UC Irvine Law Professor Dan Burk awarded Weizenbaum Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research Fellowship
UCI LAW — Dan Burk, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious Senior Fellowship to the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, Germany during fall 2019.
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UCI LAW — Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law L. Song Richardson delivered a seminar on innovation, creativity and the brain on Feb. 12, 2019, at Bond University in Queensland, Australia.
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COLORADO LAW — Speaking on behalf of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), of which she serves as the North American member and vice chair, Council Tree Professor of Law Kristen Carpenter delivered a statement about indigenous languages to the U.N. General Assembly
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U TORONTO NEWS — A University of Toronto Faculty of Law externship seminar course, thought to be unlike anything offered by other Canadian universities, is helping balance the scales of justice, as students lend their talents to some of the best criminal appeal lawyers in Canada.
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UVA LAW — Students in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law took part in a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Nepal in January, opening their eyes to the state of reforms since the country’s 10-year civil war ended in 2006
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PENN STATE NEWS — Many lawyers dream of one day working on a high-profile international criminal case. For two Penn State Dickinson Law students, that dream became reality last fall.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — New enrollments of international students at U.S. graduate schools fell for the second year in a row, according to a survey from the Council of Graduate Schools. First-time international enrollments fell by 1 percent from fall 2017 to fall 2018, following on a 1 percent decline the year before that.
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ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA — The University of Arizona has held joint activities with Mexican universities and institutions for decades. And its law school wants to keep it that way and build new programs.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A final rule published in the Federal Register today changes the lottery for H-1B skilled worker visas to give an advantage to graduates of advanced degree programs at U.S. universities. H-1Bs are popular route for international students who want to stay in the U.S. to work.
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CASE WESTERN LAW — This fall, the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office at Case Western Reserve University School of Law launched the Yemen Accountability Project, an open-sourced student initiative to document and map war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Yemeni Civil War.
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