Georgetown Law Center revamps early assurance program
THE HOYA – Georgetown University Law Center Dean of Admissions Andrew Cornblatt announced that the center’s Early Assurance Program will not be terminated, but instead continued under a modified format.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – Speaking on behalf of Texas abortion providers, who are challenging laws that may force many clinics to close, will be Stephanie Toti, 37, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York.
Read More about Fordham Law professor to argue major abortion case before Supreme CourtFordham Law tackles neuroscience and the criminal justice system during criminal behavior symposium
FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL – Legal, neuroscientific, and medical scholars, along with active and retired judges, discussed the impact of neuroscience advances in the courtroom, on sentencing, and in the criminal justice system during the Fordham Law Review’s February 26 symposium titled “Criminal Behavior and the Brain: When Law and Neuroscience Collide.”
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FLORIDA STATE 24/7 – The Florida State University College of Law Summer for Undergraduates Program has been renamed in honor of Dean Donald J. Weidner. Alumni wanted to honor Weidner, who is retiring as dean in June 2016.
Read More about Florida State Law renames summer undergraduate program in honor of Dean Donald J. WeidnerElon Law immerses first-year students in simulated law practice experience with Criminal Law Lab
ELON UNIVERSITY – First-year Elon Law students, in their second trimester of study, are immersed in simulated law practice experience through the school’s new Criminal Law Lab.
Read More about Elon Law immerses first-year students in simulated law practice experience with Criminal Law LabColorado Law announces four finalists for dean opening
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO – BOULDER – University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore announced four finalists for the position of dean of Colorado Law.
Read More about Colorado Law announces four finalists for dean openingUC Irvine Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to receive lifetime achievement award from Orange County Hispanic Bar Association
VOICE OF OC – UCI Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky will receive The Hon. Francisco P. Briseño Lifetime Achievement Award at the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association’s 38th Scholarship Fundraiser & Installation Dinner on March 5.
Read More about UC Irvine Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to receive lifetime achievement award from Orange County Hispanic Bar AssociationUC Berkeley Law honors Herma Hill Kay’s AALS lifetime service award
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – Herma Hill Kay, former dean of Berkeley Law and professor for more than 50 years, has received the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) 2015 Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Law.
Read More about UC Berkeley Law honors Herma Hill Kay’s AALS lifetime service awardFlorida survey finds over 40 percent of young women lawyers experience bias
ABA JOURNAL – The 464 women who completed the survey provided the bar with 90 pages of anecdotes about bias and poor treatment, the Florida Bar News reports. The bar sent the survey to female members of its Young Lawyers Division.
Read More about Florida survey finds over 40 percent of young women lawyers experience biasContract attorneys unite to fight for hourly workforce protections
THE WASHINGTON POST – In recent years, their wages have sunk so low that some of those attorneys are asking for the same overtime protections enjoyed by retail clerks and bus drivers.
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