University of New Mexico Law Expungement Clinic students partner with law firm to create hotline
UNM NEWSROOM — Law students with The University of New Mexico’s Expungement Law Clinic are hosting a hotline, inspired by National Expungement Works’ Week of Action and Awareness, aimed to help individuals across the state gain employment, receive promotions, qualify for loans and much more by cleaning up their records. From Monday, Sept. 27 through Friday, Oct.…
Read More about University of New Mexico Law Expungement Clinic students partner with law firm to create hotlineGifts to NYU Law support student financial aid, faculty, and new centers
REUTERS — New York University School of Law has just wrapped what it says is the largest capital campaign by any law school in the country. The school launched its Lead The Way campaign in 2013 with the goal of raising $450 million, and ended in August with $540 million raised. That funding has helped the Manhattan…
Read More about Gifts to NYU Law support student financial aid, faculty, and new centersNorthern Kentucky University Law fund reduces financial impediments for students preparing for the bar exam
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Chase College of Law is seeing spectacular results in an initiative that helps graduating students overcome the financial obstacles to passing a bar exam, such as not being able to afford a review course or not having concentrated study time. Students assisted by the alumni-supported Finish Line Fund since its inception in late…
Read More about Northern Kentucky University Law fund reduces financial impediments for students preparing for the bar examUniversity of Oregon Law details graduates’ success on the July Bar Exam
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW — The Oregon State Bar (OSB) recently released July 2021 bar passage rates. University of Oregon School of Law alumni who took the exam for the first time outperformed the state average with a passage rate of 90%. The OSB reported that 84% of all first-time bar takers passed…
Read More about University of Oregon Law details graduates’ success on the July Bar ExamUniversity of the Pacific McGeorge Law professors publish fifth edition of property law textbook
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — The fifth edition of “Property: A Contemporary Approach” was published earlier this year by West Academic. All five editions of the casebook were authored by McGeorge School of Law Professor John Sprankling and Professor Emeritus Ray Coletta. This new edition of the text expands the book’s coverage of race and social justice issues, including excerpts…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — Kevin O’Keefe, ’82, the CEO and founder of LexBlog, the world’s largest community of legal bloggers, views blogging as a platform for lawyers to utilize and build a reputation within the legal community.“Blogging makes a difference,” O’Keefe said. “Lawyers who blog and make a difference in other people’s lives is what…
Read More about LexBlog CEO details publishing platform with University of the Pacific McGeorge LawA look at the Penn Carey Law Master of Law program
PENN LAW — Over the first five years of its existence, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Master in Law (ML)Program graduated 66 scholars, faculty, and staff from throughout the University of Pennsylvania. Now, at the start of its eighth year, the ML Program is comprised of an impressive 117 alumnae and 118 degree candidates…
Read More about A look at the Penn Carey Law Master of Law programPenn Carey Law professor Paul H. Robinson and student Lindsay Holcomb publish article in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal on moral credibility
PENN LAW — In an article forthcoming in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law Paul H. Robinson and Lindsay Holcomb L’21 explain why criminal law must maximize its moral credibility while also addressing and answering objections to the concept.
Read More about Penn Carey Law professor Paul H. Robinson and student Lindsay Holcomb publish article in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal on moral credibilityPenn Carey Law hosts race and regulation speaker series
PENN LAW — Throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will host a major university-wide lecture series on race and regulation. Organized by the Penn Program on Regulation, the series seeks to enhance and foster inquiry into how government regulation has contributed to racial inequities as well as how changes to…
Read More about Penn Carey Law hosts race and regulation speaker seriesVisiting Rutgers Law professor Sahar Aziz discusses book on discrimination against Muslims in the US
THE DAILY FREE PRESS — The Boston University School of Law hosted an in-person and live Zoom book symposium on Thursday to celebrate the upcoming publication of Aziz’s first book, “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.” Along with the author, panelists included Harvard professors Kenneth Mack and Tarek Masoud and BU law professor Robert…
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