The University of Florida's law school is soliciting nominations for their dean. Cribbing now from their brochure announcing the dean search:
The mission of UF Law is to achieve excellence in educating professionals, advancing legal scholarship, serving the public, and fostering justice. UF Law has a longstanding tradition of producing national leaders and is one of the nation’s best values in legal education.
UF Law has outstanding faculty, students, and alumni. It currently has 54 tenure/tenure-track faculty, and 24 legal skills faculty. The faculty is highly productive with respect to research and scholarship, and is committed to high level of teaching and service. The law faculty has embraced and engaged in a multi-year process of strategic planning. It is invested in that ongoing process. UF Law has a total student body of approximately 1,000 students. The 2014 median LSAT/GPA were 158/3.50, and the July 2014 bar passage was 90.6%, the highest bar pass rate among law schools in the state. UF Law has approximately 21,000 loyal alums. The generosity of its loyal alumni and friends, including college namesake Fredric G. Levin, a prominent trial lawyer, makes the college one of the nation’s best endowed public law schools.
U.S. News & World Report ranks UF Law 49th overall and 24th among public law schools. UF Law has a Tax Law program that ranks 2nd overall and an Environmental Law program that ranks 14th overall. UF Law continues to be highly rated in terms of reputation: 16th among publics and 38th overall in the assessment of practicing lawyers and judges; and 14th among publics and 35th overall in the assessment of academics. In addition to the J.D., the college offers four LL.M. programs (Taxation, International Taxation, Environmental and Land Use Law, and Comparative Law), and it has one of the country’s few programs awarding S.J.D.’s in Taxation.
A major competitive advantage of UF Law is that it is one of the nation’s best values in legal education. UF Law is third most affordable among the nation’s top 50 law schools based on American Bar Association data for tuition and fees plus annual expenses. The in-state and out-of-state tuitions are $22,230 and $38,835. These tuition levels make UF Law a desirable school for law applicants.
Read the rest of the brochure and the nomination process here.
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