Five students honored with first-ever Provost’s Award for Research Excellence

8 years ago

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 Liberty University News Service Liberty University honored the inaugural recipients of the Provost’s Award for Research Excellence (PARE) on Wednesday in the Montview Alumni Ballroom during an all-faculty meeting. The primary goal of the new awards program is to promote, support, and advance student research, scholarship,...

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Editorial highlights Liberty’s role in preserving freedom

8 years ago

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 Liberty University News Service An editorial by former U.S. Congressman Robert Hurt, executive director of Liberty University's new Center for Law & Government, was published in Sunday's Richmond Times-Dispatch. The editorial (posted below) focused on the fundamentals of freedom in America and Liberty's rising profile and influence....

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LUCOM and Liberty Law team up for malpractice deposition exercise

8 years ago

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 Chris Breedlove Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) and Liberty University School of Law (LUSOL) staged a deposition exercise earlier this month inside the Center for Medical and Health Sciences. The exercise is a new component to LUCOM’s course, Humanities and Medical Jurisprudence, designed to introduce...

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Law professor presents at national Federalist Society event

8 years ago

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 staff Barbara Massie Mouly, associate professor of law at Liberty University School of Law, recently presented at The Federalist Society’s 19th Annual Faculty Conference held in San Francisco. Mouly presented on “Effects of Recognition of Islamic Law in United States Courts,” with an emphasis on comparing...

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Former Congressman Robert Hurt to lead new Center for Law & Government

9 years ago

Wed, 25 Jan 2017Len Stevens, Liberty University External CommunicationsAfter 15 years in local, state, and national government, former U.S. Congressman Robert Hurt (Virginia’s 5th District) has joined Liberty University to head up the new Center for Law & Government. In concert with the Helms School of Government and Liberty University School of Law,...

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Law Professors Present at National ABA Conference

9 years ago

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 staff Earlier this school year, Liberty Law Professor Philip Manns and Associate Dean Timothy M. Todd presented at the 2016 ABA Joint Fall CLE Meeting in Boston, which was sponsored by the ABA Section of Taxation and the Trust and Estate division of the ABA Section...

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Michael Reagan relays values learned from his father

9 years ago

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 Liberty University News Service Through two brief moments of silence, Michael Reagan, son of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his first wife Jane Wyman, powerfully expressed both the need to be forgiven and to forgive as he opened his heart to Liberty University students in...

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Hitting the local airwaves: Liberty Law professor co-hosts talk radio show

9 years ago

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 staff Liberty University School of Law Professor Tory L. Lucas recently served as guest host for Lynchburg’s Morning Show with Mari and Brian. During the show, Lucas and host Brian Weigand discussed presidential politics, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the defamation case involving the University of Virginia and Rolling...

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Liberty Law professors address faith-based legal education issues at national symposium

9 years ago

Thu, 27 Oct 2016staffProfessors Edna Udobong and Rena Lindevaldsen each presented at the 2016 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools that took place September 29-30, 2016. The Conference is a biennial event that provides a scholarly symposium for law professors from around the country to discuss how current events relate...

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Liberty Law notches second highest Bar Exam pass rate in Virginia

9 years ago

Wed, 26 Oct 2016 Liberty University News Service First-time test takers from Liberty University School of Law finished with the second highest pass rate in Virginia for the 2016 July Bar Exam. With an 89.66 pass rate, Liberty finished just around two percentage points behind the University of Virginia’s law school (91.76),...

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