Northeastern Law NuLawLab co-edits book on the power of legal design

October 29, 2024

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW —  To address the pressing need for a more accessible, effective and just legal system, the leadership team of Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab has co-edited Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems.

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Northeastern Law Center for Global Law and Justice selected to host International Human Rights Online Hub

October 29, 2024

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — In a highly competitive process, Northeastern Law’s recently established Center for Global Law and Justice has been selected to serve as the new host for the vast collection of human rights resources currently housed at the International Justice Resource Center (IJRC) Online Resource Hub, which attracts as many as 75,000 visitors

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Northwestern Law Master of Science in Law program hosts panel on the impact of Supreme Court decisions

October 29, 2024

NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — In June 2024, the Supreme Court overturned the doctrine of Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The doctrine, established in 1984 in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., required courts to accept an agency’s reasonable interpretation of laws that the agency is responsible for enforcing. 

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Northwestern Law hosts Day of Service to provide aid to the community

October 29, 2024

NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — On August 24, 2024, more than 200 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law students stepped out of the classroom and gathered at Chicago-area nonprofits, parks, schools, and beaches.

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Notre Dame Law student Pavithra Rajendran discusses research on gender justice and criminal law

October 29, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — J.S.D. candidate Pavithra Rajendran is an academician, multi-faceted feminist, and first-generation lawyer from Kandy, Sri Lanka. An LL.B. graduate from the University of Colombo, Pavithra became an attorney at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and later pursued her LL.M. degree, concentrating on criminal justice, constitutional law,

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Oklahoma City University Law to host Notre Dame Law professor Michael Zuckert for lecture on religious freedom

October 29, 2024

CITY NEWS OKC — Oklahoma City University School of Law is pleased to welcome Michael Zuckert, Emeritus Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, as the 2024 Brennan Lecture Series lecturer.

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University of the Pacific McGeorge Law professor Omar Dajani receives grant for Israeli-Palestinian peace work

October 29, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — Omar Dajani, the Carol Olson Professorship in International Law at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, was awarded a £1 million grant from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation’s Economic and Social Research Council for a research project on “The Shared Homeland Paradigm: Reimagining Space, Rights and Partnership in Palestine-Israel.”

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Penn Carey Law professor Claire Finkelstein co-publishes paper analyzing the 2024 election

October 29, 2024

PENN CAREY LAW — Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, has co-authored a new paper that explores what would happen to pending trials if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

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University of Richmond Law Institute for Actual Innocence clinic works to exonerate wrongfully convicted client 

October 29, 2024

RICHMOND LAW — Not many lawyers can say they helped secure a presidential commutation before they passed the bar. But Bailey Ellicott, L’24, an alum of the Institute for Actual Innocence — or IAI, one of Richmond Law’s criminal law clinics — is one of those rare lawyers.

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University of Richmond Law develops programs to teach students about artificial intelligence

October 29, 2024

RICHMOND LAW — In a Charlottesville, Virginia, office, attorney Justin Ritter fires up his computer and launches Claude, a generative artificial intelligence tool that is assisting his legal work.

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