Penn Law receives gift to expand public interest programs and launch public service corps
PENN NEWS — The University of Pennsylvania Law School has received a $3 million gift from Robert Toll L’66 and Jane Toll GSE’66 to create and launch the new Toll Public Service Corps, while expanding the Toll Public Interest Scholars program, and funding additional financial and career support for alumni through loan forgiveness.
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OU DAILY — The University of Oklahoma College of Law and the University of Oklahoma Department of Native American Studies hosted the American Indian Law Review Symposium, entitled “Oliphant at 40: Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country Today.” The symposium covered events since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law School was privileged to celebrate a beloved alumna and professor, Amy Coney Barrett, ’97 J.D., by hosting her investiture as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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NORTHWESTERN NOW — In the 28th episode of the Planet Lex podcast series, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez talks with Northwestern University professors Laura Beth Nielsen and Deborah Tuerkheimer about #MeToo, which started as a viral moment and has grown into a movement resulting in both praise and controversy.
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THE HERALD-SUN — North Carolina Central University has promised the American Bar Association that it will tighten admission practices at its law school by imposing a minimum LSAT score on future applicants.
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THE DM ONLINE — University of Mississippi School of Law Professor Tucker Carrington and his co-author, Washington Post reporter and investigative journalist Radley Balko, discussed and read excerpts from their new book, “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South.”
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LAW – DARTMOUTH — Kayla Venckauskas, JD candidate ’19, has been selected as a 2018 Rappaport Fellow. The prestigious Rappaport Fellows Program in Law and Public Policy provides paid summer internships to promising law students interested in public service.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW — Staff Attorney Gabriela Kahrl ’08 and 2L student attorney Virginia Giannini from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law’s Immigration Clinic successfully helped their client secure asylum.
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS — Danny Becnel ’69 and Retired District Court Judge Mary Hotard Becnel ’80 bestowed a generous #$1 million gift that will help transform Loyola University New Orleans College of Law’s renowned Trial Advocacy curriculum. The gift will create the Danny and Mary Becnel Trial Advocacy Program.
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WAFB — The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals heard the oral arguments for a major voting rights case at the Louisiana University State Law School. VOTE v. Louisiana concerns the eligibility of felons now on probation or parole, who still wish to vote.
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