American Constitution Society honors University of Houston Law Center student chapter
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy recently honored University of Houston Law Center’s student branch with a Programming Award for starting a dialogue on a number of topics during the 2017-2018 school year.
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COMMUNITY IMPACT — The University of Houston Law Center received a $205,000 grant from the Greater Houston Community Foundation on July 12 that will allow the law center to launch its Hurricane Consumer Assistance Program.
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON SCHOOL OF LAW — UH Law School hosted the Hawai‘i Access to Justice Conference, where a program that trains newly-minted law school graduates as a kind of Peace Corps of Immigration lawyers was discussed.
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WFMY NEWS — Florida State University President John Thrasher will seek legislative approval to remove former Florida Supreme Court Justice B.K. Roberts’s name from the main classroom building at FSU College of Law.
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DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — As Katherine “Shelley” Broderick prepares to step down this summer as dean of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) David A. Clarke School of Law, she reflects on her law career that began more than 40 years ago.
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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW — Denver Law professor Alan Chen received the University of Denver University Lecturer award. The award is one of the University’s most distinguished honors, based on creative and scholarly merit, as well as recommendations of faculty and colleagues.
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CORNELL LAW SCHOOL — Under a pilot program to begin in fall 2018, Cornell Law School will accept the GRE or GMAT as an alternative to the LSAT. Cornell joins a growing number of peer law schools nationwide that have changed or are considering changing their policies to allow alternative test scores.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — UCI Law tax faculty Omri Marian, Joshua Blank and Victor Fleischer created the Graduate Tax Program, a new LL.M. degree which offers a unique tax curriculum emphasizing practice skills and featuring small class sizes and a supportive learning environment.
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AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE — UC Irvine School of Law hosted ALI members for the 8th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review. The event has grown in popularity every year, drawing hundreds of people interested in a discussion on key cases decided during the Concluding Supreme Court term.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — In May 2018, six students from the University of California, Irvine School of Law concluded their weeks of finals by helping some of the mothers and children detained at the South Texas Residential Facility in Dilley, Texas.
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