Learn From Professionals
One of the best ways to learn about the legal profession is from those practicing in the field. We regularly schedule visits and lectures by noted scholars and attorneys, who also meet individually with students interested in legal careers. Recent visitors to the Knox campus have included:
- William H. Colby '77, Attorney and Author, lead attorney in the precedent-setting Cruzan "right to die" case before the U.S. Supreme court
- Judge Margaret Ryan '85, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- Jonathan Turley, Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University
- Jan Koran '71, former General Counsel of the YMCA of the USA
- Judge Ruben Castillo, United States District Judge and Member of the United States Sentencing Commission
- David Schulz '74, Partner at Labine, Sullivan, Coke and Schulz in New York, and a Clinical Lecturer in Law and Co-director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at the Yale Law School.
- Judge Harry Edwards, U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
- David Bates '78, Environmental Lawyer, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Morris Dees, Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
- Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union
- Steven Yandle, Associate Dean of the Yale Law School
- Thomas Merrill, Professor of Constitutional Law at Northwestern Law School
Where we go
Law schools were our graduates have been enrolled from 2011-15:
- Harvard University
- Northwestern University
- University of Chicago
- Georgetown University
- University of Wisconsin
- George Washington University
- Boston University
- Washington University
- College of William & Mary
- University of Texas
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Iowa
- University of Illinois
- Indiana University (Maurer School of Law)
- Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law
- DePaul University
- Notre Dame University
- Loyola University
- University of Southern California
