UNLV Law professor part of team providing financial advice to Las Vegas shooting survivors

March 16, 2018

KTNV — Financial advisors from across the nation are offering a unique, free service called The Las Vegas Survivors Project to the approximate 532 claimants to the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund (LVVF).

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University of Mississippi Law Journal to publish special issue on legal history in state

March 16, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Law Journal is putting together a special issue featuring several works focused on Mississippi legal history, including articles written by Antonia Eliason, a University of Mississippi professor of law, U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills and former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James L. Robertson.

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Lewis & Clark Law hosts Rep. Earl Blumenauer as part of food law symposium

March 16, 2018

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Lewis & Clark Law School’s annual food law symposium will feature Congressman Earl Blumenauer as its keynote speaker. The March 23 symposium – “The Future of Food: Growing Opportunities” – was planned by the Center for Animal Law Studies.

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University of Kentucky Law to host former U.S. Rep Mazzoli for talk on immigration policy

March 16, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY NEWS — Former U.S. Rep. Ron Mazzoli, a Democrat from Louisville and co-author of the last major immigration-reform law, will deliver the Spring 2018 Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Lecture Wednesday, April 11 at the University of Kentucky.

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University of Houston Law’s Michael Olivas explores ‘The Law of Rock and Roll’ in 5th season of public radio program

March 16, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center Professor Michael A. Olivas provided faculty and staff a backstage pass to the upcoming season of “The Law of Rock and Roll” radio program last week in the Hendricks Heritage Room.

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University of Houston Law accepting applications for pre-law pipeline summer program for undergraduate students

March 16, 2018

PRNEWSWIRE — The University of Houston Law Center is accepting applications for the fourth year of its award-winning Pre-Law Pipeline Program designed to increase diversity in the legal profession by introducing historically underrepresented groups of students to the demands of law school and opportunities for a law career.  

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Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein named 2018 Holberg Prize recipient

March 16, 2018

THE HARVARD GAZETTE — Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein has been named this year’s winner of the Holberg Prize, one of the largest international awards given to an outstanding researcher in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, law, or theology.

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Georgetown Law professor Chris Brummer testifies as expert on cryptocurrencies to Congressional Committee

March 16, 2018

BITCOIN MAGAZINE — On March 14, 2018, the House Financial Committee held a hearing entitled “Examining the Cryptocurrencies and ICO Markets.” This was the first hearing in which members of the U.S. Congress, specifically a subcommittee on capital markets, securities and ICO markets, addressed cryptocurrencies and ICOs.

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Georgetown Law hosts World Bank President Jim Kim for discussion of documentary

March 16, 2018

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER — A 2017 documentary, “Bending the Arc,” tells the amazing story of how, with White’s financial support, Kim, Dr. Paul Farmer and activist Ophelia Dahl founded the NGO Partners in Health in the 1980s — and ended up changing health care treatment models in poor countries around the world. 

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University of Georgia Moot Court Teams win national and regional titles

March 16, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Georgia School of Law recently captured the top trophy in the Charleston School of Law National Moot Court Competition and won a regional championship of the American Association for Justice National Student Trial Advocacy Competition, qualifying to compete in the national tier of this tournament.

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