Opinion: California Bar Exam changes will improve diversity in the legal profession
BAKERSFIELD.COM — For more than three decades, California has clung to one of the nation’s toughest testing standards for law school students hoping to practice law in the most populous state in the country.
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Third-year (3L) University of Akron (UA) School of Law student Henna Schafer has been named the graduate school co-chair of the University’s newly created Inclusive Excellence Action Team. Schafer worked as a legal intern at the Ohio Civil Rights Commission in the summer of 2019 and was a law clerk earlier…
Read More about University of Akron Law student Henna Schafer selected co-chair for university’s Inclusive Excellence Action TeamFordham Law Leitner Center for International Law and Justice hosts virtual panel discussion on protest movements against racism
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On June 29, Fordham Law School’s Leitner Center for International Law and Justice and the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) invited Sheila Foster, professor of law and public policy at Georgetown Law School and the McCourt School of Public Policy, Bennett Capers, soon-to-be director of Fordham Law’s Center on Race,…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On July 15, Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law and Justice invited attorneys from Richard Kibbe & Orbe LLP—Managing Partner Jennifer Grady, Partner Margaret Meyers, and Partner James Walker—for a webinar entitled “Inclusive Workplaces Best Practices: Implicit Bias and #MeToo Racial Blindspots.”
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) has identified and summarized books, research, creative activities, and many other resources authored by UCI Law faculty members who are experts on race, racial disparities, racial — implicit and explicit — biases, the criminalization of Black people, the criminalization…
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THE PRACTICE — Richard Susskind and Jonathan Zittrain recently sat down for a conversation on online courts, lessons from the COVID-19 crisis, and how we might move forward. The conversation was moderated by David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession.
Read More about Harvard Law hosts discussion on online courts and racial justice in the legal systemHow the pandemic will change the legal profession
ABA JOURNAL — In late February, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School held a Law 2030 conference focused on the myriad challenges the legal profession was likely to face in the next decade and how it could adapt to combat them.
Read More about How the pandemic will change the legal professionHow universities are communicating to students about the pandemic
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Colleges are employing multipronged strategies to inform students about the pandemic. Will their efforts get students to take safety precautions seriously?
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Students considering sitting out the fall semester because of the pandemic risk losing guaranteed on-campus housing when they return to colleges with strict leave-of-absence policies.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — As colleges head toward the remote fall they dreaded, they must deliver a more compelling learning experience than last spring’s. Most think it will be better, but it may not give students what they crave.
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