University of Arkansas Law names Summer Public Service Fellows
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS — The U of A School of Law Summer Public Service Fellowship Program provides paid public service fellowships to promising law students interested in public service careers. It is part of the law school’s broader effort to fulfill the university’s mission as a land-grant institution.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Baltimore Students for Public Interest (USBPI) program has announced its 2021 summer public interest fellowship recipients. These 13 current students will work in public interest organizations serving communities that are underserved and underrepresented in the legal system.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students in Case Western Reserve’s Appellate Litigation Clinic capped off their semester with two major filings: a 60-page brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a habeas case and a petition asking the Supreme Court of Ohio to hear a case involving…
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL — After navigating their final year of law school amid a pandemic and a social justice movement, 200 graduates from Colorado Law celebrated their landmark accomplishments in a virtual ceremony on May 8.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has named University of Colorado Law School Professor Sarah Krakoff deputy solicitor for parks and wildlife, a key role on the U.S. Department of the Interior leadership team.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — In April, Fordham Law’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics filed an amicus brief in support of the cert petition in a death penalty case, Williams v. Texas. In its brief, the Stein Center argues that the defendant was denied his due process right to a disinterested prosecutor because a prosecutor working on the case…
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FORDHAM LAW NEW — On April 29, Fordham Law School launched the inaugural Reidenberg Lecture, a new annual series of talks memorializing the life and legacy of the late Professor Joel Reidenberg, Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair in Law and founder of the Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP). Judge Denny Chin ’78 of the U.S.…
Read More about Federal judge Denny Chin discusses law and emerging technology at Fordham LawGeorge Washington Law professor Robert Orttung heads project to improve access to affordable energy for low-income communities
THE GW HATCHET — Robert Orttung, the director of research for Sustainable GW, is working on a pilot project with members of four schools at GW to develop microgrids – smaller self-functioning versions of a typical electrical system – that can provide electricity to households even when the main electrical grid goes down during a storm.
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — The Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Endowed Chair hosted its first academic event on March 12 and April 2, 2021. The online event brought together the authors of the forthcoming book, Anthony M. Kennedy: The Rhetoric of Judging, to discuss their draft chapters. The book was organized, and is edited, by Professor Francis…
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UNIVERITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — For the past three years, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students at the Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC) have partnered with Troutman Pepper’s Pepper Center for Public Service to perform pro bono immigration work and address the dearth of immigration lawyers currently in practice across the country.
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