University of Richmond Law dean Wendy Perdue launches need-based scholarship fund
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND NEWSROOM — Thanks to a foundational gift from Dean Wendy Perdue and her husband David, a new scholarship fund will make a Richmond Law education affordable and accessible to deserving students in need. The Dean’s Opportunity Scholarship Fund will award scholarships to students on the basis of financial need, academic excellence, perseverance in…
Read More about University of Richmond Law dean Wendy Perdue launches need-based scholarship fundUniversity of Richmond Law professor Julie McConnell joins efforts to confront juvenile terrorism
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND NEWSROOM — In 2019, Richmond Law professor Julie McConnell found herself at the epicenter of this human rights crisis. As Director of the Children’s Defense Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law, McConnell and her students work with children and families around Virginia advocating for indigent youth charged with acts of delinquency. Thanks to…
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RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW — Rutgers Law School has become the first law school in New Jersey to offer a Certificate for Immigration Law for its students – signaling to employers that law students have gained a mastery in immigration issues before graduating from law school. Students taking part in the certificate program will have seminars on…
Read More about Rutgers Law offers certificate in immigration lawSeton Hall Law Last Resort Exoneration Project successfully overturns life sentence for client
NORTHJERSEY.COM — For nearly a decade, Lesley and D. Michael Risinger pored over transcripts, interviewed witnesses, consulted firearms experts and argued in courtrooms, with help of a team of Seton Hall law students. For the husband-and-wife legal team who run the Last Resort Exoneration Project at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, it was a hard-fought first victory after years of work to make…
Read More about Seton Hall Law Last Resort Exoneration Project successfully overturns life sentence for clientSouthern Illinois Law honors Black History Month with events
DAILY EGYPTIAN — Black History Month kicks off at the beginning of February and is sponsored by the Black Resource Center, the Office of the Associate Chancellor of Diversity and Student Affairs. The kick off event will be at 5 p.m. on Feb. 3 in Shryock Auditorium. The event will feature a presentation on the 15th amendment…
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ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY — People’s Law School at St. Mary’s University will celebrate its 26th year of providing free education by local attorneys about common legal topics — identity theft, wills, Social Security and more — on Saturday, Feb. 15. Greg Zlotnick, J.D., the School of Law’s Director of Pro Bono Programs, said the event is an…
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KENS5 CBC — With more than 20,000 confirmed cases and more than 400 dead, the coronavirus has spread concern worldwide leading to tough decisions to be made.E very summer for the last decade, law professor Robert Hu takes roughly 20 law school students to Beijing, China for a 5-week study program. “We decided out of abundance of…
Read More about St. Mary’s Law suspends study abroad program to China after coronavirus outbreakSyracuse Law Journal of Global Rights and Organizations announces distinguished lecturer series
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — The College of Law’s Journal of Global Rights and Organizations (JGRO) and Impunity Watch News (IWN) have announced the participants for its Spring 2020 Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Read More about Syracuse Law Journal of Global Rights and Organizations announces distinguished lecturer seriesUniversity of Virginia Law celebrates anniversaries of founding and admission of women
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Two historical milestones are converging at the University of Virginia School of Law in the 2019-20 academic year: The school is celebrating 200 years since its 1819 founding, and 100 years since the school first admitted women, in 1920. The centennial of coeducation also coincides with the centennial of American…
Read More about University of Virginia Law celebrates anniversaries of founding and admission of womenUniversity of Virginia Law professor Margaret Foster Riley appointed to NIH Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Margaret Foster Riley of the University of Virginia School of Law, an expert in bioethics, has been appointed to a new National Institutes of Health advisory committee that’s exploring these kinds of biotechnological questions. The Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee provides recommendations to the NIH director and a…
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