Albany Law Government Law Center releases summaries of aging and disability law
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The Government Law Center at Albany Law School has released the first four publications in its explainer series on Aging and Disability Law for state and local policy makers. The Government Law Center Aging and Disability Explainer Series is designed to help policymakers and others understand the complex laws relating to older adults…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The conference, sponsored by the AU Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, AUWCL, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), addressed the best interest standard, which has served to safeguard the well-being of children in the U.S. for over a century, regardless of immigration status.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — While students may recall the Supreme Court’s case Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife from their first-year Constitutional Law class, Professor William J. Snape, III worked on the case fresh out of law school.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — UB School of Law Prof. Nienke Grossman recently returned to the United Nations to provide expert testimony on proposed changes to the nomination and selection process for judges in the International Criminal Court (ICC). With the Assembly of States Parties planning to elect six new judges in December, the meeting was…
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — How relevant is the Baltimore City Charter, originally created in 1898, in a 21st-century Baltimore? That is the question a panel of current and former elected officials will address on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at the UB Law Forum Symposium, “The City Charter: Does it Work for a 21st Century Baltimore?” The symposium…
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Brooklyn Law School announced the launch of the Professor Arthur Pinto and Stephen Bohlen Diversity Initiative, supported by a gift commitment of more than $1 million by Brooklyn Law School Professor Emeritus Arthur Pinto.The Diversity Initiative, named for Pinto and his husband, Stephen Bohlen, a retired health care executive, will provide critical support for…
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WABE — University of California at Irvine Law Professor Richard Hasen joins “Closer Look with Rose Scott” live, in-studio to discuss his new book, “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy,” in light of the upcoming presidential primary elections in Georgia and nationwide.
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA COLUMBUS SCHOOL OF LAW — On February 12, Catholic Law Professor Mary Graw Leary spoke at a Congressional Briefing, “Seeing Trafficking in 2020, Bringing Survivors into Focus.” Hosted by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), the panel discussed the survivor experience in light of the 20th Anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and what…
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THE ATLANTIC — utting aside the question of whether such radical measures are even effective, China’s government generally has much more authoritarian control over its population than the American government has over its. If a fast-spreading, deadly epidemic should threaten the United States, could the U.S. government do the same? The answer is yes…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — In 2015, a group of students in Fordham Law’s Federal Litigation Clinic, under the supervision of Professors Michael W. Martin and Ian Weinstein, took on representation of a client who was arrested in a controversial drug “reverse stash house sting.” Recently, students in the Fall 2019 clinic won a habeas corpus petition…
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