New Jersey enacts health care privacy law recommendations from Drexel Law professor David Cohen
DREXEL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law expanding privacy protections for reproductive health care workers and patients for which Drexel Law Professor David S. Cohen had testified. The law expands an existing state program that allowed sexual assault and stalking victims to keep their addresses secret.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project reached a new milestone this summer when Judith Haran, one of two document analysts with the project, was invited to speak at the international conference “Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age: What’s New?” The conference explored how digital technology influences contemporary Holocaust research.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Four Harvard Law School clinicians—Esme Caramello, Patricia Whiting and Nicole Summers from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) and Shelley Barron from the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP)—presented testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary on a series of housing bills aimed at tenants facing eviction.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Center for EcoTechnology have released a new toolkit on state and local organic waste bans, policies that restrict the amount of food or organic waste that can be sent to landfills.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Future University of Houston Law Center students took part in the summer installment of Admitted Students Day in July. Students from across the country had a chance to tour the Law Center and participate in a meet-and-greet reception with current faculty and students.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center professors and local attorneys will review recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in a Continuing Legal Education program August 9 at the Law Center. Issues range from gerrymandering, antitrust and objectionable trademarks to double jeopardy and abortion.
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GLOBENEWSWIRE — The National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women awarded John Marshall Law Professor Renee Hatcher the Shining Star Award at its annual conference on June 29. Hatcher serves as Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — This June, the Oregon legislature passed a bill to substantially narrow Oregon’s death penalty, SB 1013. Governor Brown ’85 signed the bill into law on August 1, 2019, in a ceremony attended by two Lewis & Clark Law faculty: Steve Kanter, Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law, and Aliza Kaplan, Director…
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WLBT — The Mississippi Supreme Court put into action an initiative to reach out to those struggling to maneuver the legal system and can’t afford an attorney. It’s done through free legal clinics being put on across the state. More than 100 people who got free legal assistance during the Hinds County Family Legal Clinic.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL — On July 26, Penn Law welcomed 126 students from over 30 countries into the LLM Class of 2020, the largest LLM class the Law School has ever enrolled. The students were chosen from almost 1,300 applicants from over 70 countries
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