West Virginia University Law moot court team wins best brief award in national competition

December 9, 2019

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 provides new clinical education opportunities for evening students

November 26, 2019

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 hosts symposium for prospective law students

November 26, 2019

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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Northern Illinois Law hosts Junior Faculty Scholars conference

November 18, 2019

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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UC Berkeley Law East Bay Community Law Center hosts event on electronic monitoring of youth

November 12, 2019

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 professor Andrew Geronimo helps launch Free Expression Legal Network

November 12, 2019

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 San Diego Law professor Orly Lobel discusses employee contract clauses at University of Houston Law

November 11, 2019

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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Recent law graduates weigh in on the value of a law degree

November 4, 2019

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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Thomas Jefferson Law’s temporary loss of GI Bill eligibility worries veteran students

November 4, 2019

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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Survey: Faculty slow to accept online courses

November 4, 2019

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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