New William & Mary Law student group recruits election volunteers
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — If there’s an urgent ring to the name of William & Mary Law School’s new student organization, ASAP, it’s deliberate. With a contentious national election coming up fast, and with endless headlines about problems at the polls during the primaries, students knew that help was needed as soon as possible.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Work or class obligations are among the top barriers to voting faced by students or young people in general, said Campbell Streator, the executive director of EVC National. Student government leaders and national get-out-the-vote organizations want a designated holiday instead and classes replaced with voter engagement efforts.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The student attorneys in the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and the new Entrepreneurship Law Clinic assist small businesses and nonprofit organizations in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia in the areas of corporate, commercial, and general transactional law.
Read More about A look at American University Washington College of Law’s Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and Entrepreneurship Law ClinicGeorgetown Law Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection publishes voting rights fact sheet
WTOP NEWS — The Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, based at the Georgetown University Law School in D.C., has published a state-by-state series of 50 fact sheets regarding what is and isn’t allowed with regard to gathering inside and outside voting sites.
Read More about Georgetown Law Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection publishes voting rights fact sheetTexas A&M Law students work on exoneration of Innocence Project of Texas client
TEXAS MONTHLY — One of Grant’s letters had reached the desk of Mike Ware, the executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas (IPTX). Ware teaches at Texas A&M School of Law, in Fort Worth, and once he read Grant’s letter, the professor assigned it to one of the students in his Actual Innocence clinic.
Read More about Texas A&M Law students work on exoneration of Innocence Project of Texas clientWayne Law to launch Community Advocacy Clinic and Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic in 2021
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Wayne State University Law School is expanding its clinical program in winter 2021 to offer a new Community Advocacy Clinic and an Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic. Both clinics prioritize the enrollment of part-time students who often work during the day and experience scheduling challenges.
Read More about Wayne Law to launch Community Advocacy Clinic and Immigration Appellate Advocacy Clinic in 2021UCLA Law to host Public Service Challenge to promote civic engagement
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law will host its first-ever Public Service Challenge. The entire UCLA Law community – including students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and families – will be encouraged to vote and volunteer as poll workers, do election protection work or engage in other pro bono or public service opportunities.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — IU McKinney has just launched a new intellectual property law clinic. It came about when a law student was seeking an externship opportunity for Summer 2020; he needed to replace the one that fell through once the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States.
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NBC 2 HOUSTON — The office has partnered with South Texas College of Law Houston and the Eviction Defense Coalition to offer free legal advice to tenants and landlords, including helping tenants fill out paperwork to qualify for the temporary eviction stop ordered by the Centers for Disease Control.
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VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY — On Monday, October 5, UVA Law Innocence Project client Rojai Fentress came to speak at the Law School. With the clinical assistance of the Innocence Project, which investigated for years his claim to innocence, Fentress was released from prison just this past summer on a conditional pardon by Governor Northam.
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