UC Berkeley Law professor presents report on race and economics at AFL-CIO
NATIONAL JOURNAL – Since the 1960s, American workers have been subjected to a steady drumbeat of political messages designed to divide them by race and class, resulting in a dramatic weakening of bargaining power and job security. That is the conclusion of an analysis of nearly 50 years worth of political and economics data by…
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS – The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is pleased to announce that its recently launched Incubator Program welcomes a new cohort of attorneys starting January 2016. The program, launched in January 2015, has seen great success.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS – Now, thanks to two Immigration Clinic lawyers funded by a Justice AmeriCorps service grant, Las Vegas is one of the few places in the nation where unaccompanied children receive free legal representation in immigration court.
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WEST VIRGINIA RECORD – A $150,000 grant from the Natural Resource Conservation Service recently was offered to the West Virginia University Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Clinic to support an ongoing partnership.
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HISPANIC OUTLOOK IN HIGHER EDUCATION MAGAZINE – David Dow, a distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center and founder of the Texas Innocence Network, which represents death-sentenced inmates, is spear-heading two new programs: one involving mentoring at-risk middle school students and the other focuses on sealing juvenile offenders’ records.
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MILITARY TIMES – About a dozen groups besides VOA work out of the center, including the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Veterans Advocacy Project, in which attorneys and law students — often veterans themselves — help vets with issues such as disability cases and discharge upgrades.
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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE – Jim was arrested 10 years before Dara Gell was born but she will forever remember working his case. Ms. Gell, now 24 and in her final year of law school at Cardozo, interned in 2014 at the Innocence Project and was assigned Jim’s case as one last-ditch effort.
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NWI.COM – Established more than 30 years ago, the Valparaiso University School of Law’s criminal law clinic offers something not many others do. A licensed law firm, the clinic enables third-year law students to gain experience while providing free or low-cost legal services to clients charged with misdemeanors or felonies.
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COOK COUNTY RECORD – IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law has announced a partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to create a program designed to assist low-income inventors and small business in Illinois who qualify.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL – In this video feature, Penn Law’s Stephanos Bibas, director of the Supreme Court Clinic, talks about clinic’s work with Supreme Court cases, the skills students develop by participating in the clinic, and how the Supreme Court Clinic fits in with the Law School’s clinical programs.
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