This week, #FollowFriday features some US law schools as they prepare for their new intake for the 2010/11 academic session. Several law schools that our twitter account @HEA_UKCLE follow are currently gearing up for students starting mid-August – see the full list of the American law schools we follow.

The following tweets this week stood out as worthy mentions, either for current news or some aspect of legal education or scholarship, and therefore receive an entry in this week’s #ff:

tjsl Aug 05, 11:44pm Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Our faculty is prolific in its scholarship and their work is among the most downloaded on the Internet: http://tinyurl.com/2dwvd69

UChicagoLaw Aug 05, 9:09pm University of Chicago Law School

Congrats to former prof Elena Kagan, just confirmed by Senate to SCOTUS; one of her former students reminisces here: http://bit.ly/cEmA7s

UVALaw Aug 04, 4:09pm University of Virginia Law School

In the News: Neil Duxbury Elected to the British Academy http://bit.ly/9DXata

sjquinney Aug 03, 10:38pm SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Attorney-Student Mentoring Program Kicks Off August 19 http://bit.ly/brraHo

NCCULAW Aug 03, 9:51pm North Carolina Central University School of Law

NCCU Law unveils its Virtual Classroom w/ much fanfare. Face 2 Face delivery of legal education -from any distance. Welcome to the future. (see: http://web.nccu.edu/law/news/2010%20-%20July/virtual_classrm.html)