Yale Law clinic co-authors report on preserving Central American forest corridor
YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Yale University’s Environmental Protection Clinic have created a plan to preserve one of the last intact forest strongholds for the jaguar and other iconic species in Central America: the Moskitia Forest Corridor.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — University of Virginia Law Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew ’87 has been chosen for a yearlong executive leadership program to develop solutions for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
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VERMONT VALLEY NEWS — The Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School — which provides resources on energy law and policy — will begin researching grid security and resilience issues in order to prepare a position on best-practices for grid security.
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — West Virginia Law student attorneys in the Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic successfully appealed two denial of claim decisions by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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WASHBURN UNIVERSITY — The Washburn Law Clinic helped secure an $8 million judgment on behalf of a survivor of human trafficking last week. The award comes after a federal judge in Kansas City found that the plaintiff, Kendra Ross, had been made to work over 40,000 uncompensated hours by a “regimented cult” from 2002 to 2012.
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TEXAS A&M TODAY — Texas A&M University has appointed Robert B. Ahdieh as dean and holder of the Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair at its School of Law, located in Fort Worth.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Pitt Law students handled two cases of immigrant mothers seeking asylum in the United States, both separated from their young children in the process. One of the children was 18 months old.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL — The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust made a $1.53 million gift to support the establishment of a clinical entrepreneurship program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Lewis & Clark Law Professor Robert Klonoff provided written testimony in a class action lawsuit involving Wells Fargo Bank. The case alleged that Wells Fargo opened up various accounts (checking, savings, credit card, and lines of credit) without securing permission from its customers, causing harm to those customers.
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HOFSTRA SCHOOL OF LAW — The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is partnering with Northwell Health to provide legal services for patients facing issues that contribute to poor health, such as denial of health care coverage, social services or benefits, immigration and disability benefits.
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