Emory Law Volunteer Clinic assists veterans with disability benefits claims for ‘Military Mondays’

November 28, 2016

EMORY UNIVERSITY – The Emory VCV provides pro bono legal services for U.S. veterans and their families, assisting them with negotiating the often-overwhelming bureaucracy of seeking disability benefit claims before both the VA and subsequent appeals proceedings.

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Rutgers Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic helps revive lawsuit filed by former detainees

November 28, 2016

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY – A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by four former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, and Rutgers Law School played a key role in reviving the case.

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Albany Law School names new director of Government Law Center

November 28, 2016

ALBANY LAW SCHOOL – Beginning Nov. 15, Ayers will lead the first Government Law Center in the country, known for its research and analysis of local and state governments.

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Former Temple Law dean and Temple University provost describes how law school helped shape her career

November 28, 2016

PHILLY.COM – To Epps, the daughter of a secretary and a machinist, the rituals and codes of the white-collar world were mostly unknown. Each step in her career was a journey into uncharted cultural terrain.

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Duke Law’s Global Financial Markets Center names new leader

November 28, 2016

DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Lee Reiners has joined the Duke Global Financial Markets Center as director.

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University of Washington Law Tribal Court Clinic receives Legal Foundation of Washington award

November 28, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW – UW School of Law’s Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic has received the Legal Foundation of Washington’s 2017 President’s Award in recognition of “significant efforts in providing civil legal aid to low-income people.”

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UC Davis Law students experience appellate court hearings first-hand

November 28, 2016

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RECORD – University of California, Davis Law School hosted appellate court hearings in the school’s King Hall last month, giving students and the public an opportunity to see how the judicial system works.

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Harvard Law adds First Amendment scholar to faculty

November 28, 2016

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – Rebecca Tushnet, a leading First Amendment scholar, will join the faculty of Harvard Law School as the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law.

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Georgetown Law opens Institute for Technology Law and Policy to help guide legal profession in new era

November 28, 2016

THE HOYA – Georgetown University Law Center announced the Nov. 4 launch of the Institute for Technology Law and Policy, a new initiative geared toward examining emerging issues in technology ranging from cybersecurity to intellectual property.

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Rutgers Law School launches project to improve homeowners’ insurance nationally

November 28, 2016

INSURANCE JOURNAL – Rutgers Law School’s Camden, N.J., location, in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners’ insurance nationally through its recently launched project.

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