UCLA Law shares the stories of four UC Presidential Fellows
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF LAW — The UC President’s Public Service Fellowship program has provided vital support to graduates from the University of California’s four law schools since 2016. Here are first-hand accounts of the program and the opportunities it created from some of UCLA Law’s UC President’s Public Service Fellows.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law has awarded 14 postgraduate fellowships, including seven University of California President’s Public Service Law Fellowships, to 2019 graduates committed to practicing public interest law. The fellowships enable graduates to work on behalf of underserved individuals, communities and causes.
Read More about UCLA Law awards post-graduate fellowships in public service to 14 graduatesLewis & Clark Law’s Carma Corcoran selected for fellowship focused on advancing democracy
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Carma Corcoran, Lewis & Clark Law School’s Indian Law Summer Program Coordinator, has received a two-year fellowship by the Kettering Foundation’s Deliberative Democracy Institute. The fellowship is aimed at improving civil society by fostering a learning exchange between people from diverse nations.
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THE ATLANTIC — Justice for some. The United States has a justice gap. Innovation and legal technology can help lawyers start to address it.
Read More about A look at how innovation and legal technology can improve access to justiceDuke Law professor Carolyn McAllaster receives grant for her work advocating for people with HIV/AIDS
THE NEWS & OBSERVER — She began using her law degree to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Durham, writing wills and powers of attorney. Later as a law professor at Duke University, she began creating volunteer opportunities for her students.
Read More about Duke Law professor Carolyn McAllaster receives grant for her work advocating for people with HIV/AIDSCornell Law professor Sheri Lynn Johnson wins Supreme Court death penalty appeal
CORNELL NEWS — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 2010 murder conviction of Mississippi death row inmate Curtis Flowers, who was represented by Sheri Lynn Johnson, the James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law.
Read More about Cornell Law professor Sheri Lynn Johnson wins Supreme Court death penalty appealRutgers Law holds free citizenship classes
PATCH — Rutgers Law School will hold a series of free citizenship classes for immigrants starting Monday, June 24. According to Rutgers Law School, the classes will help legal permanent residents prepare for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization exam.
Read More about Rutgers Law holds free citizenship classesA look at the Penn State Law Veterans Clinic
PENN STATE NEWS — The Penn State Law Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic built upon its reputation and previous experience to engage in more outreach activities and to offer direct counsel to more clients than in previous academic years.
Read More about A look at the Penn State Law Veterans ClinicA look at the University of Colorado Law’s small business incubator
COLORADO LAW — A new wave of Denver lawyers are flipping the traditional law practice on its head. Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice, a small business incubator supported by the University of Colorado Law School that trains talented and entrepreneurial lawyers wanting to provide affordable legal solutions to low- and middle-income Coloradans
Read More about A look at the University of Colorado Law’s small business incubatorOpinion: More civic legal aid lawyers are needed
WASHINGTON POST — The premise of Ronald Krotoszynski’s June 12 op-ed, “Bigger is not better at law school,” that there just isn’t enough demand for lawyers these days to justify admitting more law students, is wrong.
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