University at Buffalo Law launches concentration in legal advocacy

March 3, 2020

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW –UB School of Law’s newest academic concentration gives students a significant career advantage: intense training in the skills of legal advocacy. An outgrowth of the school’s Advocacy Institute, the concentration in advocacy includes significant hands-on experience in trial advocacy, appellate advocacy and alternative dispute resolution. It also incorporates doctrinal

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A look at UCLA Law’s Achievement Fellowship program

March 3, 2020

UCLA NEWSROOM — Created during the Centennial Campaign for UCLA with $4.2 million in generous donations from alumni and friends of the school, UCLA Law’s Achievement Fellowship program provides full-tuition scholarships to students who have overcome significant obstacles to get to law school.

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UC Irvine Law Graduate Tax Program partners with legal tech firm to develop curriculum on artificial intelligence in tax law

March 3, 2020

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Blue J Legal announced today a new partnership with the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), to integrate its Blue J Tax Foresight platform into UCI Law’s Graduate Tax Program. The partnership intends to teach UCI Law graduate students pursuing a degree in tax law about the

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Harvard Law launches Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic addressing voter suppression and redistricting policy

March 3, 2020

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School has launched a new Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic. The clinic joins the 46 legal clinics and student practice organizations that make up the school’s clinical program. The new externship clinic focuses on voter suppression and redistricting law and policy, with a particular emphasis on voting rights threats and

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Harvard Law to create legal clinic on religious freedom

March 3, 2020

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School today announced plans to create a new legal clinic focused on cases involving the rights of individuals to practice their religion. Clinical instruction plays an important role in legal education at Harvard Law School. Through the collective efforts of HLS’s 46 legal clinics and student practice organizations, the school deepens

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A look at the NYU Law Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic

March 2, 2020

NYU LAW — Bauer and Professor of Practice Sally Katzen are co-directors of the clinic. Longtime Washington insiders, they tap into their deep Capitol connections to arrange students’ fieldwork placements—externships in federal government offices or at government-focused nonprofits. The students spend most of each week at their respective placements, but for three hours each Wednesday evening,

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NYU Reiss Center on Law and Security launches War Powers Resolution Reporting Project

March 2, 2020

REISS CENTER ON LAW AND SECURITY — Its aim is to restore the constitutional balance between Congress and the President in deciding when the nation goes to war.  To create the transparency necessary for achieving this goal, the WPR requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing U.S. armed forces into hostilities, deploying

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University of Nevada Law receives gift to support faculty and student research in gaming law

March 2, 2020

NEVADA CURRENT — The California-based San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is donating $9 million to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, positioning the university as the leading source for education in tribal gaming operations and law.  In addition to providing tribal gaming operations and law curriculum to the nation’s only master’s degree program in gaming law,

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Santa Clara Law announces exchange program with Mexican Jesuit university

March 2, 2020

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW  — Starting next semester, Santa Clara Law students can expect to see an even more globally diverse campus as the Law School and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (“ITESO”) have signed a new exchange agreement that will open up exciting opportunities for law students and faculty

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Albany Law Government Law Center releases summaries of aging and disability law

February 25, 2020

ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The Government Law Center at Albany Law School has released the first four publications in its explainer series on Aging and Disability Law for state and local policy makers. The Government Law Center Aging and Disability Explainer Series is designed to help policymakers and others understand the complex laws relating to older adults

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