University of Kentucky Law hosts high school students for inside look at law school
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF LAW – Eighteen diverse high school students came to the University of Kentucky College of Law on June 12-18 for the third annual Summer Law Institute.
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE – KNOXVILLE – The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of a client recently represented by students of the University of Tennessee College of Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic.
Read More about Tennessee Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic wins habeas corpus case in U.S. Court of AppealsOpinion: Public interest internships for law students should be fully funded
THE HUFFINGTON POST – “Many law schools do their part to make summer non-profit experiences possible [but], for many students, these stipends are not enough to make a summer non-profit internship possible.”
Read More about Opinion: Public interest internships for law students should be fully fundedNational consortium of law student veterans groups seeks to improve job placement for vets
LAW.COM – The National Federation of Law Student Veterans seeks to unite the dozens of student veteran groups cropping up on law campuses across the country in an effort to educate legal employers on the benefits of hiring veterans.
Read More about National consortium of law student veterans groups seeks to improve job placement for vetsUniversity of Mississippi Law’s justice center helps bring an end to debtor’s prisons in state
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF LAW – The Law School’s MacArthur Justice Center has brought to an end a system in the Mississippi state capital of jailing people who can’t pay court fines.
Read More about University of Mississippi Law’s justice center helps bring an end to debtor’s prisons in stateCalifornia Western Law’s innocence project helps free wrongly convicted man
KSWB (FOX SAN DIEGO) – Bill Richards was released from prison Tuesday after spending 23 years in custody for a crime he did not commit.
Read More about California Western Law’s innocence project helps free wrongly convicted manYale Law students create project to aid asylum seekers through advocacy
YALE LAW SCHOOL – Conchita Cruz ’16, Swapna Reddy ’16, Dorothy Tegeler ’16, and Liz Willis ’17 co-founded ASAP in the Spring of 2015 to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families.
Read More about Yale Law students create project to aid asylum seekers through advocacyWidener Delaware Law partners on project to give youths with criminal record a second chance
DELAWARE ONLINE – A group of organizations is hosting clinics over the summer to help youth expunge their criminal records, clearing the path to future education and employment.
Read More about Widener Delaware Law partners on project to give youths with criminal record a second chanceUVA Law launches project to create computational models for legal research
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – [T]hanks to techniques being refined at the University of Virginia, a computer search may open up the seemingly impenetrable world of statues, regulations, and court decisions to everyone.
Read More about UVA Law launches project to create computational models for legal researchYale Law School clinic releases study on U.S. detention of asylum seekers
YALE LAW SCHOOL – A paper released by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School concludes that the United States has violated its international obligations by detaining asylum seekers in jail-like facilities.
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