University of Akron Law hosts former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan L. Larsen for discussion of relationship between state and federal courts
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW — As a former justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, since November 2017, the Honorable Joan L. Larsen has a first-hand view of the relationship between the country’s federal and state courts. That was the…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Akron School of Law has been awarded a $108,257 grant from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) to continue its work on Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s Expedited Pardon Project. The project was launched in December 2019 as a partnership among the Department of…
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ABC 33 40 NEWS — Each year nearly 35,000 people find themselves on the waiting list for a kidney in America but just 17,000 transplants happen annually. Mamani says that’s why she decided to become a living organ donor. “I imagine just a whole and a complete family who is going through this Christmas celebrating as a…
Read More about Three University of Alabama Law students donate kidneys to strangersUniversity of Arkansas Law student Tyler Mlakar participates in judicial clerkship opinion writing conference
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Third-year law student Tyler Mlakar has been selected as one of the 25 students from across the country to participate in the Columbus School of Law’s Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference to be held Feb. 24-26, 2022, in D.C. Over the course of the conference, participants will receive opinion writing instruction from some…
Read More about University of Arkansas Law student Tyler Mlakar participates in judicial clerkship opinion writing conferenceUniversity of Baltimore Law professor Hugh Mclean publishes article in Columbia Law Review
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE — An essay by University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Hugh McClean, director of The Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Project, has been published in the Columbia Law Review, one of the top five law reviews in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. The essay, Discharged and Discarded: The Collateral…
Read More about University of Baltimore Law professor Hugh Mclean publishes article in Columbia Law ReviewUC Berkeley Law supports Human Rights center in fellowship for Afghan scholars
BERKELEY LAW — On a cool autumn morning in the East Bay, a morning of ragged clouds and shifting light, Khwaga Ghani is at a stylish café having a coffee and thinking about the day ahead. Her schedule is packed with business meetings, family meetings, maybe a driving lesson from her aunt. An ordinary day, on…
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BERKELEY LAW — A new report from Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights finds that advocates across the Persian Gulf region and neighboring countries are increasingly being targeted by governments using anti-cybercrime and other criminal laws to stifle their online expression. “Who Will Be Left to Defend Human…
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BERKELEY LAW — Ruth Greenspan Bell ’67 and her husband Joseph Bell are widely respected lawyers known for confronting urgent issues innovatively and strategically. They recently used the same approach to guide a major gift to two Berkeley Law research centers. The five-year, $500,000 pledge creates three new funds for the school’s Center for Law, Energy &…
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BERKELEY LAW — Six Berkeley Law professors have been awarded faculty chairs, which recognize their contributions to scholarship and legal education. “A chaired position is the highest honor a university can bestow on a faculty member,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says. “These professors who have been appointed to chaired positions embody the very best of academia and…
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BERKELEY LAW — Dean Erwin Chemerinsky cites Berkeley Law’s core pillars as excellence, community, and public mission. Recently, all three shined through in a pro bono collaboration that brought hope to an abused client and progress to California law. Alumna Mallika Kaur ’10, of counsel at the victim’s rights firm ADZ Law, contacted Professor Andrew Bradt last…
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