Law School Survey of Student Engagement reports law students are comfortable and satisfied with online learning
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Law school students are increasingly both satisfied and comfortable with online learning, according to the 2022 Law School Survey of Student Engagement.
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GLOBE NEWWIRES — Southwestern Law School celebrated Constitution Day 2022 by gathering to hear Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s riveting analysis of constitutional originalism, the view that the U.S. Constitution’s meaning is fixed, and why he believes that mode of constitutional interpretation is undesirable and dangerous.
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IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — The University of Iowa College of Law’s Center for Human Rights, Drake University Law School Legal Clinic, and Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice (Iowa MMJ), with funding support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are partnering to create ALL Iowa, a new collaboration to provide immigration legal assistance to Afghan nationals…
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INSIGHT INTO DIVERSITY — Samford University, a private Christian institution in Alabama, has rejected the formation of an LGBTQ+ organization on the grounds that it does not align with the university’s beliefs and that it may provide LGBTQ+ students with opportunities to “advocate for a larger agenda,” according to a recent letter from University President…
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Law school applicants may get flashbacks to the college application process as they assemble a school target list balanced with reaches, midrange schools, and “safety” schools. In short, it is unwise to apply to a law school that you would not wish to attend. Put one or two safety schools on your list,…
Read More about Advice for law school applicants applying to multiple schoolsHow law schools are preparing students interested in racial justice work
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Though some U.S. law schools have been teaching about the relationship between race, racism and the law for decades, such efforts have intensified since the Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 and swept across the country.
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UCLA LAW — In March 2021, the California Supreme Court ruled that setting bail at an amount a person cannot afford to pay is unconstitutional. Attorneys and other observers heralded the In re Humphrey ruling as a historic decision and predicted it would lead to more people being released prior to trial.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS — Students and faculty members at the U of A School of Law are participating in the 2022 National Celebration of Pro Bono, Oct. 23-29. The week’s activities were planned and organized by Josie Bates, the school’s Rose Law Firm 200th Anniversary Pro Bono Fellow.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS — Professors Ann M. and Mark R. Killenbeck recently filed a brief amici curiae (“friends of the court”) with the United States Supreme Court in the two affirmative action and diversity cases now pending before the court involving Harvard College, the undergraduate college of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. 11
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NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC GAZETTE — The University of Arkansas at Little Rock search committee that will help find a new law school dean will be led by a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
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