[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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            A TRIBUTE TO SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

 Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, I rise today to call the 
Senate's attention to several recent events at New Jersey's Seton Hall 
University school of law. After just four decades of operation, the 
school has clearly become one of the rising stars among this Nation's 
law schools.
  The road to success has not, however, been easy. Just a few years 
ago, Seton Hall University was seriously considering moving the school 
from its location in downtown Newark. After serious discussion and 
debate, the university decided that its future was tied to the city's 
and the decision was made to build a new, state-of-the-art law center 
facility in Newark.
  That was the right decision. In a recent study of 18,000 law students 
at 165 accredited law schools conducted by the National Jurist, an 
independent monthly magazine, and the Princeton Review, Seton Hall 
University school of law ranked second in overall student satisfaction.
  Seton Hall also ranked second in terms of student satisfaction with 
the law center facilities themselves, and third in student satisfaction 
with the law library, computerized equipment, and other research 
facilities.
  These rankings far exceed those attained by some of the most 
established and prestigious law schools in the county.
  As Dean Ronald Riccio said of the results of the survey, ``I have 
always felt that the best judge of the quality of any law school is the 
students. They know what a good program is.''
  As important as student satisfaction is, we all recognize that it is 
not the only measure of a school's success. Another is the quality of 
the work produced by those students. In that regard, according to a 
recent survey conducted by the University of Miami, the Seton Hall Law 
Review ranked, along with the law reviews published by Yale and the 
University of Virginia, as the fifth most cited law journal in the 
country in terms of opinions written by judges from the 13 Federal 
circuit courts of appeal.
  Another indication of the school's success is the fact that, in 1995, 
the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture--a prestigious event which law 
schools throughout the country compete to host--will take place at 
Seton Hall.
  Finally, in another first for Seton Hall, the school's Black Law 
Students Association's moot court team defeated the team from 
Georgetown Law Center to win the Frederick Douglass National Moot Court 
Competition.
  Mr. President, we in New Jersey have long been extremely proud of the 
accomplishments of this school, its students and its alumni. It is very 
gratifying to see that Seton Hall University School of Law is now 
attaining the kind of national recognition it deserves.

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