Duke Law supports first-generation college students through new program
DUKE CHRONICLE — Jennifer Caplan—assistant director for professional development programming and advising for Duke Law School—began First Generation Professionals to combat the disadvantage of Law School students who are the first in their families to graduate from college.
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DAILY CAMERA — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is set to hold hearings at the University of Colorado this week, the first time the hearings have been held in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C.
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NEW YORK TIMES — More than 2,400 law school professors from schools across the country signed their name to a letter for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Department of Education has until Oct. 12 to offer a stronger justification for delaying an Obama-era student loan rule issued to help defrauded borrowers. If it can’t do so, the rule will take effect, a federal judge said.
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ABA JOURNAL – The article is scheduled to be published in the February 2018 issue of PD Quarterly, a National Association for Law Placement publication.
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ABA JOURNAL – The University of North Texas Dallas College of Law has received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association.
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