U of Dayton Law Launches 2 Year Degree Program

Looks like Dayton becomes the first school to take advantage of changes in ABA standards that changed how long it takes to get a JD. Now if someone would just step up and take advantage of the DE changes that the ABA put in place at the same time.

UD Alumni News: Two Year Law Degree
A new, accelerated curriculum has attracted national media attention and helped to trigger the highest application volume in a dozen years and the best entering test scores since 1994 in the School of Law. Nationally, law school applications are down.

Skype Launches API

On the same day Google enters the IM/VOIP arena, SKype launches 2 APIs to open its system.

Share Skype
Skype opens IM and Presence to the world. – Introducing SkypeWeb and SkypeNet

American’s Washington College of Law Launches Podcasting Service

AFAIK, WCL is the first US law school to launch a podcasting service. The feed is here. It will be interesting to see how fast other schools adopt similar services. Of course Classcaster makes this sort of thing a lot easier.

AU News Press Release
WCL launched this service primarily for its students in Washington, D.C. and around the world.