University of Michigan Law students discuss the importance of clinical experiences in the first-year
MICHIGAN NEWS — The University of Michigan Law School is well known for the headline-making, hands-on work that students, with guidance from faculty, do to gain freedom for wrongfully convicted individuals across the country. Although not as well publicized, there also is a group of students each year that provide many hours of free legal assistance to…
Read More about University of Michigan Law students discuss the importance of clinical experiences in the first-yearUNLV Law students Yadira Santana and Nina Garcia travel to DC to support Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court
LAS VEGAS SUN — While growing up in Las Vegas, Yadira Santana observed how her Mexican mother’s heavy accent and dark complexion was a point of ridicule and discrimination for those with whom she interacted. These taunts were Santana’s motivation to go to law school, she said, to help those who “can’t advocate for themselves.” The third-year UNLV…
Read More about UNLV Law students Yadira Santana and Nina Garcia travel to DC to support Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme CourtUniversity of New Hampshire Law partnership with CLEO helps underrepresented students attend law school
NEWSWIRES — UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law began a new partnership with the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) and its CLEO Legally Inspired Cohort (CLIC) Fellows program. UNH Franklin Pierce is the fourth law school to join this innovative program that helps students gain access to legal education. CLEO is a national non-profit organization that…
Read More about University of New Hampshire Law partnership with CLEO helps underrepresented students attend law schoolNorthern Kentucky University Law professor David Singleton’s Beyond Guilt initiative advocates for the early release of prisoners
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — There are a lot of guilty people in prison. And Professor David Singleton knows it. Some of them, though, have changed and deserve a second chance, he frequently tells students in his classes at Salmon P. Chase College of Law. And those who have changed – and have completed a significant portion of a…
Read More about Northern Kentucky University Law professor David Singleton’s Beyond Guilt initiative advocates for the early release of prisonersNorthern Kentucky University Law professor Alex Kreit publishes criminal law casebook
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Every law student has been there: Sitting in class as the professor calls on students to explain a case in the casebook, trying to spot a pattern for when they might hear their name. In this instance, though, the scenario is flipped: Professor Alex Kreit is answering the questions, and he knows…
Read More about Northern Kentucky University Law professor Alex Kreit publishes criminal law casebookNorthwestern Law invites eBay executive Marie Oh Huber to give commencement address
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is delighted to announce that Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of eBay Inc. and alumnae Marie Oh Huber (JD ’86) will deliver the convocation address to the Class of 2022. We are very excited to have her share her insights as we celebrate…
Read More about Northwestern Law invites eBay executive Marie Oh Huber to give commencement addressNorthwestern Law professor Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe represents asylum seekers in court
NORTHWESTERN MAGAZINE — Five floors up from the cacophony that is Chicago’s West Loop, inside a stone-still hearing room at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Chicago Immigration Court, where the ratcheted-up nerves and quickened breaths make for the sort of place you do not want to be, Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe ’96 is there to get the…
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NORTHWESTERN LAW PROFESSORS EXPLAIN — Women make up 38% of lawyers in the United States, and even though 51% of current law students are women, only 22% of law firm partners are women. Professor Tonja Jacobi takes a closer look at women in law, and you might be surprised, even female Supreme Court Justices contend with…
Read More about Video: Northwestern Law professor Tonja Jacobi discusses inequality and women in the legal professionNotre Dame Law Exoneration Justice Clinic joins Innocence Network
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME — Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic is now part of the Innocence Network, a coalition that brings together lawyers and organizations working to end wrongful convictions in the United States and around the world. The Innocence Network’s board of directors voted March 18 to admit ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic to…
Read More about Notre Dame Law Exoneration Justice Clinic joins Innocence NetworkNotre Dame Law hosts second annual financial wellness week for students
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME — Notre Dame Law School hosted its second annual Financial Wellness Week from March 14 to 18 on important financial education topics most relevant to law students. The programming, hosted in coordination with AccessLex, provided presentations on several law student specific financial topics. Financial Wellness Week and the Law School’s partnership with AccessLex,…
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