Penn Law international students host annual Thanksgiving dinner
PENN LAW — Countless students across the country plan to take a much-deserved break this holiday weekend to spend Thanksgiving with their families and loved ones. For University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School LLM students, who are all international, Thanksgiving is a new tradition abundant with Penn collegiality and American holiday spirit. “Most of the LLMs do…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — When the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 appeared in South Africa, students at the Tshwane University of Technology were some of the first people to test positive for the variant, which the World Health Organization has labeled “of concern.” In response, officials at the public university in Pretoria delayed exams, the Associated…
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THE BUFFALO NEWS — Isabel Marcus, a pioneering law professor whose advocacy for women’s rights spanned the globe, died Oct. 31 in Los Angeles after living with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. She was 83. Dr. Marcus recently returned to California after five decades in academia, mostly at the University at Buffalo, where she founded or led…
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TIMES OF ISRAEL — Isabel Marcus, a University at Buffalo law professor and women’s rights advocate who met with protesting students in China’s Tiananmen Square and confronted Operation Rescue protesters closer to home, has died. She was 83. Marcus spent most of her five decades in academia at the University at Buffalo, where she co-founded the Institute…
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THE DUKE CHRONICLE — Since August, thousands of Afghan refugees have arrived in the United States. Besides grappling with the anguish of leaving home and the difficulties of building new lives in a foreign country, these refugees have also had to navigate the country’s complex and often bewildering legal system. The Duke School of Law’s Immigrant Rights…
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THE ARMENIAN MIRROR-SPECTATOR — On November 8, the Harvard Armenian Law Students Association (ALSA) and the Harvard Law School (HLS) Advocates for Human Rights hosted a discussion with State Minister and former Human Rights Ombudsman of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan. Beglaryan, who holds the highest governmental position in Artsakh after the president and speaker of the parliament, presented the…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — The Immigration Law Clinic at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law is hosting weekly workshops to assist Afghan refugees file Humanitarian Parole applications. These petitions, if approved, allow those impacted by the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan to obtain permission to come to the U.S. More than 30 McGeorge School…
Read More about University of the Pacific McGeorge Law Immigration Clinic helps Afghan refugees with petitions for US entryUSC Gould Law professor Henna Pithia discusses her role as supervisor of the International Human Rights Clinic
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — Henna Pithia (JD 2015), visiting clinical assistant professor of law, has joined the USC Gould School of Law this academic year to supervise the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) during IHRC Founding Director Hannah Garry’s Fulbright grant-funded research semester in Norway. Pithia was a student attorney in the IHRC and,…
Read More about USC Gould Law professor Henna Pithia discusses her role as supervisor of the International Human Rights ClinicInternational college student enrollment begins to recover from pandemic drop
U.S. WORLD & NEWS REPORT — The coronavirus pandemic forced normal life to an abrupt halt in 2020, disrupting entire industries and national economies. Travel was limited and, in some cases, prohibited. The grim reality of what that has meant for international students and the U.S. colleges and universities that welcome them is detailed in the…
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UC CINCINNATI — Over the past three years, the LLM program at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has welcomed students from the Fulbright Foreign Student Program as part of its incoming cohort. This year, Cincinnati Law was proud to welcome two Fulbright students—Irina Zemkina, from Russia, and Julija Jurtoska, from North Macedonia—as part of its incoming class of LLM students, which includes 20 students from 10 countries. Fulbright students are selected by their…
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