University of Virginia Law and Duke Law partner on roundtable exploring the US President’s foreign relations powers
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Scholars from across the nation discussed the U.S. president’s foreign affairs powers, and how they might be checked by other branches of government, at the Virginia-Duke Foreign Relations Law Roundtable hosted by the University of Virginia School of Law on Friday.
Read More about University of Virginia Law and Duke Law partner on roundtable exploring the US President’s foreign relations powersResearch by Yale Law professor Yair Listokin used in Washington Center for Equitable Growth factsheet
YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Washington Center for Equitable Growth has adapted the research of Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law Yair Listokin ’05 into a factsheet. The factsheet argues that “executive agencies should consider how their regulatory power can be leveraged to provide a much-needed, countercyclical boost to the economy.”
Read More about Research by Yale Law professor Yair Listokin used in Washington Center for Equitable Growth factsheetReport from Yale Law Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic details the pandemic’s impact on indigenous people and the environment
YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), based in the United Kingdom, released a report, Rolling Back Social and Environmental Safeguards in the Time of COVID-19, on February 18, 2021.
Read More about Report from Yale Law Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic details the pandemic’s impact on indigenous people and the environmentIowa bill seeks to force state universities into holding in-person graduation ceremonies
THE GAZETTE — Although the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa already announced their upcoming commencement ceremonies will be virtual — and are well into planning them — a Republican lawmaker is sponsoring a bill requiring Iowa’s public universities to hold in-person spring graduations.
Read More about Iowa bill seeks to force state universities into holding in-person graduation ceremoniesUS Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as education secretary
AP NEWS — The Senate voted Monday to confirm Miguel Cardona as education secretary, clearing his way to lead President Joe Biden’s effort to reopen the nation’s schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cardona, 45 was approved on a 64-33 vote.
Read More about US Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as education secretaryCommon Application finds most college applicants not submitting admission test scores
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Only 44 percent of those who applied to college through the Common Application through Feb. 15 submitted SAT or ACT scores. That represents a substantial decline from last year, when the total through Feb. 15, 2020, was 77 percent.
Read More about Common Application finds most college applicants not submitting admission test scoresStudent group files lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions policy at Yale University
ABA JOURNAL — Students for Fair Admissions has filed a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions policies at Yale University less than a month after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a bias suit that it filed against the school during the Trump administration.
Read More about Student group files lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions policy at Yale UniversitySolo law practitioners see steep revenue declines amid pandemic
ABA JOURNAL — Solo practitioners had a harder time weathering the initial economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic than others in the legal industry. From April through June 2020, solos saw their revenue drop between 5% and 7% more than firms with more lawyers.
Read More about Solo law practitioners see steep revenue declines amid pandemicABA rejects law school deans’ request to delay reporting of graduate employment data due to the pandemic
ABA JOURNAL — The council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will not be granting a request to push the employment data deadline from March to June. Issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a Feb. 10 letter signed by law school deans in New York, New Jersey and California requesting the delay.
Read More about ABA rejects law school deans’ request to delay reporting of graduate employment data due to the pandemicLSAC extends online LSAT-Flex through June 2022
LSAC — Given the expressed preferences of the substantial majority of test takers, LSAC is pleased to announce that we will continue to provide the LSAT in an online, live remote-proctored format through June 2022. Dates for the upcoming testing year are now available so that law school candidates may plan what works best for them.
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