NALP Report: 2019 law graduates land highest employment rate in 12 years
BLOOMBERG LAW — The last law school graduating class before the coronavirus pandemic notched a near record high employment rate, a new report found, but it warned that the virus is likely to squelch similar outcomes in the coming years.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The regulations for responding to campus sexual misconduct complaints go into effect today. Some colleges are implementing them along with their own guidelines to protect sexual assault victims.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Initiatives to raise awareness of open educational resources are working — with more faculty choosing OER over traditional textbooks, survey finds. Advocates say pandemic and recession are also driving interest.
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FORBES — A new report paints a bleak picture of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and raises fresh concerns that the program is failing millions of student loan borrowers who were promised relief.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Justice Department told Yale University Thursday that it had to change its admissions policies to no longer consider race and ethnicity because of violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It said that the university is discriminating against Asian American and white applicants.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Professor Julian Arato, co-director of the Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law, was awarded the prestigious Francis Deák Prize by the American Society of International Law (ASIL).
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is pleased to announce the creation of the Torkzadeh Family Endowed Law Scholarship. The $100,000 gift was established by Reza Torkzadeh ’02, a UCI alumnus and the founder of TorkLaw, and Poonam Patel who is the founder and President…
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — For the past six years, students in the UCI Law International Justice Clinic have had the opportunity to support Clinic Director David Kaye’s work in his role as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression. In the position,…
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Olivia Meme, a UCI Law 2020 graduate, was announced as the winner of the 2020 Academy for Justice and Arizona State Law Journal: The Criminal Justice Reform National Writing Competition for her entry “The Unkindness of Fate: Why Atkins v. Virginia Demands an Extension to Capital Defendants with a…
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Swethaa Ballakrishnen, UCI Law Assistant Professor of Law, has been recognized as an Honorary Mention of the 2020 Adam Podgorecki Prize.
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