University of Baltimore Law professors Gilda Daniels and Kim Wehle discuss constitutional and litigation issues in the election

December 12, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — Now that the transition to a Biden administration is under way, the conversation has turned to litigation challenging the election results, and presidential pardon authority. Both Daniels and Wehle participated in a UB Law in Focus webinar analyzing the constitutional issues surrounding the election.

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UCLA Law students Nicole Hansen, Amaris Montes and Anusha Ravi selected as 2021 Skadden Fellows

December 12, 2020

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — Growing UCLA School of Law’s proud and long-term commitment to public service and public interest legal work, students Nicole Hansen ’21, Amaris Montes ’21 and Anusha Ravi ’21 have received Skadden Fellowships to pursue public interest law after they graduate.

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A look at the UCLA Law Promise Institute for Human Rights fellowship program

December 12, 2020

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law supported five fellows in summer internships with human rights organizations around the world in 2020. The Promise Institute also awarded two post-graduate fellowships.

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UCLA Law professor Ann Carlson discusses US climate policy in 2021

December 12, 2020

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — A leading scholar of climate change and air pollution law and policy, Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. In this Q&A, she discusses why there’s still plenty of reason for optimism.

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UCLA Law professor Kate Mackintosh joins panel on defining ecocide as an international crime

December 12, 2020

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — Kate Mackintosh, the executive director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, has joined a panel of leading international lawyers and judges who will work to draft a definition of “ecocide” as a potential international crime alongside terms including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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UCLA Law Human Rights Litigation Clinic files brief against forced child labor in the chocolate industry

December 11, 2020

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law’s Human Rights Litigation Clinic is part of a litigation team representing child victims of forced labor in the chocolate industry in Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe I and Cargill, Inc. v. Doe I, two consolidated petitions concerning an Alien Tort Statute lawsuit that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear.

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UCLA Law receives gift to support law fellows program

December 11, 2020

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law’s trailblazing Law Fellows Program has received a generous gift of $25,000 from the litigation firm Larson LLP to provide robust support to the program’s approximately 100 new law fellows and other initiatives in 2021.

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Case Western Reserve Law discusses bar exam success

December 11, 2020

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — On November 30, the Ohio Supreme Court released the results of the most recent Ohio Bar exam. With a 94 percent Bar pass rate (59 out of 63), Case Western Reserve School of Law graduates performed the best out of nine Ohio law schools for first-time takers.

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University of Connecticut Law receives gift to support classroom technology

December 11, 2020

UCONN TODAY — The Welsh family members got together gave a joint gift that would pay for installing state-of-the-art technology in two new classrooms in the Thomas J. Meskill Law Library. The generous donation allowed the school to equip the classrooms with equipment to greatly improve distance learning and small group collaborations.

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University of Dayton Law partners with Air Force Research Laboratory to create online intellectual property training program

December 11, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON — The University of Dayton School of Law and the Air Force Research Laboratory, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, have created an online training program for government employees working in labs to learn how to prevent the loss of intellectual property and data rights that are vital to economic and national security.

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