Opinion: How experiential learning can reduce law student stress
BLOOMBERG LAW — A recent Insight suggested that one source of law students’ stress is the expansion of experiential learning. Three New York University School of Law professors disagree, and say experiential learning is active, engaging, and helps to bring meaning to students’ legal education. This experience—and closer work with instructors—helps law students learn to…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Students at the University of Virginia School of Law collectively volunteered 1,774 hours over spring break in pro bono projects across the country and online. The student-led Public Interest Law Association, which each year organizes the Alternative Spring Break, recruited 56 students who worked with 26 organizations this month. Though…
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UVA TODAY — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin encouraged students and others who wish to make a difference in their communities to get involved at the state government level, saying more gets accomplished there than in the federal government. Youngkin spoke Friday at the 41st Annual National Student Symposium, sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF LAW — Winter weather is common in many states, but not Mississippi. A slight wintry mix or snow can create hazardous road conditions and make it very difficult to travel. First-year law student Emmy Thrower’s mind immediately went to healthcare workers in the area. Thrower’s mother works as a neonatal nurse…
Read More about University of Mississippi School of Law first-year class provides meals for healthcare workers during winter weatherAlumni gifts to Duke Law fund student public interest work
DUKE LAW — Duke Law alumni have boosted their support for public interest fellowships, enabling more students and recent graduates to pursue highly competitive but low-paying or unpaid positions in areas such as public defense, indigent civil legal services, disability rights, housing, labor relations, international human rights, and civil work at government agencies. In summer 2021, nine…
Read More about Alumni gifts to Duke Law fund student public interest workSanta Clara University Law celebrates 20 years of the Northern California Innocence Project
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY — Obie Anthony III was supposed to die in prison—for a crime he did not commit. What saved him and 32 other wrongly convicted California inmates, who had spent a combined 480 years in prison by the time they were freed? The Northern California Innocence Project. For two decades, the non-profit that opened its doors at the…
Read More about Santa Clara University Law celebrates 20 years of the Northern California Innocence ProjectUC Irvine Law student Laura Flores awarded fellowship for public service work
UCI LAW — University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce that third-year student Laura Flores was awarded a prestigious, and highly competitive, Skadden Fellowship for public service work. Flores won the fellowship for her proposed project with Justice Action Center in Los Angeles, which will combine litigation and other advocacy…
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UC CINCINNATI — The University of Cincinnati College of Law today announced the launch the Legal Access Clinic (LAC), a new effort designed to address the access to justice gap for low- and-middle-income people in the tristate. The clinic is scheduled to open Fall 2022, when it will serve its first clients. Sarah Adkins, an attorney with extensive nonprofit…
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CBS MIAMI — A Jacksonville man wrongfully convicted of armed robbery was just released last month, and it’s thanks in part to law students at the University of Miami. After 8 years of his life was taken away, Dustin Duty walked out of a Jacksonville jail on October 27th, 2021, smiling and grateful. “Just my faith in God…
Read More about University of Miami Law students help free wrongfully convicted manYale Law Housing Clinic helps local residents facing eviction, foreclosures, and fair housing issues
YALE DAILY NEWS — In light of the economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Law School Housing Clinic has intensified its fight for local and national housing justice. The clinic provides law students with the opportunity to practice direct service across three tracks: evictions, foreclosures and fair housing. Each track offers a different scope of…
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