University of Miami Law Human Rights Clinic files federal brief to repeal law harmful to immigrant victims of crime
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s Human Rights Clinic, with a coalition of organizations, filed an amicus brief on September 25 in the Southern District of Florida, supporting a lawsuit by the City of South Miami alongside civil and immigrants’ rights groups that seeks the repeal of a draconian state law that harms immigrant survivors of domestic violence,…
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Miami Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge Social Equity Challenge has recognized Miami Law’s social justice projects with grant funding.
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MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY NEWS — The successful adoption of a teenage boy in late September brought joy to his new parents. It happened due to the hard work of the Mississippi College Law School Adoption Legal Clinic and its network of supporters.
Read More about A look at the Mississippi College Law Adoption Legal ClinicSamford University Cumberland School of Law launches Veterans Legal Assistance Clinic
HOMEWOOD STAR — Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law has launched the first full-service law school clinic in Alabama for veterans. The Cumberland Veterans Legal Assistance Clinic (C-VETS) provides free legal assistance to veterans and their families in an eight-county area of North Central Alabama including Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Cullman, Etowah, Jefferson, Shelby and Walker counties.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — The UB School of Law Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic (VAC) has three recent case wins to share with the community. Here are summaries written by Katy Clemens, clinical teaching fellow in the clinic.
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — The summer of 2020 will be remembered for many things: as a time of transition as Americans adapted to life in a pandemic, and prepared for the months of head. As a reckoning on matters of social justice. And, for many Richmond Law students, as a time when they were called…
Read More about University of Richmond Law students give back to the communityDuke Law Center for Science and Justice receives grant to research criminal justice reform
DUKE LAW — The gift will expand the center’s work over the next six years in three signature areas: accuracy of evidence in criminal cases, the role of equity in criminal outcomes, and the mental and behavioral health treatment needs of people in the justice system.
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UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — University of St. Thomas School of Law Professor Gregory Sisk has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brownback v. King.
Read More about University of St. Thomas Law professor Gregory Sisk files amicus brief with Supreme Court on police brutality caseAmerican Council on Education releases guide for colleges on student voting
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — The COVID-19 pandemic is contextualizing nearly every aspect of life on and off our nation’s campuses. College students are in places they never dreamed they’d be . . . literally.
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STANDARD-EXAMINER — After a week-long effort from the J. Rueben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and the Utah State Bar Association, more than 130 first responders around the state received help to complete their basic estate planning documents.
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