West Virginia University Law moot court team wins best brief award in national competition
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — A team from the West Virginia University College of Law recently won the best brief award on the way to a quarterfinal finish in a regional round of the National Moot Court Competition. The problem at this year’s National Moot Court Competition was whether the First Amendment prohibits the government…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The WCL Clinical Program has long sought to provide clinic options for students in WCL’s highly-ranked part-time program. Because part-time students are usually full-time employees who may also have other commitments, serving them in a clinic requires structuring seminars, assignments, and case work so that most of their participation…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — College undergraduate students learned about the law school application process and heard from legal professionals at the recent Prospective Law Student Symposium & Law School Fair recently held at the University of Houston Law Center. The event was sponsored by the Law Center’s Pre-Law Pipeline Program and the National…
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NIU TODAY — Northern Illinois University College of Law recently hosted its second annual Chicagoland Junior Faculty Scholars Works-in-Progress Conference at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The conference allowed junior faculty an opportunity to present their works-in-progress and get detailed feedback on their articles from both senior and other junior faculty. It was also an opportunity…
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BERKELEY LAW — Each day in California, young people are incarcerated for technical violations of the onerous rules of electronic monitoring (GPS)—even though they haven’t committed any crime. Students and advocates at the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) are all too familiar with the cascade of consequences resulting from the use of GPS monitoring in juvenile…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW — This Fall, Professor Andrew Geronimo, Director of the IP Venture Clinic, became one of the inaugural members of the Free Expression Legal Network. Geronimo, one of the two dozen law professors in the network, frequently speaks, writes and litigates in the areas of free expression, media law and government transparency.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Orly Lobel, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, served as the lecture’s keynote speaker in her presentation, “Exit, Voice & Innovation: How Human Capital Law Impacts Equality (& How Inequality Hurts Growth).”Lobel continued that these trends create impediments to mobility in…
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U.S. NEWS — A young lawyer’s satisfaction with his or her legal education might depend upon his or her financial return on investment and how well paychecks cover the cost of student loan debt. It’s not uncommon for recent J.D. recipients to have more than $100,000 in law school debt. Among the 178 ranked J.D.…
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VOICE OF SAN DIEGO — A dispute about embattled Thomas Jefferson School of Law helped spark the federal government’s recent decision to strip California of its ability to determine which schools can accept students’ GI Bill benefits.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Inside Higher Ed‘s 2019 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology, conducted with Gallup and published today, shows a continuing uptick in the proportion of faculty members who have taught an online course, to 46 percent from 44 percent last year. That figure stood at 30 percent in 2013, meaning that the number has increased by…
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