UMass Law student Janay Davidson discusses plans to work as a public defender after graduation
UMASS LAW — After spending her first year of law school remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Janay Davidson, JD candidate ’23 made sure to take advantage of the many opportunities offered at UMass Law as soon as she arrived on campus as a 2L. She serves as a Public Interest Law Fellow (PILF), participated…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LAW — The University of Missouri School of Law is driving forward equality in the legal profession by cultivating an ever-growing number of successful women lawyers. Out of 422 judges in Missouri, 138 are women. That’s just over 30%. Three of those women — all Mizzou Law graduates — sit on the…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW — Students and faculty marched out of the University of New Hampshire law school Wednesday afternoon bearing signs in support of the queer community and calling for the school’s administration to stand up against a Christian group that planned to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of an elementary school…
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW — NIU School of Law’s lecture and mural unveiling took place on March 31 in the second floor atrium of Swen Parson Hall. The two display cases show NIU law students who are now part of the judiciary of the state and federal government. This event occurred simultaneously with the Law…
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NORTHWESTERN LAW — Five distinguished individuals, including commencement speaker Gov. JB Pritzker and Northwestern President Emeritus Morton Schapiro, will receive honorary degrees from Northwestern University. The 43rd Governor of Illinois and a 1993 graduate of Northwestern’s law school, Pritzker will receive his honor and deliver his address June 12 during Northwestern’s 165th commencement ceremony at…
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NOTRE DAME LAW — The University of Notre Dame and Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) entered into an agreement in May 2022 to expand the existing partnerships between the two universities. One of the key additions was an exchange program for UCU undergraduate and graduate students. This semester, Notre Dame Law School is hosting three law…
Read More about Notre Dame Law hosts students from Ukrainian Catholic University Law as part of exchange programNotre Dame Law professor Patrick Corrigan leads spring break course in London on international capital markets
NOTRE DAME LAW — A group of Notre Dame Law School students spent a week during spring break visiting banks, legal and financial firms, and academic institutions in London to see the practice and regulation of international capital markets. The experience was part of a short course, Venture Capital and Institutions of Transnational Financial Markets,…
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PACE LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University honored Veronica Dragalin, Chief of the Anticorruption Prosecution Office for the Republic of Moldova, with its 2023 Robert S. Tucker Prize for Prosecutorial Excellence at a ceremony in New York City attended by fellow prosecutors and other members of the legal community. Veronica,…
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PENN CAREY LAW — Jasmine Harris, Professor of Law, recently explored current air regulations that limit accessibility of air travel to people with disabilities at The Regulatory Review. Harris’s article is the first in a series of essays on “Mobility Justice,” in which experts discuss how regulators can make transportation systems more accessible and just.
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PENN CAREY LAW — Tom Dybdahl and Christina Swarns recently discussed prosecutorial misconduct, the Brady rule of evidence disclosure, and Dybdahl’s new book. The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School was pleased to welcome former District of Columbia Public Defender Tom Dybdahl and current Executive…
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