University of Virginia Law assistant dean Annie Kim expands Public Service Center program
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The school’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center and Program in Law and Public Service will join forces under one leader, Assistant Dean for Public Service Annie Kim ’99, while adding a new, full-time director of public service to assist in counseling students. The school will also offer more skills-based courses to prepare students for…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On March 9, 2020, just before Fordham University shut down its campus, a client of Fordham Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) came to the Law School to pick up an envelope containing green cards for her and her two daughters. The day was over four years in the making.
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WNEM CBS — Temujin Kensu, also known as Fred Freeman, has been in prison for 33 years on a life sentence. The University of Michigan law school’s Innocence Clinic, joined by public figures, has long argued that he was wrongly convicted of killing a man in a Port Huron college parking lot in 1986.
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ITEMLIVE.COM — Jared Nicholson, a clinical professor of law at Northeastern University and member of the Lynn School Committee, has started a “Legal Help Desk for Lynn Small Businesses,” which consists of Northeastern law students providing free legal advice to city businesses.
Read More about Northeastern Law Community Business Clinic assists local businesses with pandemic legal aidPenn Law Institute for Law and Economics hosts virtual Corporate Roundtable
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Each roundtable takes up current issues that emerge from the research and teaching of the Institute and provides a forum for lively discussion. This spring’s Roundtable, “Securities Intermediation and Technological Changes: Loaning, Owning, & Voting,” was no exception, despite ILE’s moving it to a virtual format.
Read More about Penn Law Institute for Law and Economics hosts virtual Corporate RoundtablePenn Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic compiles COVID-19 related resources and information for small businesses
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC), led by Practice Professor of Law and Dean of Clinical Education Praveen Kosuri, is aiming to fill that gap with a carefully crafted series of frequently asked questions and answershttps://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/10078-entrepreneurship-legal-clinic-compiles-faq-page that matter most to small business owners and entrepreneurs during the pandemic.
Read More about Penn Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic compiles COVID-19 related resources and information for small businessesUniversity of St. Thomas Law Appellate Clinic advocates for prisoners’ rights before U.S. Court of Appeals
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — Third-year students in the University of St. Thomas School of Law Appellate Clinic argued a prisoner civil rights case involving attorney-client confidentiality before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on May 22.
Read More about University of St. Thomas Law Appellate Clinic advocates for prisoners’ rights before U.S. Court of AppealsTexas A&M Law Immigration Rights Clinic petitions for release of medically at-risk detainees
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Texas A&M Immigrant Rights Clinic filed a petition in federal court last Friday demanding that ICE immediately release eleven medically-vulnerable immigrants from the Prairieland Detention Center, where 45 detained individuals have tested positive for COVID-19.
Read More about Texas A&M Law Immigration Rights Clinic petitions for release of medically at-risk detaineesHarvard Law makes ‘Zero-L’ program for incoming students available to all law schools this summer
HARVARD LAW TODAY – Several years ago, Harvard Law School (HLS) administrators observed that the profile of incoming law school students was very different than it was even a decade ago. Students coming to HLS now reflected many different backgrounds and lived experiences, with many more having majored in a STEM field in college, spent four…
Read More about Harvard Law makes ‘Zero-L’ program for incoming students available to all law schools this summerLaw schools announce COVID-19 related courses
LAW.COM – This week’s Ahead of the Curve looks at a wave of new law school courses centered on COVID-19, plus legal academics are finding some levity amid the pandemic.
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