Lewis & Clark Law offers environmental summer courses
LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Lewis & Clark Law School’s Summer 2023 courses can be a vital bridge for law students as they navigate their path toward a JD degree and lay the groundwork for a future career in a specific area of law. This summer’s offering includes a selection of online and in-person options.…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — The law school’s Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic had a record year in 2022—for the first time ever surpassing the $1 million mark in how much it helped clients reduce their tax liabilities. The clinic annually files a report with the IRS providing the client liability reduction figure as part…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — There have been 67 mass shootings in the U.S. since the start of the new year, according to Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit that tracks gun violence incidents. The most recent mass shooting happened Monday evening on campus at Michigan State University, and as of Monday night, officials reported three…
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MITCHELL HAMLINE LAW — Mitchell Hamline Professor Thaddeus Pope has been named as one of 12 new fellows at the Hastings Center, a preeminent New-York based bioethics research institute and think tank. Founded in 1969, the center was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is the oldest independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute of…
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UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA LAW — The second search attempt for a new dean at the University of Montana’s Alexander Blewett III School of Law produced three internal candidates and a former interim dean of a California law school as finalists.
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UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA LAW — A sixth-generation rancher is pursuing a law degree at the University of Montana. Her goal, to protect land that’s been in her family for 150 years.
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NYU LAW — When Dean Troy McKenzie clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the justice encouraged McKenzie and his fellow clerks to pay particular attention to a handful of outstanding lawyers when they argued before the Court. One of the advocates Stevens singled out was Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice Bryan Stevenson,…
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NORTHWESTERN LAW — One year ago from this week, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, subjecting Ukrainian citizens to displacement, murder, sexual violence, kidnapping and torture. With no end to the Russia-Ukraine war in sight, legal scholars and policymakers worldwide debated how Russian instigators might be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. At an event…
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NORTHWESTERN LAW — Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic (CJCR) and community organization GoodKids MadCity (GKMC) hosted a youth-led town hall with Chicago mayoral candidates on Wednesday. In the event, young people from Chicago’s south and west sides led a conversation with the candidates focused on youth violence prevention, education,…
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON LAW — Oregon Law professor and Philip H. Knight Chair Michael Moffitt has been invited to give the Beecroft Lecture at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Boyd School of Law. In his talk, “Truth. Regardless of Reconciliation?,” Professor Moffitt will discuss his research and teaching stemming from engagement with tribal…
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