  {"id":205160,"date":"2024-10-17T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=205160"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:36:42","slug":"law-school-prelaw-fall-2024-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/17\/law-school-prelaw-fall-2024-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> law school earns high ranking for racial justice, student-faculty ratios"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-law-ranking.jpg\" alt=\"law school building\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-205165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-law-ranking.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-law-ranking-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-law-ranking-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> has once again been nationally recognized for its focus on racial justice and personalized learning environment. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluetoad.com\/publication\/frame.php?i=816097&#038;p=&#038;pn=&#038;ver=html5\">fall 2024 issue<\/a> of The National Jurist\u2019s <em>preLaw<\/em> magazine, <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> law school was given an &ldquo;A&rdquo; rating in racial justice and ranked <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 11 in the U.S. for student-faculty ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> law school is to be a collaborative, multicultural community that prepares students for excellence in careers that advance justice and the rule of law. With programs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/law.hawaii.edu\/academics\/ka-huli-ao\/\">Native Hawaiian law<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/law.hawaii.edu\/academics\/pacific-asian-legal-studies\/\">Pacific-Asian Legal Studies<\/a>, the law school is consistently acknowledged for its <a href=\"https:\/\/law.hawaii.edu\/social-justice\/\">commitment to social justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue explained how small student-faculty ratios can make a huge difference in students\u2019 experiences. The National Jurist reached out to gather insight into how this is benefitting <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>\u2019s law school students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A smaller class allows a professor to have eye contact with each student and read their body language to gain awareness of how the students\u2019 learning is proceeding,&rdquo; said Nicholas Mirkay, associate dean for academic affairs and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> law professor. &ldquo;It allows the classroom discussion to go in different directions, and that brings a sense of what is of interest to the students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> law school\u2019s recent rankings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&ldquo;A&rdquo; rating for Environmental Law, <em>preLaw<\/em> magazine 2024<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;B+&rdquo; rating for practical training, <em>preLaw<\/em> magazine 2024<\/li>\n<li><abbr>No.<\/abbr> 4 for most chosen by older students, <em>The Princeton Review<\/em> 2024<\/li>\n<li><abbr>No.<\/abbr> 5 for most diverse faculty, <em>The Princeton Review<\/em> 2024<\/li>\n<li><abbr>No.<\/abbr> 6 for best state and local clerkships, <em>The Princeton Review<\/em> 2024<\/li>\n<li><abbr>No.<\/abbr> 23 for best part-time programs, <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> 2024<\/li>\n<li><abbr>No.<\/abbr> 23 for best environmental law programs, <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> law school was given an &ldquo;A&rdquo; rating in racial justice and ranked <abbr>No.<\/abbr> 11 in the U.S. for student-faculty ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[154,911,631,9,68],"class_list":["post-205160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-law","tag-program-recognition","tag-ranking","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205170,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205160\/revisions\/205170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}