Penn Law offers new cross-disciplinary LGBTQ certificate

May 17, 2022

PENN LAW — The new LGBTQ Certificate at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the result of strategic cross-school collaboration and will prepare students to better serve and advocate for LGBTQ+ communities.

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Penn State Law accepted into Order of the Coif honor society

May 17, 2022

PENN STATE — Penn State Law in University Park has been accepted into the Order of the Coif, an honor society founded in 1902 to recognize “excellence in legal education.” The honor will be awarded to Penn State Law juris doctor graduates who finish in the top 10% of their class and will include a…

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Stanford Law professor Nathaniel Persily testifies before US Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law

May 17, 2022

THE STANFORD DAILY  — Digital platform giants, such as Facebook and Google, possess power “unrivaled in world history” over the flow of information, said Stanford law professor Nathaniel Persily J.D. ’98 during a Wednesday session of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.  

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Stanford Law Center on the Legal Profession renamed in honor of Deborah L. Rhode

May 17, 2022

STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — Stanford Law School announced today that the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession (CLP) will be renamed the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession after founder and prominent legal ethics scholar, Deborah L. Rhode, who passed away in early 2021.

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Syracuse Law celebrates first graduates of hybrid online-JD program

May 16, 2022

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — On May 6, 2022, students in the inaugural class of Syracuse University College of Law’s first-of-its-kind JDinteractive (JDi) program graduated alongside their peers in the College’s residential JD program.  JDi, a fully ABA-accredited program, was the first to combine live online class sessions with self-paced class sessions.

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New Syracuse Law scholarship honors the legacy of judge Theodore A. McKee

May 16, 2022

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — Syracuse University College of Law is pleased to announce the establishment of the Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75 Endowed Law Scholarship with a generous gift from Syracuse University Trustee and College of Law Board of Advisors Member Richard M. Alexander L’82, a partner at Arnold & Porter, and his…

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Robert Chesney appointed as dean of University of Texas Law

May 16, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Texas at Austin has selected Robert (Bobby) Chesney to serve as the next dean of the School of Law.

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Gift to Vanderbilt Law will expand scholarship program

May 16, 2022

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — Vanderbilt Law School Board of Advisors member W. Weldon Wilson, JD’86, and his wife, Elaine, have documented a $17.5 million bequest to support their existing Weldon Wilson Scholarship at Vanderbilt Law School.

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University of Virginia Law student Elizabeth Harris discusses aspirations in public service

May 16, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Once you’ve been inside the foster care system, as third-year student Elizabeth Harris once was, there are things you can’t unlearn, unknow or unsee. But after Harris graduates from the University of Virginia School of Law on May 22, she hopes to use her degree, skills and passion…

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