University of Houston Law Center workshop looks at the judicial role in immigration law
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The 2023 Joseph A. Vail Asylum Law Workshop offered insights and strategies from top immigration law experts on the nuances of this ever-changing landscape, instructing hundreds of attendees and raising thousands of dollars to support the University of Houston Law Center’s Immigration Clinic. More than 500 registrants gathered online…
Read More about University of Houston Law Center workshop looks at the judicial role in immigration lawKansas Journal of Law & Public Policy to host symposium on incarcerated peoples’ barriers to re-entry into society
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW — On Feb. 10, the 2023 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium will host a discussion to provide ideas on how to reform the current system. The United States continues to have one of the highest recidivism rates in the world. How can formerly incarcerated people successfully re-enter society…
Read More about Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy to host symposium on incarcerated peoples’ barriers to re-entry into societyLewis & Clark Law Earthrise Law Center achieves victory for protection of dolphins
LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Earthrise Law Center, representing Sea Shepherd New Zealand and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, recently achieved a significant victory for the critically endangered Māui dolphins. Earthrise is a litigation clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, and Sea Shepherd is represented by Earthrise staff attorneys Lia Comerford and Kevin Cassidy, and…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law Earthrise Law Center achieves victory for protection of dolphinsUniversity of Maryland Law professor Leigh Goodmark publishes book on the criminalization of survivors
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LAW — In her new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, Maryland Carey Law Professor Leigh Goodmark argues for dismantling the U.S.’s carceral system and reimagining how justice is achieved. This is the only way, she asserts, to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence who are incarcerated—brutalized…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LAW — The #PancakesForRoger campaign kicks off Feb. 1 in support of the University of of Missouri School of Law veterans clinic and in recognition of the legacy of Maj. Gen. Roger Combs, an MU Law School graduate and judge from Northwest Missouri.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LAW — With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians William Thomas, Katrina Jagodinsky and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how marginalized groups in American history — enslaved…
Read More about Grant to University of Nebraska Law will fund research into the connection between law and race in American historyUniversity of New Mexico celebrates legacy of first Black woman graduate for Black History Month
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LAW — Brown Simmons, who in 1974 became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico’s School of Law, was honored in a celebration hosted by the university’s Department of Africana Studies to kick off Black History Month. Family, friends and faculty members got together at the…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LAW — Cristina Rodríguez, J.D., will present, “Partisan Polarization, the Supreme Court, and Prospects for Reform” at The University of New Mexico School of Law on Thursday, Feb. 23. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Registration is required and can be completed on…
Read More about University of New Mexico Law to host Yale Law professor Cristina Rodriguez for lecturePace Law opens legal call-in center for community
PACE LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has opened Westchester County’s first Legal Hand Call-in Center, in partnership with Legal Hand, Inc., an innovative community-based service. Legal Hand is based on the powerful idea of Neighbors helping Neighbors. Legal Hand’s highly trained non-lawyer volunteers are available to community members to…
Read More about Pace Law opens legal call-in center for communityUniversity of the Pacific McGeorge Law to host water law symposium focusing on species protection and water supply topics
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC, MCGEORGE LAW — The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and six partnering schools will host a symposium consisting of prestigious water law speakers and practitioners discussing hydropower, agriculture, Indigenous Peoples, and innovation in reconciliation between water supply and species protection. McGeorge School of Law will host the 19th…
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