Democratic senators ask U.S. News to change focus of college rankings
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — six senators wrote in a letter to U.S. News & World Report, compiler of the most prominent college rankings in the country, that more weight should be given to institutions that open their doors to students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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VOICE OF SAN DIEGO — Thomas Jefferson School of Law has been in near-constant turmoil since taking on significant debt to build a new $90 million facility in the East Village amid the financial recession last decade.
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THE RECORDER — Women’s associations from eight elite law schools, including Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley School of Law, are joining the fight against forced mandatory arbitration among legal employers.
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII NEWS — A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa partnership between the William S. Richardson School of Law and Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work will give UH students the opportunity to earn two advanced degrees in four years.
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THE HARVARD CRIMSON — A coalition of 10 Harvard Law School student affinity groups called on Dean John F. Manning to establish a Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in a letter published Monday in the Harvard Law Record, the school’s student publication.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — In November, practitioners, technologists and innovators from across the legal spectrum came together for a series of discussions on the impact of ever-changing modern technologies on today’s practice of law.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LAW — Assistant Professor Sandra G. Mayson has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Association of American Law Schools Section on Criminal Justice Junior Scholar Award for her article “Bias In, Bias Out.” The article will be published in a forthcoming Yale Law Review.
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NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL — The Clooney Foundation for Justice—established by noted human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and her movie star spouse George—is partnering with Columbia Law’s Human Rights Clinic and the American Bar Association to launch an initiative in 2019 dubbed TrialWatch.
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COLORADO LAW — On Nov. 6, University of Colorado Law School Professor Phil Weiser was elected to serve as the attorney general for the state of Colorado. Weiser is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications and executive director and founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.
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COLORADO LAW — Two University of Colorado Law School professors helped take a stand for public land by submitting amicus briefs challenging the Trump administration’s actions to shrink Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah.
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