Lewis & Clark Law offers environmental summer courses
LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Lewis & Clark Law School’s Summer 2023 courses can be a vital bridge for law students as they navigate their path toward a JD degree and lay the groundwork for a future career in a specific area of law. This summer’s offering includes a selection of online and in-person options.…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — There have been 67 mass shootings in the U.S. since the start of the new year, according to Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit that tracks gun violence incidents. The most recent mass shooting happened Monday evening on campus at Michigan State University, and as of Monday night, officials reported three…
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UNIVERISTY OF HAWAI’I LAW — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law announced the launch of a new part-time, online JD (juris doctor) program for students seeking a legal education. The Hawaiʻi Online JD Flex program perpetuates UH law school’s dedication to diversity by providing access to a top-tier law school…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — In the wake of increasing gun violence, a new clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School kicked off in January as the first law clinic in the nation to fully focus on gun violence prevention through litigation.
Read More about University of Minnesota Law clinic will focus on gun violence preventionGeorge Mason Scalia Law to establish colloquium focused on civil discourse
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY — The strong friendship between the late U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is as legendary as their sharp disagreements on the bench. Guided by their example, the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University today announced the inaugural Scalia–Ginsburg Colloquy, which will bring together distinguished scholars…
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY MCKINNEY LAW — The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law has announced its part-time J.D. program will be offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person instruction and an online component, beginning at the start of the next academic year in August 2023. IU McKinney is the first Indiana law school…
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WILLAMETTE LAW — Students in the Community and Environmental Justice Clinic (CEJC) at Willamette Law, are given the opportunity to work on real legal casework as part of the clinic. New to Willamette Law in 2021, the clinic is headed by Professor Sarah Matsumoto, who previously worked as an attorney in public interest environmental law.…
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I — The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law has hired its inaugural Innovator in Residence as part of the Dean’s Innovation Fund, which will allow Dean Camille Nelson to bring the type of innovative approach that drives business into legal education. The Dean’s Innovation Fund was created…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LAW — With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians William Thomas, Katrina Jagodinsky and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how marginalized groups in American history — enslaved…
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PACE LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has opened Westchester County’s first Legal Hand Call-in Center, in partnership with Legal Hand, Inc., an innovative community-based service. Legal Hand is based on the powerful idea of Neighbors helping Neighbors. Legal Hand’s highly trained non-lawyer volunteers are available to community members to…
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