The school serves working professionals, homemakers, family caretakers and others whose circumstances prevent them from pursuing a legal education at a fixed facility law school. More than 300 students are enrolled at Concord, including alumni of such prestigious universities as Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, the University of California Berkeley, Duke and the University of Chicago. More than one third of the students already hold advanced degrees. Concord students view lectures on the Internet, logging on at their convenience 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The lectures are presented using audiovisual streaming technology.
Students also attend professor-led dialogues where they discuss and debate legal concepts.
Concord s curriculum corresponds to that of most leading American Bar Association law schools. Students use the same casebooks and textbooks as those of their peers at law school campuses nationwide. Students acquire and hone online legal research skills, now a necessity for practicing attorneys. Students take regular interactive exams on the Internet that test their retention and understanding of material. They receive instantaneous computer-analyzed feedback on their performance, with directions to study material that will address their individual needs.