Albany Law Immigration Law Pro Bono Society earns New York State Bar Association President’s Award
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The Immigration Law Pro Bono Society at Albany Law School was selected for a New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) President’s Pro Bono Service Award for its work assisting the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) for providing critical legal services to Afghan refugees resettling in Albany County.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA NEWS CENTER — The University of Alabama presented civil rights pioneer and attorney Fred David Gray with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree during the School of Law commencement ceremony May 8.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS — As part of a long-standing tradition, the U of A School of Law will present four student elected awards at the commencement ceremony on May 14. Each award honors members of the law school community who have excelled in a particular area of endeavor.
Read More about University of Arkansas Law recognizes student-elected award recipientsFormer University of Baltimore Law professor Dionne Koller Fine discusses her decision to continue her legal education at Harvard Law
HARVARD LAW TODAY — In July 2020, Dionne Koller Fine LL.M. ’22 appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Introducing herself as a professor of law at the University of Baltimore and director of its Center on Sports and the Law, she testified in no uncertain terms against efforts by the…
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BOSTON COLLEGE — Boston College Law Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder’s new book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution, implodes the assumption that America’s framing was exclusively attributable to white men—as history would supposedly have us believe.
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UC HASTINGS LAW — From a young age, Ritchie Lee dreamed of becoming a public defender. Growing up in San Francisco, Lee said he saw his peers unfairly targeted by law enforcement. He said it inspired him to fight against the injustice he saw playing out in his community.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus, one of the nation’s leading experts on memory, discusses her work and how it transformed the justice system on the latest “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law.
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UCLA LAW — UCLA School of Law’s A. Barry Cappello Trial Team is the national champion for a second straight year. The squad secured victory while repeating a previously unprecedented feat: winning the nation’s two biggest law school trial advocacy competitions in the same year.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — LGBTQ+ students were more likely to experience discrimination and violence, according to a new study by the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, a scholarship fund that provides financial aid for LGBTQ+ students.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — It’s not often that a lawyer literally gets to save a life. But three Case Western Reserve University School of Law students did just that this semester in the school’s Immigration Clinic.
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