Winter 2025

True North

On Rich Freer’s desk sits a compass. It points north. True North. As the new dean of Emory University School of Law, he applies it metaphorically to all that he does and aspires to accomplish.

Law’s Big Test Goes Back to School

More than two centuries after the first bar examination was conducted in the Delaware Colony, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) is rolling out a new test – the NextGen bar exam – that will focus less on memorizing legal doctrine than on being versed in the practical applications of law.

Experts Guide Next Generation

Emory Law faculty was bolstered this year by three legal writing experts. Their expertise will enrich the law school’s foundational skills of legal writing and analysis. These hires and promotions are consistent with Dean Freer’s “True North” of professional excellence and faculty eminence.