NYU Law Housing Rights Clinic students defend clients virtually
REUTERS — Javier’s trial clarified to me what had been in doubt across the legal field: that we could effectively center clients in a remote-working scenario. We can teach law students how to engage with clients and meet their legal needs through all available tools and technologies. With the participation of other stakeholders like courts and…
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead was quoted last week in a major decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a case upholding a Texas ban on a second-trimester abortion procedure.
Read More about Notre Dame Law professor Carter Snead quoted in US Court of Appeals decisionPenn Law joins coalition of law schools addressing the evictions crisis
PENN LAW — Forty-four law school deans across the country, including University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dean and Bernard T. Segal Professor of Law Ted Ruger, have answered U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s call to the legal community to help “address the looming housing and evictions crisis” following the Supreme Court’s recent rejection of the…
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PENN STATE LAW — For many constitutional law experts, working at the U.S. Supreme Court is a dream—a place where the most important and contentious legal issues of the day are decided. That dream is now a reality for Dr. Mark Storslee, assistant professor of law at Penn State Law in University Park, who is working…
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THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL — There is a new journal in town, a premier scholarly publication dedicated to all aspects of admiralty and maritime law in the United States.
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UW LAW SCHOOL — In response to the rising need for eviction defense, the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Economic Justice Institute (EJI) was awarded funding to provide dedicated legal assistance for eviction services. EJI oversees five other civil, anti-poverty clinical programs and will house the new Eviction Defense Clinic.
Read More about University of Wisconsin Law launches Eviction Defense ClinicEqual Justice Works releases statement on the Supreme Court decision to block the CDC eviction moratorium
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s order extending the federal eviction moratorium. The ban was a two-month order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that covered areas of the country experiencing high levels of community transmission of COVID-19.
Read More about Equal Justice Works releases statement on the Supreme Court decision to block the CDC eviction moratoriumLaw firms change hiring approach amid spike in demand
BLOOMBERG LAW — Conservative entry-level hiring practices that bolstered Big Law firms after the Great Recession constrain them now as they struggle to find associates for the mountains of work after pandemic shutdowns.
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ADAMS AND REESE LLP — Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that it has entered a partnership with Street Law, Inc., to bring the first Legal Diversity Pipeline program to Alabama. Through this program — designed to encourage the pursuit of legal careers by young people from groups that are currently underrepresented in the legal…
Read More about Adams and Reese law firm partners with Street Law to improve access to legal education in AlabamaStanford Law professor Erik Jensen discusses the future of Legal Education in Afghanistan
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — What is the legacy of the American invasion of Afghanistan, twenty years on? For Erik Jensen, faculty director of Stanford Law School’s Rule of Law Program (ROLP), who helped launch the Afghanistan Legal Education Project(ALEP) in 2007 as a student-driven initiative in ROLP, the answer for him is simple: legal education.
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