University at Buffalo Law Environmental Advocacy Clinic obtains global designation for Niagara River
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — Six years of work by students in UB School of Law’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic – more than 1,450 pro bono hours invested by our student attorneys. And a total of 33 students who helped build the legal and informational foundation – all to celebrate the global significance of Western…
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BERKELEY LAW — On January 1, 2018, a new law went into effect barring California counties from charging administrative fees to parents and guardians of youth in the juvenile legal system. Senate Bill 190 was the culmination of more than five years of research and outreach by students in Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic (PAC) to…
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DUKE SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY — Scholars at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and Law School will research new ideas for social media regulation with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the foundation announced today. Their focus will be an idea Napoli has explored in previous writing – that aspects…
Read More about Duke Law and public policy school receives funds to study future of tech policyDuke Law announces class of judges in school’s judicial studies LLM program
DUKE LAW — The Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law has announced its fifth class of judges accepted to the Master of Judicial Studies LLM program. The class entering in summer 2020 will include 10 federal judges, two state supreme court justices, eight state court judges, and two international judges. They will spend two summer terms at…
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DUKE LAW — Duke Law’s Civil Justice Clinic and Legal Aid of North Carolina broke new ground recently when they settled a federal discrimination complaint filed against the Raleigh Housing Authority on behalf of a public housing tenant who was a victim of domestic violence.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — When the Fall semester began in mid-August, most students in the Human Rights Clinic had only a vague notion of what advocacy before the United Nations meant. By the first week in October, eleven HRC students, under the supervision of Professors Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Tamar Ezer, and Denisse Córdova Montes,…
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — New York Law School (NYLS) today announced the launch of its New York Census and Redistricting Institute. The Institute will engage and educate public institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the public about law and policy relating to the national census in 2020 and subsequent city and state redistricting. It is the first…
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GRAND FOLKS HERALD — The power of a good argument and a couple of pairs of leopard shoes helped propel Tatiana Hamilton and Katie Winbauer to a narrow victory in the finals of UND’s intra-school moot court competition. Members of North Dakota’s Supreme Court judged the competition Wednesday evening, a tradition that stretches back years, but…
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY — On Oct 30, 2019 Prof. Colleen Chien testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, IP Subcommittee’s hearing, “How Can Congress Prevent the Issuance of Low-Quality Patents?” In her testimony, Chien drew from a decade of research on patent quality, her time as a patent prosecutor, and her work as senior intellectual property advisor…
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SEATTLEU — Nelson and dozens of other criminal justice reform activists, including Tarra Simmons ’17, lobbied state legislators in Olympia to pass the New Hope Act, which went into effect this summer. The new law makes it easier for people with certain misdemeanor or felony convictions to clear their records, as long as the convictions meet…
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