Texas A&M Law students create legal tool box for entities building water desalination and water recycling facilities
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Authors Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis S. Long and Alexis Yelvington participated in the EENRSLP Spring 2020 Capstone. Their reports are designed to help regulators, utilities, and the private sector navigate the legal and regulatory framework, and they identify required federal and local permits and other compliance criteria.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Texas A&M Immigrant Rights Clinic filed a petition in federal court last Friday demanding that ICE immediately release eleven medically-vulnerable immigrants from the Prairieland Detention Center, where 45 detained individuals have tested positive for COVID-19.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRIGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The five students worked on the project during the spring semester. Block is an expert on child advocacy and juvenile policy, and director of the Law School’s new State and Local Government Policy Clinic, which officially begins in the fall. He previously served as the head of the Virginia Department of…
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THE NATIONAL JURIST – Health care workers are our rock stars today … But they don’t get paid like them … Which is why Washburn Law Clinic faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other volunteer attorneys have launched the Washburn Hospital Employees Legal Preparedness Project (HELP) to provide legal preparedness services to support the many Topeka hospital employees who are…
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY – Urban blight, as identified by vacant lots or buildings in disrepair, represents one of the most challenging issues confronting any city. For students in Albany Law School-University at Albany shared course “Law & Urban Innovation: Creative Problem Solving,” their main goal was to examine the issue of blight in New York’s capital…
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW – Students at the University of Kansas School of Law will have a chance to train diplomats on indigenous issues and conflict resolution as part of a new partnership. The KU School of Law recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL – When real estate developer Jeff Bartos, co-founder of the Pennsylvania 30 Day Fund, asked Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law and Professor of Real Estate Michael Knoll for assistance in getting his project to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic moving, Professor Knoll knew that University of Pennsylvania…
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UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — Working with faculty at University of Minnesota Law School and Hamline Mitchell School of Law, Osler weighed in on the development of the application and review process. Soon afterward, Minn. Stat. § 244.05, subd. 8, was put in place, which states “the commissioner of corrections has the authority to place adult…
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UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA School of Law professor and Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program, founded the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease prison populations during the pandemic.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — A report from the Feerick Center for Social Justice was highlighted in an article in Chalkbeat. Due to the coronavirus and the change in learning, the report calls for an immediate end to selective admissions in middle schools and a gradual elimination in high school admissions in New York City.
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