Western Michigan University Law faculty adopt resolution on racial justice
LEGALNEWS.COM — On Tuesday, July 7, the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School faculty unanimously adopted a resolution during its faculty conference meeting repudiating racism.
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LSAC — As part of the Law School Admission Council’s longstanding commitment to promoting access and equity in legal education, the organization is pleased to announce the winners of its 2020 writing competition, held every two years to bring attention to the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion in legal education and the profession.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Study finds the concept of faculty fit in hiring is vague and potentially detrimental to diversity efforts. Faculty search committees often pick candidates based on their supposed fit. But rather than a defined metric, fit is a highly subjective concept that opens the door to racial and other biases, according to a new study in The…
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ABA JOURNAL — Nearly 40% of lawyers who identify as having disabilities and/or as LGBTQ+ report experiencing discrimination, harassment and bias in the workplace, according to a new national study by the ABA and Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On July 7, 2020, the DC Council voted to make the District of Columbia the first jurisdiction to restore voting rights to incarcerated residents with felony convictions. This significant democratic milestone comes after a testimony in support of the Bill by Visiting Professor Margaret Martin Barry, director of the Re-Entry Clinic at…
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BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE — The coronavirus and recent racial uprisings throw a harsh light on our political system. What do they reveal about federal-state relations and government ethics in the US?
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BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE — What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about our understanding of criminal justice and the system that supports it? The disproportionately devasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people of color and the poor parallels the disparate impact of criminal punishment on those communities.
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The In Real Law program connects first generation law students and law students of color to diverse, highly successful attorneys practicing in Boston.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel will testify before the Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights at its July hearing, Civil Rights and Equity in the Delivery of Medical and Public Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ohio.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On June 17, Fordham Law School’s Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, the Center on Race, Law and Justice, and Black Law Students Association invited Judge Theodore A. McKee, the fourth African American to sit on the Third Circuit’s U.S. Court of Appeals, Judge Ann Claire Williams, the first woman of color to serve…
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