Harvard Law and faculty share summer reading recommendations

June 30, 2022

HARVARD LAW TODAY — I started my summer with my first trip to Oxford [England] and fell in love with the city. The trip inspired me to reread “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh. I had the fun of staying in Hertford College during my visit, which is where Charles Ryder, the Brideshead protagonist, is a…

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University of Hawai’i Law hosts high school students for Law & Justice Summer Program

June 30, 2022

NEWSWIRES — High school students participating in the William S. Richardson School of Lawʻs “Law & Justice Summer Program” attended a Supreme Court oral argument at Aliiolani Hale on June 8. They were the first in-person participants in the Judiciary’s Courts in the Community program in more than two years.

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University of Houston Law Center Military Justice Clinic celebrates first graduate now serving in Air Force JAG Corps

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center alumna Nikita Westberg is currently working as a United States Air Force Judge Advocate at Luke Airforce Base in Arizona.

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Judicial ethics reform adopted after being recommended by University of Houston Law Center professor Renee Knake Jefferson

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Justices on the United States Supreme Court and all federal judges must promptly report financial disclosures and make them available in a publicly accessible database according to a bill passed by Congress and signed into law this month by President Joe Biden.

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University of Kansas Law students honored for pro bono service

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — Forty-nine University of Kansas School of Law students contributed 2,721 hours of free legal services over the past year.

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Loyola Law Chicago interim dean Zelda B. Harris outlines plans to combat inequity at the school

June 29, 2022

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS — Establishing a foundation for equity and social justice is more than a destination. It’s a journey. Fighting oppression and inequity takes hard work, humility and resilience.

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Loyola Law New Orleans celebrates 2022 graduates at commencement

June 29, 2022

NOLA — On May 13, members of the Class of 2022 of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law received juris doctor degrees at Lakefront Arena.

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University of Miami Law Immigration Clinic wins asylum for client

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — In a downtown Miami courtroom where asylum seekers seldom win, Immigration Clinic students successfully represented an Indigenous Honduran woman who fears violence at the hands of the father of her son, a leader of the 18th Street gang in San Pedro Sula.

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University of Minnesota Law students named to worker advocacy fellowship

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Rising 3Ls Dustin Loosbrock and Ricardo Perez and rising 2Ls Amirah Ellison and Abby Frerick were selected for prestigious and highly competitive summer fellowships from the Peggy Browning Fund.

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University of Minnesota Law student Jordan Francis named future leader in privacy and data protection

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Jordan Francis ’22 has received the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP)  Westin Scholar Award. The award is given to select students identified by their professors as future leaders in the field of privacy or data protection.

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