Nine recent Northwestern Law graduates earn public interest fellowships
PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — Nine recent graduates will launch their careers in public interest through both national and Northwestern Pritzker Law post-graduate fellowships this year. These graduates have dedicated their time and skills to causes ranging from environmental work to prison reform to public housing.
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — “Tillman Scholarships are extremely competitive and are only awarded to those who have made an impact through their service. I am both pleased and grateful that not one, but three College of Law students have been awarded Tillman scholarships for this year. Natasha, Amanda, and William are living extraordinary…
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AGGIE NETWORK — Students at the Texas A&M University School of Law will soon have the opportunity to learn about athlete advocacy and name, image and likeness issues from a current NFL player with first-hand knowledge of the skills attorneys and sports agents need to advocate for athletes.
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THE JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Vanderbilt Law School will launch a new, student-edited legal journal, the Social Justice Reporter, in 2022-23. The new journal will publish scholarship focusing on social justice, civil rights, and public interest lawyering by leading researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and law students.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Cal State Long Beach is launching an ambitious series of mental health initiatives that pair students and administrators with practitioners and community members to make resources more accessible.
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THE FLORIDA BAR — Two Florida law school students will receive the Criminal Law Section’s first Student Scholarship Awards during the Annual Florida Bar Convention this month.
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UC HASTINGS — UC Hastings law students worked approximately 55,000 unpaid hours over the last year providing more than $7 million in free legal support to nonprofits, public agencies, and individual clients.
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UCI LAW — UCI Law faculty members, Richard Hasen and Mark Rosenbaum, joined other California Election Law Professors in filing an Amicus Curiae Brief in support of respondents in the case pending before the California Court of Appeals, Castellanos v. State of California.
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NEWSWIRES — High school students participating in the William S. Richardson School of Lawʻs “Law & Justice Summer Program” attended a Supreme Court oral argument at Aliiolani Hale on June 8. They were the first in-person participants in the Judiciary’s Courts in the Community program in more than two years.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — Forty-nine University of Kansas School of Law students contributed 2,721 hours of free legal services over the past year.
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