Opinion: Australian law schools produce students detached from real world practice due to skills-based education
LAWYERS WEEKLY – The focus on providing skills-based education at Australian law schools has seen graduates become more detached from the real world and uncritical in their thinking, one legal author has argued.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL – Here are six key numbers about the legal industry in Japan.
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SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – The Center for Social Justice celebrated a victory in February: the Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic obtained asylum for a woman and her two children, survivors of severe domestic violence and child abuse in their native Honduras.
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VT DIGGER – This month a group of Vermont Law School students volunteered with the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project in Texas to provide legal assistance to asylum-seeking mothers and children being held at detention centers by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL – A panel of distinguished diplomats and an audience of Penn Law community members joined UN Women at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on the evening of February 29.
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NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER – Salgado’s release came in large part through more than two years of efforts by Seattle University School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, which argued her cause before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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BUSINESSWIRE – Thomas Jefferson School of Law announced today that U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will participate in its Study Abroad program taking place June 26 – July 21, 2016.
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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Dean Suzanne Reynolds has finalized the exchange student agreement with the University of International Business and Economics School of Law in downtown Beijing, China.
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LEGAL BUSINESS – Counter to the UK’s trade deficit widening at the end of 2015, the UK’s legal industry has again outperformed the rest of the country with its contribution to the economy rising 8% to £25.7bn and its net exports rising rapidly.
Read More about U.K. legal services sector grew by 8 percent in 2015Law firms rethink China operations
LAW.COM – A changing Chinese economy coupled with more longstanding corruption and political interference could make law firms rethink the already tenuous financial proposition of having an office in China.
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