Villanova Law Dean Mark Alexander embraces challenges in new role
KYW (CBS PHILADELPHIA) – Villanova Law School’s newly appointed administrator — whose presence is making history — welcomed the latest class of students this week.
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY – Recently graduated students from Vanderbilt Law School successfully briefed and argued a case about the right of victims to sue companies that design and market spyware intended to intercept private communications.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES – In December, he will walk free thanks to the work of students in UCLA School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic.
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SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – The documents will be drafted by one of six trained students at Maurer School of Law and reviewed by a university staff attorney.
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WABE (NPR ATLANTA) – All five law schools in Georgia had fewer students enrolled during the fall semester of last year than in the fall of 2011, according to data from the American Bar Association.
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AKRON LEGAL NEWS – The second annual Summer Trial Academy got underway on Aug. 15, with 22 upper-level law students serving as attorneys in the civil case of Crimson Permanent Assurance Company v. Aiden Lynch.
Read More about Akron Law hosts summer trial academy for upper-level law studentsWyoming Law international human rights clinic wins case granting asylum for Eritrean man
KOWB (WYOMING) – A detained Eritrean man was granted asylum in the United States on Thursday thanks in large part to a student and professor from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
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CHICAGO MAGAZINE – The program gives legal assistance and guidance to transgender individuals who are navigating the complicated process of changing official legal documents to reflect their true gender identity.
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AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE – The Thomas R. Kline School of Law welcomed its 10th class in August, marking a milestone anniversary that will be observed throughout the 2016-17 academic year at Drexel University.
Read More about Drexel Law marks 10th anniversaryTwo Tennessee Law professors selected to join U.S. Commission on Civil Rights state committee
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE – KNOXVILLE – Two professors at the University of Tennessee College of Law have been appointed to the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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