Texas A&M Law launches Latinx Civil Rights Webinar Series
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M University School of Law and the Network for Justice are hosting a webinar series to examine pressing issues facing Latinx communities.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M University School of Law in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry Online Learning Academy presents an Executive Education Program on Health, Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property Rights.
Read More about Texas A&M Law presents executive education program on health, pharmaceuticals, and intellectual property rightsUS Department of Education investigating Princeton University after school’s president acknowledges racism at the institution
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The U.S. Education Department is investigating Princeton University for a possible violation of federal civil-rights law after the university’s president made public comments acknowledging systemic and embedded racism at the institution
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On September 10th, Fordham Law’s Center on Race, Law and Justice, together with the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), and the Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA), hosted a CLE and panel discussion via webinar entitled “Unfinished Work: Black Lives Matter and Policing…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law Tanya Hernández is currently writing her third book, On Latino Anti-Black Bias: “Racial Innocence” & The Struggle for Equality.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — Nirej Sekhon still remembers his last case working as a public defender in Seattle. A man was charged with theft for stealing a $2 burrito from a convenience store. The man had prior convictions, so the plea recommendation was one year in jail.
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UIC JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL — Sparked by the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the shooting of Jacob Blake, and cries of too many families because of police violence, widespread protests and alarm continue to grow in many parts of the country.
Read More about UIC John Marshall Law professor Samuel V. Jones testifies before Illinois legislature on police use of forceCalifornia Bar approves temporary law licenses in place of bar exam for new law school graduates
BLOOMBERG LAW — The California State Bar’s Board of Trustees approved a plan that would grant temporary licenses to recent law school grads for less than two years.
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SAN FRANSISCO CHRONICLE — Samuel Humy graduated from Cornell Law School this year and moved to California. With a job lined up with the Santa Clara County Public Defender Office, he planned to take the California State Bar exam over the summer and start work in early August as a lawyer.
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REUTERS — The State Bar of California and the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) pushed back this week against claims that the state is discriminating against disabled aspiring lawyers in its upcoming bar exam, which is set to take place mostly online next month.
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