Fordham Law welcomes graduate students

September 9, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — As the fall semester gets underway, Fordham Law welcomed 122 new graduate students: 63 students in 9 LL.M. degree specializations; 18 students in the in-person M.S.L. programs; 38 students in the online M.S.L. Corporate Compliance program; and 3 doctoral degree candidates, who will be working under the supervision of Professors Martin…

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Fordham Law hosts fall orientation events

September 9, 2020

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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Georgia State University Law professor Jonathan Todres publishes book on children’s rights

September 9, 2020

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — As one of the leading scholars on children’s rights issues, Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law Jonathan Todres recently published a new book, The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law.

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Georgia State Law Center for Access to Justice hosts NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer Samuel Spital for public interest talk

September 9, 2020

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — The Georgia State Law Center for Access to Justice hosted its annual Public Interest Keynote virtually on Sept. 1. This year’s speaker was Samuel Spital, director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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A look at Georgia State University Law’s Center for Professional Development

September 9, 2020

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — The Center for Professional Development is a resource students at Georgia State Law are encouraged to take advantage of starting in the first semester of their 1L year.

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Harvard Law dean John Manning welcomes new students during virtual orientation

September 9, 2020

HARVARD LAW TODAY — In a welcoming address during virtual orientation Thursday, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85 predicted that many incoming students would use their legal education to help confront two of the most pressing challenges facing the United States and the world today: the COVID-19 pandemic and the longstanding fight against…

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Harvard Law announces Weil Legal Innovators fellowship program

September 9, 2020

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School today announced plans to participate in the 2021–2022 Weil Legal Innovators Program (WLI), a paid fellowship that enables incoming students to defer their first year of law school to work at a WLI partner nonprofit organization.

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University of Hawaii Law library features exhibit on the state’s labor movement

September 9, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII NEWS — A unique exhibit that seeks to facilitate dialogue between the labor movement in Hawaiʻi and the current Native Hawaiian Sovereignty movements, was launched at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law library as a digital exhibit and is open to the public.

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University of Houston Law professors Meredith Duncan and Renee Knake Jefferson appointed to legal textbook advisory board

September 9, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center professors Meredith Duncan and Renee Knake Jefferson were appointed to the West Academic Publishing Advisory Board in August.

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A look at the University of Houston Pre-Law Pipeline Program’s sixth year

September 9, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The first online-only classes in the University of Houston Law Center Pre-Law Pipeline Program recently celebrated their introduction to the study of law during a reception event held via Zoom.

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