Arkansas Law receives gift to support the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative

September 8, 2015

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS –  The Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas School of Law has received two landmark gifts, one of $250,000 from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and a second of $50,000 from MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.

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Syracuse Law holds week-long event to provide veterans with legal aid

August 31, 2015

SYRACUSE.COM – Veterans will be able to get help with everything from tax returns to resumes at Syracuse University’s fifth “Valor Day.”

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Texas Tech Law to require public service as graduation requirement

August 31, 2015

LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL – Texas Tech’s School of Law will announce new public service requirements beginning with the fall 2015 semester.

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UC Berkeley Law public policy clinic to research community issues

August 31, 2015

THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN – Public policy and law students will be reaching beyond UC Berkeley and into the surrounding community this fall to conduct research on criminalizing the homeless, juvenile ticketing fees and police accountability.  

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Northeastern Law’s Intellectual Property Clinic provides legal help to college entrepreneurs

August 31, 2015

NEWS @ NORTHEASTERN – Enter Northeastern’s Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Law Clinic. Led by law stu­dents, under guid­ance of fac­ulty and staff, the clinic pro­vides a range of IP-​​related legal infor­ma­tion and ser­vices to stu­dents and ven­tures in the university’s entre­pre­neurial ecosystem.

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Villanova Law launches institute to address commercial sexual exploitation

August 31, 2015

VILLANOVA NEWS – The Villanova University School of Law has announced the launch of The Villanova Law Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE Institute).

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Yale Law School takes part in initiative to improve community-police relations

August 31, 2015

MINNPOST – Addressing three aspects of community-police relations — implicit bias, procedural justice and racial reconciliation — the new initiative is being led not by cops or politicians but by academics from UCLA, Yale Law School and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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Tulane Law hosts panel as platform to share school’s role in Katrina recovery

August 31, 2015

NEWS FROM TULANE – Tulane Law School faculty members as well as first-year law students scrambled to cram an entire year’s worth of coursework into one extended semester when the law school reopened in January 2006 after Hurricane Katrina. Yet, they also found time to help other New Orleanians.

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Ave Maria Law holds day of community service

August 31, 2015

NAPLES HERALD – Ave Maria School of Law welcomed their newest class of students last week. The Class of 2018 is the school’s 16th entering class and the seventh since relocating to Naples in 2009. As part of their annual volunteer commitment these 120 new students spent Saturday volunteering at different locations in Naples.

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UDC Law professor reflects on her sabbatical experience serving Katrina survivors

August 31, 2015

THE PRO BONO PROJECT – “[I]t’s not every day that a law professor chooses to use her sabbatical leave to volunteer in the recovery of New Orleans. But after taking a group of my law students from Washington, DC to work at The Pro Bono Project and other volunteer agencies in March 2007, I knew…

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