Brooklyn Law and Legal Hackers group honored by ABA Legal Rebels
ABA LEGAL REBELS — Today Legal Hackers has more than 150 chapters across the world and has organized many more legal hackathons. Some of the things produced at these hackathons have included a bot that checks real estate listings for problems, and a phone app that could be used in place of cash bail, with…
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UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce Angela Shen, a law student at the school, has been selected to receive one of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (AAAJ-LA) Volunteer Recognition Awards. She will be recognized at the 6th annual Pro Bono Advisory Council…
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DUKE LAW — In early February, Duke Law School’s First Amendment Clinic filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals in Washington. The case, Brian Green v. Pierce County, concerns the interpretation of Washington’s Media Shield Law and Public Records Act. Clinic argues that state’s Media Shield Law demands broad interpretation, includes YouTuber as member…
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11 ALIVE — A group of Georgia State University law students are trading a typical spring break to help immigrants behind bars. It’s part of their alternative spring break program… This year, eight GSU law students will tackle that task with the help of attorneys from the southern poverty law center.
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GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — Gonzaga University’s School of Law is pleased to announce the unveiling of its new Lincoln LGBTQ+ Rights Clinic, developed in partnership with the school’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and supported by a significant donation from Joe Lincoln, an alumnus (’88; electrical engineering) and Regent of Gonzaga University. The clinic aims to advance…
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NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW — hat is why Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law has created the Finish Line Fund to help graduates, based on need, defray the cost of a bar review course (some cost almost $4,000) or the lost income from reduced work hours to study.
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HUNTER COLLEGE NEW YORK CITY FOOD POLICY CENTER — The Pace Food and Beverage Law Clinic is the flagship program of the Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative, a collaboration between the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). With faculty supervision, Pace law students in the Clinic provide legal…
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PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law students recently held the first Transgender Name Change Assistance Pop-up Clinic for members of Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Perry and York counties at Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law, Carlisle. Designed to work with the transgender community, the Clinic provided attendees guidance on the legal name change process. Dickinson Law…
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ESCUELA DE DERECHO — With the motto: “Freedom for convicted innocents”, the UPR School of Law, launched the DNA Post-Conviction Project, as announced today by Dean, Vivian I. Neptune-Rivera, an initiative that will allow prisoners in Puerto Rico, to carry out their claims of wrongful conviction in order to be exonerated. Specifically, the DNA Post-Conviction Project will…
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND NEWSROOM — “This guy” was Chase Whittaker, a fellow 1L student hailing from San Diego. After a 2017 trip to Livingstone, Zambia as an undergraduate student majoring in public policy at San Diego State University, Whittaker returned to the states knowing that his work in Zambia wasn’t done. After researching internal revenue code,…
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