Miami Law professor shares her inspiration for creating a course on #BlackLivesMatter

January 23, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW – Vice Dean and Professor Osamudia James conceived of the course and unpacks the tent pole issues behind the motivation.

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ABA Center for Innovation is accepting applicants for inaugural fellowship program

January 23, 2017

ABA JOURNAL – The NextGen Fellowship program is open to law school graduates who have received their JD within the last five years.

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Pace Law adds regional EPA director as visiting scholar

January 23, 2017

LOHUD – Judith Enck, the Environmental Protection Administration’s regional director, will become a visiting scholar at Pace University’s law school.

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Western New England Law launches public forum series on Presidential Transition

January 23, 2017

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY – The Western New England University School of Law will present a series of policy discussions that will focus on the critical issues President Trump’s Administration is likely to address in its early days.

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Stanford Law’s Global Practitioner in Residence brings legal experience with war crimes trials

January 23, 2017

STANFORD DAILY – Ashraph, who served as co-counsel for Sesay in the trials following the Sierra Leone Civil War, joins the Stanford community for the winter quarter as the first 2016 Global Practitioner in Residence.

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Law Society of Ireland’s ‘Street Law’ project inspired by Georgetown Law program

January 23, 2017

IRISH EXAMINER – The Law Society of Ireland’s diploma centre runs a programme called Street Law for trainee solicitors, who then pass on this knowledge in the school classroom.

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UVA Law alumnus and ‘Making a Murderer’ lawyer lectures on persuading courts during short-term January class

January 23, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – Strang is co-instructing the weeklong class in conjunction with the course’s traditional instructors, professors Robert Nelson Sayler and Molly Bishop Shadel.

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St. Thomas University Law professor participates in international law conference in China

January 23, 2017

ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Professor Siegfried Wiessner participated in the 8th Conference on the New Haven School of Jurisprudence at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

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Southern Illinois Law hosts ‘Women in Leadership’ workshop

January 23, 2017

WSIL (ABC CARTERVILLE) – Prominent Illinois judges visited the SIU campus this week, to speak to students about leadership.

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University of Washington Tacoma puts law school formation plans on hold

January 23, 2017

NEWS TRIBUNE – Leaders at University of Washington Tacoma have postponed a proposal to create a law school on the growing campus, citing strong competition from existing schools for the region’s available law students.

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