Penn Law students seek to help first-generation law students
DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN – Three Penn Law School students are establishing a group called First Generation Professionals.
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HOTTYTODDY – The University of Mississippi School of Law has about 43% of female and 57% male law students with a current bar passage rate of about 90%.
Read More about University of Mississippi Law hopes to increase number of women in the legal professionCorporate departments take the lead on creating a more diverse legal industry
FORBES – Corporate legal departments have adopted the enterprise commitment to diversity, and that’s a big reason why diversity candidates fare better in large corporate legal departments than in law firms.
Read More about Corporate departments take the lead on creating a more diverse legal industryVideo: 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.
Read More about Video: Penn State Law event explores bias in legal educationOpinion: Arizona Summit Law’s partnership with Florida HBCU will hurt black students
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.
Read More about UVA Law’s Black Law Students Association named national chapter of the yearIndiana Maurer Law introduces new scholarship program in partnership with Southern Poverty Law Center
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.
Read More about Indiana Maurer Law introduces new scholarship program in partnership with Southern Poverty Law CenterNebraska Law launches program encouraging first-generation college students to pursue law school
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.
Read More about Nebraska Law launches program encouraging first-generation college students to pursue law schoolEmory Law names first black editor-in-chief of law journal
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.
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