Northeastern Law team of faculty and students helped advocate for Conrad’s Law covering coerced suicide
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL LAW — A Northeastern Law team of faculty, students and graduates will be watching closely as lawmakers in Massachusetts debate “Conrad’s Law,” a bill that would make coerced suicide a crime. The bill calls for codifying coerced suicide as a separate crime, punishable by up to five years in prison. It would make it…
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DAILY EMERALD — The University of Oregon Law School will host playwright and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle Tuesday for the Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture. Nagle’s lecture will be on Tribal Sovereignty: The Origins of Environmental Law.
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NEW HAVEN REGISTER — The Trumbull Probate Court District recently hosted the members of the Quinnipiac University School of Law Probate Journal during a day of hearings held in the courtroom at Trumbull Town Hall. It is an opportunity for the Probate Law Journal members to observe a variety of hearings held in the Probate Court and…
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Imagine you are in prison for a crime you did not commit. In Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction, exonerated former prisoners tell stories of hope and redemption. Co-sponsored by the Northern California Innocence Project.
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE COLLEGE OF LAW — Students from the University of Tennessee College of Law’s Legal Clinic have been named Pro Bono Students of the Year. In paying tribute to the students, Legal Aid of East Tennessee acknowledged that for the past two years, students “have volunteered their time at several major clinics … The…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — The First Amendment in the Trump Era (Oxford University Press, pp. 192), Zick, the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at William & Mary Law School, not only examines the growing number of First Amendment controversies in the past three years, but also connects present concerns to episodes…
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STATE BAR OF WISCONSIN — Lavinia Goodell’s legacy lives on in the work of the Innovation Award-winning VOCA Restraining Order Clinic, launched this year at the U.W. Law School. The Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) clinic supports survivors of intimate partner violence and provides direct training for law students as they assist clients in securing…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Community members, from the young to the aging, know they can rely on Albany Law School. For veterans and the elder population, annual pro bono law days lend much-needed guidance. For area children and families, various toy drives and events such as Trick or Treat Street make the holidays that much brighter—and…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Wednesday, Nov. 6, American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Law and Government, in partnership with American University Sine Institute of Policy and Politics and the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCSP), presented “Impeachment: The Constitutional Remedy of Last Resort.” Professor David Barker, CCSP director, welcomed attendees…
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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW — The Wrongful Conviction Clinic at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has been accepted as a member of the Innocence Network and has changed its name to the University of Arizona Innocence Project. The University of Arizona Innocence Project began as the…
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