University of Arizona Law pilots training for non-lawyers in providing legal advice on civil matters
ABA JOURNAL — The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has started a two-year pilot project that licenses a small group of nonlawyers to give limited legal advice on civil matters stemming from domestic violence. A University of Arizona summary of the project cites Legal Services Corp. figures stating that in the United States,…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The federal government plans to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding loan debt for roughly 25,000 disabled veterans in July. The question of how far the Trump administration should go to forgive the debt of those who are too disabled to work comes after the department has tried to address why…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The federal government plans to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding loan debt for roughly 25,000 disabled veterans in July. But while consumer and veterans’ groups are applauding the move by the U.S. Department of Education, they also don’t think it goes far enough. They want the department to discharge the student…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The latest report on voluntary giving to higher education, from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, found that donations in the 2019 fiscal year reached $49.6 billion, an all-time high since the numbers have been reported. The total is up 6.1 percent from $46.7 billion in 2018. Donations grew by 7.2 percent between 2017 and 2018.…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The appendix of a new book contains everything needed to calculate a score gauging the market stress faced by individual colleges and universities across the country. But the authors of the book, The College Stress Test (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), intentionally didn’t include a list of institutions and their market stress scores. Instead, they…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes when they ask for a grade change or challenge a grade, the researchers report. The researchers based their analysis on “a unique administrative dataset” from an unnamed large four-year public university that included final grade records and any grade…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School and the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) are celebrating Black History Month with a series of events throughout February.
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FOOD INTEGRITY CAMPAIGN — Over 150 guests attended the Food Integrity Campaign’s 10th-anniversary conference at the American University Washington College of Law. If you weren’t able to attend, here’s a list of some of our takeaway messages, followed by some photos from the event.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University Law Review hosted its 69th annual symposium on Friday, Jan. 31. The topic was unavoidably relevant— Democracy and the Law: 2020. Legal scholars across the nation engaged in discourse on campaign financing, online political speech, and modern voting issues.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Jan. 31, 2020, American University Washington College of Law welcomed Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard and president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, to campus for “Rise Against Hate” to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The event commemorated landmark legislation…
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