University of Nebraska Law establishes Tenant Assistance Project to help residents facing eviction
NEBRASKA TODAY — Richard Moberly, dean of the College of Law, shared the recent work of the Civil Clinical Law program in establishing the Tenant Assistance Project with local non-profits, which paired student and volunteer attorneys with residents facing eviction. “They leveled the legal playing field for tenants during the pandemic,” Moberly said.
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — In a path-breaking initiative, three NYLS students recently built legaltech apps using Microsoft’s Power Platform and presented their work to Microsoft’s Legal Operations Technical Sharing Committee. Professor Houman Shadab and Jason Barnwell led the session.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Karen M. Tani L’07 recently returned to the Law School as the Seaman Family University Professor and has taken on the role of coordinating the Consortium. Tani is the first graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s JD/PhD program in American Legal History.
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ABC 11 — North Carolina Central University announced that its new tech law and policy center is at the receiving end of a $5 million pledge from tech giant Intel. Intel will donate the money during the next five years to the historically Black university. The pledge will enhance talent and will aid in better ensuring jobs.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Tiffany Keung L’22 and Apratim Vidyarthi L’22 were announced as the winners of the 13th Annual First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition, presented by the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law. The pair also won “Best Brief.”
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PEPPERDINE NEWSROOM — In fall 2020 faculty and students at the Community Justice Clinic at the Caruso School of Law partnered with law professors and students in Brazil and Colombia to research and compare laws in every nation in North, Central, and South America, with a particular focus on human trafficking and modern slavery.
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QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — The Prison Project aims to advance social justice through progressive, humane and empirically based solutions to crime. The Prison Project has sponsored the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program for men at the Garner and Robinson correctional institutions and, more recently, to women at York Correctional Institution.
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW — The Dean’s Opportunity Scholarship Fund set out with one goal in mind: to make a University of Richmond School of Law education affordable and accessible to students in need. Now, Richmond Law is proud to announce that the fund has reached a whopping $1 million in gifts.
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — In response to the evolving global business landscape, the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Department of Economics and USC Gould School of Law will launch a joint Master of International Trade Law and Economics (MITLE) degree in Fall 2021.
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EDUCATION — Norma Cantú has been selected by President Joseph Biden to be a commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Cantu is the Ken McIntyre Professor for Excellence in School Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP) and is a professor in the School of Law.
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