University of Virginia Law first-year students receive top scholarships for academic excellence and service
UVA LAW — A teacher in Azerbaijan, a championship mock trial participant, an AmeriCorps tutor: Several members of the Class of 2022 who earned the University of Virginia School of Law’s top scholarships, which offer full tuition, hope to build a legacy of service and leadership beyond law school.
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12WBOY — West Virginia University College of Law, Energy and Sustainable Development program held a climate change conference to bring awareness to potential dangers resulting from climate change. The conference highlighted public health issues such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves that will be a direct result of the earth’s increasing temperature.
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BENZINGA — The HIPAA Privacy and Security Summit will bring professionals from the healthcare and legal communities together for a day of discussion and learning on the campus of Delaware Law School. The one- day learning event is a joint effort to provide resources and help professionals overcome the challenges of the ever-changing healthcare compliance landscape.
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YALE LAW — Students in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) at Yale Law School helped attorneys in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office (SFCAO) write a public comment explaining why the new proposed rule is “not just misguided, cruel, and harmful — but also unlawful.”
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YALE LAW — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), represented by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, the Rosen & Associates, P.C., and NAACP Office of the General Counsel, won an important ruling today that allows its federal suit challenging Connecticut’s discriminatory practice of counting incarcerated people where…
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YALE LAW — Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) is representing the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the Texas Press Association, and an independent journalist in a lawsuit filed on September 26, 2019. They are challenging a Texas law that makes it a crime for visual journalists and others to use drones…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Senate GOP leader, Lamar Alexander, mulls piecemeal update to Higher Education Act tied to HBCU funding, which could include short-term Pell, student data, FAFSA simplification and lifting prison Pell ban. But plan might be tough sell for Democrats.
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TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL — The Florida Board of Bar Examiners released the July 2019 results for the general bar examination, which includes pass rates for Florida’s law schools. Of the 2,066 individuals who took the exam, 73.9 percent, or 1,526, passed, according to the release. That number is up from last July’s exam in…
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EDUCATION DIVE — A new project from the Hope Center aims to help colleges better communicate with students about cost while equipping them to be their own advocates.
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POLITICO — Democrats are holding the hearing on the public service loan forgiveness program as complaints about rejections have made it to the 2020 presidential campaign trail. Nearly every Democratic contender has made expanding or fixing the program a part of their education plan.
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