Student Life
Early to Law School and Loving It
First impressions from an accelerated degree student I am about halfway into my first semester of law school and I can say, without hesitation, that I’ve gotten myself into the most fulfilling, outrageous, exhausting, formative, wonderful journey of my life. It’s not like what I expected, though…
From Weekend Competitors to Jayhawk Lawyers-in-Training
David Hammack, fourth from right in back row, and Jordan Kane, far right in middle row, with their mock trial teammates in 2014.Mock trial prepares undergraduates for law schoolKU Law provides ample opportunities for students to gain hands-on courtroom experience, but for some future Jayhawk…
Speaking Surzhyk and Eating Borsch
Josh DeMoss in Kyiv, Ukraine. Dual degree candidate studies international trade in the breadbasket of Europe As a JD/MA candidate in Russian, East European, Eurasian Studies and Law I've long had an interest in Eastern Europe, but it wasn’t until I studied international trade at KU Law that I…
Rural Practice Prospects? Legendary
Student finds opportunity, community and special history in Dodge CityI recently spent two days in Dodge City, Kansas, attending the 2016 Southwest Kansas Bar Association Annual Meeting. (That's me, second from left in the photo.) The trip was arranged and sponsored by the KU Law Career Services…
An Education 16 Years in the Making
Tom Meier, L’16Tom Meier took more than a few twists and turns on his path to graduation, but today he will earn his law degree after a 16-year journey.Tom Meier, L'16Originally from Indiana, Lt. Col. Meier, who retired from the U.S. Army in 2009, completed his undergraduate degree as an ROTC…
Sisters In Law
Jacque Patton & Grecia Perez, L’16Grecia Perez (left) and Jacque Patton, L'16For many, the friendships born in Green Hall last long past graduation. But some students gain more than study partners, becoming roommates, colleagues and lifelong friends.Class of 2016 members Jacque Patton and…
A New Calling
Bryce Langford, L’16The Langford family gathered at Broken Arrow park for Fun Day, a KU Law tradition resurrected in 2013.For Bryce Langford, pursuing a law degree meant giving up the family business.“I worked as a pastor for eight years,” Langford said. “My wife’s parents and my parents and…
‘A One-Woman Machine’
Ashley Akers, L’16Wyoming native Ashley Akers knew she had found her home away from home the first time she visited Green Hall.“The town was great, the school was welcoming, and the price was right,” Akers said. “From the first time I stepped foot in the law school, it was supportive and…
Lens on the law
Bradley Thomas, L’16Bradley Thomas brings a scientist’s reason and an artist’s creativity to the study of law. The former research scientist holds an undergraduate degree in molecular biology, but he’s as comfortable behind a camera lens as he is behind a microscope. “In law school, it’s an…
KU Law Basketball Campers 'Love, Cry and Bleed Crimson and Blue'
Neil’s Atomic Fireballs is the unofficially official University of Kansas School of Law camping group. For over 20 years, law students from KU have been waiting, scheming, and plotting in the concourse at Allen Fieldhouse before every home men’s basketball game. In 1995 we finally gave…