Southern University Law and the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana partner to create Native American Law and Policy Institute
DIVERSE — A partnership between the Southern University Law Center and the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana has led to the establishment of the Native American Law and Policy Institute (NALPI). The Institute offers Federal Indian law courses, seminars and conferences including the Louisiana Rural Economic Development Summit and the Tribal Sovereignty Symposium, according to Southern University…
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STANFORD LAW — On September 19, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a crucial decision in favor of clinic clients Pit River Tribe and several environmental organizations in one of the Environmental Law Clinic’s longest-running cases. Affirming the district court’s ruling, the Ninth Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to…
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UVA LAW — Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew ’87 of the University of Virginia School of Law and five of her students helped draft legislation now before Congress that aims to reduce environmental harms to minority communities. The Environmental Justice Act of 2019 would require the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal departments to act directly to alleviate…
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YALE LAW — Students in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP) at Yale Law School helped attorneys in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office (SFCAO) write a public comment explaining why the new proposed rule is “not just misguided, cruel, and harmful — but also unlawful.”
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YALE LAW — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), represented by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, the Rosen & Associates, P.C., and NAACP Office of the General Counsel, won an important ruling today that allows its federal suit challenging Connecticut’s discriminatory practice of counting incarcerated people where…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Senate GOP leader, Lamar Alexander, mulls piecemeal update to Higher Education Act tied to HBCU funding, which could include short-term Pell, student data, FAFSA simplification and lifting prison Pell ban. But plan might be tough sell for Democrats.
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POLITICO — Democrats are holding the hearing on the public service loan forgiveness program as complaints about rejections have made it to the 2020 presidential campaign trail. Nearly every Democratic contender has made expanding or fixing the program a part of their education plan.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY LAW — In Fall 2018, the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office at Case Western Reserve University School of Law launched the Yemen Accountability Project, a student initiative to document and map war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Yemeni Civil War.
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CATHOLIC UNIV. COLUMBUS LAW — The United States Senate confirmed Catholic Law Professor Robert Destro as the next Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Destro’s new role at the State Department is tasked with promoting democracy, civic and religious freedom around the world.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW — In the winter of 2017, University of Chicago Law students, most of them first-years, launched an independent research project that would span the rest of their law school careers. The result was an 88-page report, released September 18, aimed at helping nonprofits improve the accuracy and depth of their hate…
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