Penn Carey Law student Makayla Harrison and graduate Bridget Lavender selected for Skadden Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The Skadden Foundation provides valuable opportunities for law students and recent graduates to pursue impactful legal projects that serve the public interest. This year, two members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School community — Makayla Harrison C’18, L’23, GEd’23 and Bridget Lavender L’21, SPP’21 — are…
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — This semester, Immigration Law Clinic (ILC) students Jesse Gonzales and Elmer Flores diligently worked on the consular processing application for ILC client, John,* who was the victim of a vicious assault and robbery, to reunite with his wife and daughter who were in Guatemala. They recognized the family’s long and painful…
Read More about Southwestern Law Immigration Law Clinic helps reunite Guatemalan familySix Yale Law students named Skadden Fellows
YALE LAW SCHOOL — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom named six Yale Law School students as 2023 Skadden Fellows. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation awarded Rubin Danberg Biggs, Raymond Fang, Michelle Fraling, Liz Jacob, Lily Novak, and Heather Zimmerman two-year fellowships to pursue the practice of public interest law full-time.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — This fall, Eric Jjemba was one of six recipients of the Ally Financial Law and Public Policy Scholarship, which will cover $20,000 of his annual tuition each year of law school. The scholarship was created in partnership between Ally Financial — a digital financial services company — and the Congressional Black…
Read More about Yale Law student Eric Jjemba wins public policy scholarshipUC Hastings Law students aid indigenous communities in Northern California
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW — For the first time ever, four UC Hastings law students spent their summers helping Indigenous Peoples in Northern California through fellowships funded by Joseph W. Cotchett and distributed by Chancellor & Dean David Faigman. Working with various legal organizations and judges in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties, the…
Read More about UC Hastings Law students aid indigenous communities in Northern CaliforniaUC Irvine Law student Dana Matsunami awarded Skadden fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce that third-year student Dana Matsunami was awarded a prestigious, and highly competitive, Skadden Fellowship for public service work. Matsunami won the fellowship for the proposed project with the National Center for Youth Law, advocating…
Read More about UC Irvine Law student Dana Matsunami awarded Skadden fellowshipDrexel Law student Annette DeSipio recognized with student writing award
DREXEL UNIVERSITY THOMAS R. KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Annette DeSipio, 3L and executive research editor of Drexel Law Review, Vol. XV, was named one of the winners of the 2022 Student Writing Competition Awards from the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC). DeSipio’s paper, titled “Sulyma and Its Aftermath: ERISA’s Fiduciary Statute of…
Read More about Drexel Law student Annette DeSipio recognized with student writing awardDuke Law students attend national security law conference
DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) again hosted a group of Duke Law students at the American Bar Association’s 32nd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference in Washington, DC.
Read More about Duke Law students attend national security law conferenceUniversity of Miami Law students attend international climate change conference
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — At the annual meeting of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention Climate Change (COP 27 because it is the 27th meeting), world leaders, bureaucrats, scientists, activists, and others are coming together to discuss the next steps in achieving the goals of the 2016 Paris Agreement while…
Read More about University of Miami Law students attend international climate change conferenceNotre Dame Law Asian Pacific American Law Students Association celebrates Diwali
NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law School’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, along with Notre Dame’s South Asian Student Association and the Graduate Student Union, organized a Diwali Celebration on October 27 in the Dahnke Ballroom. Over 200 students from across campus attended the event.
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