University of San Francisco Law students and faculty work with Innocence Commission to free client

May 10, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO  — A group of USF law students helped to exonerate a man this month — 30 years after he was convicted of a murder he did not commit.

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University of Utah Law co-hosts diversity, equity, and inclusion conference for law school deans

May 10, 2022

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — The S.J. Quinney College of Law, along with the Law School Admissions Council, recently hosted a conference for law school deans focused on the topics of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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University of Utah Law professor Paul Cassell presents arguments in court on behalf of plane crash victims’ families

May 10, 2022

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — On behalf of 15 families of victims of the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes, Paul Cassell, a professor of law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, will soon present arguments in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas stating that the United

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University of Virginia Law assistant dean Jennifer Hulvey and student Sanjeev Kumar honored for excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion

May 10, 2022

UVA TODAY — The University’s Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion established the award in 2010 – with President Emeritus Casteen being the first recipient – to honor members of the UVA community whose commitment to, and passion for, diversity includes the ability to create a setting that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion.

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William & Mary Law dean A. Benjamin Spencer honored by Virginia State Bar with leadership and education award

May 10, 2022

VIRGINIA STATE BAR — A. Benjamin Spencer, dean of the first law school in the country, William & Mary, has been named the recipient of the William R. Rakes Leadership in Education Award  from the Virginia State Bar Section on the Education of Lawyers in Virginia.

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Law professors weigh in on the cost of taking and preparing for the bar exam

May 5, 2022

REUTERS — The cost of preparing for and taking the bar exam places an unfair financial burden on law grads seeking to enter the legal profession while enriching the testing industry, academics critical of the licensing exam said Friday.

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The Recording Academy’s Entertainment Law Initiative honors law students and faculty

May 5, 2022

RECORDING ACADEMY — The Recording Academy’s Entertainment Law Initiative was established to promote discussion and debate around compelling legal matters and trends in the ever-evolving music industry.

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Podcast: UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses why Critical Race Theory matters

May 5, 2022

MORE JUST — More than three dozen states have passed, or are considering, laws restricting how public school teachers can talk about racism under the guise of banning “Critical Race Theory.” But what is Critical Race Theory? And how can law schools, law professors, and law students respond to these campaigns, when most — if

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University of Baltimore Law professor Margaret E. Johnson named Fulbright Scholar

May 4, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE — University of Baltimore School of Law Prof. Margaret E. Johnsonhas received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Law for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

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Columbia Law professor Robert E. Scott honored by William & Mary Law faculty for exceptional accomplishment in law

May 4, 2022

WILLIAM & Mary Law School — Professor Robert E. Scott J.D. ’68 of Columbia Law School received the 2021-22 Marshall-Wythe Medallion at a ceremony held in William & Mary’s historic Wren Building on March 24. The medallion is the highest honor conferred by the William & Mary Law School faculty and recognizes those who have

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