Temple Law students Patrick Long and Joe Hogan go to Poland to aid Ukranian refugees
WPVI — Two Temple University law students spent their spring break helping Ukrainian refugees who escaped to Poland. Patrick Long and Joe Hogan, both Bucks County residents, said they felt compelled to help since they both have the resources, and since such a large Ukrainian population makes up this portion of our region. “I called Patrick and said,…
Read More about Temple Law students Patrick Long and Joe Hogan go to Poland to aid Ukranian refugeesUkranian students in the US struggle with emotional distress and financial hardship
MARKETPLACE — According to the Institute of International Education, more than 6,500 Ukrainian and Russian students attended college or grad school in the United States last school year. If being abroad during COVID-19 hasn’t been hard enough, now these students are dealing with war and changing economies at home. For the past several months, Hanna Onyshchenko has…
Read More about Ukranian students in the US struggle with emotional distress and financial hardshipColleges cut financial ties to Russia amid Ukraine invasion
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Arizona Board of Regents announced Monday it would exit all investments in Russian assets, adding the three-university system to a small but growing list of institutions that have severed economic ties with Russia as the country continues its invasion of Ukraine. The board “condemns in the strongest possible terms Vladimir Putin’s illegal…
Read More about Colleges cut financial ties to Russia amid Ukraine invasion‘The world will change now’: Law firms in Ukraine cope with Russian invasion
REUTERS — With Russia launching the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two, local and international law firms in Ukraine said they have taken steps to protect their employees and client work amid the invasion. Representatives for Baker McKenzie, CMS and Dentons, three of the largest foreign law firms with lawyers in Kyiv, Ukraine’s…
Read More about ‘The world will change now’: Law firms in Ukraine cope with Russian invasionStatement of ABA President Reginald Turner Re: Invasion of Ukraine
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION — The American Bar Association joins the world community in condemning the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. The invasion violates the United Nations Charter on the principles of national sovereignty, rule of law, due process and universal human rights. The response from nations and institutions that remain committed to the…
Read More about Statement of ABA President Reginald Turner Re: Invasion of UkraineLaw school chapters of the International Refugee Assistance Project urge Congress to support refugees
IRAP — From February 16 to 18, 71 students from 21 IRAP law school chapters came together to advocate for the rights and protections of refugees and displaced people on The (virtual) Hill. This year, IRAP members focused mainly on three issues in their meetings. The first concerned theintroduction and passage of an Afghan Adjustment Act. Following…
Read More about Law school chapters of the International Refugee Assistance Project urge Congress to support refugeesUniversity of Virginia Law International Human Rights Clinic aids in the release of environmental activists
UVA TODAY — In a case brought to light by the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, the Supreme Court of Honduras in February overturned the convictions of six environmental activists that drew the ire of the international community. In 2018, eight environmental activists in Guapinol were arrested after setting up a…
Read More about University of Virginia Law International Human Rights Clinic aids in the release of environmental activistsInvasion of Ukraine sparks protests at colleges
THE WASHINGTON POST — Maria Smereka, a third-year student at Pennsylvania State University, spent late Wednesday and early Thursday watching the news come in as Russia launched missile attacks near Ukraine’s capital. Her parents and siblings were born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States before she was born. The 20-year-old grew up in…
Read More about Invasion of Ukraine sparks protests at collegesUniversity of Arizona Law partners with Beacon Education to create online Master of Laws program in China
PR NEWSWIRE — Beacon Education, the largest provider of online graduate degrees to China, is proud to announce its newest partner, the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and the introduction of China’s first online Master of Laws (LLM) and Master of Legal Studies (MLS) degrees directly enrolling online cohorts of Chinese working…
Read More about University of Arizona Law partners with Beacon Education to create online Master of Laws program in ChinaPenn Law to host World Health Organization director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for lecture
PENN LAW — On Friday, March 4, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will deliver the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s 2022 Leon C. and June W. Holt Lecture in International Law. Dr. Tedros will speak about the World Health Assembly’s recent consensus and global process currently underway to draft and negotiate a…
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