Lewis & Clark Law announces 2020 Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Award recipients
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The 2020 Davis Wright Tremaine (DWT) International Law Writing Awards winners are Adriana Gomez and Brittaney Bones. Established through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, the Lewis & Clark Law School award program provides a $2,500 stipend for the best research paper written in the past year by a…
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TWIN CITIES PIONEER EXPRESS — On Wednesday, legal educator and LGBTQ rights activist Anthony S. Niedwiecki took over as president and dean at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul. Niedwiecki was dean and professor of law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, before becoming the second president and dean at…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW — Alumni Alexandra Cervantes and Ben Osborn are among a select few graduates of the UNM School of Law to attain a clerkship with a federal judge. It’s the kind of job that is among the most prestigious and competitive employment opportunities available to Law School graduates.
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NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — So Lindauer had an idea—Northeastern would bring the clinic to clients. Working in tandem with the NULawLab innovation hub …they came up with is the COVID Rapid Response Project, a two-stage effort involving a website where users fill out a few forms and choose a convenient and secure time to talk or text.
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AROUND THE O — The University of Oregon School of Law welcomed 14 recent graduates from the Class of 2020 into the prestigious Order of the Coif national honor society. Considered one of the highest honors a law student can receive, elected students must earn a juris doctor degree and a grade-point average that places him…
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OU DAILY — Evelyn Mary Aswad, OU law professor and Herman G. Kaiser International Law chair, has received a grant from the foundation for her research on online speech protections, according to a Tuesday press release.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School student Jessica Rizzo L’21 has won the 2020 Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts (PMC) writing competition. The contest carried a prize of $5,000 and was sponsored by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In its inaugural year, students in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s yearlong Appellate Advocacy Clinic handled a range of cases in state and federal court, with a particular focus on issues of economic justice in the criminal law context. Professor Jean Galbraith teaches the clinic with Ilana Eisenstein L’04. Currently…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — This spring, thanks to cooperative, fast-acting ingenuity from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Judicial Education Department and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty and staff, over 200 trial and appellate court judges across Pennsylvania participated in a continuing judicial education (CJE) course focused on the especially timely topic…
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GLOBALNEWSWIRE — The Honorable Daniel Weinstein (Ret.) has made a generous $1 million gift to the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law. The gift will be used to strengthen the academic program and global reputation of the Straus Institute, which has been ranked as the #1 dispute resolution program…
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