Law School

  

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Law School

Definition: Law School

Law School

Noun

1. A graduate school offering study leading to a law degree.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Law School

Synonym: school of law (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Law school

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In the United States, the institution where future lawyers obtain a legal degree is called a law school. In most cases, law schools grant the J.D, though some schools still award the LL.B degree which is still common in other common law jurisdictions, mostly commonwealth countries. A law school is usually an autonomous entity within a larger university and considered to be a graduate school program. In other jurisdictions these programs are more completely integrated into the other university faculties, such as in Canada where they are often called a faculty of law. Even though the first degree is considered at doctoral degree the other degrees that are awarded included the Master of Laws degree (L.L.M.) and the Doctor of Laws degree (J.S.D.).

See also: List of law schools, school of law

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Law school."

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Crosswords: Law School

English words defined with "law school": law, law degree, law studentmonisticobediencepractice of lawrespectschool board, school of law, Scopes trialTo keep good. (references)
Specialty definitions using "law school": Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments of 1987DEPUTY SHERIFF, CHIEF, DIRECTOR OF PUPIL PERSONNEL PROGRAMFlutter the DovecotesNational School Lunch ActPOLICE LIEUTENANT, COMMUNITY RELATIONS, POLICE OFFICER, SAFETY INSTRUCTIONWILDLIFE AGENT, REGIONAL. (references)

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Modern Usage: Law School

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You actually made me think about the law. I managed to go through three years of law school without doing that. (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

You were sick the day they taught law at law school. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school! (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

If you ever want me to be with another woman for you, I'd do it. It's not something I'm interested in. Once, yeah, it seemed normal, but it was just a phase, a college thing, like torn Levi's or law school for you. Would you like something from the kitchen? (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Ma, I love the Virgin too, but she didn't go to law school. (American Family; writing credit: Fririk r Fririksson; Einar Kárason)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Law School

DomainTitle

Books

  • Shapo and Shapo's Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success, 2d (reference)

  • Law School Admissions Adviser (Law School Admissions Adviser) (reference)

  • Bigwig Briefs: Career Options for Law School Students - Leading Partners Reveal the Secrets to Finding the Right Firm/Company, Choosing the Best Practice Area, Interviewing, Finding a Mentor, the Bar, Negotiating for a Higher Salary and More (reference)

  • Becoming Gentlemen : Women, Law School, and Institutional Change (reference)

  • Law School Insider: The Comprehensive 21st Century Guide to Success in Admissions, Classes, Law Review, Bar Exams and Job Searches, for Prospective Students and Their Loved Ones (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Annual Law School Summer School Programs At Home And Abroad (reference)

  • Law School Admission Council Annual Report (reference)

  • University Of Chicago Law School Roundtable (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Law School

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First law school in America, Litchfield, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress.

Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress.

The law school, Guadalajara.Credit: Library of Congress.

Law School building, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hendrie Hall, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Law School, Harvard College.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Law School, Harvard University.Credit: Library of Congress.

Entrance to Law School, Harvard University.Credit: Library of Congress.

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Negro instructors in the U.S. Coast Guard include Benjamin Jones of Chicago, a postal clerk in private life. Jones holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Chicago Law School. He is on headquarters staff at Man.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Law School

AuthorQuotation

Thorstein Veblen

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Law School

AuthorDateQuotation

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

In Sweatt v. Painter, supra, in finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part on "those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school." (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Law School

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Barbados

Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, Legal Education Certificate. (references)

Barbados

Graduated Hugh Wooding Law School (Trinidad), 1985, Legal Education Certificate. (references)

Cayman Islands

In addition, there is a technical school, a law school, and a community college. (references)

Human Rights

Liberia

By statute members of the bar must be graduates of a law school and pass the bar examination. (references)

Senegal

In a 1998 effort to improve the administration of justice, the Government recruited 48 law school graduates to be trained as magistrates over a 2-year period. (references)

Macau

The judiciary is relatively inexperienced (the first law school opened in the early 1990's), and the lack of locally trained lawyers is a serious impediment to preservation of an independent judiciary and the overall development of the legal system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Law School

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Gerald Ford

I would, in retrospect, liked to have played one year just to prove that I could. But the opportunity to go to Yale and be an assistant coach and go to law school at the same time might not have been available.

Jay McGraw

You know I do, I think that law school is kind of the responsible choice. You know once you're a lawyer, you're always a lawyer, and so I thought now would be a good time, and it is useful stuff. I mean the things I've learned there I use even this week.

Linda Fairstein

Long before I went to law school, and I started by doing a nonfiction book about the reforms and the work we had done, but this was a dream I'd had. And so, I started doing the fiction. This is the fifth book in the series.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Law School

Expressions using "law school": law school graduate law school student. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Law School

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

law school

2,906

law school ranking

909

harvard law school

353

concord law school

312

online law school

299

top law school

238

law school admission

204

new york law school

202

john marshall law school

202

loyola law school

149

yale law school

146

brooklyn law school

144

whittier law school

105

cornell law school

100

columbia law school

98

law school scholarship

96

fordham law school

94

seton hall law school

93

university of michigan law school

90

university of miami law school

85
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Law School

Language Translations for "law school"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كلية الحقوق (faculty of law). (various references)

   

French

  

faculté de droit (faculty of law). (various references)

   

German

  

juristische fakultät. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

法学部 (law department). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ほうがくぶ (law department). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awlay oolschay

   

Portuguese

  

professor de direito. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

юридическая школа, юридический факультет. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

facultad de derecho. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hukuk fakültesi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Law School

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-l-l-o-o-s-w"

-1 letter: alcohols.

-2 letters: alcohol, chollas, halloos, hallows, holloas, hollows, salchow, shallow.

-3 letters: allows, cahows, callow, cashoo, cholla, cholos, halloo, hallos, hallow, hollas, holloa, hollos, hollow, locals, sallow, school, wahoos.

-4 letters: achoo, allow, awols, cahow, calls, calos, chaos, chaws, cholo, chows, clash, claws, coals, cohos, colas, cools, cowls, hallo, halls, halos, holla, hollo, howls, loach, local, lochs, locos, ollas, salol, scall, schwa, scowl, shall, shawl, shoal, shool, wahoo, walls, whoso, wools, woosh.

-5 letters: alls, alow, also, awls, awol, call, calo, cash, caws, chao, chaw, chow, claw, coal, coho, cola, cols, cool, coos, cosh, cowl, cows, hall, halo, haws, hols, howl, hows, lacs, lash, laws, loca, loch, loco, loos, lows, ocas, olla, oohs, owls, sall, scow, shaw, shoo, show, slaw, slow, sola, solo, wall, wash, whoa, wool, woos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Law School


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 77      53 63 68 6F 6F 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01110111 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#119 &#32 &#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0077      0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667892536974818178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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