SAS Law School

THE SAS LAW SCHOOL

It's British, but the degrees appear to be awarded by non-wonderful Southern Eastern University in the U.S.

 

As it happens, I was doing the write-up on them yesterday for the forthcoming book on degree mills.

Southern Eastern used to write (and phone) some of the most nasty messages I ever got froma school, especially when I refer to the time when, according to one of the national papers in Britain, they agreed to sell an undercover reporter something like 5,000 blank signed diplomas. "Never happened," they say.

They also grew combatant when I wrote about my visit to their "campus" which turned out to be a basic small undetached condo-looking affair in the Docklands area of east London. They said they were "just about" to move into spacious quarters in the London Canary Wharf tower when the IRA blew it up, so they were in temporary quarters. That was eight years ago.

Wonder where their US campus is?

 

Apparently in Arkansas (see http://www.saslaw.org.uk/Southern%20Eastern%20University.htm)

 

WOW! They even charge more for their LL.M. than the University of London! Why would ANYONE go this route?

 

They actually are incorporated in Arkansas as Southern Eastern University, Inc. But the only available information from the state shows their 'campus' to be a corporate registration service -- and the form shows no "Principal address" and no Officers of the Corporation. Can you get away with this in Arkansas? I guess so.

 

In general, if a corporation has a legal"presence" but no officers, agents or facilities in a state, the Secretary of State becomes the corporation's agent for service of process.

I often wonder, though, who would sue a diploma mill? The students?