David A. Grenardo, Marianist Law Schools: Demonstrating the Courage to Be Catholic, 60 J. Cath. Legal Stud. 1 (2022)
This Article concludes that the Marianist law schools educate their students in a manner consistent with the Marianist tradition and Catholic faith, and other religiously-affiliated law schools can use their efforts as a guide for their own education models. Namely, religiously-affiliated law schools should identify the characteristics that describe their legal education and determine whether they are living out those characteristics.20 Also, they can share their faith and traditions with students of all faith backgrounds in an inclusive, respectful, and thoughtful way. Finally, religiously-affiliated law schools can encourage their students, while also providing opportunities to do so, to adapt to changing times, seek justice and peace, and use their gifts and talents to serve the common good.
Ulysses Jaen, Rebekah Miller, The Future of Legal Education: Game-Changing ABA-Approved Online Law Schools Make Becoming A Lawyer Easier and More Affordable, 20 Ave Maria L. Rev. 66 (2022)
As legal educators, our mission is to teach our students and assist our profession and our community with the intricacies of our justice system. We aim to teach students about the law and to help as many people as we can through them, because it is done for the common good. Becoming licensed attorneys is the best way that our students can make a difference in our society. Teaching as many students who want to help our communities face the challenges of today is limited by the current American Bar Association (ABA) *67 standards that generally require in-person instruction.2 We believe that the lessons learned during this terrible COVID-19 Pandemic add impetus to the creation of part-time programs as well as the expansion of fully online legal education offerings in the near future.3
Vincent R. Johnson, The First Woman Dean of a Texas Law School: Barbara Bader Aldave at St. Mary's University, 54 St. Mary's L. J. 153 (2023)
The field in which Dean Aldave's legacy is indisputable concerns the diversity of the faculty and student body. The law school and the university have never turned away from those priorities. Indeed, St. Mary's University School of Law is an example of a law school that is much more diverse today than when Aldave was made dean. 246Today, minority, female, and international students - just like majority students - play an important role and find success in every aspect of the law school's educational operations and extracurricular opportunities. Dean Aldave laid the foundation for this productive and happy state of affairs. That, as much as anything, is her great legacy at the law school.
