New Faculty
Points of Distinction
Dustin Marlan, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law B.A., Indiana University • Courses: Business Organizations; Community Development Clinic; Intellectual Property • Prior Position: Fellow, University of Michigan Law School Community Development Clinic • Recent Publications: “Is the Word ‘Consumer’ Biasing Trademark Law?,” Texas A&M Law Review (2021) “Unmasking the Right of Publicity,” Hastings Law Journal (2020) “Beyond Cannabis: Psychedelic Decriminalization and Social Justice,” Lewis & Clark L. Rev. (2019)
Elizabeth McCuskey, Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law B.A., University of Pennsylvania • Courses: Civil Procedure; Food & Drug Law; Health Law • Prior Position: Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law • Recent Publications: “Subject-Matter Jurisdiction: The Power of Interests and the Interests of Power,” (Coleman, Malveaux, Pedro, & Porter, eds)., A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (2021) “Federalism, ERISA, and State Single-Payer Health Care” (with Erin C. Fuse Brown), University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2020) “Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style” (with Erin C. Fuse Brown, Matthew Lawrence, & Lindsay Wiley), The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Fall 2020)
Geoffrey McDonald, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., Emory University School of Law Ph.D., in Religion: Ethics & Society, Emory University M.A.R., in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University B.A., Wesleyan University • Courses: Contracts, Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Jurisprudence • Prior position: Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services NYC-Bronx • Recent Publication: Kierkegaard as Antinomian: Ethics, Politics, Law (book manuscript under submission)
Danya Reda, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., Harvard Law School M.St., University of Oxford (Islamic Law and Philosophy) A.B., Brown University • Courses: Civil Procedure; Comparative and Islamic Law; Torts • Prior Position: Associate Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law • Recent Publications: “Orientalizing Procedure,” A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, Elizabeth Porter, eds., forthcoming 2021) “What Does it Mean to Say That Procedure is Political?,” Fordham Review (2017)
• Bar Exam Passage • Employment Success &
• Affordability
Law
“How the Anchoring Effect Might Have Saved Civil Rule-Makers Time and Money (and Face),”Review of Litigation (2015)
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UMass Law’s Distinctive Value Bar Pass Rates & Tuition UMass Law prepares you for bar exam success and offers a tuition rate that is one of the most
Ultimate Bar Passage Rates Law School
Class of 2017 ABA Std. 316 “Ultimate” Bar Passage Rate
affordable in New England. In addition to affordability and the pursuit of justice, the third
Tuition & fees* (2020-2021)
Harvard
99%
$67,081
Boston College
97%
$59,648
Boston University
95%
$58,962
The ABA’s Standard 316 ultimate bar passage
Northeastern
95%
$54,870
rate–the percent of law school graduates
UMass Law
90%
$29,551**
New England Law
80%
$51,118
Suffolk Law School
79%
$52,156
Western New England
75%
$45,102
pillar of our mission is a firm commitment to academic excellence.
who pass the bar exam within two years of graduation–is generally considered one of the best measures of the quality of a law school’s legal education. You can compare our Class of 2017 passage rate (the most recent year for which ABA data is available), along with our
Source: abarequireddisclosures.org/BarPassageOutcomes.aspx *In-state: $29,511, Regional (RI/VT): $31,437, Non-residents: $38,419
tuition, in the adjacent chart. For the Class of 2018, UMass Law’s ultimate bar passage rate is already 92%.
Class of 2019 Employment Rates
Employment Success UMass Law prepares you to pursue
Full-time, long-term, bar-required
All bar-required + JD advantage
justice in any field of law. We were
Harvard
87.5%
93.3%
nationally recognized by preLaw
Boston College
83.4%
90.7%
magazine for achieving an employment
Boston University
83.3%
90.9%
rate substantially higher than predicted
Northeastern
71.4%
90.6%
UMass Law
60.9%
80.4%
Roger Williams
58.2%
72.4%
ranked UMass Law among the top law
Suffolk
58.0%
82.0%
schools in the U.S. for practical training,
Western New England
51.9%
74.1%
placing 3rd in Massachusetts and 5th in
New England
51.4%
69.9%
for the Class of 2019, placing UMass Law on the Employment Honor Roll. For the past two years, the same publication
New England in 2020.
Source: abarequireddisclosures.org/employmentoutcomes.aspx
Class Size Smaller class sizes engender a stronger sense of community and enable greater student-faculty interaction. According to ABA data for academic year 2019-20, UMass Law offered the smallest first-year doctrinal class sizes of any law school in Massachusetts.
Class Size Comparison Massachusetts Law Schools
UMass Law
46 students
Northeastern
75
Boston University
77
Harvard
80
Western New England
80
Boston College
84
Suffolk
86
New England
140
Source: abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx
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