Fordham Law launches Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program
FORDHAM LAW NEWSFordham Law School announced today that its Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program launched this week when program participants were welcomed to campus. The program aims to expand opportunities for first-year law students from historically underrepresented backgrounds including underrepresented racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, LGBTQ, and first-generation college backgrounds.
Read More about Fordham Law launches Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) programGeorgia State University Law dean LaVonda Reed discusses challenges to the rule of law and her vision for the school
WABE — The first Black woman to lead the Georgia State College of Law says every institution of higher education should put its students at the center of everything that institution does. “Our faculty and staff here at the college of law work really closely with our students to prepare them for what they will get out…
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Howard University — Howard University College of Arts and Science will host its first annual Social Justice Week, August 2-6, via Zoom. This week is one of the initiatives linked to the Mellon Foundation Grant received for the Just Futures Initiative in January. For one week, the community will have the opportunity to engage in community and academic panels, workshops, and guest speakers on criminal justice reform. Highlighted themes will connect the various instances of injustice in the…
Read More about Howard Law hosts inaugural social justice weekGift establishes new scholarship for underrepresented students at University of Kansas Law
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — A new scholarship fund at the University of Kansas School of Law will provide support to candidates who contribute to the diversity of the student body. Julia Gille Anderson and Jett Anderson, both L’82, established the Anderson Family Law Diversity Scholarship with a $75,000 gift commitment to KU Endowment.
Read More about Gift establishes new scholarship for underrepresented students at University of Kansas LawMitchell Hamline Law Professor Colette Routel appointed to Hennepin County judgeship
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Routel is “a brilliant lawyer who brings a unique perspective with her many years of experience as an attorney, tribal court judge, and law professor,” said Gov. Walz, in a statement. “I am confident that Ms. Routel will serve the people of Hennepin County with distinction.”
Read More about Mitchell Hamline Law Professor Colette Routel appointed to Hennepin County judgeshipA look at Rutgers Law interim co-dean Rose Cuison-Villazor
PATCH — An immigration and citizenship expert has broken ground as the first Filipina-American dean of a U.S. law school, Rutgers recently announced. Rose Cuison-Villazor has officially taken over as interim co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Newark.
Read More about A look at Rutgers Law interim co-dean Rose Cuison-VillazorRutgers Law hosts two-week pre-law academy for high school students
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — While some high school students have spent their summer by the pool, a group of ambitious would-be law students learned the virtues of a career in law through a new Rutgers summer academy offered by the Office of Summer and Winter Sessions at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Rutgers Law School led the two-week, Pre-College…
Read More about Rutgers Law hosts two-week pre-law academy for high school studentsUniversity of Virginia Law professor Mildred Robinson receives Armstead Robinson Faculty Award named after late husband
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — On June 8, University of Virginia professor emerita Mildred Robinson, received the Armstead Robinson Faculty Award, named for her late husband. The Black Faculty and Staff Employee Resource Group at UVA bestows the award to a faculty member who has contributed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and who has had a positive impact on…
Read More about University of Virginia Law professor Mildred Robinson receives Armstead Robinson Faculty Award named after late husbandABA President Responds To ‘Woke Law Schools’
TaxProf Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a letter from American Bar Association president Patricia Lee Refo that responds to a Wall Street Journal opinion article criticizing the ABA legal education section’s recent proposed diversity, equity, and inclusion training requirement for law schools.
Read More about ABA President Responds To ‘Woke Law Schools’University of Arizona Law launches online JD-Next program to improve access to legal education
PR NEWSWIRE — ETS announced its sponsorship of the 2021 JD-Next Program, an online, eight-week course designed by the University of Arizona to help aspiring lawyers preview and prepare for the rigor of law school as well as to provide law programs with an additional window on participants’ potential to succeed.
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