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June 11,
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Greetings,
When
you accepted your offer of admission to the
College of Law -- whether it was five years ago,
or 15, or 50 -- you were no doubt excited and,
perhaps, just a little nervous.
Then
you set foot on campus and soon learned there are
certain fundamental truths about the College of
Law, the UA, and Tucson. Wildcat Basketball is a
universal religion. You have to explore 4th Ave at
least once. Bob Dobbs, for 30 years, has been the
perfect place to relax after an exam. Law
school pizza has come from many
places over the years, most
recently from Blackjack.
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Student Luncheon in the
Lewis Roca Rothgerber
lobby |
Most
importantly, you learned that Arizona Law is a
unique community. In your three short years (less
for some), you built some of the most important
relationships of your life and confronted some of
the greatest academic opportunities and challenges
in all of your years of schooling.
Everyone
has stories that connect them to the college, from
their first trial to their late night study
groups. That is the core of Arizona Law. For
nearly one hundred years, we have been committed
to nurturing a small close-knit community and
providing a first-rate legal education.
These
fundamental elements have not changed. They
will not change. But we are making changes
in response to a profession being transformed by,
technology, globalization, and shifts in the ways
legal services are provided to clients.
We
innovate for our current students, and for
students to come. We innovate to improve the
profession, seek justice, and enable
prosperity. And we innovate for you, to make
you proud when you tell people where you were
educated.
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Arizona Law students
learn how they can earn a LLM in Chinese
Commercial Law from Fudan University Law
School. |
You
have heard about these changes:
- We are globalizing Arizona Law through
the Advanced JD, SJD, LLM, and Master of
Legal Studies programs. We
are bringing perspectives from all over the
world to Tucson to advance our
global impact and facilitate meaningful
connections between students from all over the
world. We are creating more opportunities
for US students to spend significant time
gaining experience and degrees around the
world.
- We are leading the way in legal education
reform by offering the nation's first Bachelor
of Arts in Law that can provide undergraduate
students with the necessary skills in regulation
and legal principles to excel in business,
government, public policy, or, for those who
want, to later pursue a JD. This dramatic
new program is being done in partnership with
the UA School of Government and Public Policy in
the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
building on our presence at one of the world's
great universities.
- We are revolutionizing the third year of JD
study by offering students the opportunity to
sit for the February Bar Examination and spend
the remainder of the spring semester engaged in
practice-focused courses. This is part of
a unique pilot program approved by the Arizona
Supreme Court, and now under active
consideration in at least four other
states.
- We are establishing new areas of academic
focus such as our QuantLaw Program that explores
and trains students at the intersection of
quantitative methods and the practice of law,
and our Civil Justice Initiative that builds on
our longstanding strengths in tort law, civil
procedure, and trial advocacy, and provides new
scholarly and policy perspectives on critical
civil justice issues.
- We are creating new opportunities with the
Quarles & Brady Intellectual Property and
Entrepreneurship Clinic to help new businesses
manage their IP challenges and forge a new
pathway for our students. This new clinic builds
on the unique partnership we have had for
more than a decade with the Eller College and
the McGuire Center for Law and Entrepreneurship.
The depth of that partnership is reflected
as well in our new 3 year
JD/MBA.
- We are training lawyers and providing needed
representation through the new Veterans Advocacy
Clinic, and the new Wrongful Conviction Clinic.
These build on established strengths in clinical
programs including immigration law, child and
family law, and indigenous law.
As
we endeavor to succeed every day in every class
and clinic, and as we pursue these and other
initiatives, as we tend to our world-renown
programs in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy
(IPLP) and in International Trade and Business Law
(ITBL), as we bring and support and celebrate
great students, great scholars, and great staff:
we need your support.
The
University of Arizona recently launched the
Arizona Now Campaign to showcase the innovations
of our great university, and share the message:
Our time is now. With your help, we are
perfectly positioned
to continue the traditions of excellence from our first
century, and to become one of transformative
law schools and universities of these
times.
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Class of 2013
Swearing-In Ceremony |
The time for you to be a
part of our innovations at the College of Law is
now.
We rely on our
community to mentor and assist our current
students, to counsel prospective students, and to
support the College.
Today is about the Arizona
Law community. Our goal is to have a contribution
from everyone in our community. Give a
little or give a lot. Every dollar makes a
difference. We can only continue our innovation
and our excellence with you at our
side.
Today is about you in the
Arizona Law community. I ask you to consider your
time at Arizona Law, and I ask you to help support
an equally profound, innovative and
memorable experience for our next
generation of legal
professionals.
Warmly,
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Deans Jordan-Curtis and
Miller swearing in Alumnus Ed Hannsz ('13) in
the Dean's
Office |
Marc L. Miller
Dean & Ralph W. Bilby Professor of
Law
James E. Rogers College of Law
Make your mark and
empower the Arizona Law Community.
Every dollar
invested produces a solid return and helps
continue our innovation
and our dedication to
students.
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THIS FRIDAY: Arizona Bar
Convention and Dean's Reception
(all alumni and friends
welcome)
Friday,
June 13th
6:00
- 8:00pm
Home of Dean Marc Miller
& Professor Christina Cutshaw
3040 E Ina Road
Tucson,
AZ 85718
RSVP here.
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Arizona
Law Week in DC
Global
Programs Luncheon
Tuesday, June 24,
2014
12:00
pm - 1:00 pm University of Arizona DC Office
2111 Wilson
Blvd, 7th Floor
Arlington,
VA 22201
RSVP here.
Meet
the Dean Reception
Tuesday, June 24,
2014
6:00pm
- 7:30 pm
Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman
LLP
2300
N Street NW
Washington,
DC 20037
RSVP here.
Arizona Law Admissions
Luncheon
Thursday,
June 26, 2014
11:30
am - 1:00 pm
Greene
Turtle Restaurant
601
F Street NW
Washington,
DC 20004
RSVP here.
Arizona
Law Alumni and Friends Reception
Thursday,
June 26, 2014
6:00
pm - 8:00 pm
Front Page
Restaurant
1333 New Hampshire Ave
NW
Washington, DC
20036
RSVP here.
Alumni
Breakfast
Friday, June 27,
2014
9:00 am - 10:00
am
Morgan
Meguire
1225 Eye Street
NW, Suite
1150
Washington, D.C.
20005
RSVP here.
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SAVE
THE DATE - PLAN AHEAD - Centennial Homecoming
Weekend
November
7-9, 2014
For
more information, CLICK HERE to visit our
Homecoming 2014 website.
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