NIU College of Law Hosts 2nd CLEO Summer Program

July 01, 2003

DeKalb-For the second year in a row, the Northern Illinois University College of Law hosted undergraduate students from around the country through a Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) program designed for students interested in attending law school.

More than thirty students attended the 2003 session, which is intended to introduce students to the rigors of law school study.  Among a variety of topics about which students received instruction were legal writing skills such as basic analytical, organizational, and essay writing; condensed versions of traditional law school classes; and methods to prepare for the LSAT, including a pre- and post-session practice LSAT.

Over the course of the nearly three-week session, June 8 through July 2, students attended all-day classes and lived in dorms on the NIU DeKalb campus. In addition to their scholarly studies, students met in Chicago with current law students who are CLEO program graduates.

The CLEO College Scholars Program is supported by the Thurgood Marshall Legal Education Opportunity Program, a federally-funded project of the U.S. Department of Education.  Its goal is to help low-income, minority, or otherwise disadvantaged student succeed in law school.  Traditional CLEO programs recruit students who have completed their bachelor degrees and have been admitted to a law school.  CLEO's partnership with NIU College of Law, inaugurated in 2002, recruits undergraduates in the middle of their undergraduate studies.

The NIU College of Law CLEO Program Director is Associate Dean and Professor Malcolm

Morris, 815-753-0280.
 
 
For more information, contact:
Melody Mitchell
Director, Alumni Events & Public Relations
815/753-9655l
L10CJS1@wpo.cso.niu.edu