Lewis & Clark Law’s environmental clinic wins lawsuit to improve regulation of industrial storm water pollution

December 3, 2018

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Lewis & Clark Law School’s Earthrise Law Center, working on behalf of its clients Columbia Riverkeeper and Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC), successfully settled a lawsuit challenging Oregon’s general permit for discharges of industrial stormwateR.

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University of Kansas Law’s legal analytics class explores technology and the law

December 3, 2018

KU NEWS —  A new class at the University of Kansas is teaching future lawyers to understand statistics, data analysis, artificial intelligence and how they can challenge the very foundation of American justice.

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University of Hawaii Law team provides legal aid to women and children refugees at the U.S. border

December 3, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LAW — A team from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Law traveled to the U.S. Mexico border to provide pro bono legal services to women and children applying for asylum.

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University of Hawaii Law secures DNA testing grant from Department of Justice for the Hawaii Innocence Project

December 3, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA — The Hawaiʻi Innocence Project (HIP) at the William S. Richardson School of Law has been awarded a $567,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. Competition for the grants is fierce.

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Harvard Law’s David J. Harris receives Massachusetts Governor’s Award in the Humanities

December 3, 2018

HARVARD LAW TODAY — In October, David J. Harris, managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, received the Massachusetts Governor’s Award in the Humanities.

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Harvard Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer honored by Japanese government

December 3, 2018

HARVARD LAW TODAY — J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School, has been conferred with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the Japanese government.

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University of Cincinnati Law clinic helps free a wrongfully convicted man

December 3, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI NEWS — After serving 27 years in prison for crimes he didn’t commit, a man is now free thanks to help from the Ohio Innocence Project at the UC College of Law.

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Campbell Law partners with North Carolina State University to train law students in design thinking

December 3, 2018

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY NEWS — Campbell Law School and N.C. State University are again partnering to offer a unique course aimed at training 21st-century lawyers to be more innovative and empathetic, and ultimately more successful.

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UCLA Law Fellows program receives grant to boost diversity in the law

December 3, 2018

UCLA LAW — The Law Fellows Program at UCLA School of Law has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence to continue its trailblazing efforts to increase diversity in the legal profession.

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UCLA Law students win Skadden Fellowships to practice public interest law

December 3, 2018

UCLA LAW — Three graduating UCLA School of Law students have been awarded Skadden Fellowships, among the most competitive awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law.

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