Santa Clara University Law celebrates 20 years of the Northern California Innocence Project
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY — Obie Anthony III was supposed to die in prison—for a crime he did not commit. What saved him and 32 other wrongly convicted California inmates, who had spent a combined 480 years in prison by the time they were freed? The Northern California Innocence Project. For two decades, the non-profit that opened its doors at the…
Read More about Santa Clara University Law celebrates 20 years of the Northern California Innocence ProjectSMU Dedman Law dean Jennifer M. Collins named president of Rhodes College
FOX 13 — Rhodes College has announced Jennifer M. Collins as its 21st president following a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees. Collins is currently the Judge James Noel Dean and professor of law at Southern Methodist University in Texas, the college said. “The appointment of Jennifer Collins is the happy result of a lengthy and thorough…
Read More about SMU Dedman Law dean Jennifer M. Collins named president of Rhodes CollegeSouthern University Law Center accreditation reaffirmed
WAFB9 — The Southern University Law Center’s (SULC) regional accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), has reaffirmed the institution’s accreditation for the next 10 years. “We are proud of the hard work of our faculty and staff to achieve SULC’s accreditation reaffirmation,” said John K. Pierre, chancellor of the Southern…
Read More about Southern University Law Center accreditation reaffirmedPodcast: Southwestern Law professor Natalie Rodriguez and other experts discuss the Uniform Bar Exam
BLOOMBERG LAW — Some frustration with the bar exam comes not just because it’s a hard test. Differences in state licensing requirements can mean attorneys may have to take the bar exam multiple times. In the final episode of [Un]Common Law’s three-part look at the bar exam, we ask why can’t there be one bar exam for…
Read More about Podcast: Southwestern Law professor Natalie Rodriguez and other experts discuss the Uniform Bar ExamStanford Law Community Law Clinic helps low-income renters facing eviction
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — When U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked for support from the legal community in August of this year in anticipation of a housing and evictions crisis as a result of the COVID-19-based eviction moratoria expiring, Stanford law Professor Juliet Brodie was poised to help. For the past decade, in her capacity as director of the Stanford…
Read More about Stanford Law Community Law Clinic helps low-income renters facing evictionSyracuse Law series on race and justice honored by New York State Bar Association
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY NEWS — The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Committee for Bar Leaders of New York State has announced that the Bond, Schoeneck & King Series on Race and Justice in Central New York (CNY) is the 2021 winner of the NYSBA Innovation Award for medium-sized associations. The series—launched in fall 2020—is a collaboration…
Read More about Syracuse Law series on race and justice honored by New York State Bar AssociationVanderbilt Law professors Spring Miller and Karla McKanders and student Scott Jeffrey discuss work on developing community legal materials
TENNESSEAN — Karla McKanders and Scott Jeffrey of Vanderbilt Law School spoke to Tennessean opinion and engagement director David Plazas.
Read More about Vanderbilt Law professors Spring Miller and Karla McKanders and student Scott Jeffrey discuss work on developing community legal materialsWashburn Law student Braxton Moral is preparing for the bar exam at age 19
ABA JOURNAL — Braxton Moral isn’t sure what he wants to do after he passes the bar, and that’s OK. He’s only 19 years old. In addition to being years younger than the vast majority of candidates sitting for the February 2022 bar, Moral is set to graduate from Kansas’ Washburn University School of Law in 2.5…
Read More about Washburn Law student Braxton Moral is preparing for the bar exam at age 19WVU Law professor Forest Bowman publishes novel
CHARLESTON GAZETTE MAIL — If you like stories of grit, determination, and revenge then look no further than Forest “Jack” Bowman’s new release “All Our Yesterdays: A Tale of Cunning and Grit”. Bowman is a professor of Law Emeritus at West Virginia University who was named “Professor of the Year” an unprecedented seven times in…
Read More about WVU Law professor Forest Bowman publishes novelWVU Law dean Amelia Reinhart discusses technology transfer at University of Houston Law Center lecture
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law’s 2021 fall lecture featured a robust discussion on navigating multiplexed technology transfer based on the research of noted intellectual property scholar Amelia Rinehart. Rinehart––William J. Maier, Jr. Dean and Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law––teaches and writes in the…
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