University of Chicago Law journal Legal Forum hosts symposium on legal impacts of COVID-19
UCHICAGO NEWS — The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous implications for public health and scientific research, but these disciplines are not the only ones that will shape how society emerges from the crisis: Legal scholars will also play an important role in assessing our institutions’ response to the pandemic and shaping policies.
Read More about University of Chicago Law journal Legal Forum hosts symposium on legal impacts of COVID-19University of Houston Initiative on Global Law and Policy hosts discussion about international law and COVID-19
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Experts from Colombia and Italy discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic can potentially challenge international law experts to think beyond current normative parameters and serve as a standardizing force during a virtual discussion hosted by the University of Houston Law Center.
Read More about University of Houston Initiative on Global Law and Policy hosts discussion about international law and COVID-19University of Iowa Law professor Lea VanderVelde and students research impact of the pandemic on employment law
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — This semester, the law students in Professor Lea VanderVelde’s Employment Law course have researching how the pandemic is impacting work laws, as it re-arranges workplaces, requires business closures, transforms the ways we get goods, decimates the service sector, and sickens millions of workers.
Read More about University of Iowa Law professor Lea VanderVelde and students research impact of the pandemic on employment lawPepperdine Caruso Law Straus Institute hosts mediation competition
PEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — The Straus Institute hosted its first-ever Mediation Competition, bringing together 15 competitors, dozens of alumni, and top commercial mediators and lawyers as judges to evaluate and mentor students. The competition featured COVID19-themed disputes as simulations.
Read More about Pepperdine Caruso Law Straus Institute hosts mediation competitionQuinnipiac Law mediation program to address COVID-19 related evictions and homelessness across Connecticut
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — The School of Law’s Center on Dispute Resolution has launched a Homelessness Mitigation Mediation Program. The program is funded by a $135,000 grant from the Connecticut Department of Housing. Brendan Holt will serve as the program’s executive director.
Read More about Quinnipiac Law mediation program to address COVID-19 related evictions and homelessness across ConnecticutColleges race to announce fall campus reopenings
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Good news about the COVID-19 vaccine couldn’t have come at a better time for college admissions officers. Dozens of colleges and universities have recently announced that they’ll be open in person this fall after waiting weeks or months to go public with fall plans. Colleges’ fall announcements started a few weeks ago.
Read More about Colleges race to announce fall campus reopeningsNine jurisdictions plan remote bar exam for July 2021
ABA JOURNAL — California’s July 2021 bar exam will be remote, the California Supreme Court announced Friday. The first testing day, on July 27, will consist of five one-hour essay questions and a 90-minute performance test, according to the administrative order. A total 200 multiple-choice questions will be given July 28.
Read More about Nine jurisdictions plan remote bar exam for July 2021University of Minnesota Law students ask school to acknowledge challenges of the pandemic on transcripts
ABA JOURNAL — The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on many student population groups, and law students at the University of Minnesota Law School are asking that it be mentioned in the transcript for the 2020-2021 academic year. Shantal Pai, a third-year law student, drafted a petition for the notation.
Read More about University of Minnesota Law students ask school to acknowledge challenges of the pandemic on transcriptsPenn Law dean Ted Ruger addresses law school community on anti-Asian discrimination and violence amid pandemic
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In the past year, the challenges of the pandemic have been exacerbated by our country’s reckoning with racial injustice, including the disturbing and intolerable resurgence of discrimination and violence against Asian and Asian American individuals.
Read More about Penn Law dean Ted Ruger addresses law school community on anti-Asian discrimination and violence amid pandemicHarvard Law health policy center hosts discussion of the effect of the pandemic on social inequality
THE HARVARD CRIMSON — Law professors and health experts explored how the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated social inequalities during Wednesday’s fourth installment of a Harvard Law School seminar series on the intersection of Covid-19 and the law. The Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center hosted the event.
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