Syracuse University College of Law

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Syracuse University College of Law
Established	1895
Type	Private
Dean	Hannah R. Arterian
Students	675
Location	Syracuse, New York, USA
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools, Order of the Coif
Website	www.law.syr.edu

Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL), founded in 1895, is a Juris Doctor degree-granting law school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. It is one of only four law schools in Upstate New York (the other three being Albany, Buffalo, and Cornell). Syracuse was accredited by the American Bar Association in 1923 and is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools. As of the 2007-2008 academic year, 675 students were enrolled in the College of Law.

Syracuse has been ranked in the top 10 for its trial and appellate advocacy program by U.S. News and World Report and is an emerging leader in the relatively novel field of National Security Law through the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. The College of Law is home to the New York State Science & Technology Law Center and the New York Prosecutors Training Institute. It also maintains a chapter of the Order of the Coif, of which only 80 of the more than 190 ABA accredited law schools are a member.

The College of Law offers joint degree programs with, among others, the top-ranked Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the highly-regarded S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, as well as the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It offers a special first year program in international law and summer internship/externship opportunities in London, Amsterdam, and Geneva. Students may also qualify for specialized certifications in such areas of study as Corporate Law, Estate Planning, Family Law, and Property Law.

The College of Law is located on the edge of the Syracuse University Hill adjacent to the Carrier Dome in Ernest I. White and Winifred MacNaughton Halls. Its library is called the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library. The library is a congressionally designated depository for federal materials and also houses a collection of former Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson's artifacts and documents.

Contents 1 Notable alumni 1.1 Federal Government 1.2 State and Local Government 1.3 Private Sector 2 Notable professors 3 Advocacy skills training 4 Moot court and trial team 5 Rankings 6 Publications 7 In-House Clinical Programs 8 Applied learning centers 9 Student Organizations 10 External links

[edit] Notable alumni

The College of Law's alumni includes

[edit] Federal Government

• Joseph R. Biden, Jr. - Vice President of the United States and former U.S. Senator from Delaware
• David Crane - former Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone
• Alfonse D'Amato - former U.S. Senator from New York
• Randy Kuhl - former U.S. Congressman from the 29th District of New York
• William Q. Hayes - Judge for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
• Neal P. McCurn - Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• Richard J. Cardamone - Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Theodore A. McKee - Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Norman A. Mordue - Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. - Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• David N. Hurd- Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• Glenn T. Suddaby - Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• Sandra L. Townes - Judge for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
• Thomas Blake Kennedy - Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming
• Howard G. Munson - Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• Edmund Port - Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
• Hugh Douglas Barclay- former United States Ambassador to El Salvador
• Herman W. Nickel - former United States Ambassador to South Africa

[edit] State and Local Government

• Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III - Attorney General of Delaware
• James E. Graves, Jr. - Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court
• Tarky Lombardi - former New York State Senator
• Addie Jenne Russell - Assemblymember, New York State Assembly, 118th Assembly District
• William Barclay - Assemblymember, New York State Assembly, 124th Assembly District
• Tom O'Mara - Assemblymember, New York State Assembly, 137th Assembly District
• Joanie Mahoney - Onondaga County Executive
• Carl J. Mugglin - Justice, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department
• Joseph L. Yannotti - Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division
• John Daniel Dailey - Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals
• Robert D. Lippmann - Judge, New York County Supreme Court
• Martin Schoenfeld - Judge, New York County Supreme Court
• Gloria Dabiri - Judge, Kings County Supreme Court
• Phyllis Orlikoff Flug - Judge, Queens County Supreme Court
• Marcia P. Hirsch - Judge, Queens County Supreme Court
• Elizabeth H. Emerson - Judge, Suffolk County Supreme Court
• Alfred J. Weiner - Judge, Rockland County Supreme Court
• Elma A. Bellini - Judge, Monroe County Supreme Court
• William P. Polito - Judge, Monroe County Supreme Court
• Thomas Stander - Judge, Monroe County Supreme Court
• Brian F. DeJoseph - Judge, Onondaga County Supreme Court
• James P. Murphy - Judge, Onondaga County Supreme Court
• Thomas J. Murphy - Judge, Onondaga County Supreme Court
• Anthony J. Paris - Judge, Onondaga County Supreme Court
• William R. Roy - Judge, Onondaga County Supreme Court
• Anthony F. Shaheen - Judge, Oneida County Supreme Court
• Norman W. Seiter, Jr. - Judge, Oswego County Supreme Court
• Phillip R. Rumsey - Judge, Cortland County Supreme Court
• Michael E. Daley - Judge, Herkimer County Supreme Court
• Ruth Jakubowski - Associate Judge, Maryland State Circuit Court, 3rd Judicial Circuit

[edit] Private Sector

• Elizabeth Strout - Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge
• Jay Schadler - ABC News correspondent and award-winning journalist
• Tim Green - former professional athlete and New York Times best-selling author
• Karen DeCrow - former President of the National Organization for Women
• William J. Brodsky - CEO and Chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange
• Joseph M. Di Scipio - Partner, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth
• Vincent Cole - Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Lexmark International, Inc.
• Arthur Sherman - First Vice President, Smith Barney
• David Gordon - Managing Partner, Latham & Watkins
• Donald MacNaughton - Retired Partner, White & Case
• Christopher Fallon - Senior Partner, Cozen O'Connor
• Julie A. North - Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Robert Osgood - Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Stuart N. Alperin - Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Michael J. Zeidel - Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Adam Leitman Bailey - Prominent Manhattan attorney
• Kevin R. Sutherland - Partner, Clyde & Co US LLP
• David J. Moffitt - Managing Director, Head Structured Product Sales, Merrill Lynch
• Will S. Skinner - Of Counsel, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (Los Angeles)
• Herbert J. Levine - Retired Partner Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

[edit] Notable professors

The College of Law's faculty includes:

• Internationally recognized constitutional law and national security expert William C. Banks
• Former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone David Crane
• Former United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York Thomas J. Maroney
• Noted constitutional scholar, author, and historian William M. Wiecek
• Tort and constitutional law expert Leslie Bender
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge and Adjunct Professor Emeritus Rosemary S. Pooler

Both Professors Wiecek and Bender have been cited by the United States Supreme Court.

[edit] Advocacy skills training

The College of Law was honored with the Emil Gumpert Award for the best law school advocacy program in the United States by the American College of Trial Lawyers. The New York State Bar Association cited Syracuse as the best trial skills law school in New York State 10 times in recent years by awarding the College its coveted Tiffany Cup.

Syracuse has received the highest award that the American College of Trial Lawyers gives to law schools based on the school's trial advocacy record and the strength of the school's trial training programs. In 2002 U.S. News & World Report rated the College of Law's trial advocacy program in the top 10 in the United States.

[edit] Moot court and trial team

Because of its extensive advocacy skills program, the College of Law has won numerous national moot court competitions. In the past 16 years, its teams have won 3 national trial championships, 15 Northeast regional first place awards, and 5 best-advocate-in-the-nation awards. Five times in the past 9 years the College of Law has been invited to the National Invitational Tournament of Champions, featuring the nation's 12 best teams. Syracuse has won other national awards in appellate, minority rights, and international tax competitions.

In March 2008, the College of Law placed in the semi-finals in the National Trial Competition in Austin, TX. In addition, the College of Law finished with the best record of New York state law schools. In April 2008, Syracuse was awarded the prestigious New York State Bar Association Tiffany Cup and a $5,000 scholarship for the college.

In the Fall of 2007, Syracuse's undefeated Tournament of Champions team placed third in the nation. The Tournament of Champions is a national invitational tournament in which the nation's 16 schools with the best two year record in the National Trial Competition and the AAJ are invited to participate. The College of Law's National Appellate Team also won the Northeast regional finals. The team went undefeated and earned the highest score in the first three rounds, then won the finals in a unanimous decision. Also in the Fall of 2007, Syracuse bested 39 teams by placing 1st in the National Trial Competition, Buffalo regional.

In 2006, a team of three students won the national championship at the second annual Sexual Orientation Moot Court Competition at the UCLA School of Law. The competition included 16 law school teams from across the country.

In the Fall of 2005, the College of Law advanced to the semifinal round in the ABA Northeast Regional Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy competition in New Haven, Connecticut. That same year, Syracuse won the Northeast Regional round for the Thomas Tang Moot Court competition in Boston, MA, and won the Best Brief Award for the Sojourner Truth National Appelllate Competition.

In 2002 a team of four students finished second in the National Civil Trial Competition and a second year student won overall best advocate. In 2002 and 2003 the College of Law participated in the 3rd Annual Quinnipiac University School of Law's Northeast Regional Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy competition. Another event was the 12th annual Cat Bennett Criminal Trial Advocacy competition, as sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

From 1998-2001, Syracuse was the first place winner in three Sojourner Truth National Appellate Competitions, and won the Best Brief Award each year. In 2000, the College of Law was the national champion in the Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition and regional champions in 2001. The Tax Team won the Oral Competition in the 2001 National Tax Moot Court Competition.

For more than 30 years, Syracuse's National Trial Team achieved the best record in Region II competition, winning 15 Regional Championships, two National Championships, one National Championship Runner-Up Award, three National Best Advocate Awards, and numerous Regional Advocacy Awards. From 1989-2001, the College of Law was invited to participate in the Tournament of Champions fall competition. The competition is only open to the 16 law schools with the best trial team records over the preceding three years. From 1983-2001, Syracuse's ATLA Trial Team won one National Championship, plus numerous regional awards.

From 1998-2001, the National Appellate team won the Region I competition with the Best Brief Award and was named a Quarter-Finalist in the 1999 National Finals. Each year, teams of first year students take part in an International Law Moot Court Competition held in Toronto, Canada. Syracuse's team won the championship in 1993.

[edit] Rankings

The College of Law is currently ranked a third-tier law school according the 2010 U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings, meaning it is ranked between 101st and 150th out of the 184 ABA accredited law schools. In previous decades, however, it had been ranked as a top 50 law school.^{[citation needed]} The College hopes to restore its former ranking through a series of initiatives which includes, but is not limited to

• The aggressive recruitment of distinguished faculty
• The creation of the Office of Student Life
• More stringent admissions policies
• Extensive networking to create stronger ties with regional and national employers
• Building its financial endowment and investing in major improvements to law school facilities

Given the immense resources of Syracuse University, a major research university and member of the Association of American Universities, an increase in the College of Law's ranking seems to be a very realistic goal.

[edit] Publications

• Syracuse Law Review
• Syracuse Science & Technology Law Reporter [1]
• Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce
• The Digest: National Italian-American Bar Association Law Journal
• Impunity Watch

[edit] In-House Clinical Programs

• Children's Rights and Family Law Clinic
• Community Development Law Clinic
• Criminal Defense Law Clinic
• Disability Rights Clinic
• Elder Law Clinic
• Low Income Taxpayer Law Clinic
• Securities Arbritration Consumer Law Clinic

[edit] Applied learning centers

• The Burton Blatt Institute: Centers of Innovation on Disability
• Disability Law and Policy
• Family Law & Social Policy
• Global Law & Practice
• Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship
• Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism (PCSE)
  • Corporate Counsel
• National Security & Counterterrorism
• Syracuse University New Technology Law Center; New York State Science & Technology Law Center
• The Writing Center

[edit] Student Organizations

• The Actual Innocence Society
• The Alternative Dispute Resolution
• The American Bar Association/Student Bar Association
• The American Constitution Society
• The Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association
• The Black Law Students Association
• The Christian Legal Fellowship
• The Communications Law and Policy Society
• The Corporate Law Society
• The Criminal Justice Society
• The Democratic Law Caucus
• The disAbility Law Society
• The Environmental Law Society
• The Entertainment & Sports Law Society
• The Family Law Society
• The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
• The Feminist Action League
• The Health Law Society
• The Indigenous Law Students Association
• The Intellectual Property Law Society
• The International Law Students Association
• The Irish American Law Students Association
• The Jewish Law Students Association
• The J. Reuben Clark Society
• The Korean Law Students Association
• The Latin American Law Students Association
• The Middle Eastern Law Students Association
• The Moot Court Honor Society
• The Muslim Law Students Association
• The National Italian American Bar Association
• The National Lawyers Guild
• The National Women's Law Student Association
• The Outlaw (Gay/Straight Law Student Alliance)
• The Phi Alpha Delta
• The Republican Law Caucus
• The South Asian Law Students Association
• The St. Thomas More Society
• The Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis - Law Student Division
• The Syracuse Tax Society
• The Syracuse Public Interest Network (SPIN)
• The Toastmasters - Devil's Advocate Chapter

[edit] External links

• Syracuse University College of Law
• Syracuse University
• New York State Science & Technology Law Center

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