Santa Clara Law Community Law Center commemorates 25 years
SANTA CLARA LAW — Santa Clara University’s Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center is celebrating 25 years of teaching, advising, and providing free legal services to some of the most vulnerable members of the Santa Clara County community. From wage theft to immigration human trafficking to consumer fraud, each year 1,000 community residents receive nearly $1 million…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — William & Mary Law School’s Annual Supreme Court Preview brought in the experts to provide clarity and context. The Preview, which began on Friday, September 13, featured five federal court of appeals judges, 17 Supreme Court advocates who have collectively argued more than 500 cases before the Supreme Court, and leading…
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UCLA LAW — Alex Wang, professor at UCLA School of Law and a member of the school’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, will serve as co-chair of the Institute’s academic advisory committee. The Institute is a multi-campus project housed at UC Berkeley with collaboration from UCLA, UC Davis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and…
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power ’99 expressed both skepticism and hope for the current state of international affairs during a panel discussion at Harvard Law School Monday. Power, whose new memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” documents her journey from “immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet…
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THE HOFSTRA CHRONICLE — Hofstra’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law celebrated the day when state delegates signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The School of Law hosted a conversation with Michael Dreeben, the former U.S. deputy solicitor general in charge of the Department of Justice’s criminal docket. Dreeben represented the U.S. in over 100 cases before…
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — Professor Hank Chambers, an expert in constitutional and criminal law, was recently appointed to Governor Ralph Northam’s newly formed Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law. The Commission is tasked with reviewing the Virginia Acts of Assembly and the Code of Virginia “with the goal of identifying and making recommendations to…
Read More about University of Richmond Law professor Hank Chambers appointed to Virginia commission on racial inequityStanford Law Environmental Law Clinic wins case on behalf of Native American tribe
STANFORD LAW — On September 19, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a crucial decision in favor of clinic clients Pit River Tribe and several environmental organizations in one of the Environmental Law Clinic’s longest-running cases. Affirming the district court’s ruling, the Ninth Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to…
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UVA LAW — Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew ’87 of the University of Virginia School of Law and five of her students helped draft legislation now before Congress that aims to reduce environmental harms to minority communities. The Environmental Justice Act of 2019 would require the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal departments to act directly to alleviate…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Senate GOP leader, Lamar Alexander, mulls piecemeal update to Higher Education Act tied to HBCU funding, which could include short-term Pell, student data, FAFSA simplification and lifting prison Pell ban. But plan might be tough sell for Democrats.
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POLITICO — Democrats are holding the hearing on the public service loan forgiveness program as complaints about rejections have made it to the 2020 presidential campaign trail. Nearly every Democratic contender has made expanding or fixing the program a part of their education plan.
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