Mercer Law students aid refugees in the country of Georgia
MERCER LAW — Mercer University students and faculty helped build cultural bridges during a Mercer On Mission trip to Georgia this summer. Hosted by the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia and the World Association of Georgia Muslims, the Mercer team stayed in Tbilisi at the Beteli Center for refugees, learning the refugees’ stories and helping…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LAW — The University of Missouri School of Law is reopening its Family Violence Clinic, which has been closed since 2020. School officials said new state funding amounting to $400,000 from Missouri legislators made the reopening possible. The facility, which will provide legal services to mid-Missouri residents, will resume operations in January.
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UNIVERSTIY OF MISSOURI LAW — Veterans across northeast Missouri had a chance to receive free legal advice from the University of Missouri School of Law Veterans’ Clinic on Thursday. Attorneys from the university helped veterans with their VA disability benefits, discharge upgrades and VA healthcare.
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NORTHEASTERN LAW — A collaboration between Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law, and the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, “Salus Populi: Educating the Judiciary about the Social Determinants of Health” provides guidance and training to judges on the social determinants of health and their relationship to judicial decision-making.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Transnational Legal Clinic filed a complaint on June 23 regarding the rights of immigrants held at Pike County Correctional Facility in Hawley, Pa.
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USC GOULD LAW — In December 2022, student attorneys from the International Human Rights Clinic at USC Gould School of Law traveled to The Hague to raise awareness of serious human rights atrocities in Ukraine, Armenia and Cameroon and to advocate for prevention of genocide and prosecution of international crimes against humanity.
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VERMONT LAW AND GRADUATE SCHOOL — Vermont Law and Graduate School now has a larger presence in downtown Burlington. The school received a $975,000 federal grant, secured by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to combine their immigration legal aid clinic and broader justice reform work into the Center for Justice Reform Clinic, which will be in…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Ashley S. Deeks and Andrew Hayashi, two University of Virginia School of Law professors who specialize in international law and national security, and tax law and policy, respectively, recently teamed up on a research paper analyzing how the U.S. could use the breadth of its tax code to levy a…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — William & Mary Law School has announced the appointment of Jim Wheaton to its faculty for the Fall 2023 semester. Wheaton will serve as Clinical Associate Professor of Law and as Director of the PELE (Parents Engaged for Learning Equality) Special Education Advocacy Clinic.
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO LAW — Teenagers are typically not seen much around O’Brian Hall. But the law school filled its halls with several young people recently, thanks to two initiatives that brought the tools and possibilities of the law to people of high school age. The first, a faculty-led mini-training for at-risk youth, introduced teens…
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