Aim of New Law School Buildings Is to Keep Students on Campus

Law students can study with the aid of the Internet and their computers, so they don’t have to spend as much time on campus.

Two new law school buildings were constructed with the aim of reversing that trend, the National Law Journal reports.

Marquette University Law School is dedicating its new $85 million building today. Its dean, Joseph Kearney, tells the NLJ the new building “attracts student to be there, even when they aren't required to be there." The law school’s new “library without borders” can be accessed from any of the building’s four floors. The building also has a fitness center, a café and two levels of designated law school parking.

The University of California at Davis has a new $30 million wing for its law school that has additional common areas for students and a new reading room.