Yale Law celebrates graduates during commencement
YALE LAW — Members of the Yale Law School community, as well as family and friends of the Class of 2023, came together to celebrate the graduates during their Commencement ceremonies on May 22. This year’s Commencement honored 243 degree candidates as well as the first class of Hurst Horizon scholars.
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COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE — A group of four disabled California law school graduates appealed to the U.S. Justice Department to step in and force the State Bar of California to provide them with appropriate accommodations when taking the bar exam. In a complaint filed with the Justice Department on Thursday, the four grads accused the state bar…
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON LAW — University of Akron (UA) School of Law students take their pro bono and community service commitments seriously. The 124 graduates of the Class of 2023 upheld that tradition, donating more than 15,000 hours during their time in law school.
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UC LAW SAN FRANCISCO — From mentoring at-risk youth to promoting reforms to California’s criminal laws and health care system, Victor “Tito” Torres has worked for years to advance social justice and give back to the Latinx community. This year, Torres was awarded the Jeanette M. Acosta Memorial Scholarship, named after a 2016 Hastings alumna…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW — Three third-year students at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, in partnership with the university’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, spent the last academic year creating a legal “blueprint” to help homeowners in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood stay in their homes by “untangling” their…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW — Another win for the First Amendment Clinic! On April 20, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas denied a Motion to Authorize Discovery into the identities of anonymous commenters criticizing the Beachwood Chief of Police Katherine McLaughlin.
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT LAW — The UConn School of Law campus filled with happy graduates and their families as the Class of 2023 took part in the law school’s 100th commencement on May 14, 2023. Most members of the JD Day Division spent their entire first year of law school studying remotely during the height…
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT LAW — The Executive LLM program, taught in Seoul, South Korea, has graduated 68 students over the past three years but this year marks the first time any have attended commencement in Connecticut.
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FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY LAW — One hundred graduates participated in Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law’s 18th annual Hooding Ceremony. The program consisted of Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida Judge Faye L. Allen as keynote hooding speaker, President Larry Robinson, Ph.D. offering remarks, and Dean Deidré Keller presiding.
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FORDHAM LAW — On April 17, Fordham Law’s Public Interest Resource Center (PIRC) recognized nearly 300 students at its 32nd Annual Public Interest Awards Ceremony, celebrating their contributions to public interest work.
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