UCLA Law launches specialization in environmental law
UCLA NEWSROOM — Law students at University of California, Los Angeles are now able to receive a specialization in environmental law, a recognition upon graduation that they have completed a rigorous course of study in a broad range of subjects related to environmental law and policy.
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COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE — The first day of a trial on partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina kicked off July 15, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal in June to wade into the dispute. Campbell University School of Law host judges in a small courtroom at the start of what is expected to be a two-week debate.
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UCONN TODAY — Students in University of Connecticut Law’s new Technology and Law Practice class developed real technical solutions to help both a legal services agency and the law school’s Animal Law Clinic. Professor Jessica de Perio Wittman, who taught the class this past spring, designed it to be a hands-on, practical experience.
Read More about University of Connecticut Law debuts course on technology and law practiceDrexel Law professor Susan Brooks to present on experiential teaching and assessment at University of Turin
DREXEL UNIVERSITY KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Drexel Law Associate Dean Susan L. Brooks will give a presentation at the University of Turin School of Law in Italy on July 15. Brooks will discuss “Teaching and Assessing Reflective Practice Through Relational Lawyering,” a subject about which she has written numerous scholarly journals and book chapters.
Read More about Drexel Law professor Susan Brooks to present on experiential teaching and assessment at University of TurinHarvard Law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon honored by National Organization for Women
HARVARD LAW TODAY — The National Organization for Women will honor Catharine A. MacKinnon, a longtime visiting professor at Harvard Law School, with their “Woman of Vision Award” at its annual conference. MacKinnon was nominated for a lifetime of original work on sexual abuse and sex inequality in areas such as sexual harassment, rape, pornography and prostitution.
Read More about Harvard Law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon honored by National Organization for WomenUniversity of Houston pre-law pipeline scholars provide guidance to prospective law students
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Panelists currently participating in LSAC’s Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars Program provided guidance to prospective law students in the Houston Bar Association’s Communities in Schools program on how to adapt and prepare for life at a university during a panel discussion last week at the University of Houston Law Center.
Read More about University of Houston pre-law pipeline scholars provide guidance to prospective law studentsUniversity of Houston Law associate dean Sondra R. Tennessee reappointed to ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Sondra R. Tennessee, the Associate Dean of Alumni and Community Relations at the University of Houston Law Center, will be working with attorneys from across the country to improve mental health wellness throughout the legal profession. Tennessee was recently reappointed to the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Program.
Read More about University of Houston Law associate dean Sondra R. Tennessee reappointed to ABA Commission on Lawyer AssistanceLewis & Clark Law’s Carma Corcoran selected for fellowship focused on advancing democracy
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Carma Corcoran, Lewis & Clark Law School’s Indian Law Summer Program Coordinator, has received a two-year fellowship by the Kettering Foundation’s Deliberative Democracy Institute. The fellowship is aimed at improving civil society by fostering a learning exchange between people from diverse nations.
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law’s Carma Corcoran selected for fellowship focused on advancing democracyUniversity of Miami Law Immigration Clinic represents civic groups against state ban on sanctuary policies
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — A new state law requiring local police to act as ICE agents and prohibiting sanctuary policies is unconstitutional and will hurt the most vulnerable Floridians, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by University of Miami School of Law’s Immigration Clinic, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Community Justice Project.
Read More about University of Miami Law Immigration Clinic represents civic groups against state ban on sanctuary policiesUniversity of Miami Law students from Cuba share experiences with school’s Health Rights Clinic
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — A group of J.D. and J.D./LL.M. students in this summer’s Health Rights clinical course earned their Licenciatura en Derecho, a J.D. equivalency, from Cuban universities and they all have studied in Miami Law’s LL.M. in U.S. and Transnational Law for Foreign Lawyers before commencing their J.D. studies.
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