Santa Clara Law Professor Catherine Sandoval moderates panel on modernizing the communications grid
SANTA CLARA LAW — Catherine Sandoval will be the moderator for a California Public Utilities Commission panel on the Communications Grid of the future on May 20, 2019. Professor Sandoval’s panel is titled “Affordability and Access”
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LAW.COM — Nine teams of students from New York City law schools gathered at Brooklyn Law School last Thursday to pitch their ideas for using legal technology to improve access to justice and make legal processes more efficient. It was the first time Brooklyn Law School opened its CUBE Innovators competition to teams from other law schools.
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LAW.COM — Northwestern Pritzker Law Professor Dan Linna and Kristian Hammond (Engineering) are developing interdisciplinary course work with two goals in mind: to build technology products that make the law more efficient and accessible, and to help shape legal technologies before they emerge in society with unintended consequences.
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NASDAQ — The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program could save student loan borrowers large amounts of money, but there’s a lot you should know before you apply.
Read More about Guide to Public Service Loan Forgiveness for student borrowersAn analysis of law school bar pass rates
LAW.COM — Law.com analyzed the bar pass rates reported by schools to the American Bar Association between 2013 and 2017 and found that 42 out of 203 ABA-accredited law schools saw their pass rate fall anywhere from 10 to 20 percent. Thirty-five schools had pass-rate declines of more than 20 percent in those four years.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new study argues that law schools’ use of the LSAT is effectively limiting black enrollment in law schools. The study is by Aaron Taylor, executive director of the AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence and a longtime expert on diversity in legal education. The study appears in the Florida International University Law Review.
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ABOVE THE LAW — The American Bar Association and Whittier College approved an agreement to re-admit former Whittier Law students who were affected by Western State Law’s sudden shutdown. The 2Ls and 3Ls with one semester left will be allowed to return to Whittier Law School to finish their final year.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Teams from Wayne State University Law School, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and University of Michigan Law School competed Friday, March 29, in the Jaffe Transactional Law Competition hosted by Wayne Law.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Lending program for parents of undergraduates has expanded beyond its intended use, leaving many borrowers with debts they struggle to repay, report finds. Co-authors argue Congress should cap borrowing under the Parent PLUS program.
Read More about Report recommends limit on amount of federal loans parents of college students can borrowWashington University in St. Louis pledges free or reduced medical school tuition
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A year after NYU’s medical school went tuition-free, Washington University in St. Louis announces that scholarships will eliminate tuition charges for more than half of new M.D. students. Currently, only about 20 of the students in an M.D. class of 120 receive full-tuition scholarships.
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