BYU Law professor and former clerk takes part in services for Justice Scalia
KUTV (CBS SALT LAKE CITY) – BYU law professor John Fee described the procession that Scalia’s family members and former law clerks/honorary pallbearers took part in on the steps of the nation’s highest court.
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THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN – The former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law recently co-founded The Opportunity Institute — a Berkeley-based nonprofit organization devoted to advancing social mobility and education equity.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED – U.S. Department of Education officials circulated a first draft of the administration’s proposal to members of a rule-making panel that is in the process of negotiating changes to regulations governing debt relief for federal student loans.
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PHILLY.COM – The job market for law school graduates improved dramatically last year, with law firms competing aggressively to recruit the best prospects, a study shows.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – Members of the University of Virginia School of Law community are mourning the loss of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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WTNH (NEW HAVEN) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer gave a talk Wednesday at Yale Law School. His appearance in New Haven comes a few days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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THE FAYETTE TRIBUNE – To help local governments, a clinic at the West Virginia University College of Law has published a free guide to navigating the legal issues of dealing with dilapidated properties.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL – A team from Penn Law recently won the John L. Costello National Criminal Law Trial Advocacy Competition hosted by George Mason School of Law in Fairfax, Virginia.
Read More about Penn Law mock trial team wins national criminal law advocacy competitionStanford Law launches public database to help enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL – Stanford Law School and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced the launch of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Clearinghouse (FCPAC), a public database that aggregates and curates source documents and provides analytic tools related to enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW – UNM Law School students Frank Cardoza and Scott Woody won best overall and best written submission in the J.D. division of the 15th Annual ABA Law Student Tax Challenge held in Los Angeles on January 29, 2016.
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