Syracuse Law launches online JD program
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY NEWS — The Syracuse University College of Law has enrolled 32 students in the inaugural JDinteractive (JDi) class. JDinteractive is the nation’s first fully interactive online law degree. The ABA-accredited program combines live, online classes with self-paced classes and short residencies.
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TEXAS A&M LAW — TAMU Law’s senior lecturer and director of the low income tax clinic, Bob Probasco, is the principal drafter for comments submitted to the U.S. Tax Court by the Tax Section of the State Bar.
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TEXAS A&M LAW — Current Texas A&M University School of Law students enrolled in the Immigrant Rights Clinic won an appeal to reopen the case of a client from Somalia who fears being tortured there by Al-Shabaab and the government as a Christianity convert.
Read More about Texas A&M Law students focus on human rights issues in clinical coursesTexas A&M Law professor helps craft property law legislation written into law
TEXAS A&M LAW — Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Thomas Mitchell helps craft legislation signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott regarding heirs’ property law. The legislation will provide “enhanced” property protections to low- and middle-income families.
Read More about Texas A&M Law professor helps craft property law legislation written into lawUniversity of Toledo Law dean D. Benjamin Barros elected to AALS executive committee
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO — The University of Toledo College of Law congratulates Dean D. Benjamin Barros, who was elected to serve on the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Executive Committee by the organization’s House of Representatives at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La.
Read More about University of Toledo Law dean D. Benjamin Barros elected to AALS executive committeeA look at Vanderbilt’s Program on Law and Innovation
FORBES — The Program on Law and Innovation Institute offers a curriculum that leads to a Certificate in Law and Innovation for anyone who takes six or more of the Institute courses within a three-year period and launches in February 2019.
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UVA TODAY — Alumni and students of the University of Virginia School of Law were on the legal team that on Wednesday won an injunction against officials at Virginia Department of Corrections. The ruling will force the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women to provide adequate health care to its prisoners.
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NBC29 — Social Security claimants will have an easier time finding lawyers willing to help them, thanks to a unanimous victory Tuesday in Culbertson v. Berryhill for the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Read More about University of Virginia Law clinic wins attorney’s fees case at U.S. Supreme CourtAhead of the Curve: Dispatches from the AALS Annual Meeting
LAW.COM — At the largest annual gathering of legal academics in the nation, the atmosphere was sunnier than it has been in years, women took center stage, and the academy honored a rock star law professor.
Read More about Ahead of the Curve: Dispatches from the AALS Annual MeetingProfessor Flora Midwood Joins Brooklyn Law School as Assistant Director of Academic Success
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Professor Flora Midwood has joined the Law School as Assistant Director of the Academic Success Program. She will work closely with Professor Shane Dizon, Director of Academic Success, to assess, build, and oversee programs and courses aimed at enhancing students’ academic experience, intellectual engagement, and bar preparedness.
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