Creighton Law student named best speaker in international moot court competition
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — At the International Criminal Law Moot Court Competition in Nuremberg, Germany, students, jurists and academics from more than 50 countries participate. This year, a second year law student from Creighton was awarded “best speaker” in the overall competition.
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UA NEWS — In a new program developed jointly by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the Mexican Foreign Ministry (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores), Mexican diplomats are learning the foundations of American law.
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STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — Stanford Law School created an initiative that aims to contribute to legal education reform in Iraqi Kurdistan through designing legal curricula that emphasize critical thinking and legal skills development.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Transnational Environmental Accountability project will focus on strategies for holding multinational companies accountable for harm caused by their activities in developing countries.
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CTV NEWS — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on June 15th that law societies have the right to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at a Christian university.
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ABA JOURNAL — The Global Legal Hackathon announced its winners on April 21 in New York City. Competitors were broken into two categories, those that were focused on the business and practice of law and those that worked to build access to justice and government solutions for the public.
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LEGAL CHEEK — Top law firms and Russell Group universities have thrown support behind a brand new lawtech incubator, which has been launched by Barclays and the Law Society.
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LEGAL CHEEK — BPP Law School’s Liverpool centre will be closing this summer, Legal Cheek can reveal. Students will be compensated for the inconvenience of all this by way of reduced course fees.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — University of Calgary Law launched a new course, Crisis Communications for Lawyers. Taught by Warren Kinsella, LLB’87, who specializes in developing effective communication strategies as the president of the Daisy Group, the course teaches students “to speak effectively to the media in order to serve your client’s best interest.
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CBC — Last month, the University of Victoria’s law faculty announced that it is launching a new, joint Common law and Indigenous law degree program this fall. It will be the first of its kind in the world.
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