Georgetown Law African Law Society hosts discussion on women’s rights in Africa
GEORGETOWN LAW — The Georgetown African Law Society (GALS) hosted its launch event at the Sarah and Bernard Gewirz Student Center where it discussed rights of women in Africa. The event features Special Rapporteur Janet Ramatoulie Sallah-Njie on the Rights of Women in Africa Washington D.C. The event, held on 19 April 2023, brought together…
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HARVARD LAW — Jonathan L. Zittrain wears many hats. An expert on the Internet, digital technology, law, and public policy, he regularly contributes to public discussions about what digital tech is doing to us and what we should do about it—most recently around the governance of AI and the incentives that shape major social media…
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW — This Earth Day, Iowa Law celebrates the expansion of environmental law opportunities for students, alumni, and the larger community in Iowa and beyond. With the launch of the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative (HELI) in 2022, the College of Law has continued to build upon its solid reputation for teaching and…
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW — A tradition going back almost 100 years, Iowa Supreme Court Day is the culmination of course work, moot court competitions and hard work. Mary Ksobiech is a professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research at Iowa Law, and has an impressive track record of mentoring national moot court teams as…
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW — The University of Iowa College of Law is thrilled to announce that Barbara (Barbi) Rodriguez has been awarded the 2023 “Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award” by the Burton Awards for her note published in the Iowa Law Review titled, “In the Interest of Justice: Presuming Prejudice When the Right to…
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW — The University of Kansas School of Law awarded the first annual Bruce Hopkins Award for Nonprofit Excellence to Kat Girod, a third-year law student from Prairie Village, earlier this month at a ceremony held in the Wheat Law Library, where Hopkins’s prolific publications are available for checkout.
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LAW — Sports, entertainment, and art law offer immense growth opportunities for lawyers who are properly trained, willing to learn, and are interested in working in these dynamic and exciting industries, according to Professor Emeritus Michael E. Jones, who teaches a popular class on these fields at UMass Law. To further student…
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TULANE UNIVERSITY — Law Dean David Meyer is stepping down after 13 years at the helm of Tulane Law School and will join Brooklyn Law School as its President and Joseph Crea Dean.
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW — Two of the first cases ever addressed by the Michigan Innocence Clinic saw the wrongfully convicted defendants released recently after separate 14-year legal odysseys. Both cases involved gun killings in the Detroit area, both convictions leaned on unreliable witnesses, and both ended with commutations late last year. Yet in each…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI LAW — To pay tribute to the support he received as a law student, in 2016, Bobby Wood established the Bobby Wood Clinical Programs Student Award Fund, awarding $500 each to full-time students who excel in the field work component of a clinical course. Recently, Wood decided to increase his support with…
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