Pacific McGeorge Law receives grant to provide legal services for formerly incarcerated homeless persons
UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC — University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law students will gain valuable experience by providing legal services to formerly incarcerated people who are experiencing homelessness in the Sacramento area, thanks to a multi-year, $420,000 grant from the nonprofit CARESTAR Foundation. McGeorge law students and attorneys will help clients by providing legal services that include…
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PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — In fall 2019, Penn State Dickinson Law Assistant Professor of Law Matthew B. Lawrence introduced first-year Dickinson Law students to the legislative process through the Legal Argument and Factual Persuasion course. While continuing to teach administrative law at Dickinson Law this semester, Lawrence will also be working part time with the U.S. Congress as…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW — This past fall, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School hosted the UN’s former Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy, author of the UN’s 2015 Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, to co- teach a course on the Women, Peace, and…
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DARLINGTON NEWS & PRESS — It came as she was researching law schools and discovered professor Marcia Zug and her work with indigenous peoples — particularly her comparative law research into the treatment of indigenous tribes in the United States and Australia. While saddled with the unassuming title of “Special Topics in Legislative Drafting,” the groundbreaking class…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic at Yale Law School has announced a new program, the Local News Initiative. The Local News Initiative is being launched to address an unmet need. “While society today increasingly obtains its news and information online, journalists working locally and for online publishers often have limited access to…
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE LAW — Directors of the UB School of Law’s Human Trafficking Prevention Project and Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic contributed to a publication intended to assist lawyers and advocates for survivors of human trafficking.The 28-page publication, An Advocate’s Guide to Tax Issues Affecting Victims of Human Trafficking, offers resources for attorneys and advocates, who likely…
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UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is pleased to announce that UCI Law Dean L. Song Richardson has been appointed to the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES — The city of Laguna Beach has reached a settlement with a Laguna resident who was held by local police for federal immigration officers in 2018 despite his status as a DACA recipient. As part of the settlement approved Jan. 16, Laguna Beach will pay Edgar Torres Gutierrez $18,750 and show a training…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Charles Irvine, a 2006 University of Houston Law Center graduate and an adjunct professor, served as the lead counsel for a case that found the U.S. government liable for the flooding of Houston-area homes during Hurricane Harvey. Charles Irvine, a 2006 University of Houston Law Center graduate and an adjunct professor,…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, Nick McGuffin was able to walk out of prison after nine years as a free man. Since 2015, Lewis & Clark Law School Criminal Justice Reform Clinic (CJRC) students have been involved in the case to have McGuffin’s case overturned due to exculpatory DNA testing. CJRC…
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