Video: Penn State Law event explores bias in legal education
PENN STATE LAW – Tackling complex and interrelated issues of gender, ethnicity, and bias, a distinguished panel at Penn State Law addressed how bias shapes legal education and how this affects law students, professors, and the legal profession.
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NEW YORK TIMES – “[E]ncouraging African-American students to attend Arizona Summit will not help them achieve their goals. It will hobble them.”
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – The Black Law Students Association at the University of Virginia School of Law won National Chapter of the Year honors.
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JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION – The Mauer School of Law at Indiana University has entered into a partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center to create the Julian Bond Law Scholars program.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA COLLEGE OF LAW – A University of Nebraska College of Law and University of Nebraska at Omaha have launched a new program designed to encourage students in underrepresented communities to pursue a legal education.
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ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION – Emory University School of Law student Janiel Myers, who was born in Jamaica and recently naturalized as an American citizen, was named to the Journal’s highest role.
Read More about Emory Law names first black editor-in-chief of law journalPenn State Law panel explores diversity in legal education
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY – PENN STATE LAW – Penn State Law will host a panel discussion on diversity and bias in the legal academy.
Read More about Penn State Law panel explores diversity in legal educationArizona Summit Law to affiliate with Florida HBCU
ABA JOURNAL – The for-profit Arizona Summit School of Law announced that it will sign an affiliation agreement with Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida.
Read More about Arizona Summit Law to affiliate with Florida HBCUHarvard Law Review elects first black woman president
NEW YORK TIMES – ImeIme Umana, the third-oldest of four daughters of Nigerian immigrants, was elected by the review’s 92 student editors as the president of its 131st volume.
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MANNING LIVE – Chelsea Evans, a second-year law student from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was elected by peers to lead the esteemed University of South Carolina School of Law publication.
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