Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld discusses using poetry as a tool in the classroom
HARVARD LAW TODAY — In this video celebrating National Poetry Month, Harvard Law School Lecturer Jessica Fjeld reads a poem from Terrance Hayes’ 2018 volume “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.” She also discusses her spring 2022 poetry reading group, Thinking Like Yourself: Poetry Law, and Social Justice.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — A legal education can be the key to unlocking entrepreneurship, say the Harvard Law School graduates who created Evisort, a contract management platform driven by artificial intelligence.
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THE HARVARD CRIMSON — Experts in neuroscience and law discussed the legalization of cannabis and highlighted its implications for public policy at a virtual panel hosted by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics on Wednesday.
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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION — Chris Green, executive director of the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, will receive the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Animal Law Committee’s Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award at a reception on April 28 during the TIPS…
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Christiana Figueres clearly recalls the day she made a decision with make-or-break consequences for the planet. As the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, she was in charge of the 2015 climate talks in Paris. In a conscious departure from earlier conferences, she declared that any agreement…
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HOWARD UNIVERSITY THE DIG — Justin Hansford, professor of law and director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, has been elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent for the 2022-2024 term. This newly established forum is one of only two permanent forums established by…
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IU ROBERT H. MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — William Alter, a 3L at IU McKinney, was named one of the IUPUI Chancellor’s Scholars during the Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation. The event took place on April 14 at Hine Hall.
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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — The 2022 John P. Wyatt, M.D. Environment & Health Symposium will be held on the University of Kentucky campus at the J. David Rosenberg College of Law Grand Courtroom on Earth Day, April 22, 2022, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
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NEWS@THEU — It’s been called the hashtag that changed the Oscars. After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded all 20 acting nominations for the 2015 Oscars to white actors, activist April Reign tweeted “#OscarsSoWhite they asked to touch my hair,” igniting a social justice campaign that shined a spotlight on the lack of diversity…
Read More about University of Miami Law hosts panel on representation of women in the entertainment industryUniversity of Miami Law Innocence Project travels to Phoenix for network conference
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — The Miami Law Innocence Clinic traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, for the 2022 Innocence Network Conference. The Innocence Network is a coalition of innocence organizations committed to fighting wrongful convictions and providing aid to exonerees. Each year, the Innocence Network hosts a conference to bring together exonerees, advocates, and…
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