Talk:Georgetown University Law Center
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[edit] Admission Statistics
Most of the law school pages have admission statistics, with median GPA's and LSAT scores. I'm not sure where to find this information, anyone want to add it in?
[edit] Famous alumni list formatting
The current format is confusing. I suggest this:
- (1950) John Smith (1927-1990), U.S. Senator (1960-1966), CEO of Smith, Inc. (1966-1990).
Would there be any confusion over what those dates mean? I'm basically trying to avoid the silly parentheticals of deceased or retired that the list currently uses. Postdlf 19:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- I just have a problem with using Alive vs. Deceased... maybe we can do better here. (DP) Might it be better to break them up by their background? Say Members of congress... entertainment etc like the Harvard Law School Alumni is broken up?(DP)
- I think the best way to do it is simply to organize by when they attended. Their relationship to the school defines them here. Whether they are alive or deceased really shouldn't even be mentioned in this article. As for "background", their field is actually subsequent to their attendance, so it's not really background from the perspective of this article at all. And it isn't like members of Congress attended GULC in clusters... And people may fit into multiple fields/categories of subsequent accomplishment. Year of attendance/graduation is the simplest, and the most proper way to show how the alumni relate to one another in terms of their relationship to the school. Postdlf 19:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Putting the year of graduation in a parenthetical at the beginning seems weird; I haven't seen any other similar lists put together that way. How about doing what some universities (e.g. Harvard) do: integrate the year (with apostrophe if the century is clear) into the text itself, like "John Smith '50 spoke at the meeting." So we would have:
- John Smith '50 (1927-1990), U.S. Senator (1960-1966), CEO of Smith, Inc. (1966-1990).
- Alternatively:
- John Smith (1927-1990), J.D. 1950, U.S. Senator....
- Chaucer1387 19:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Putting the year of graduation in a parenthetical at the beginning seems weird; I haven't seen any other similar lists put together that way. How about doing what some universities (e.g. Harvard) do: integrate the year (with apostrophe if the century is clear) into the text itself, like "John Smith '50 spoke at the meeting." So we would have:
- I think the best way to do it is simply to organize by when they attended. Their relationship to the school defines them here. Whether they are alive or deceased really shouldn't even be mentioned in this article. As for "background", their field is actually subsequent to their attendance, so it's not really background from the perspective of this article at all. And it isn't like members of Congress attended GULC in clusters... And people may fit into multiple fields/categories of subsequent accomplishment. Year of attendance/graduation is the simplest, and the most proper way to show how the alumni relate to one another in terms of their relationship to the school. Postdlf 19:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Date Meaning
I take it the first date is the year of graduation? Maybe to make it clearer, that parenthetical could be (J.D. 1950) or (L.L.M. 2001) or whatever (Did GULC ever grant L.L.B.'s?). --Libertylaw 11:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- That's a good idea. Postdlf 04:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A question
Why is it considered a law "center" as opposed to a law "school?" Ameriquedialectics 20:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- I know it was originally the "Law Department", and I think it took the name center when it moved the present location. They've started very recently to refer to the school as simply "Georgetown Law" in their publications, but the location is still "Georgetown University Law Center".--Patrick 21:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
