University of the Pacific McGeorge Law opens clinic for formerly incarcerated individuals experiencing homelessness
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — A new clinic created by the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law is the nation’s first to provide legal services to formerly incarcerated individuals experiencing homelessness. The Homeless Advocacy Clinic is just the fourth legal clinic at a California university to help homeless clients – joining programs at UCLA, University…
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VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY MEDIA ROOM — Villanova University President the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, today announced a $13 million gift from Charles Widger, Esq., ’73 JD and Barbara Widger that will propel the Charles Widger School of Law to the forefront of professional development and leadership programming in legal education. In 2016, the Law School…
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WVU INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER — Advocates for people who are convicted of a crime they did not commit marked the seventh annual Wrongful Conviction Day last week. A group of third-year law students and law school faculty at the West Virginia University College of Law work to overturn convictions for people who are convicted due to false…
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WEST VIRGINIA NEWS — Rachael Mullins has a teaching degree from Marshall University and spent two years in the English department at a Logan County high school before realizing she loved the students but not teaching. “I really couldn’t make the difference I wanted to with my teaching degree. I needed a law degree,” says…
Read More about West Virginia University Law students participate in state court improvement externship programAALS Section on Women in Legal Education to honor Camille deJorna with Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award
LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION COUNCIL — The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Women in Legal Education will honor Camille deJorna, deputy for legal and global higher education at Law School Admission Council (LSAC), as the recipient of the 2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor will be presented at the section’s award…
Read More about AALS Section on Women in Legal Education to honor Camille deJorna with Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardGeorgia State University Law professor Clark Cunningham gives presentation to Georgia Supreme Court
GEORGIA STATE NEWS HUB — Georgia State College of Law Professor Clark D. Cunningham was afforded a rare opportunity last month, when he was invited to give a presentation of a neutral amicus brief during oral argument in front of the Georgia Supreme Court. In the case of Nelson v. State, Cunningham, who teaches the Seminar on…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — To mark the start of the 2021 U.S. Supreme Court term, University of Houston Law Professor Renee Knake Jefferson, an inaugural Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center Faculty Fellow at the Hobby School of Public Affairs, will discuss her research on judicial shortlists and other observations about what the coming year could…
Read More about University of Houston Law Center professor Renee Knake Jefferson to present lecture on the Supreme CourtUniversity of Miami Law immigration clinic helps overturn discriminatory Florida law in federal court
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s commitment to immigration law and human rights law is center stage. A federal court ruled recently that key sections of Florida’s anti-sanctuary law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, delivering a decision that strikes a major blow to the state’s anti-immigrant policymakers and a…
Read More about University of Miami Law immigration clinic helps overturn discriminatory Florida law in federal courtUniversity of Mississippi Law professor W. Tucker Carrington helps free man on death row
DE SOTO TIMES TRIBUNE — In January 1993, a brutal triple homicide shocked a small Mississippi community: A 13-year-old girl, Evangela Boyd, found dead in her home, her naked body lying on the floor of the laundry room. Her mom, Verline Boyd, and her grandmother, Betty Boyd, found lifeless in other areas of the house, which…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — Kevin O’Keefe, ’82, the CEO and founder of LexBlog, the world’s largest community of legal bloggers, views blogging as a platform for lawyers to utilize and build a reputation within the legal community.“Blogging makes a difference,” O’Keefe said. “Lawyers who blog and make a difference in other people’s lives is what…
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