Southern Illinois University Law moot court team wins national child welfare and adoption competition
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW — Working together and knowing one another’s strengths is critical to success in any team activity, even apart from sports, as Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Law moot court team knows well. Third-year law students Sophia Allen, Caitlynne Dixon and Joseph Strater used their hours of research, writing and numerous…
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TEMPLE LAW — A group of law students participated in a professional contract negotiation competition hosted by the Sports Law Institute at Villanova Law School over Temple Law’s spring break. The Villanova Professional Football Negotiation Competition included 20 law school teams from across the country, including the host school Villanova University Charles Widger School of…
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TEMPLE LAW — Puja Upadhyay is one of twenty-five people nationally to win a 2023 Burton Award for scholarship done as a law student. She is being honored for authoring Health-harming Effects of Court Fines and Fees: Modern Day Debtors’ Prisons as a Public Health Threat, published in Volume 94 of the Temple Law Review,…
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VERMONT LAW — The New York State Bar Association Committee on Animals and the Law published the latest Laws and Paws Newsletter announcing their student writing competition winners. Congratulations to VLGS students Vanessa Beane and Bailey Soderberg for their winning entries!
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Students at the University of Virginia Law School are helping people in the community, who are returning to life after being incarcerated, with a job fair re-entry program. The job fair has students surveying formerly incarcerated people in the area to learn about their biggest concerns about adapting to life…
Read More about University of Virginia Law students help formerly incarcerated individuals re-enter societyUniversity of Virginia Law student Julia Grant discusses how her experience in the US Supreme Court inspired her to go to law school
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — As an undergraduate, Julia Grant interned at the U.S. Supreme Court, spurring her interest in law school. By her third year at the University of Virginia School of Law, she was helping her team prepare to argue a case there. Set to graduate from the Law School on May 21,…
Read More about University of Virginia Law student Julia Grant discusses how her experience in the US Supreme Court inspired her to go to law schoolStudent workers at Syracuse University unionize
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Syracuse University graduate student workers have successfully unionized. Syracuse Graduate Employees United, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said in a news release that the vote was 728 to 36, with 90 contested ballots. The union will represent graduate assistants, research assistants and teaching assistants paid via stipends, said Amanda…
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON LAW — They’re training more than lawyers at the University of Akron School of Law — and, as a result, the school’s research foundation is doing more than supporting professors with potential startups.
Read More about University of Akron Law students learn to form startups at University of Akron Research FoundationUniversity of Akron Law student Megan Parker publishes article on the Americans with Disabilities Act
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON LAW — Megan Parker had already made her mark at The University of Akron during her undergraduate days as Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, the Buchtelite. She has continued to add to her CV since she began law school in August 2020, despite being physically disabled from birth and dependent on a…
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LAW — Arkansas entrepreneurs received free legal aid from more than 45 volunteer attorneys and U of A law students at a pro bono clinic last month hosted by the U of A School of Law and the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. More than 20 startups were accepted for the event,…
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