Stetson Law re-introduces civil rights travel learning experience
STETSON UNIVERSITY — A group of law students has just wrapped up a once-in-a-lifetime experience exploring the places, events, and people that shaped the Civil Rights Movement. The two-week course took students to places like the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum…
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KNOX NEWS — Lonnie Brown, the new dean of the University of Tennessee Law School, has been on the job since July 1. He receives very positive reviews. One student, Megan Cambre of Atlanta, said, “He is an incredible teacher and really cares about his students. He is strict … Georgia is losing one hell of a…
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S.J QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — March of 2020 and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about huge societal and economic changes around the globe. Anthony Tenney was among the millions of people who found themselves suddenly and unexpectantly without a job during this tumultuous time.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — More than 50 leading immigration and comparative legal scholars from six continents will examine the world’s immigration laws at the 33rd Sokol Colloquium on International Law at the University of Virginia School of Law on Aug. 11-12.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — For Professor Anne Coughlin, the law is about much more than rules and doctrines — the law is a discourse that relies on storytelling for its descriptive claims and prescriptive guidance. For example, she pointed out, the holdings of cases are like “punchlines whose meanings emerge from the…
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS — The Washington University School of Law’s Clinical Education Program held its first pro bono estate planning clinic July 26 and 28 to serve low-income members of the St. Louis community.
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THE STATE JOURNAL — It’s been a minute since West Virginia University College of Law students had a full academic year free of some sort of COVID restrictions. While it’s still a long way until finals in May — or even semester finals in December — there’s reason for hope. “Although we had in-person classes…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — Dean Heather K. Gerken welcomed Yale Law School’s newest students to campus on Aug. 16, speaking at convocation about the values that sit at the heart of an academic institution and define the profession.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Not every academic wants to be as productive as the late G. Michael Pressley. A professor of education and psychology at Michigan State University, Pressley had published more than 350 articles and books by the time he died in 2006. But most scholars — emerging and seasoned alike —…
Read More about Advice on being a productive scholarBlack college student enrollment drop over the past decade concerns experts
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — But from 2010 to 2020, as overall college enrollments fell, the number of Black students on campuses fell even more sharply, to 1.9 million. The pressures affecting students in general — the escalating cost of college and skepticism about a degree’s payoff, for example — have been acute for…
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