Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg as a cultural icon
NPR – Supreme Court justices are generally robed and mysterious figures. Their faces are not emblazoned on T-shirts, painted on fingernails, tattooed on arms and shoulders, and their characters are not parodied on TV programs ranging from Saturday Night Live to Scandal. At least not until Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a cultural icon at…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED – The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday finalized the regulations carrying out President Obama’s expansion of the government’s most generous income-based repayment program to more federal student loan borrowers.
Read More about New income-based repayment expansion forgives graduate school loan payments after 25 yearsIndiana-Maurer Law Dean Austen Parrish visits Chinese law school
PEKING UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL – The Dean of Indiana University Maurer School of Law Austen Parrish and Director of Indiana Gateway Center Steven Yu visited the Peking University Law School in the morning on October 21, 2015.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – While Harvard’s “Free the Law” project cannot put the lone defense lawyer or citizen on an equal footing with a deep-pocketed law firm, legal experts say, it can at least guarantee a floor of essential information.
Read More about Harvard Law library to digitize law books and resources for public useNew Mexico Law School Dean: School plays important role in making state judicial applicants public
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL – “Gov. Susana Martinez is set to make an important nomination to replace a retiring State Supreme Court justice. The University of New Mexico’s Law School dean plays a key, but often misunderstood, constitutionally prescribed role in this process.”
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – “In this week’s episode, host Derek Tokaz speaks with Alexis Farmer, an attorney with the Mississippi Taxpayer Assistance Project. Farmer, who graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2011, helps clients settle their IRS debts.”
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CORNELL TECH – Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School announced the launch of a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, which will be offered at Cornell Tech’s innovative New York City campus.
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BUSINESSWIRE – Fordham Law School is leading the surge in compliance education by offering a second master’s degree in Corporate Compliance— one of the fastest-growing areas in legal and business employment.
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KGWN (CBS CHEYENNE) – Equal Justice Wyoming will host a Legal Resource Fair. The Legal Resource Fair is open to the public and will include presentations on several legal topics, including landlord/tenant issues, small claims court, unfair debt collection practices, wills and small estate planning, and expungement of criminal records.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES – The clinic is the product of nearly two years of work by UI law students Heather Norton and Dennis Cygan, who are co-presidents of the law school’s Veteran Law Association. Their goal is to provide on-the-spot, free legal assistance to veterans unable to afford an attorney regarding a number of civil…
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