West Virginia University Law professor Nicole McConlogue elected to position in Maryland attorney general’s office
WEST VIRIGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Nicole McConlogue, associate professor and clinic director at the College of Law, has been appointed by Maryland Attorney General-elect Anthony Brown to serve on his transition team. McConlogue is tasked with advising Brown on consumer protection issues — a specific area of her expertise.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — This fall, Eric Jjemba was one of six recipients of the Ally Financial Law and Public Policy Scholarship, which will cover $20,000 of his annual tuition each year of law school. The scholarship was created in partnership between Ally Financial — a digital financial services company — and the Congressional Black…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — New York Governor Kathy Hochul D-NY listed Abbe Gluck, the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as one of seven candidates for Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Gluck has been listed as the 11th-most-cited public law scholar in the country since 2013, and…
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — On November 16, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law launched the Center for Racial and Disability Justice (CRDJ). Under the leadership of Jamelia Morgan, professor of law, the Center will promote justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of both identities.
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The College of Saint Rose and Albany Law School have partnered on a new MBA+Gov pathway. The pathway, an ideal collaboration for two institutions located in the capital of New York State, allows students to pursue the Saint Rose Flex MBA while also earning an advanced certificate in Government Affairs and…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The Government Law Center (GLC) at Albany Law School is launching the Improving Interbranch Communication Project to bridge gaps between New York’s Courts and the state’s Executive and Legislative branches. When courts issue interpretations of statutory and/or regulatory text the Government Law Center leverages its expertise to inform the Governor’s Office…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — The dean of Albany Law School is among seven nominees under consideration by Gov. Kathy Hochul to be New York’s next chief judge. New York’s Commission on Judicial Nomination, a screening panel, released a report Wednesday which named the law school’s president and dean, Alicia Ouellette, as well as four existing…
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — Caity Lynch, a Juris Doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley Law recounts her personal experience leading up to beginning her JD and beyond.
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THE MINNESOTA DAILY — New this semester, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Racial Equity and Justice (REJ) Milestone Program offers context on the relationship between racial injustice and the American legal system. Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the school Ra’Shya Ghee said the first three modules of the self-paced, 10-module online…
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of California Berkeley Law School said it will join Yale and Harvard in halting its participation in the US News rankings of the nation’s top law schools. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky announced this halt along with a strongly-worded critique of the rankings.
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