Quinnipiac Law students participate in Gateway to Practice Program
QUINNIPIAC — First-year students at Quinnipiac Law recently participated in our two-day Gateway to Practice program, designed to help future attorneys develop the skillsets they’ll need to succeed. The experiential initiative gives students the opportunity to explore what it means to be an attorney — practicing client interviews and oral presentation skills, through the collective…
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Santa Clara University School of Law has received gifts totaling $750,000 from three current and former University trustees, to expand upon its highly successful program in privacy law. The funds will be used to increase programming, curricular offerings, and interdisciplinary study of privacy law at Santa Clara University, which already…
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M School of Law’s Bob Probasco, director of the Low Income Tax Clinic, was named to the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Advisory Board of the Center For Taxpayer Rights. Probasco is one of 12 inaugural members of the LITC Advisory Board. He serves with other university academics from Georgia…
Read More about Texas A&M Law professor Bob Probasco appointed to Center for Taxpayer Rights advisory boardTexas A&M Law professor Glynn Lunney named distinguished professor
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Glynn S. Lunney, Jr. is one of seven university scholars named Distinguished Professors. It is the university’s highest faculty honor. Professor Lunney specializes and teaches in the areas of patent, copyright and trademark law.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Irene Calboli co-organized the second IPIRA Conference in Indonesia in late February. Hosted by the IP & Innovation Research of Asia (IPIRA) Network, the Second IPIRA Conference was held at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia and welcomed over 150 presenters, chairs and other colleagues from countries in Asia-Pacific, North…
Read More about Texas A&M Law professor Irene Calboli co-organizes international intellectual property conferenceUniversity of Virginia Law launches program on law, communities, and the environment
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW –The Program in Law, Communities and the Environment will subsume the Law School’s Program in Environmental and Land Use Law, while continuing the courses and activities of that program. In addition, PLACE will provide resources targeted to teaching and interdisciplinary research on questions of environmental law and social justice as they…
Read More about University of Virginia Law launches program on law, communities, and the environmentWilliam & Mary Law Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice hosts symposium on First Amendment jurisprudence
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL –On Friday, February 28, the William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice (RGSJ) held its annual symposium entitled “First Amendment Marketplace Morass: Free Speech Jurisprudence and Its Interactions with Social Justice.” The event anchored itself in discussions surrounding how the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been used both…
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JD SUPRA — Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have ex-BigLaw recruiter Sadie Jones back with us to talk about the process of finding a 1L summer job in the spring.
Read More about Podcast: Advice for finding summer jobs for first-year law studentsABA Techshow highlights best practices for teaching technology in law
ABA JOURNAL — She was one of four members of a Thursday panel titled “Skills Building: Best Practices for Teaching Tech to Law Students” at ABA Techshow at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The other panelists were Nicole N. Morris, a profesor in practice at Emory University School of Law; Jennifer L. Wondracek, a professor of practice…
Read More about ABA Techshow highlights best practices for teaching technology in lawU.S. Department of Education launches investigations into disclosures of foreign funding at several universities
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Department of Education continues to step up its scrutiny of universities receiving foreign gifts and contracts. In going after Harvard and Yale Universities last week, the department sent a clear signal it was serious about enforcing the law, which requires colleges to report all gifts and contracts involving foreign sources valued…
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