Lawrence Velvel

After Lawrence Velvel's citizen lawsuit was rejected in a lower court, the challenging lawyers on the Undeclared War Committee then tried to test the constitutional question by putting together a lawsuit of 13 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, suing on the theory that the Vietnam conflict ...

As an aside, later in Leef's piece, he cites an article by Lawrence Velvel for the proposition that ABA accreditation standards are actually too demanding. That's almost assuredly not true, but Velvel's piece does make the good point that input-based standards are poor indicators of law school quality — a ...

... and admissions policies as a way to make law school a reality for “minorities, immigrants and members of the working class, all of whom have largely been excluded in the last 30 years, and to members of the middle class, who increasingly have been shut out in recent years,” Dean Lawrence Velvel said ...

Lawrence Velvel is the school's dean. He says the law school trustees subsidize the completion college for under half a million dollars a year. Velvel says ACHLS is a good investment because most of the students do go on to the Mass School of Law, or MSL. Even though we are not charging tuition for the ...

Lawrence Velvel, a victim of Madoff's Ponzi scheme and the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, has been an outspoken critic of Picard. Beyond the clawback lawsuits, Picard has denied claims for compensation by hundreds of individuals defrauded by Madoff, according to Velvel.

Investor Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, said he was introduced to Madoff by a friend whose late mother began investing with him decades ago. "I was told there was a small number of people who practically begged him to let them keep their money with him," Mr Velvel said.

I recently received a communication from a sophisticated, savvy individual who has much experience with how the world works. This person seems to be of the view that the Madoff scam may have been an organized crime operation, with Mafia corruption in Madoff and the SEC. This possibility of organized ...

For an original view about why America is in trouble, read “Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam”(Doukathsan Press) by award-winning author Lawrence Velvel. If his book title, taken from the fourth stanza of the national hymn “America The Beautiful,” is intended as sarcasm, that's only because of the author's ...