Touro Law to offer hybrid program at Times Square location
NATIONAL JURIST — Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center will be offering a JD program in New York City. The American Bar Association and New York State Education Department recently approved the school’s FlexTime program to be located at the university’s new Cross River Campus in New York City.
Read More about Touro Law to offer hybrid program at Times Square locationGift to Northwestern Law to establish public advocacy fellows program
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — Charles H. Rivkin and Robert S. Rivkin have made a $100K gift in honor of their late father William Rivkin (JD ’48) to help establish the William R. Rivkin Law and Public Advocacy Fellows Program.
Read More about Gift to Northwestern Law to establish public advocacy fellows programRutgers Law receives state funding for New Jersey Housing Justice Project
RUTGERS — In 2020, the Legislature passed NJSA 22A:2-51a, funding law school programs to prepare more law students to help with the housing crisis.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Three-year bachelor’s degrees are coming to Brigham Young University–Idaho and affiliated Ensign College next year, following approval of the truncated programs by an accrediting body.
Read More about BYU-Idaho and Ensign College receive approval for three-year expedited undergraduate programPepperdine Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution to host mediation training program in Switzerland
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution’s popular Mediating the Litigated Case (MLC) professional training program is going global.
Read More about Pepperdine Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution to host mediation training program in SwitzerlandSyracuse University creates law-social work partnership to assist veterans and families
THE DAILY ORANGE — Syracuse University’s College of Law and David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics are forming a joint Legal-Social Work Partnership program designed to legally assist aging veterans and their families.
Read More about Syracuse University creates law-social work partnership to assist veterans and familiesRutgers Law celebrates first year of Certificate in Cannabis Law and Business Program
RUTGERS LAW — At the beginning of this year, a group of entrepreneurs and advocates convened for the first session of Rutgers Law School’s new Certificate in Cannabis Law and Business.
Read More about Rutgers Law celebrates first year of Certificate in Cannabis Law and Business ProgramUniversity of Connecticut Law to establish Transactional Law Clinic
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT LAW — The UConn School of Law is opening the Transactional Law Clinic, its seventh in-house legal clinic. The clinic will offer pro bono services to small businesses, nonprofit agencies, and individuals in transactional and regulatory matters. Casey Faucon, who started a similar clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law,…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LAW — The Family Violence Clinic at the University of Missouri is set to reopen its doors in January 2024. It is a safe haven for low-income victims of violence as well as a place for law students to gain experience to begin a career as an attorney.
Read More about University of Missouri Law to open Family Violence ClinicRegent Law establishes clinic for human trafficking survivors
REGENT LAW — Regent University School of Law’s Center for Global Justice launched a human trafficking clinic and filed a petition that resulted in a history-making decision by a Virginia court to clear prostitution-related misdemeanor convictions of a survivor of human trafficking, Olivia.
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