A look at Akron Law’s Master of Studies in Law program
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW — When most people think of a law degree, they have the Juris Doctor degree in mind. You go to law school for three or more years and earn your J.D. Then you pass the bar exam and start working for a law firm, or in the court system or…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School announced today that it has received a gift of $250,000 from Stephen and Prudence Younger ’82 to establish a scholarship in support of students of the Albany Law Review. This scholarship is being created in memory of David D. Siegel, a longtime member of the faculty at the law school and…
Read More about Albany Law receives gift to support students in law reviewBrooklyn Law students Elizabeth Potter and Emily Spanyer Sanford win student writing competition
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Elizabeth Potter ’20 and Emily Spanyer Sanford ’20, were awarded the top two prizes in the 2019-2020 Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition. Potter placed first for her manuscript “Revoking Religious Employers’ License to Discriminate: How to Limit the Ministerial Exception to What the First Amendment Requires After Hosanna–Tabor,” winning a $3,000 scholarship.
Read More about Brooklyn Law students Elizabeth Potter and Emily Spanyer Sanford win student writing competitionCase Western Law responds to coronavirus pandemic
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Case Western Reserve University and the CWRU School of Law are adapting to a rapidly evolving situation in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The health, safety and well-being of our community are our top priorities.
Read More about Case Western Law responds to coronavirus pandemicCase Western Law center hosts online environmental health law conference
CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — On March 27, the Law-Medicine Center hosted its annual conference, “Environmental Health and the Law,” co-sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — This year, just eight days before this year’s competition was set to start, the law school and much of the nation were forced to cancel public events due to the coronavirus. But thanks to the efforts of the student Moot Court Board led by 3L Joe Shell, the…
Read More about Case Western Law hosts virtual moot court competitionU.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Bossert Clark discusses climate change litigation at Case Western Law
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Jeffery Bossert Clark, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice delivered his remarks, “A View from the Environment and Natural Resources Division: Constitutional Environmentalism, Mature Environmentalism,” on March 16.
Read More about U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Bossert Clark discusses climate change litigation at Case Western LawUC Irvine Law Immigrant Rights Clinic secures release of detainees at ICE facility
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Over the past week, students and faculty with the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) have filed three petitions for writs of habeas corpus on behalf of immigrants detained at the Adelanto ICE Detention Facility in Adelanto, California who are at heightened risk…
Read More about UC Irvine Law Immigrant Rights Clinic secures release of detainees at ICE facilityUCLA Law professor Scott Cummings awarded Fulbright-Schuman Chair at European University Institute
UCLA LAW — UCLA School of Law Professor Scott Cummings has been awarded the 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, the preeminent center of research on the European Union. As part of the fellowship, Cummings will also teach and give a series of public lectures around Europe.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center Professor Emeritus Michael A. Olivas was recently selected as the winner of the Derrick Bell Legacy Award. He will be presented with the accolade at an upcoming conference at the University of Delaware, where he will participate in a panel dialogue with other awardees.
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