Suffolk Law launches Hybrid JD Program
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — Suffolk University Law School has launched a pioneering new Hybrid JD Program (HJD). The program is the first to offer full- and part-time students a traditional in-person first-year classroom experience, followed by the option of taking all remaining classes online.
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THE EAGLE — Texas A&M University’s fall enrollment is 71,109 — a 1,644 student, or 2.4%, increase from last year’s total of 69,465 students.
Read More about Texas A&M Law sees enrollment growth despite challenges of the pandemicWest Virginia University Law receives law firm gift to establish Fitzsimmons Center for Litigation and Advocacy
WVU TODAY — The newly-established Fitzsimmons Center for Litigation and Advocacy at the West Virginia University College of Law will provide additional opportunities for students to enhance essential lawyering skills—including understanding and analyzing the applicable substantive and procedural law while translating that knowledge into effective written and oral advocacy during the litigation process.
Read More about West Virginia University Law receives law firm gift to establish Fitzsimmons Center for Litigation and AdvocacyUniversity of California system law deans release join statement on the value of critical race theory
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — As the Deans of the five University of California law schools, we write with one voice to defend Critical Race Theory and to speak against the attacks upon it by the President of the United States and the Office of Management and Budget.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Sept. 10, American University Washington College of Law hosted a panel discussion on racial justice within the American court system, welcoming judges and justices from across the country to share their insights.
Read More about American University Washington College of Law hosts panel on racial justice and the court systemOpinion: UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky says efforts to ban critical race theory are misguided
THE SACRAMENTO BEE — As the country is fighting a pandemic, dealing with the worst economic crisis since the depression, battling unprecedented fires and smoke, the Trump administration is focusing on an attack on critical race theory.
Read More about Opinion: UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky says efforts to ban critical race theory are misguidedUC Berkeley Law professor Steven Davidoff Solomon receives grant for antisemitism education pilot program
THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN — The Antisemitism Education Initiative, a pilot program at UC Berkeley, received a $25,000 grant from the national nonprofit Academic Engagement Network, or AEN, on Sept. 10.
Read More about UC Berkeley Law professor Steven Davidoff Solomon receives grant for antisemitism education pilot programUCLA Law professor Sharon Dolovich discusses efforts to improve conditions and reduce prisons population amid COVID-19
SCIENCE — Even before COVID-19 began to sweep through U.S. correctional facilities, Michael Daniels saw the storm coming.
Read More about UCLA Law professor Sharon Dolovich discusses efforts to improve conditions and reduce prisons population amid COVID-19UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz examines the costs of police misconduct to the public
NPR — For months, protests over the police-involved killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and others reinvigorated an intense debate over policing. Then, the mayor of Louisville, Ky., announced the city would pay $12 million to Breonna Taylor’s family and institute a number of police reforms.
Read More about UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz examines the costs of police misconduct to the publicDuke Law Center for Science and Justice receives grant to research criminal justice reform
DUKE LAW — The gift will expand the center’s work over the next six years in three signature areas: accuracy of evidence in criminal cases, the role of equity in criminal outcomes, and the mental and behavioral health treatment needs of people in the justice system.
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