Duke University pre-law fraternity offers resources and community to aspiring law students
THE CHRONICLE — This fall, Duke will officially become home to a chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, a national law and pre-law fraternity. Co-founders Chinmay Amin and Max Wyatt, both sophomores, recognized the lack of a strong and active pre-law organization at Duke and hoped to form a community for their pre-law peers. “Nobody knows the struggles of…
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ABA JOURNAL — Lawyer Derek Bolka credits an American Bar Association internship for kick-starting his career at Accenture, an information technology services company, where he is now an inaugural fellow of a legal program for lawyers with disabilities. Bolka, 37, was attending the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology when he applied to…
Read More about Lawyer Derek Bolka reflects on ABA internship for law students with disabilitiesUniversity at Buffalo Law ‘Discover Law’ program mentors prospective law students from underrepresented backgrounds
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — Johnniel Morales has a clear, powerful statement about how UB’s Discover Law Undergraduate Scholars Program, an immersive summer program for promising underrepresented students, changed his life. It’s about “admiring the value of my potential and the diversity that surrounds me as an opportunity to reflect and rebuild over the…
Read More about University at Buffalo Law ‘Discover Law’ program mentors prospective law students from underrepresented backgroundsNortheastern Law welcomes first hybrid JD class
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Northeastern University School of Law—one of the most prestigious law schools to offer an innovative part-time hybrid JD program—welcomed its inaugural FlexJD class on September 1. With an emphasis on access and social justice, Northeastern Law developed this blended legal experience to provide an opportunity for those who prefer or need…
Read More about Northeastern Law welcomes first hybrid JD classLarge gift to Villanova Law supports student leadership development and faculty research
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…
Read More about Large gift to Villanova Law supports student leadership development and faculty researchAmerican University Washington College of Law receives funding to launch New Global Toxics and Human Rights Project
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law is pleased to announce the start of its newest initiative, the Global Toxics and Human Rights Project. The Project will advance a rights-based approach to the sound management of toxics, while leveraging its partnerships with a broad coalition of stakeholders to…
Read More about American University Washington College of Law receives funding to launch New Global Toxics and Human Rights ProjectA look at the Penn Carey Law Master of Law program
PENN LAW — Over the first five years of its existence, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Master in Law (ML)Program graduated 66 scholars, faculty, and staff from throughout the University of Pennsylvania. Now, at the start of its eighth year, the ML Program is comprised of an impressive 117 alumnae and 118 degree candidates…
Read More about A look at the Penn Carey Law Master of Law programSt. Mary’s to break new ground with fully online J.D. program
NATURAL JURIST — St. Mary’s University School of Law will become the first law school accredited by the American Bar Association to offer a J.D. program completely online. The program will kickoff in Fall of 2022, with a limit of 25 students, the school announced recently. None of the schools currently offering such programs are ABA accredited.…
Read More about St. Mary’s to break new ground with fully online J.D. programFordham Law online MSL Corporate Compliance program features in-person colloquium to build community
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — A key component of Fordham Law’s online Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) in Corporate Compliance is the in-person Compliance Colloquium, which brings students together for an intensive three-day program that mixes practical group exercises with networking sessions and presentations from compliance thought leaders. It is the only in-person component of the…
Read More about Fordham Law online MSL Corporate Compliance program features in-person colloquium to build communityUniversity of Kansas Law partners with Wichita State University on accelerated 3+3 bachelor’s/JD program
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — Students at Wichita State University will have an opportunity to accelerate their legal education and save a year of tuition, thanks to an expansion of the Legal Education Accelerated Degree (LEAD) program at the University of Kansas.
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