University of Houston Law Career Development Office hosts public interest networking event

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Through a series of career panels and networking opportunities, University of Houston Law Center students and recent alumni interacted with legal professionals and explored job options during the Career Development Office’s Public Interest Career Week. The festivities concluded last Friday with the Government & Public Interest Table Talk in the

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Penn Law highlights cross-disciplinary work between faculty and Wharton business school

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s commitment to cross-disciplinary study shines brightly in the impressive number of faculty members who hold joint appointments at Penn. The Carey JD/MBA Program requires that students spend their first in year in the Law School and the following summer in both Law

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Penn Law professor Beth A. Simmons co-authors article on UN Human Rights Treaty in the American Journal of International Law

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Based on their research that identified four mechanisms through which self-reporting can contribute to human rights improvements, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Beth A. Simmons and University of Minnesota Law School Professor Cosette D. Creamer have published “The Proof is in the Process: Self-Reporting Under International

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Penn Law hosts ABA traveling exhibit on passage of 19th amendment

February 18, 2020

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law students recently held the first Transgender Name Change Assistance Pop-up Clinic for members of Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Perry and York counties at Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law, Carlisle. Designed to work with the transgender community, the Clinic provided attendees guidance on the legal name change process. Dickinson Law

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Penn State Dickinson Law professor Medha Makhlouf selected as Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity

February 18, 2020

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW —  Medha Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Dickinson Law, and assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine has been named to the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to

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University of Puerto Rico Law launches DNA Post-Conviction Project

February 18, 2020

ESCUELA DE DERECHO  — With the motto: “Freedom for convicted innocents”, the UPR School of Law, launched the DNA Post-Conviction Project, as announced today by Dean, Vivian I. Neptune-Rivera, an initiative that will allow prisoners in Puerto Rico, to carry out their claims of wrongful conviction in order to be exonerated. Specifically, the DNA Post-Conviction Project will

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Former ACLU president and NYLS Law professor Nadine Strossen to deliver lecture at Quinnipiac Law on combating hate speech

February 18, 2020

QUINNIPIAC — New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen, a former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will discuss her new book, “Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship,” at noon on Tuesday, February 18, on our North Haven campus in SLE-318. This event, sponsored by the Federalist Society in

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Santa Clara Law dean Lisa Kloppenberg named provost and vice president of academic affairs at Santa Clara University

February 18, 2020

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY — Lisa Kloppenberg, who served as dean of Santa Clara University School of Law and has been interim University provost since June 2019, was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at the 169-year-old institution.

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St. Mary’s Law hosts immigration symposium

February 18, 2020

ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY — The St. Mary’s University School of Law’s student-led publication, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice, will host its 2020 Immigration Symposium on Friday, Feb. 28, at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. Embracing the theme of “The Many Faces of Immigration,” the event will feature Khizr Khan, father

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Washington University Law professor Katie Herbert Meyer discusses approach to teaching immigration law

February 18, 2020

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS — Katie Herbert Meyer, director of the Immigration Clinic at Washington University’s School of Law, discusses teaching immigration law during an immigration crisis. Photo by Joe Angeles/Washington University.

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