Students program their laptops for online research access. All of this year’s law students received full scholarships for three years. The financial carrot is part of an ambitious strategy by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar, to attract Ivy League-caliber students. Full story (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the new UC Irvine School of Law, chats with Beatrice Tice, the library director. Ten Mission-style rockers like one from Tice’s mother’s house were custom-made and offer students a relaxing view of mature trees outside the second-story windows. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Students go to and from the building that houses the law library on the first day of class at the new UC Irvine School of Law. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)