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Undergraduate Law Blog

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Reflections from First-Year Kline Undergrads

11/26/2024

From the classrooms and campus to the neighborhoods and legal institutions of the city, the Undergraduate Law program (aka UGLaw) at Drexel’s Kline School of Law offers a unique college experience for students who value challenging academics, a diverse and close-knit community, and the opportunity to incorporate real-world learning and work experiences into their undergrad studies.

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Law Lab: The City Is Your Classroom

11/11/2024

Drexel Kline’s Undergraduate Law program believes that the best way for students to start figuring out what type of law they are interested in is to start seeing the law in action. In Law Lab (also known as LAW 102), our first year Law majors participate in field trips around the city of Philadelphia to discover the spaces, places, and people who make law work.

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Teaching Undergraduates About Where Their Tax Dollars Go

03/15/2024

The undergraduate law program at Drexel represents a clear step forward in legal education—offering a unique opportunity to dismantle traditional barriers erected to keep fields like tax law secluded within the ivory tower of advanced degree programs.

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Reflections from a first year Law major

04/17/2023

Hi! My name is Nadia Hyoeun Jeon and I’m currently a first year student in the Kline Undergraduate Law program. I’m a BA in Law major and plan to minor in Education and Korean.

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“I found something I wanted, I went after it, and I got it"

04/07/2023

Before she declared the Law major offered by Drexel’s Kline School of Law, Taniyah Spencer knew that she was interested in law, but didn’t know if the field fit her.

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“All they wanted to do was help”

03/24/2023

When Amy Dharia came to Drexel, she wanted to be a physical therapist. After learning that she wasn’t as interested in the clinical nature of the job as she first thought, she needed a new plan.

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Connecting learning, law, and life

03/22/2023

How does a student go from a design and merchandising major to a Law major? With help from the Kline BA in Law faculty.

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The power of experiential learning

03/16/2023

Law doesn’t live only in a classroom, and as a student in the innovative BA in Law program at Drexel’s Kline School of Law, neither will you.

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The Law Is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers: The Return of the BA in Law

10/15/2022

Before a graduate degree became almost universally required to practice law in the United States, undergraduates once roamed the halls of the country’s law schools. The increase in jobs and job functions in areas adjacent to the law has encouraged some pioneering law schools to bring undergraduates back onto the law school campus.

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Drexel’s Kline School of Law Introduces B.A. in Law, Becoming One of Only Four Law Schools in the U.S. to Offer the Undergraduate Degree

09/29/2022

Law permeates every aspect of contemporary American life and there are numerous careers for which a working knowledge of the law is beneficial, but for which a JD is not required. The Bachelor of Arts in Law is designed in part for students pursuing careers that do not require a licensed attorney but do require a robust understanding of the law and the complex nature of the regulatory state.

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