Fordham Law Center on Race, Law, and Justice hosts webinar on building and supporting inclusive legal work environments
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On July 15, Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law and Justice invited attorneys from Richard Kibbe & Orbe LLP—Managing Partner Jennifer Grady, Partner Margaret Meyers, and Partner James Walker—for a webinar entitled “Inclusive Workplaces Best Practices: Implicit Bias and #MeToo Racial Blindspots.”
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) has identified and summarized books, research, creative activities, and many other resources authored by UCI Law faculty members who are experts on race, racial disparities, racial — implicit and explicit — biases, the criminalization of Black people, the criminalization…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — In what critics say is defiance of Supreme Court ruling, Trump administration says it will reject new DACA applications and shorten the renewal period to one year.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A federal judge for the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction Friday ordering that the Department of Education could not deny funding authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to a Bunker Hill Community College student based on her immigration status.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The proposal for the next coronavirus relief package unveiled by Senate Republicans Monday would continue to exclude college students who are undocumented immigrants from receiving emergency aid during the pandemic, potentially setting up a politically charged debate with Democrats.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Anne Tompkins thought her sexual orientation would cut her off from certain job opportunities when she started her legal career in the early 1990s.
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UC NEWS — A University of Cincinnati alumnus has donated $200,000 to support a center at the law school focused on race, gender and social justice.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Rising 3L Christina John ’21 won LSAC’s 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Writing Competition in the second-year law student category with her essay, “It’s Your Choice: Diversity and Inclusion or Irrelevance and Extinction (PDF).”
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LAW360 — Diversifying law schools and disregarding the “myth” that there aren’t enough minority attorneys available to hire and promote to top legal positions could help make lasting change for Black attorneys, a panel of lawyers said Tuesday.
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KATC 3 ABC — The ACLU of Louisiana is looking for people who have been victimized by racist policing. The organization wants to find people willing to be plaintiffs to challenge unconstitutional practices.
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