LSU Law adjunct professor, students in the Parole Assistance and Re-entry Clinic working to help ’10-6 lifers’ in Louisiana
LSU LAW — Jane Hogan, an adjunct professor in our Parole Assistance and Re-entry Clinic, is quoted by The New York Times about her work to remedy sentencing injustices for some of Louisiana’s oldest and longest-serving prisoners, who have become known as “10-6 lifers.” Hogan has been hired by the Louisiana Parole Project to represent two such…
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VOA NEWS — Like many others, Azra Ozdemir’s parents sent her off on the first day of school with the usual sage advice about doing well so she could get into a good college. That was her first day of kindergarten. “I knew three words in English: Yes. No,” and the letter P to indicate the need to…
Read More about UNLV Law student Azra Ozdemir discusses her experience in the school’s misdemeanor clinicUNLV Law immigration clinic looks to expand services
LAS VEGAS SUN — At the UNLV Immigration Clinic, law students assist staff attorneys in local deportation cases involving unaccompanied children and those in detention. New funding from the Clark County Commission will boost these services further, strengthening a vital resource during a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted undocumented immigrants. The $500,000 granted to the clinic will be…
Read More about UNLV Law immigration clinic looks to expand servicesNYU Law professor Vicki Been receives William & Mary Law property rights prize
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — On September 30, Professor Vicki Been of NYU Law School became the 18th recipient of the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize from the William & Mary Law School Property Rights Project. Been received the award during a Zoom-broadcast ceremony that officially opened the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at William &…
Read More about NYU Law professor Vicki Been receives William & Mary Law property rights prizeUniversity of the Pacific McGeorge Law opens clinic for formerly incarcerated individuals experiencing homelessness
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — A new clinic created by the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law is the nation’s first to provide legal services to formerly incarcerated individuals experiencing homelessness. The Homeless Advocacy Clinic is just the fourth legal clinic at a California university to help homeless clients – joining programs at UCLA, University…
Read More about University of the Pacific McGeorge Law opens clinic for formerly incarcerated individuals experiencing homelessnessLarge gift to Villanova Law supports student leadership development and faculty research
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY MEDIA ROOM — Villanova University President the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, today announced a $13 million gift from Charles Widger, Esq., ’73 JD and Barbara Widger that will propel the Charles Widger School of Law to the forefront of professional development and leadership programming in legal education. In 2016, the Law School…
Read More about Large gift to Villanova Law supports student leadership development and faculty researchWest Virginia University Law students work to overturn wrongful convictions
WVU INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER — Advocates for people who are convicted of a crime they did not commit marked the seventh annual Wrongful Conviction Day last week. A group of third-year law students and law school faculty at the West Virginia University College of Law work to overturn convictions for people who are convicted due to false…
Read More about West Virginia University Law students work to overturn wrongful convictionsWest Virginia University Law students participate in state court improvement externship program
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS — Rachael Mullins has a teaching degree from Marshall University and spent two years in the English department at a Logan County high school before realizing she loved the students but not teaching. “I really couldn’t make the difference I wanted to with my teaching degree. I needed a law degree,” says…
Read More about West Virginia University Law students participate in state court improvement externship programAALS Section on Women in Legal Education to honor Camille deJorna with Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award
LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION COUNCIL — The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Women in Legal Education will honor Camille deJorna, deputy for legal and global higher education at Law School Admission Council (LSAC), as the recipient of the 2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor will be presented at the section’s award…
Read More about AALS Section on Women in Legal Education to honor Camille deJorna with Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardGeorgia State University Law professor Clark Cunningham gives presentation to Georgia Supreme Court
GEORGIA STATE NEWS HUB — Georgia State College of Law Professor Clark D. Cunningham was afforded a rare opportunity last month, when he was invited to give a presentation of a neutral amicus brief during oral argument in front of the Georgia Supreme Court. In the case of Nelson v. State, Cunningham, who teaches the Seminar on…
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