Yale Law Liman Center selects Alex Wang as inaugural Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellow
YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School are pleased to announce that Alex Wang has been selected to be the first Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellow. The fellowship, to begin in the fall of 2020, is designed to enable a law…
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THE WASHINGTON POST — According to the 2017 American College President Study, produced by the American Council on Education in partnership with the TIAA Institute, 72 is the average age of university presidents, 70 percent are men, and 17 percent are minorities. Given that a few years have gone by since that data was collected, the…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The median annual earnings for bachelor’s degree holders (with no advanced degree) who worked full-time in 2018 was $24,900 more than wages of their peers who held only high school credentials. The unemployment rate for people age 25 and older who hold at least a bachelor’s degree has consistently been about half…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The report looked at the $37 billion in student debt that U.S. graduate students accrue each year, and found that this amount increased by 7 percent between the 2010-11 and 2017-18 academic years. In contrast, undergraduate student debt decreased by 21 percent during that time period. Undergraduate enrollment has also decreased more substantially than graduate…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Only about 60 percent of programs at private nonprofit institutions, and 70 percent of those at public colleges and universities, would pass the Obama administration’s gainful-employment test, if it were in place and applied to them, according to an online tool developed by a conservative Texas policy group.
Read More about Report: Several college programs would fail Obama-era gainful employment standard todayAtlanta’s John Marshall Law names professor Jace Gatewood as interim dean and CEO
ATLANTA’S JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL — Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) is pleased to announce the appointment of its 10th Dean, Jace C. Gatewood. Dean Gatewood succeeded Dean Malcolm L. Morris on January 1, 2020 as Interim Dean and CEO, becoming the first African American to serve in the role since the school’s founding in…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Leveraging the considerable university assets available to assist student entrepreneurs, Gomez applied and was accepted as a client of the CWRU School of Law’s Intellectual Property Venture Clinic (IPVC), where law students represent start-up companies and entrepreneurs, working to develop and cultivate real-world intellectual assets while also applying skills…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — On Jan. 3, 2020, President Trump ordered a drone strike in Iraq, killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Five days later, Iran responded by launching 22 ballistic missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq. Was the U.S. airstrike a lawful act of self-defense under international law? Was it legal…
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LOYOLA LAW LOS ANGELES — LMU Loyola Law School professors participated in a range of panels during the 2020 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C. from Jan. 2-5, 2020. This year’s theme examined “Pillars of Democracy,” looking at the essential role of legal education in sustaining a constitutional democracy.
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