D.C. Court of Appeals judge addresses importance of diversity during lecture at Michigan Law
MICHIGAN DAILY – Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals addressed Michigan Law School students about the need for diversity in the judicial system.
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY – Nitza Milagros Escalera has been appointed Fordham Law’s first assistant dean of diversity initiatives.
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY – Candice Isaac, a second year student at the West Virginia University College of Law, is working to support minorities in the legal profession.
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ABC NEWS – “None of us are shrinking violets,” Kagan said of herself and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor during an appearance at the University of Louisville.
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DIGITAL JOURNAL – The National Hispanic Pre-Law Conference will host its 2nd annual event at the New York University School of Law in New York, New York.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF LAW – Robert Silva ‘16 reflects on his legal education at UND School of Law, which has one of the best Indian Law programs in the nation. The State Bar Association of North Dakota is looking to have more diversity like Silva that better reflects the community.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW – A group of 46 undergraduate and graduate students from China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing completed three weeks in the summer studying the U.S. legal system at UC Davis School of Law.
Read More about UC Davis Law summer program exposes Chinese students to U.S. legal systemTulane Law alumni pledge endowed scholarship to increase diversity
TULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL – Robert Waldrup ’16 and Gary Crosby ‘16 pledged to start a scholarship endowment aimed at increasing Tulane Law’s racial diversity and offering robust mentoring networks that will help open more pathways for more first-generation students to launch professional careers.
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL – Southwestern Law School has received the 2016 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
Read More about Southwestern Law School receives excellence in diversity award from magazineHarvard Law alumna reflects on personal experience with religious discrimination
HARVARD LAW TODAY – Raheemah Abdulaleem ’01 is associate general counsel in the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration. She was one of several Muslim White House staffers who detailed their personal experiences with discrimination on the occasion of the first visit of President Barack Obama ’91 to a U.S. mosque.
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