Chief prosecutor of Nuremberg Trials Ben Ferencz speaks at University of Miami Law

February 18, 2020

THE MIAMI HURRICANE.COM — The Cardozo Jewish Legal Society hosted an event at the School of Law Feb. 6. with Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. The diverse audience of about 300 students, professors, community members and Holocaust survivors was captivated by Ferencz’s retelling of his experiences as chief prosecutor of Nazi…

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Northern Kentucky Law launches alumni supported program to strengthen bar exam preparation for students

February 18, 2020

NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW — hat is why Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law has created the Finish Line Fund to help graduates, based on need, defray the cost of a bar review course (some cost almost $4,000) or the lost income from reduced work hours to study.

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Ohio State University Law students TJ Beavers, Sarah Siewe, and Dustin Lorenzo win Moot Court National Championship

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law recently won the 12th annual Hunton Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship, an annual competition organized by the Blakely Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. The competition was from Jan. 30-Feb. 1.

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A look at Pace Law’s Food and Beverage Law Clinic

February 18, 2020

HUNTER COLLEGE NEW YORK CITY FOOD POLICY CENTER — The Pace Food and Beverage Law Clinic is the flagship program of the Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative, a collaboration between the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). With faculty supervision, Pace law students in the Clinic provide legal…

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Penn Law highlights cross-disciplinary work between faculty and Wharton business school

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s commitment to cross-disciplinary study shines brightly in the impressive number of faculty members who hold joint appointments at Penn. The Carey JD/MBA Program requires that students spend their first in year in the Law School and the following summer in both Law…

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Penn Law professor Beth A. Simmons co-authors article on UN Human Rights Treaty in the American Journal of International Law

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Based on their research that identified four mechanisms through which self-reporting can contribute to human rights improvements, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Beth A. Simmons and University of Minnesota Law School Professor Cosette D. Creamer have published “The Proof is in the Process: Self-Reporting Under International…

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Penn Law hosts ABA traveling exhibit on passage of 19th amendment

February 18, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In honor of this momentous occasion, the American Bar Association (ABA) has planned a travelling exhibit detailing the decades of work that generations of dedicated women put into securing the right to vote for women. From 10 to 28 of February 2020, the ABA exhibit will be hosted by Penn Law’s Biddle…

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Penn Law hosts ABA traveling exhibit on passage of 19th amendment

February 18, 2020

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law students recently held the first Transgender Name Change Assistance Pop-up Clinic for members of Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Perry and York counties at Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law, Carlisle. Designed to work with the transgender community, the Clinic provided attendees guidance on the legal name change process. Dickinson Law…

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Penn State Dickinson Law professor Medha Makhlouf selected as Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity

February 18, 2020

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW —  Medha Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Dickinson Law, and assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine has been named to the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to…

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University of Puerto Rico Law launches DNA Post-Conviction Project

February 18, 2020

ESCUELA DE DERECHO  — With the motto: “Freedom for convicted innocents”, the UPR School of Law, launched the DNA Post-Conviction Project, as announced today by Dean, Vivian I. Neptune-Rivera, an initiative that will allow prisoners in Puerto Rico, to carry out their claims of wrongful conviction in order to be exonerated. Specifically, the DNA Post-Conviction Project will…

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