Contact: Darren Johnson, (631) 761-7062
January 8, 2007
Touro’s New Law Campus in Central Islip Offers Exclusive
Preview
Press Welcomed to Breakfast Tour on January 12 at 9 a.m.
Central Islip,
N.Y. – Excitement builds as finishing touches are currently
being put on the new Touro Law Center. The relocated and totally
reinvented campus is readying for its January opening. This
modern, 180,000-square-foot law campus will be the first of its
kind anywhere and a national model.
The press is
welcomed to attend a special breakfast and tour starting at 9
a.m. on Friday, January 12. Classes start on the 16th.
What makes the
new Touro Law Center unique?
New Location
Now neighbors, Touro Law Center, the Alfonse M. D'Amato U.S.
Courthouse and the John P. Cohalan, Jr. Courthouse in Central
Islip form a triangle of three important and complementary legal
institutions that make the region one of the country’s most
interesting for jurisprudence.
New Building
Completely wireless and interactive, the law campus merges the
teaching of law with its practice. The campus has: two trial
classrooms, a moot courtroom/auditorium that seats 500, expanded
study space, a library that’s four-stories high and 40,000
square feet, elegant offices for visiting law firms to conduct
student interviews, and a new Public Advocacy wing that provides
facilities for 10 not-for-profit advocacy groups, giving them
access to Touro’s law students, who in turn receive hands-on
training. None of the other 180 law schools in the country has
such an advocacy program.
New Curriculum
While Touro is already well-known for its accessible and
accomplished faculty, the design of the new building allows for
even more student-teacher camaraderie. Touro’s new approach also
involves more than reading the law. Students live it. First-year
students get a unique behind-the-scenes look at real cases in
the federal and state courts right next door. The judges and
lawyers from the cases talk with the students after, giving them
invaluable perspective. Some third-year students take finals in
the Cohalan Courthouse – but these finals don’t just involve pen
and paper. Students, playing the role of trial attorneys, try
mock cases in real courtrooms before real judges. If they want
to make the grade as a student, they have to make the grade as a
lawyer. Touro’s Court Observation Program is also a first for
any law school.
Touro is a law
school on the rise with new energy, a cutting-edge academic plan
and, with the move, a setting that offers students a competitive
advantage and an unparalleled law school experience. Touro’s
$35M new campus will provide a learning experience like no other
for students, and the new setting will serve as an integral part
of the New York legal community. Touro Law Center, with a
student body of over 750, has welcomed larger entering classes
over the past three years. Selectivity and test scores for the
26-year-old institution have significantly improved, surpassing
national and regional trends for law schools.
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