University of Iowa Law expands environmental law offerings
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW — This Earth Day, Iowa Law celebrates the expansion of environmental law opportunities for students, alumni, and the larger community in Iowa and beyond. With the launch of the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative (HELI) in 2022, the College of Law has continued to build upon its solid reputation for teaching and…
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW — A tradition going back almost 100 years, Iowa Supreme Court Day is the culmination of course work, moot court competitions and hard work. Mary Ksobiech is a professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research at Iowa Law, and has an impressive track record of mentoring national moot court teams as…
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW — The University of Iowa College of Law is thrilled to announce that Barbara (Barbi) Rodriguez has been awarded the 2023 “Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award” by the Burton Awards for her note published in the Iowa Law Review titled, “In the Interest of Justice: Presuming Prejudice When the Right to…
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW — The University of Kansas School of Law awarded the first annual Bruce Hopkins Award for Nonprofit Excellence to Kat Girod, a third-year law student from Prairie Village, earlier this month at a ceremony held in the Wheat Law Library, where Hopkins’s prolific publications are available for checkout.
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LAW — Sports, entertainment, and art law offer immense growth opportunities for lawyers who are properly trained, willing to learn, and are interested in working in these dynamic and exciting industries, according to Professor Emeritus Michael E. Jones, who teaches a popular class on these fields at UMass Law. To further student…
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PACE LAW — On Wednesday, March 29, Haub Law presented the Second Annual Pace Access to Justice (A2J) Workshop themed: Voting, Democracy, and the Law. The Workshop brought together national voting rights and election law experts and advocates with Haub Law faculty, staff, students, and community guests to learn and engage in a dialogue centering…
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PENN STATE LAW — The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at Penn State Law in University Park held its annual Donning of the Kente ceremony on April 22 to celebrate its 2023 graduating members. The ceremony, which prompts both a reflection on the graduates’ law school experience and a look forward to future success, was…
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA LAW — Over the university’s spring break, seven University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law students consulted with clients and assisted with estate planning at the Tribal Wills Clinic on the Rosebud Sioux reservation. At the pro bono clinic, law students met with clients and mapped out their objectives, drafted…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The graduate student workers’ strike at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is nearing its one-month mark and the end of the spring semester—impacting grading in the last week of final exams. “We see this as a big point of our leverage,” said Amir Fleischmann, a Ph.D. candidate and a graduate student…
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON LAW — The University of Akron (UA) School of Law will recognize its 2023 outstanding alumni, student and faculty award recipients at the Akron Law Alumni Association (ALAA) Annual Awards event on Friday, May 12, from 7:30- 9 a.m. in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union Ballroom. Following the event, a complimentary…
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