Former Harvard Law Dean Martha Minnow named University Professor
THE HARVARD GAZETTE — Renowned human rights expert Martha Minow, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
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OMAHA WORLD-HERALD — Creighton Law alumnus U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Jason Wareham ’07 and a group of Creighton law students are part of a joint legal and governmental education program that provides legal defense to Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF LAW — Justin Bernstein, a seasoned litigator with an extraordinary record of leading mock trial students and teams to success, has joined UCLA School of Law as the inaugural director of the A. Barry Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy and as a lecturer in law.
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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE — The Brooklyn Bar Association invited professors, judges, alumni and other members of the legal community to a reception honoring Nicholas Allard, the president and dean of Brooklyn Law School, that was held at the bar association on June 18.
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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE — Nicolas Allard reflects on his six-year tenure as president and dean of Brooklyn Law Column in this farewell column.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University 3L student Shally Kim been named a Squire Patton Boggs 2018 Class of Public Policy Fellow.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University Washington College of Law’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law hosted the annual Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law May 29-June 15, welcoming 125 participants from over 10 different countries.
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WNPR — An ongoing study by Syracuse University tracks information about immigration court cases throughout the country. Statistics indicate that only 54 percent of people were represented in all cases in the Hartford immigration court. If the data is sorted for people that are detained, that number plummets to just 24 percent.
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DESERT NEWS — In May, Utah took its own step toward pretrial reform by implementing a new tool called the Public Safety Assessment, which is designed to give judges more information about a defendant’s likelihood of flight and danger to the community before setting bail.
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BEFORE THE BAR — The American Bar Association sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen expressing strong opposition to recent actions by the Department of Justice and DHS that have resulted in a drastic increase in the separation of children from their parents when arriving at the southern border.
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