30.)
McFadden's
Restaurant & Saloon -- walking distance to the
stadium
Westgate
Entertainment District
9425 W
Coyotes Blvd
Glendale,
AZ 85305
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Mining Law Summit, Sept.
16
The 2016 Mining Law Summit will be held at the
College of Law on Friday, September 16. The summit is
sponsored and hosted by the college's Global Mining Law Program
and the Lowell Institute for Mineral
Resources. The theme is "Exploring Collaborative
Solutions for Mined Land Remediation" and the keynote
speaker is Arizona Law alumnus Ryan Flynn ('06).
The summit will explore questions such as: How do
we manage the liability of developing existing mined
lands? What public policies encourage productive
remediation and development? What are the legal and
technical issues we need to address together?
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Make your plans to return to campus for
Homecoming/Reunion weekend 2016. The updated schedule of
events is located on our 2016 Homecoming
webpage. |
Please
join us as we honor Dean Emeritus Charles Ares for his
lifelong dedication to legal education and the
University of Arizona.
A
mentor, friend, and educator to the thousands who have
walked the halls of Arizona Law, Dean Ares is a pillar
of our community, and we hope you will take part in this
momentous occasion to celebrate his
legacy.
Friday, October 28, 2016
5:30 p.m.
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie Lobby
James E. Rogers College of Law
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One of the great moments of each year comes when we
welcome the new members of our community. In the few
days of orientation the distinctive character of the new
class is starting to show through -- highly engaged,
friendly, with a good sense of humor.
We look forward to getting to
know them deeply, as we have the generations of students
who have come before -- and to having them reach out to
our alumni and friends for advice as their law school
and legal careers unfold.
Warmly,
Shaping
the next century of legal
education
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