Drake Law to host fall webinar series on policies and practices that enforce systemic racism
BUSINESS RECORD — Drake University Law School will host a fall webinar series to address a broad array of policies and practices that perpetuate racial inequities in American society. The series of livestreamed talks, which begins Sept. 4, features Drake Law faculty and guests sharing their expertise about underlying structures that reinforce racism and oppression…
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DREXEL NOW — Last month, motivated by the Juneteenth holiday and national and international calls to examine and eradicate racism, Drexel University’s Office of Research and Innovation announced the winners of its Rapid Response Research & Development Fund, which is designated for urgent action, short-term projects for research projects focused on racial equity.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS — This William S. Boyd School of Law course is a mandatory one-credit course for first-year law students. It was inspired by events unfolding across the country over the past several months.
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — NIU College of Law hosted its new lecture series—Race and the Law Conversations— on Wednesday, August 26.
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SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Hilary Green, an historian at the University of Alabama, reviewed Lolita Buckner Inniss’ book The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson in Volume 86, Number 3 (August 2020) of The Journal of Southern History.
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THE LEGAL ACADEMY — This week’s guest is Brian Leiter, the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and the force behind the Leiter Rankings and Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.
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JURIST — Nicholas W. Allard, former Joseph Crea Dean at Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York discusses the necessity for creative solutions for recent law school graduates to become members of the bar.
Read More about Opinion: Diploma privilege for new law graduates avoids bar exam administration chaosAkron law opens with mix of in-person and online classes
AKRON LEGAL NEWS — It’s been more than five months since educators at The University of Akron School of Law switched from in-person to remote learning to keep COVID-19 from spreading among students and staff.
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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW — More than 280 University of Florida Levin College of Law students received financial support from the law school this summer, totaling nearly $1 million.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — After closing its physical campus on March 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak, Fordham Law School reopened the building for the first time this week, welcoming new students for its first-ever hybrid orientation.
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