Penn Law hosts ABA traveling exhibit on passage of 19th amendment
PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law students recently held the first Transgender Name Change Assistance Pop-up Clinic for members of Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Perry and York counties at Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law, Carlisle. Designed to work with the transgender community, the Clinic provided attendees guidance on the legal name change process. Dickinson Law…
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ESCUELA DE DERECHO — With the motto: “Freedom for convicted innocents”, the UPR School of Law, launched the DNA Post-Conviction Project, as announced today by Dean, Vivian I. Neptune-Rivera, an initiative that will allow prisoners in Puerto Rico, to carry out their claims of wrongful conviction in order to be exonerated. Specifically, the DNA Post-Conviction Project will…
Read More about University of Puerto Rico Law launches DNA Post-Conviction ProjectWashington University Law professor Katie Herbert Meyer discusses approach to teaching immigration law
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS — Katie Herbert Meyer, director of the Immigration Clinic at Washington University’s School of Law, discusses teaching immigration law during an immigration crisis. Photo by Joe Angeles/Washington University.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Third-year students in William & Mary Law School’s Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic love an argument, and have recently logged the miles to prove it.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Eight William & Mary Law School students traveled to Nashville last month to attend the 37th Annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference hosted by the American Law Institute’s Continuing Legal Education (ALI-CLE) program on January 23-25. The students attended the event at the invitation of Robert H. Thomas and…
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ABA JOURNAL — The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has started a two-year pilot project that licenses a small group of nonlawyers to give limited legal advice on civil matters stemming from domestic violence. A University of Arizona summary of the project cites Legal Services Corp. figures stating that in the United States,…
Read More about University of Arizona Law pilots training for non-lawyers in providing legal advice on civil mattersArizona State University Law receives gift to support Indian Legal Program
INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY — The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians made a $5 million gift to Arizona State University to provide for the renovation of the historic Herald Examiner Building in Los Angeles and to establish an endowment to support the Indian Legal Program’s Indian Gaming and Tribal Self-Governance programs at the Sandra Day O’Connor…
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UCLA LAW — Expanding UCLA School of Law’s role as a national leader in immigration law and boosting its robust immigration programming and clinics, the school has established the Center for Immigration Law and Policy with a $5 million commitment from alumna Alicia Miñana ’87 and her husband, Rob Lovelace. The center launches at a time when…
Read More about UCLA Law receives gift to launch Center for Immigration Law and PolicyLewis & Clark Law Animal Litigation Clinic files lawsuit against USDA for failure to enforce animal and food safety
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Animal Law Litigation Clinic, representing animal protection groups, sued Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and the Department of Agriculture today for failing to protect pigs who are too sick or injured to walk at slaughterhouses, posing serious risks to animals and food safety.
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law Animal Litigation Clinic files lawsuit against USDA for failure to enforce animal and food safetyA look at Northwestern Law’s online master’s degree program
THE EVOLLLUTION — For some colleges and universities, it’s still worth finding ways to launch unique online programs on their own. With the right research and expertise, online programs can be created without the help of an OPM. In this interview, Leslie Oster discusses how Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law launched a new online offering without…
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