University of Iowa Law establishes Anti-Racism Action Committee
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — A global pandemic, disrupted economies, and the run-up to a presidential election were all front and center in Spring and Summer of 2020. Yet when unarmed George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, protests against police brutality and racism began in Minneapolis and spread around the…
Read More about University of Iowa Law establishes Anti-Racism Action CommitteeUniversity of Miami Law hosts webinar on NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule’ that mandates candidates of color are interviewed for open head coach positions
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s virtual “The Rooney Rule, Race, and Access in Athletics: A Fireside Chat with Jim Rooney and Jeremi Duru,” will host Jim Rooney and Jeremi Duru on September 30th to discuss the “Rooney Rule” in the National Football League.
Read More about University of Miami Law hosts webinar on NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule’ that mandates candidates of color are interviewed for open head coach positionsPitt Law professor David Harris publishes book on police violence case in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH CURRENT — It has been a touch over 10 years since Jordan Miles’ violent encounter with the Pittsburgh Police in Homewood shook the city.
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UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — University of St. Thomas School of Law Professor Gregory Sisk has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brownback v. King.
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THE DAILY PROGRESS — The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Friday unanimously passed a package of six resolutions, including removing the George Rogers Clark statue and the ‘Whispering Wall’ Confederate monument and providing context to the Thomas Jefferson statue near the Rotunda to include Jefferson’s ownership of slaves.
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MADISON 365 — Jesse Owens is one of 13 first-year University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law school students who completed the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Diversity Clerkship Program. The program is a summer employment experience that gives law students with diverse backgrounds the opportunity to build legal practice skills and knowledge.
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THE HECHINGER REPORT — When Morgan Ottley, a neuroscience major at the University of Pittsburgh, noticed in the spring of her sophomore year that most of her teachers did not address racial disparities in the medical field, she wanted the university to change its curriculum.
Read More about Students call on universities to require race and ethnicity studiesLaw graduates ask California supreme court to apply new bar exam pass score to previous tests
COURTHOUSE NEWS — With a problematic online bar exam looming less than a month away, a contingent of law school graduates carrying handmade signs gathered Thursday morning on the steps of the California Supreme Court to advocate for admission to the bar based on their past scores.
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ABA JOURNAL — A lawsuit by law graduates who have disabilities says they will be forced to take the California bar exam in person because of a failure to provide accommodations for a remote test.
Read More about Law graduates sue State Bar of California over in-person bar exam rulesCalifornia law deans ask state Supreme Court to make October online bar exam open-book without proctoring
ABA JOURNAL — A group of deans from ABA-accredited law schools in California have asked the California Supreme Court to change its online October bar exam to an open-book format with no remote proctoring.
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