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New Duke Law series explores race and the first-year law school curriculum
DUKE LAW — A yearlong series at Duke Law sponsored by the dean’s office is examining race in the context of the six foundational subjects in the first-year curriculum: torts, criminal law, civil procedure, contracts, property law, and constitutional law. Each discussion in the webinar series is moderated by a faculty scholar.
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A look at the Georgia October online bar exam results
GEORGIA BAR ADMISSIONS — The following is a list of names of applicants who passed the October 2020 Georgia Bar Examination. To be eligible for admission to the practice of law in Georgia, an applicant must have passed the Bar Examination and received an acceptable score of 75 or higher on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination.
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Maine bar exam pass rate improves over previous year
BANGOR DAILY NEWS — Eighty-six percent of the September test takers passed the exam, the highest passage rate since July 2016 and nearly 30 percentage points higher than the average passage rate of 56.6 percent between February 2015 and July 2019. The 2020 class of the University of Maine School of Law did even better.
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Upcoming Symposia at Member Schools
- Self, Society, Family: College Women of Color Consider Reporting Violence — University of California, Irvine School of Law — December 9, 2020
- The Unprecedented 2020 Election and the Future of Voting and Democracy in America — University of California, Irvine School of Law — December 10, 2020
- Special Education Advocacy Virtual Conference — William & Mary Law School — January 10-15, 2021
- Legal Innovation Tournament — Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University — January 11-12, 2021
- What (If Anything) Can a Rebalanced System of Corporate Governance Do to Promote Racial Equity? — University of Pennsylvania Law School — January 14, 2021
- Chokehold: Policing Black Men in the Post-Trump Era — University of Cincinnati College of Law — January 14, 2021
- Exploitation to Empowerment: Leveraging the Law for Survivors of Human Trafficking — University of San Francisco School of Law — January 15,22 & 29, 2021
- HBCUs v. Maryland: Is There a Solution in Sight? — University of Baltimore School of Law — February 4, 2021
- Selling Vulnerability: Sex Trafficking, Opioids, and Eradicating The Demand; the Law — University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law — February 5, 2021
- Center for Constitutional Law Virtual Symposium: Examining Black Citizenship from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter — University of Akron School of Law — February 5, 2021