University of Florida Law students receive visit from former French justice
THE ALLIGATOR – Guy Canivet, who was a member of the French Constitutional Council, spoke at UF’s Levin College of Law about the problems France’s courts face during a state of emergency.
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CBC NEWS – Ryan and her daughter fall into the legal grey zone that encompasses Canada’s working poor and middle class. They’re too “rich” to qualify for legal aid, but too strapped to pay $365 an hour for a lawyer, the average rate last year, according to a countrywide survey in Canadian Lawyer Magazine.
Read More about Middle-class unable to afford legal aid in Canada according to surveyHawaii Law to host Japanese law student delegation for American law immersion program
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MāNOA – UH Law School will host 41 law students plus nine faculty members from four universities in Japan for a two-week immersion program in the American legal system, Hawai‘i style.
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THE LANE REPORT – Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law will become the first law school in Kentucky to offer an advanced law degree when it begins a program this summer that will award the internationally recognized LL.M. degree.
Read More about Northern Kentucky Chase College of Law to offer LL.M degree for foreign-trained lawyersUniversity of Virginia students attend national fellowship program in international law
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – Five University of Virginia School of Law students recently attended the fourth annual Salzburg Cutler Law Fellows Program, a national fellowship program that gives students the opportunity to establish connections and expand their interest in international law.
Read More about University of Virginia students attend national fellowship program in international lawMarquette Law students share experience studying international conflict resolution in Cuba through exchange program
MARQUETTE WIRE – Over winter break, the Marquette Law School allowed 25 students and six faculty members to embark on a six-day journey to Havana, Cuba, during winter break.
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ARIZONA STAR DAILY – The Tucson school has partnered with Ocean University of China to produce hundreds of new Chinese lawyers conversant with the U.S. legal system.
Read More about University of Arizona Law opens satellite program in China to allow students to earn a bachelor’s in lawUC Irvine Law professor to be awarded honorary doctorate from Belgian University for work in international conflict management
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE – Her lifelong commitment to the power of talk, mediation and active listening has earned the University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of law an honorary doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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RADIO NEW ZEALAND – This year will mark the first time there’ll be equal numbers of men and women lawyers. Women law graduates have outnumbered men for more than a decade, and the Law Society says those practicing will soon overtake men.
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CANADIAN LAWYER – The last year saw a number of Canadian law dean changeovers. Traditionally, law deans served a four- or five-year term and went through a renewal process, says Paton, and many are long-serving.
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