Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities highlights Santa Clara Law’s mission and service efforts
ASSOCIATION OF JESUIT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES — Santa Clara University School of Law is best known for its national ranking in technology law. What is less well-known is that the curriculum—for tech-law students and others—comes to life through a lens of social justice. Internationally, well over a dozen Santa Clara Law students work each year for hours…
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Since fall 2016, University of Akron School of Law students at the school’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic have provided one-on-one representation in removal defense cases for 32 asylum-seeking noncitizens detained at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC) in Youngstown and at other facilities throughout the country where appeals clients are held…
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BC LAW MAGAZINE — BC Law’s Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor Patricia McCoy, a rare US legal academic specializing in both insurance law and federal banking regulation, has been selected by the Federal Reserve Board as an inaugural member of its Insurance Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC). McCoy and the other 20 members of the IPAC will advise the Federal Reserve Board on…
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BERKELEY LAW — Monday afternoon, before a packed house of Berkeley Law students, faculty, and staff at Zellerbach Hall, Ginsburg described meeting Kay at a 1971 conference on women in the law. “The rest of that decade, Herma was my best and closest working colleague,” she said. The justice received spirited standing ovations before and after the…
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LANSING STATE JOURNAL — For years, Dewitt resident Rick Holey had considered attempting to expunge his decades-only drug possession conviction, a felony. That changed this week when he visited a free clinic at the Michigan Hall of Justice downtown. Attorneys and law students volunteered their time Tuesday to guide Holey and more than 100 others through the…
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THE ATLANTIC JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION — The Supreme Court granted special permission for University of Georgia School of Law students to represent Williams during oral arguments on Tuesday morning. The students are members of UGA’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, set up for people who find themselves with cases in the court system’s upper levels but who don’t have the…
Read More about University of Georgia Law Appellate Litigation Clinic represents client in county board pay raise lawsuitHarvard Law commemorates National Pro Bono Week
HARVARD LAW TODAY — Pro bono attorneys play a critical role in providing access to justice to people who can’t afford legal representation. Among the many ways Harvard Law School commits to this effort is through its 35 clinics, 11 student practice organizations, and more than 100 clinical faculty and teachers. Harvard Law School J.D. students…
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Maine School of Law was recently awarded a three-year grant from the Betterment Fund to continue the Rural Lawyer Project. This grant enables Maine Law to build upon a successful pilot program that was designed to solve a growing crisis in Maine’s rural communities: access to…
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SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON — Walker, a third-year law student who plans to pursue criminal prosecution, jumped at the opportunity to witness history after first learning about the U.S. Department of Defense’s call for observers from his criminal procedure professor, Geoffrey S. Corn. After passing a federal background check and updating his passport, Walker flew…
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LAW — The University of Tennessee College of Law Legal Clinic is partnering with the Polk County legal community to host a Saturday Expungement Community Court on Nov. 23. Prior to the event, University of Tennessee legal clinic students trained in expungement law will review the criminal records of those who pre-register and determine…
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