Video: Penn State Law event explores bias in legal education

March 27, 2017

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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Opinion: Arizona Summit Law’s partnership with Florida HBCU will hurt black students

March 27, 2017

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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UVA Law’s Black Law Students Association named national chapter of the year

March 20, 2017

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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Indiana Maurer Law introduces new scholarship program in partnership with Southern Poverty Law Center

March 13, 2017

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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Nebraska Law launches program encouraging first-generation college students to pursue law school

March 13, 2017

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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Emory Law names first black editor-in-chief of law journal

March 13, 2017

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.

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Penn State Law panel explores diversity in legal education

March 13, 2017

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY – PENN STATE LAW – Penn State Law will host a panel discussion on diversity and bias in the legal academy.

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Arizona Summit Law to affiliate with Florida HBCU

March 13, 2017

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.

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Harvard Law Review elects first black woman president

March 6, 2017

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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South Carolina Law Review names first black woman as editor-in-chief

March 6, 2017

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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