Yale Rule of Law Clinic files lawsuit to prevent undercount in 2020 U.S. Census
YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD Action) and the City of Newburgh, NY filed a lawsuit on Nov. 26, 2019, in federal court in Manhattan challenging five structural deficiencies in the U.S. Census Bureau’s final operational plans for the 2020 Census. The suit contends that the Census Bureau’s decisions to hire…
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TIMES UNION — Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School, said it’s not common for many people in these camps to gain asylum status or ever see a lawyer or go in front of a judge.
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UCLA LAW — In recent years, UCLA Law launched a First Gen In initiative to promote personal and professional achievement for these students and to build a stronger community through career workshops, networking events and other innovative programs. A group of students simultaneously launched the First Generation Law Students Association to enrich and support each other…
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CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Carmen Huertas-Noble is receiving the cooperative community’s highest honor reserved for outstanding leaders whose contributions to the cooperative movement are genuinely heroic. Known for providing strategic advocacy and legal support to neighborhood institutions, as well as organizing for social and economic justice, Professor Huertas-Noble has advanced the work and causes of…
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CORNELL CHRONICLE — More than four years after surviving an attack by a mob that believed he was gay, a Ghanaian man recently won asylum in the United States with help from partners including Cornell Law School students and faculty. “It’s great news,” said Adam Kassner, J.D. ’16, who worked on the case as part of the…
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DUKE LAW — In recent months Duke Law student volunteers, collaborating with fronteraTech, a legal nonprofit based in Durham, have provided legal orientation and consultations to more than 100 detained asylum seekers at the Alamance County (N.C.) Detention Center and are seeing encouraging results from their work. So far about 75 percent of the detainees advised…
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GW LAW — Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. was appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to the Judicial Conference of the United States Advisory Committee for the Rules of Criminal Procedure. He will hold this appointment for a three-year term. Within the Judicial Conference, the Advisory Committee for the Rules of Criminal Procedure is responsible for…
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS HUB — The College of Law hosted its 21st annual Swearing-In Ceremony on Nov. 15. Held in the college’s ceremonial courtroom, graduates who have passed the bar can be sworn into the Georgia Superior Court, Court of Appeals and/or the Supreme Court of Georgia during the event. Georgia State is the only…
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THE LAW SCHOOL NOTRE DAME — In an effort to address the issue, Chris Kozelichki, a former deputy prosecutor and now assistant director for career development at Notre Dame Law School, and 45 law students hosted an expungement clinic Oct. 29 (Tuesday) at the YWCA of North Central Indiana in South Bend. From 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.,…
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PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — In a study conducted earlier this year by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, almost half of the college students surveyed (48%) reported food insecurity occurred in the previous 30-day period. Discussion about ways to help students at Dickinson Law with food and financial insecurity began at a Diversity…
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