Question of the Week
If You Could Rename Your Law School, What Name Would You Choose?
Posted Oct 11, 2007 8:02 AM CST
By Reginald Davis
With news this week that the powers in Berkeley are suffering an identity crisis and may bolt from their law school’s name Boalt Hall, we had this question:
If you—because you won the lottery, got that big firm partnership, won the verdict of a lifetime—had naming rights to your law school, what name would you choose?
Answer in the comments section below.
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Comments
cecil
Oct 11, 2007 5:57 PM CST
Yale or Harvard, of course.
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Dianne Pringer
Oct 12, 2007 6:31 AM CST
We’d get rid of the initials and the confusion with New York Law School. We’d rename NYU “Manhattan Law School” (if the name wasn’t already taken!).
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Melissa
Oct 12, 2007 7:09 AM CST
I would get rid of the Hyphen and change Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis to Indianapolis School of Law.
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Jennifer
Oct 12, 2007 7:26 AM CST
I’d change Wake Forest University School of Law to Wake Forest Law School. Smaller and easier to fit into boxes on government applications.
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Jeanne Datiles
Oct 12, 2007 8:06 AM CST
I’d second Dianne Pringer’s comment above. New York Law School stays as is—and NYU gets the Manhattan bid. Much easier, less confusion, less feeling you have explain every time.
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Adam
Oct 12, 2007 9:10 AM CST
Overpriced University Law School.
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Lisa Edison-Smith
Oct 12, 2007 9:12 AM CST
I’d change the name of my beloved alma mater from Hamline University School of Law (HUSL), St. Paul, Minnesota, to Hamline Law School. HUSL sounds too much like “hustle.” The reasons are obvious.
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Joanna
Oct 12, 2007 9:13 AM CST
Unreconstructed Marxism Factory
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Peter
Oct 12, 2007 9:17 AM CST
Change the name of my alma matter (now) Pierce Law School, back to what it was - Frankline Pierce Law Center, or a new name - Franklin Pierce Law School or simply Frank’s Law School
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Peter
Oct 12, 2007 9:18 AM CST
typo - should be Franklin Pierce Law Center
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Michael J. Rooney
Oct 12, 2007 9:18 AM CST
Change from University of Illinois College of Law to Chief Illiniwek Law School.
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anonymous
Oct 12, 2007 10:01 AM CST
The University of California, Hastings College of the Law graduating class of 2006 referred to Hastings as “Half the School, Twice the Price” in light of construction shutting down half the campus, and Governor Schwarzenegger doubling our tuition over three years.
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Jenny
Oct 12, 2007 10:02 AM CST
I’d change Georgetown University Law Center to Georgetown University Law School. I always hated the “Center” in its name.
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Gulgun Yalk
Oct 12, 2007 10:04 AM CST
I would change Chase College of Law to Chase Law School. Chase is the best!
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Tom
Oct 12, 2007 10:07 AM CST
I would change the name of the University of Baltimore School of Law to Maryland State Law School. I think this name would help destroy the image that U of B is a small town law school when it is in fact quite large. Ask any Maryland lawyer and they will tell you that U of B grads are the driving force behind the Maryland bar. Most of the Maryland judges are U of B grads.
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Jay
Oct 12, 2007 10:21 AM CST
Change the name of Oregon’s finest - Willamette University College of Law to Willamette Law School - it rhymes with dammit by the way, you plebian stooges.
. Granted “WUCL” makes a fine acronym - but that full name is a resume filler!
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unemployed
Oct 12, 2007 10:27 AM CST
Stress inducing debt factory.
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Pierce Law alum
Oct 12, 2007 10:29 AM CST
Frank’s Law School it a terrible name. No one calls Franklin Pierce Law Center “Frank’s” anymore. When people ask you where you graduated from; do you want to say “Frank’s” - no you say “Pierce Law” - it has the same parallel structure as “Harvard Law”, etc. Lay people better recognize such a name. Much better for marketing.
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Alum
Oct 12, 2007 10:42 AM CST
I’d change Temple University - Beasley School of Law to Temple University Law School. It was ridiculous when they added all of those extra words in 1999. Simple is better.
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Row
Oct 12, 2007 10:45 AM CST
My undergrade was at SUU. I always thought they need a law school becuase who wouldn’t want to graduated from SUe U Law School.
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Alum
Oct 12, 2007 10:55 AM CST
I would change University of Mississippi School of Law to “Ole Miss Law School ”
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alksdklj
Oct 12, 2007 10:55 AM CST
$160k First Year Salary Law School. However, we’d have to change the name every few months as associate salaries rise.
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Il Duce
Oct 12, 2007 11:36 AM CST
We are under construction at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and our student center is this old restaurant called Corleone’s, so me and my classmates lovingly refer to our school simply as “Corleone’s School of Law” “A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a 100 men with guns”—
The Godfather.
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Marc LeBlanc
Oct 12, 2007 11:52 AM CST
I was a night student at the Washington College of Law of the American University which meant going summers with no A/C, so
NOAC School of Law
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Rachel
Oct 12, 2007 12:57 PM CST
While I don’t know anything about lack of A/C (in fact I’d suggest there was too much A/C), I’d change the American University, Washington College of Law to American University Law School so the affiliation is clear without having to fill up two lines of text.
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Heather
Oct 12, 2007 1:50 PM CST
I would change the American University Washington College of Law to American University Law School.
As for the other comment, the A/C worked a bit too well during my time there! Sorry you had a different experience! Such a great school, though.
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Jim
Oct 12, 2007 2:42 PM CST
In recognition of the University of Arkansas’ mascot, the Razorback Hog, I would change the University of Arkansas School of Law to the Hog School of Law.
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Maria Nucci
Oct 12, 2007 3:30 PM CST
I would change it back to its original, and true, name as it was when I graduated: Temple University School of Law. It is bad enough sports venues now sell out - oops, sell “naming rights” - to corporate lords. Must academic institutions now sell (out) to uber-rich graduate/donors?
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Philip Anisman
Oct 12, 2007 4:59 PM CST
Boalt Hall School of Law
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Johnny
Oct 12, 2007 10:00 PM CST
Howard University Law School
change to—->
University of Racial Segregation
Seriously, why should all other schools try to increase diversity when there are thousands of students actively working AGAINST that effort by self-segregating?
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TJ
Oct 13, 2007 12:14 PM CST
Howard is not self-segregation. white people can and do go there. Kind of like the big firms. All white males but blacks, asians and women are welcome (sometimes).
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Sarah
Oct 19, 2007 6:12 AM CST
I am a 1L at “The Catholic Unitersity of America, Columbus School of Law.” I guess we could break this down to TCUA, CSL. The acronym is even too long people! Come on! I like Catholic Universtity School of Law, that’s still pretty long though…
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George Lester
Oct 19, 2007 9:47 AM CST
Diane Pringer is right on. My friends are all confused when I tell them I go to New York Law School and they congratulate me for getting into NYU. We wish we instead were called Manhattan Law School.
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Nicholas A. Kees
Oct 19, 2007 4:50 PM CST
My alma mater’s name is fine, as Marquette University Law School, I just wish they would change the mascot name back to the Warriors.
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