Academic

Arizona State Seeks To Relocate Law School To Downtown Phoenix

By Dan Filler

Say this about the folks at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law: they're a practical bunch.  Every law school wants to make it easy for students to move in and out of the legal practice world while they're 2L's and 3L's.  And it's a lot simpler for students to do that when law firms, government agencies, and public interest shops are only steps from the law school. 

Thus this news: the folks at ASU Law are asking Phoenix voters to fund the law school's move from suburban Tempe into the heart of America's 5th largest city.  It's hard to know how popular this provision will be among Phoenix residents.  It's hard to imagine that a moderately sized law school would do much to transform a neighborhood or create jobs.  But it would surely help ASU in its job placement battle with regional rival, the University of Arizona.  

Image: the Tempe law campus.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).