University of Tulsa Law students review and help commute sentences of Oklahoma inmates
THE OKLAHOMAN — More than 450 Oklahoma inmates are expected to be released from prison Monday in what state officials said will be the largest commutation in U.S. history. He said the Tulsa County Public Defender’s Office, University of Tulsa law students and other groups reviewed more than 700 property crimes cases to determine which offenders were…
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THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL OF LAW — At the recent San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund’s Annual Gala, five TJSL students received scholarship awards. The five students were Jubani Estrada (’20), Olga Gonzalez (’20), Daniel Granados (’20), Rocio Ortiz (’21), and Fatima Rodriguez (‘20). Estrada and Rodgriguez were given the Justicia Scholarship which recognizes a student’s…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Avi Garbow ’92, former general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency and the first environmental advocate for clothing retailer Patagonia, will deliver the keynote address at a Nov. 13 symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law. The Green New Deal refers to legislative proposals to reduce fossil fuels and curb…
Read More about University of Virginia Law hosts environmental law symposiumUniversity of Virginia Law professor Barbra Spellman receives Women in Cognitive Science Leadership Award
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Barbara Spellman, a professor of law and psychology at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named a recipient of the Women in Cognitive Science Leadership Award. The award, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society and Women in Cognitive Science, recognizes initiatives that individuals have undertaken, beyond their own students…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Rachel Barnes ’21, a J.D.-MBA candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been elevated to national chair of the National Black Law Students Association. Among the initiatives Barnes is taking over is an NBLSA effort to strengthen prelaw, alumni and current membership bases as well as build relationships with…
Read More about University of Virginia Law student Rachel Barnes to serve as national chair of National Black Law Students AssociationSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas addresses Yale Law Rosenkranz Originalism Conference
YALE LAW — The inaugural Rosenkranz Originalism Conference was held at the Law School on October 25, 2019, featuring a keynote address by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ’74. Along with Justice Thomas’s keynote address, the conference included a roundtable discussion with audience participation.
Read More about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas addresses Yale Law Rosenkranz Originalism ConferencePace Law partners with law schools and faculty to cut down on academic marketing waste
PACE UNIVERSITY — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has signed the Pledge to Reduce Academic Marketing Waste, which seeks to address the routine and indiscriminate use of paper-based flyers, newsletters, offprints and postcards by law professors and law schools. Haub Law is partnering with the University of Missouri School of Law on this effort and…
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Read More about Podcast: Advice on networking for recent law graduatesSociety for Empirical Legal Studies opposes U.S. News scholarly impact ranking methodology
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Society for Empirical Legal Studies has written to U.S. News & World Report to “express concern” about its plans to create a law school “scholarly impact” ranking based on HeinOnline data. The legal group says that the data to be used by U.S. News have “bias against interdisciplinary legal scholarship”…
Read More about Society for Empirical Legal Studies opposes U.S. News scholarly impact ranking methodologyUniversity of La Verne governing board to look at the future of its law school
THE NATIONAL JURIST — La Verne has struggled. At one point, during a four-year period, enrollment fell at the Southern California school fell by 70%. Not only was it hurt by the economy, it lost ABA provincial accreditation in 2011, an action that always scares off students. That accreditation was restored within a year and…
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