Harvard Law ‘First Class’ mentorship program helps first-year students navigate law school

November 20, 2024

HARVARD LAW STORIES — As your Incoming Student Ambassadors, Josh Friedman and Kristen Arnold are here to guide you through the process. First Class, led by Co-Presidents Alex Akre and Roop Patel, is dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive environment for first-generation (first-gen) law students.

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Harvard Law hosts Penn Carey Law professor Dorothy Roberts for lecture on the politics of abortion

November 20, 2024

HARVARD LAW TODAY — In the Biddle Lecture, civil rights scholar Dorothy Roberts draws a throughline from the horrors of slavery to the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling

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Harvard Law hosts analysis of the 2024 election with election law experts

November 20, 2024

HARVARD LAW TODAY — From global election trends to inflation anger, swing state performance, and failed voting reform initiatives, Harvard election law experts break down last week’s presidential election and what it might mean for the future of American democracy.

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Hofstra Law students represent voters that were turned away at the polls

November 20, 2024

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Twenty Hofstra Law students were on-site at Nassau County Supreme Court representing and advocating for voters that were turned away at the polls on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

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Hofstra Law students win National Interdisciplinary Legal Innovation Tournament

November 20, 2024

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — On November 1, 2024, Hofstra Law hosted the fourth National Legal Innovation Tournament. Ten teams from five different schools participated in the interdisciplinary tournament including Hofstra’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science, St. John’s Law School, Brooklyn Law School, and Northwestern Law School.

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Hofstra Law co-hosts medical-legal mock trial competition

November 20, 2024

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell hosted the National Medical-Legal Trial Competition last week, sponsored by DOAR, an industry leader in trial consultants. 

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Hofstra Law students win scholarship to attend legal technology conference

November 20, 2024

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Four third-year Hofstra Law students, Philip Coatl, Jalen Coleman, Juliet Ramdass, and Najelie Smith-Ortiz earned a competitive scholarship to attend the 11th annual Relativity Fest conference in September at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

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University of Houston Law Center collaborates with University of Bologna for Sustainability Week

November 20, 2024

PR NEWSWIRE — The University of Houston Law Center’s Global Law and Policy for the Americas initiative is partnering with the University of Bologna for a four-day event titled “Sustainability Week.” It will be held in-person from Nov. 25 – 28 at the University of Bologna’s Forlì Campus and will also be available via livestream.

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Indiana University McKinney Law Indiana Law Review features tribute to late chancellor Gerald L. Bepko

November 20, 2024

INDIANA UNIVERSITY — Volume 58, Issue Number 1 of the Indiana Law Review begins with three tributes to the late Chancellor Emeritus Gerald L. Bepko. He died September 5, 2023, at age 83.

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A look at the construction of Jacksonville University Law’s campus 

November 20, 2024

JACKSONVILLE DAILY RECORD — The historic Atlantic Bank Building in Downtown Jacksonville was transformed into a 47,489-square-foot campus for Jacksonville University’s new College of Law, contributing to the city’s legal hub and urban revitalization.

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