Mercer Law wins ABA national negotiation competition
THE DEN — Mercer University School of Law third-year students Michael Downing and Bryce Everett won the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division Negotiation Competition. This is the first time Mercer Law School has won the national competition. Downing and Everett advanced to nationals after winning the Regional Negotiation Competition in November. The competition simulates legal negotiations in…
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8 NEWS NOW — The UNLV Immigration Clinic, part of the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law’s Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, will officially open it’s new off-campus Community Advocacy Office in Downtown Las Vegas on Thursday. The clinic will be opening at 1212 South Casino Center Blvd. at 1 p.m., and will provide free legal…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS — UNLV has named Leah Chan Grinvald as the next dean for the William S. Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2022. Grinvald, who was selected following a national search for the position, is currently associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in…
Read More about UNLV Law selects Leah Chan Grinvald as deanNortheastern Law professor Ari Waldman awarded Economic Security Project grants
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), has been awarded two research grants by the Anti-Monopoly Fund of the Economic Security Project (ESP). Waldman’s projects were among only 26 proposals selected to receive investment from the fund, which ESP launched in…
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NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — Bradford McGann thinks being the first Black Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern University Law Review is both an honor and an opportunity. His goal as Editor-in-Chief is not only to open doors for those to come, but to broaden the legal dialogue and drive the law towards more equitable outcomes for…
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NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Fred Bartlit Center on Trial Advocacy won the Midwest Regional of the National Trial Competition, held remotely in February. The team will go on to compete for the national championship, which will be held in person in Fort Worth, Texas from March 30 to April…
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW — To help address the housing and eviction crisis, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office put out a call in August 2021. They asked lawyers and law students to take immediate action to help their communities. University of Oregon’s School of Law was one of the 99 law schools that responded.…
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QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — Representatives from Quinnipiac Law’s Homelessness Mitigation Mediation Project and their counterparts from other law schools attended the meeting. The discussion focused on the results of Merrick’s call for action to law schools to aid housing stability in their communities. In response, the law schools committed to using their available resources to liaison with outside legal…
Read More about Quinnipiac Law participates in discussion with US Attorney General Merrick Garland on reducing homelessnessPodcast: University of South Dakota Knudson Law dean Neil Fulton discusses the school’s commitment to fostering public service leaders
ED UP LEGAL — Legal education is experiencing explosive applications; a call for innovation & adaptation; demand for increased diversification of the profession; & cries for social justice impact & protection of the Rule of Law. Host Patty Roberts, Dean of St. Mary’s University School of Law, will explore the opinions of legal education leaders regarding…
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — A new book by Professor Nomi Stolzenberg and co-author David N. Myers, a professor of history at UCLA, illustrates paradoxes of American law via an in-depth portrait of an upstate New York town of Hasidic Jews that rejects the values of mainstream America while utilizing secular American law and politics…
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