UC Irvine student awarded Black Prosecutors Association of Los Angeles scholarship
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Jaquesha Scott, a 3L student at UCI Law, was awarded the Alfred Jenkins Scholarship from the Black Prosecutors Association of Los Angeles. The award is geared toward students interested in becoming local, state or federal prosecutors.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES — UCLA School of Law student Taylor de Laveaga ’20 argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She was the third UCLA Law student in little more than a year to argue before a federal appeals court under the guidance of Professor Eugene Volokh.
Read More about UCLA Student argues First Amendment case in U.S. Court of AppealsUCLA student awarded Kaiser Family Foundation Women’s Justice Fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES — UCLA Law graduate Phoebe Kasdin ’18 is the inaugural recipient of the George Kaiser Family Foundation Women’s Justice Fellowship. The two-year fellowship will allow her to provide holistic representation to indigent mothers facing criminal charges and a panoply of related troubles, including family destabilization and loss of child custody.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES — Two students from UCLA School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic and a fellow at UCLA Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights attended the 38th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in July in Geneva, Switzerland, supporting the work of Professor E. Tendayi Achiume.
Read More about UCLA students support human rights efforts at United Nations meetingUCLA launches specialization in environmental law
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES — Law students at UCLA are now able to receive a specialization in environmental law, a recognition upon graduation that they have completed a rigorous course of study in a broad range of subjects related to environmental law and policy.
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DAILY HERALD — BYU Law professors Carolina Núñez and Kif Augustine-Adams travel with a group of students to Dilley, Texas, to do immigration work at a detention center for women and children seeking asylum in the United States.
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THE DAILY UNIVERSE — Stacie Stewart, Dean of Admissions for BYU Law, offers advice and tips for students interested in attending law school.
Read More about Advice for prospective students from BYU admissions professionalsBrooklyn Law School hosts New York Federal Reserve President John Williams for town hall meeting
NEW YORK POST — Brooklyn Law School hosted a town hall for the newly appointed President of the New York Federal Reserve.
Read More about Brooklyn Law School hosts New York Federal Reserve President John Williams for town hall meetingBrooklyn Law Professor K. Sabeel Rahman named president of civic engagement organization
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Brooklyn Law Professor K. Sabeel Rahman, a widely published constitutional and administrative law scholar and expert in democratic participation and civic engagement in the United States, has been named the next president of Demos.
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USA TODAY — A new study from Ascent Student Loans found that roughly 60 percent of undergraduates between ages 18 and 24 enrolled in a four-year bachelor’s degree program that have taken out student loans say they are responsible for covering more than half of the total cost of their education.
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