Registration for Fall 2008 We have the Fall 2008 Legal Studies master course listing available in Word or pdf and we also have the course descriptions posted in Word and pdf. Courses open as of May 7, 2008: Legal 391B, 397M, 491P, 491W, 497C and 497K.
Advising The Legal Studies advisor for all Legal Studies majors is Tami Paluca. If you need advising contact Tami for an appointment (413.545.9698) and look at her advising cheat sheet (in Word and pdf).
Note for Spring 2008Now that Add/Drop has ended, your schedule should be correct. If you see any discrepancies, contact your Dean's Office as soon as possible to make corrections. For Legal Studies Majors, your Dean's Office is in E-24 Machmer (545-2192).
PDF Handouts online: We've put some of the handouts available in the Main Office online as .pdf files. You'll need to have a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to go to the OIT download page.
Of particular interest:
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Upcoming Events
Questions about Legal Studies/Requirements?
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/UMass Events page/
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/Upcoming Seminars of interest to majors/
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Major Advising  If you're looking for academic advising, please contact Tami Paluca for an appointment (413-545-9698). You can get your degree audit on Spire, please check it regularly and make sure that it is correct. We encourage people to keep a hardcopy handy, and keep track of changes that may take place. Don't assume mistakes will correct themselves.
- Tami can help you with your Legal Studies Requirements.
- Contact Arts & Sciences Advising in E-20 Machmer (545.2192) for help with your College Requirements (Global Education)
- Contact the Registrar's Office in 213 Whitmore (545.0555) for help with your University Requirements (General Education Requirements and Transfer credits.)
New England Regional Student Program (NERP)
If you're from a New England State outside of Massachusetts, please read the information on the Registrar's page to see if you are eligible to request NERP status.
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Need a Place to Study? 
The Library makes private library carrels available to undergraduates. Please contact the circulation desk for information about requesting a library carrel, assignments are no longer made through the Department .
The Library...
Barbara Morgan has updated the Legal Studies Research Guide.
Also, the main floor of the Library now houses the Learning Commons, bringing together the library, technology, advising and the Writing Program in one location. |
Pre-Law Information
The Pre-Law Office is in E-20 Machmer, the phone number is 577-0396. Dean's Certification letters will be processed in that office. Please note that Matthew Light from Political Science is now the University Pre-Law Advisor.
Study Abroad Opportunity
To find out more about the University of Sussex "pre-law"/study abroad program, check out their website for one semester or full year exchange opportunities. UMass Oxford Summer Seminar Information
For more info. about the program, go to http://www.umass.edu/oxford/
Intersted in Graduate Studies in the UK?
Find out about the University of Nottingham at wwww.nottingham.ac.uk (Nottingham is a designated Marshall Scholarship institution).
New York Union Semester
The New York Union Semester program is now accepting applications for its fall 2004 program. The deadline to apply is April 15th, 2004. Check out http://www.qc.edu/unionsemester for more information.
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Of Note in the Department
- An historic mural from Northern ireland/The North of Ireland, "Painting From the Same Palette," will be unveiled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on April 28, 2008 during events celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Good FridayAgreement. Recently completed, the mural was painted by two artists whose communities were previously at war. For her contribution, the mural was presented by the artists to Leah Wing of NCTDR. Please click on the image below for further details.
 - Ethan Katsh, Alan Gaitenby and the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution have had the NSF grant with which they are affiliated continued.
- Bernie D. Jones has been awarded a short-term research publication grant
from the American Association of University Women, in order to prepare
a manuscript for publication--Policing the Color Line: Southern
Justices on Miscegenation in the Antebellum Will Contest. She is
exploring the use of will contests as a means defining families in the
antebellum South, where elite white men sought to use the law of wills in
order to grant freedom and property to slave women partners and their
children, where family was defined and limited by race and class status.
- Arianne Waldron and Amanda Butler-Jones are the recipients of the 2006-2007 Shep Shepard Award
- Bernie Jones has a new publication:
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- Check out the Colleges Academic Scholarship information page and read about recent Legal Studies scholardship recipients: Dan Maltzman ('07, Ansin Scholarship), Lily Pfannebecker ('07, Ansin Scholarship), and Stephanie Walmboldt ('07, David J. Der Hagopian Scholarship).
 Ethan Katsh was part of the 2006-07 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 4 p.m. in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center. - Bernie Jones won the
the Cromwell award from the American Society of Legal
Historians.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~law/ASLH/awards.htm
She also just published ""Righteous Fathers, Vulnerable Old Men and Degraded Creatures:
Southern Justices on Miscegination in the Antebellum Will Contest,"40 Tulsa Law Review 699-750 (summer 2005).
- David Mednicoff has a paper in the latest Carnegie Endowment's Rule of Law Series. He is on leave in Qatar for 2006-2007.
- Thomas Hilbink has been nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005
- Judith Holmes and Farid Benavides-Vanegas were both nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004.
- The Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR) and the UMass Electronic Enterprise Institute (EEI) are joint recipients of a $100,000 one year grant from the National Mediation Board to assist NMB’s efforts in designing and using online dispute resolution systems. /more/
- Leah Wing offered an Institute on Conflict Resolution and Social Justice in Higher Education at the 17th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education held June 1-2 in Miami Beach.
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Career ServicesWondering about your options after graduation, wondering if you're doing the most to make yourself competitive? Check out the web site of the Career Services.
Law Enforcement Contact for our students:Considering a career in Law Enforcement? We have an alum, Edward D. Denmark, who is Chief of Police in Sterling, MA. He has volunteered to chat with Legal Studies students about law enforcement careers and the myths that surround police work. He would like to give students a better idea of what policing is all about. He can be reached by phone at 978-422-3036 or you can e-mail him at EDenmark@aol.com.
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Of interest to Alumni This pages it is the best place to check for the latest happenings in Legal Studies, but for department events in the recent past, and check here. To see what's happening across campus, UMass has created some re-vamped sites. Try starting at the UMass News page, and check In the Loop for information from a staff or faculty perspective. If you're in the area, check out the UMass Events page and of course, check out the Alumni Office website as well.
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Internship InformationConfused about internships? Judith Holmes has put together an information sheet on the internship process, in html or pdf. Please take a look, and contact Judith Holmes (413-545-2305) if you have questions. You can also contact the Field Experience Office (they should have a book of listings). Listings we receive will be listed online or will be on the bulletin board opposite Room 108 Gordon Hall.Note, information for MCAD is online and we have the Judicial Internship application form available in .doc and .pdf format.
NEW: Internship/Independent Study opportunities available with the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR). |
Scholarship Information If you have a very strong academic background and are looking for more information about potential Scholarships, check out the site maintained by ONSA. As we learn of additional Scholarship opportunities for our students, we will post them here.
Notice something that needs to be fixed or improved? If you find a mistake on the website, or have a suggestion (i.e., you feel that a document or piece of information would be really useful to have posted, etc.), please email Amity at alee@legal.umass.edu.
We appreciate your suggestions, and only with student feedback can we truly know what is most important to you.
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Information about Snow Closings The snow hotline (545-3630) is sometimes updated slightly before the website. |
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