Former UCLA Law Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran leads research initiative on growing Latino population
BLOOMBERG BNA – The American Bar Foundation announced Tuesday that UCLA Law School Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran will chair its new research initiative on the laws and policies needed to serve the growing Latino population in the U.S.
Read More about Former UCLA Law Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran leads research initiative on growing Latino populationLack of diversity in prosecutors a contributing factor to high minority incarceration rate
THE DAILY BEAST – Since prosecutors convict 86 percent of the prison population, this means a nearly all-white cadre of attorneys is putting a disproportionately black cohort of defendants in jail. In fact, the racial divide among prosecutors correlates with how they unequally treat black and white defendants.
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INSIDE NOVA – Gov. McAuliffe has named George Mason University School of Law professor Laurie Forbes Neff to the Virginia Board of Veterans Services.
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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN – Daniel Andersen, a client of Northwestern School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth and The University of Chicago’s Exoneration Project, was cleared Thursday of murder and attempted rape convictions for which he spent more than 27 years in prison.
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THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE – A coalition of environmental groups fighting an expansion of the coal industry in Plaquemines Parish said Tuesday that it has settled a lawsuit against the owner of an export terminal that it claims was polluting local waterways.
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ACA INTERNATIONAL – Joshua D. Wright, who has served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission since January 2013, will resign his position with his last day as a commissioner on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015.
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – When it comes to pursuing an LL.M. online, here are four questions students should consider about their own personal goals and possible programs.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME – Douglass Cassel, professor of law and adviser to the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR), has been appointed by Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos to a bilateral working group in the peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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BLOOMBERG – The July 2014 exam was controversial even before the results came in. On Tuesday, July 29, after spending the first day of the exam furiously writing, some law graduates who tried to upload their essays were met with error messages.
Read More about Lower bar exam scores spark a critical look at the National Conference of Bar Examiners and law graduatesPersonal statement and diversity statement advice for applicants
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – Applicants who write both a personal statement and a diversity statement should make sure to understand how the two essays are different so that they can tailor their approach to writing each according to its characteristics. With that goal in mind, here are three ways that diversity statements differ from personal…
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