New students at University of Houston Law Center start fall semester with community service project
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — UH Law Center 1Ls participated in a variety of community service projects with faculty and administrators before the official start of the fall semester.
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UCI LAW — More than 150 University of California Irvine Law students, alumni, faculty, staff and community friends came together for the law school’s 10th Anniversary Day of Service.
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ABA JOURNAL — ABA president Robert Carlson traveled to South Texas to do pro bono work for asylum seekers through the ABA’s South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project.
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QUEENS DAILY EAGLE — CUNY Law students represent clients facing misdemeanor criminal charges. For CUNY Defenders, that means counseling individuals in Queens Criminal Court and in recent years, traveling to prisons upstate.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — American University Washington College of Law’s JD Orientation kicked off with a Public Service Day. For the annual event, 1L students, faculty, staff, and returning students come together to volunteer in local Washington, DC neighborhoods – allowing new students to get out, see the city and meet classmates.
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THE NATIONAL LAW REVIEW — The J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU Law) at Brigham Young University and the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona have joined forces to create a program focused on tackling the legal complexities of eviction law.
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WAFB — Loyola New Orleans Law Professor Andrea Armstrong, co-authored the study for the Promise of Justice Initiative, which showed 25 men died in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison between 2012 and 2016 and argued most of the deaths could have been prevented.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — In the wake of Hurricane Maria, a Harvard Law student and native Puerto Rican helped lead a group of other law students to the island to bring legal and humanitarian aid.
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WV NEWS — A man’s 2016 conviction was recently overturned thanks to work done by West Virginia University’s Innocence Project.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME — Through work at Notre Dame’s Economic Justice Clinic, a recent Notre Dame Law graduate was able to help a woman who became homeless after her house was fraudulently sold.
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