MiddLaw

First Middlaw Meeting. Middlaw is a club for anyone interested in legal careers or going to law school - even anyone interested in seeing if they would be interested in law at all!

Middlaw will be hosting a conference call with Middlebury Alumni that are currently in law school. Anyone can come to hear what they have to say and ask any questions. We hope this event will be helpful to people considering if they want to go to law school, or which law school they want to go to, or how it is to be in law school as a Midd student.

David Salem, class of ‘78, earned law and business school degrees from Harvard, and he has been organizing non-profit funds for most of his career. He will speak about the Constitution and its significance for his work today.

Join us for a presentation by Jim Wyda, the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, and Trish Slater, the Chief Investigator for the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland. The talk will cover their federal law experiences and answer your questions in the Q&A to follow. 

Professor Murray Dry will give a talk about his newest book “The Same-Sex Marriage Controversy and American Constitutionalism: A Study in Federalism, The Separation of Powers, and Individual Rights”. He will discuss the twofold character of his examination of the same-sex marriage controversy and then explain how this controversy relates to the larger question of the place of the federal courts, and especially the Supreme Court, in the American system of government.

Middlebury alumni Aaron Mendelsohn who attended Northwestern Law School and currently works at Ernst and Young’s Forensic and Integrity Services practice, will speak to the club about his experiences with consulting, law, and politics. He will discuss the possible intersection between these career fields, his undergraduate experience here at Middlebury, his law school experience, his work as a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office, and past experiences working on presidential campaigns. After he speaks on these experiences a Q&A from students will follow. 

MiddLaw is hosting a board election on Tuesday, April 9, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Axinn 109. All positions are up for grab. Anyone who has come to an event in the past is encouraged to run, as we are seeking new members to lead and new ideas to bolster the club. In the past, MiddLaw has hosted speakers such as federal judges and former dean of Yale Law, as well as events with alum.

 MiddLaw Club will be virtually hosting Midd Alumni who are either currently in law school, or have since graduated and are working in the law field. Students from schools such as UChicago, Georgetown, and University of Michigan Law School will give advice to students on applying to law school, succeeding once accepted, and finding opportunities in the career field.