Stanford Center for Racial Justice appoints George Brown as executive director
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — Stanford Law School (SLS) has appointed George Brown, an advocate for social and racial justice with three decades of corporate law experience, as Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice (SCRJ). Brown will work in collaboration with Ralph Richard Banks, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law and the Faculty…
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REUTERS — A scholarship program honoring the career of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has named its inaugural class of awardees, choosing four first-year law students to receive a $10,000 stipend and mentoring from a network of former New York federal prosecutors.
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LLM GUIDE — The police killing of George Floyd, an African American man, was a pivotal moment for law schools and their efforts to improve diversity and inclusion. Law schools had been striving to boost diversity for years, but the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by Floyd’s death acted as a catalyst for deeper reflection and…
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DAILY TROJAN — When Emma Brunel was looking at law schools, she knew that she wanted to attend a school with a supportive student community. “The law school mindset can be a bit toxic sometimes in many schools and really competitive in how it’s set up,” said Brunel, a first year student studying law. “[Gould] just has…
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PENN STATE NEWS — Over the past 15 months, Penn State Dickinson Law led law schools across the country in creating and sharing antiracist scholarship and introduced a new antiracist curriculum. Encouraging more students of color to attend law school is a critical aspect of combating systemic inequality and promoting antiracism, and Dickinson Law is…
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PEDDERDINE UNIVERSITY CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — The Caruso Law 2020-2021 Diversity and Belonging Report is now available. Published by the Office of Diversity and Belonging, this inaugural report shares the previous year’s progress toward goals laid out in our Diversity and Belonging Strategic Plan.
Read More about Pepperdine Law Office of Diversity and Belonging releases annual reportNational Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds decline in college transfer student enrollment
DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — The latest report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) shows a significant decline in transfer student enrollment by 8.4 percent. Higher education institutions across America lost over 190,000 transfer students in the last year alone. The drop is especially significant in lateral transfers when students transfer from one two-year college to…
Read More about National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds decline in college transfer student enrollmentOpinion: What law firms need to do to retain women lawyers
ABA JOURNAL — And now, with the perspective gained from time and experience in my new role on the corporate legal team at a global media company, I ask: Are we willing to keep making progress only at the edges, moving the needle so faintly year after year without addressing what is really going on? When…
Read More about Opinion: What law firms need to do to retain women lawyersPodcast: Santa Clara University professor Pat Cain discusses edited book on the first women law professors
ABOVE THE LAW — In the latest episode of The Jabot, I interview Patricia Cain, the editor of Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors. The book, written by Herma Hill Kay, details the lives of the first 14 female law professors. Patricia and I also discuss the twists and turns of her life…
Read More about Podcast: Santa Clara University professor Pat Cain discusses edited book on the first women law professorsUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock Law launches Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform
WILLIAM A. BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW — The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law has created the Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform. The Center recently received approval by both the UA System Board of Trustees and the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
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