Penn Law recognizes National Trans Day of Visibility
PENN LAW — We honor the dignity, safety, and wellbeing of our transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming classmates, colleagues, and friends. We celebrate the members of our community who embrace their truth and simply request that the world around them respect that truth. We affirm the strength of trans students who brave an often-hostile world…
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PENN STATE LAW — Months after the fall of Kabul and the withdrawal of the last American troops from Afghanistan, students in the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (CIRC) have helped to respond to the humanitarian crisis through community education and legal support.
Read More about Penn State Law Immigrants’ Rights Clinic supports Afghan refugeesPenn State Law Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic assists local small businesses
WTAJ — Penn State Law students are getting real life experience while helping potential clients across the state with legal paperwork.
Read More about Penn State Law Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic assists local small businessesPenn State Dickinson Law professor Dermot Groome provides resources for international humanitarian law in support of Ukraine
PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law Professor Dermot Groome, a former war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations, has launched Justice for Ukraine, a webpage offering resources to support the work of prosecutors and human rights investigators in Ukraine as they gather and preserve evidence of international crimes. An expert in the field of…
Read More about Penn State Dickinson Law professor Dermot Groome provides resources for international humanitarian law in support of UkraineQuinnipiac Law student team wins regional mock trial competition
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — For the second consecutive year, Quinnipiac was crowned co-champion of the New England Regional competition. This year was a game-changer – it is the first time ever that Quinnipiac shared the co-champion title with, well, itself. Both of the university’s teams were crowned co-champions after both teams defeated Harvard in the final…
Read More about Quinnipiac Law student team wins regional mock trial competitionLaw Students Help Ukrainian Refugees Start Asylum Process
THE NEWSROOM — On April 3, more than a dozen Seattle University law student volunteers gathered at Everett Community College—overseen by professors and licensed attorneys—to help more than 30 Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country complete the initial paperwork required to seek asylum in the United States.
Read More about Law Students Help Ukrainian Refugees Start Asylum ProcessSeattle University Law launches India Center for Law and Justice
THE INTERNATIONAL JURIST — The India Center for Law and Justice hosts distinguished speakers and conferences of legal scholars and lawyers from India and the United States. It also provides stipends for legal scholars from India to visit Seattle U Law to conduct research and interact with faculty.
Read More about Seattle University Law launches India Center for Law and JusticeUSC Gould Law Post-Conviction Justice Project shares the story of a former client
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — Alone in a cell, living as a woman in a male prison, Celia Perez took a leap of faith and put her life story in a letter to the Post-Conviction Justice Project at the USC Gould School of Law.
Read More about USC Gould Law Post-Conviction Justice Project shares the story of a former clientSouthern Illinois University Law professor Cindy Buys to teach international and comparative law in Poland
THE DAILY EGYPTIAN — Southern Illinois University (SIU) Law Professor Cindy Buys is visiting Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland as a part of its one-year International and Comparative Law Program for the next two months.
Read More about Southern Illinois University Law professor Cindy Buys to teach international and comparative law in PolandSouthwestern Law adjunct professor Iryna Zaverukha to give lecture on the invasion of Ukraine
SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — The discussion will address Russian manipulation of the international legal framework; the inefficiency of the global response to the Russian threat; and the Ukrainian fight for their very lives and for democracy.
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