University of Kansas Law professor Najarian Peters publishes essay on the pandemic of racial inequality
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, officials are struggling to convince large numbers of Americans to be vaccinated. Yet, even before COVID-19 existed, the United States was dealing with another pandemic — that of racial inequality, which has led to a current state of parallel pandemics that must be acknowledged and understood…
Read More about University of Kansas Law professor Najarian Peters publishes essay on the pandemic of racial inequalityLewis & Clark Law professor Chris Wold publishes report on connections between human trafficking and commercial fishing
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — As many as 100,000 people are enslaved on fishing vessels around the world. Isolated at sea, many fishers are unable to escape brutal beatings and inhumane work and living conditions. Lewis & Clark Law professor Chris Wold has been advocating for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), which…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law professor Chris Wold publishes report on connections between human trafficking and commercial fishingLewis & Clark Law affiliated journals release latest volumes
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — With each new leadership for the 2021-2022 school year, Animal Law Review,Environmental Law Review, and Lewis & Clark Law Review have produced their latest publications.
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law affiliated journals release latest volumesUniversity of Miami Law students help free wrongfully convicted man
CBS MIAMI — A Jacksonville man wrongfully convicted of armed robbery was just released last month, and it’s thanks in part to law students at the University of Miami. After 8 years of his life was taken away, Dustin Duty walked out of a Jacksonville jail on October 27th, 2021, smiling and grateful. “Just my faith in God…
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HOTTYTODDY.COM — Farish Percy, a University of Mississippi professor of law, is one of 24 newly elected members across the nation to the American Law Institute. The American Law Institute, or ALI, is a national independent organization that works to produce scholarship to improve upon and clarify the law. According to ALI’s website, the work of its members…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI NEWS — The Government Law Student Association at the University of Mississippi School of Law recently hosted its inaugural policy competition, where students demonstrated legislative writing, oral advocacy and lobbying skills. GLSA was founded last spring as space for law students interested in pursuing legal careers in government or public service. “GLSA’s policy competition committee…
Read More about University of Mississippi Law government law student association hosts inaugural policy competitionLarge gift to University of Missouri Law will create a new scholarship for Black law students
THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN — The University of Missouri announced a $1 million gift from Stueve Siegel Hanson. The Kansas City-based firm will establish the Stueve Siegel Hanson Law Scholarship to support Black students at the MU School of Law, and the Stueve Siegel Hanson Fund for Press Freedom to support Alfred Friendly Press Partners…
Read More about Large gift to University of Missouri Law will create a new scholarship for Black law studentsNotre Dame Law students Jacquelyn Aguirre and Elizabeth Wentross help family win asylum
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — A mother and daughter have been granted asylum in the U.S. after fleeing gender violence in Latin America, thanks in part to Notre Dame Law School students Jacquelyn Aguirre and Elizabeth Wentross. Aguirre and Wentross, both second-year law students, are participants in this semester’s National Immigrant Justice Center…
Read More about Notre Dame Law students Jacquelyn Aguirre and Elizabeth Wentross help family win asylumOhio Northern Law dean Charles Rose, III reflects on his love of teaching and the inspiration he gets from students
ANCHOR BY SPOTIFY — 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…
Read More about Ohio Northern Law dean Charles Rose, III reflects on his love of teaching and the inspiration he gets from studentsPenn Law Biddle Law Library celebrates 10 million legal scholarship downloads
PENN LAW — On Wednesday, December 1, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School reached the spectacular milestone of 10 million downloads by readers worldwide from the Biddle Law Library’s Legal Scholarship Repository. This accomplishment speaks to the exceptional, pathbreaking scholarship produced by the Law School’s esteemed faculty and published in our seven highly-regarded journals. Comparatively, the Law…
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