Fordham Law Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships launches peer council

September 17, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — The Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships, to further the clerkship side of the Center’s mandate, has launched a Peer Clerkship Council (PCC).

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Fordham Law professor Adam Shlahet to train emergency medical residents on malpractice litigation process

September 17, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Adam Shlahet ’02, director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, collaborated with Mark Curato, DO, the assistant director of the EM residency program at St. Barnabas Hospital in Bronx, NY, to bring a medical malpractice litigation practicum to a group of eight residents to help them understand how malpractice litigation works.

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Harvard Law announces Weil Legal Innovators fellowship program

September 17, 2020

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School today announced plans to participate in the 2021–2022 Weil Legal Innovators Program (WLI), a paid fellowship that enables incoming students to defer their first year of law school to work at a WLI partner nonprofit organization.

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Seton Hall Law to host symposium on faith and racial justice

September 16, 2020

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY — September 21st through 24th, the Center for Catholic Studies will host a campus wide teach-in on Faith and Racial Justice. This is the inaugural symposium for an ongoing series on Faith in the Public Square. Each night will begin with a talk at 8 p.m. delivered online through the Microsoft Teams platform.

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University of Texas Law to launch center for the discussion and scholarship of the First Amendment

September 16, 2020

UT NEWS — The School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin is opening the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, which will be dedicated to advancing the discussion, education and scholarship of the First Amendment.

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University of Connecticut Law launches course on anti-black racism in the US

September 10, 2020

UCONN TODAY — In the months since Breonna Taylor and George Floyd were killed by police last spring, public outrage over anti-Black racism has inspired widespread protests, conversations and calls for reform.

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Drake Law to host fall webinar series on policies and practices that enforce systemic racism

September 10, 2020

BUSINESS RECORD — Drake University Law School will host a fall webinar series to address a broad array of policies and practices that perpetuate racial inequities in American society. The series of livestreamed talks, which begins Sept. 4, features Drake Law faculty and guests sharing their expertise about underlying structures that reinforce racism and oppression

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UNLV Law launches course on law, racism, and policing

September 10, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS — This William S. Boyd School of Law course is a mandatory one-credit course for first-year law students. It was inspired by events unfolding across the country over the past several months.

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Harvard Law announces Weil Legal Innovators fellowship program

September 9, 2020

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School today announced plans to participate in the 2021–2022 Weil Legal Innovators Program (WLI), a paid fellowship that enables incoming students to defer their first year of law school to work at a WLI partner nonprofit organization.

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A look at USC Gould Law’s summer athletic compliance internship program

September 9, 2020

USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — Hailey Hoyt was a Team USA figure skater throughout high school. Kyle White was a hammer thrower at the University of Washington. Both students entered the USC Gould School of Law with goals of careers in sports law.

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