Fordham Law Right to Housing and Civil Rights Litigation Clinic file federal lawsuit against discriminatory housing practices

May 16, 2024

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law School’s Right to Housing and Civil Rights Litigation Clinic filed a class action lawsuit against the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) on behalf of low-income Black and Hispanic renters who were eligible for federal rental assistance during the pandemic

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Harvard Law student Kate Strickland discusses the school’s mediation program

May 16, 2024

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL — I started HLS in Fall 2020 which, as many will remember, meant that I was part of the class who spent our entire first year online due to the Covid pandemic. 

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Harvard Law student Julio Quiroz Colby discusses passion for advocacy for those seeking

May 15, 2024

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Julio Quiroz Colby ’24 has been advocating for immigrant rights since he was an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, where, fluent in Spanish, he helped with translation services for asylum seekers at an immigrant and refugee legal services organization.

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UMass Law establishes study abroad program in Portugal

May 15, 2024

THE HERALD NEWS — Ten students from UMass School of Law will be in Portugal from May 17 to 31 as part of a new study abroad program created in partnership with the Católica Global School of Law of Lisbon.

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University of Miami Law students complete pro bono work during spring break

May 15, 2024

UMIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law students participated in three alternative Spring Break trips where they assisted survivors of domestic violence, indigent defendants, and refugees and asylum seekers. 

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Notre Dame Law student Claire Crites selected for public interest law fellowship

May 15, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — Claire Crites, a third-year Notre Dame Law School student, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowship. 

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Notre Dame Law fellows Kaitlyn Bowe and Dennis Wieboldt complete justice fellowship

May 15, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law students Kaitlyn Bowe and Dennis Wieboldt completed a year-long fellowship with the University of Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns, an interdisciplinary institute responding to the complex demands of justice through a combination of justice education and research for the common good.

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Quinnipiac Law Human Trafficking Prevention Project teaches local high school students

May 15, 2024

QUINNIPIAC TODAY — On April 19, students from Quinnipiac School of Law’s Human Trafficking Prevention Project (HTPP) imparted important lessons to 30 local high school students during a trafficking awareness and prevention training session in the Brooke A. Goff Courtroom on the North Haven Campus.

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Stanford Law Immigrants’ Rights Clinic student Madison Villarreal represents client before Nevada Pardons Board

May 15, 2024

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — As an advanced student with the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, I had the opportunity to represent a detained client before the Nevada Pardons Board to request a pardon of our client’s prior criminal convictions.

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