CSU-Long Beach starts innovative mental health program for students and faculty

July 14, 2022

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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Florida Bar Criminal Law Section awards student scholarships

June 30, 2022

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 Law celebrates students’ pro bono public interest work

June 30, 2022

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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UC Irvine Law students conduct pro bono research for faculty in California Proposition 22 appeal

June 30, 2022

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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University of Hawai’i Law hosts high school students for Law & Justice Summer Program

June 30, 2022

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 Law students honored for pro bono service

June 29, 2022

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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University of Miami Law Immigration Clinic wins asylum for client

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — In a downtown Miami courtroom where asylum seekers seldom win, Immigration Clinic students successfully represented an Indigenous Honduran woman who fears violence at the hands of the father of her son, a leader of the 18th Street gang in San Pedro Sula.

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University of Minnesota Law students named to worker advocacy fellowship

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Rising 3Ls Dustin Loosbrock and Ricardo Perez and rising 2Ls Amirah Ellison and Abby Frerick were selected for prestigious and highly competitive summer fellowships from the Peggy Browning Fund.

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University of Minnesota Law student Jordan Francis named future leader in privacy and data protection

June 29, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Jordan Francis ’22 has received the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP)  Westin Scholar Award. The award is given to select students identified by their professors as future leaders in the field of privacy or data protection.

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Penn Law community hosts events to celebrate Juneteenth

June 29, 2022

PENN LAW — Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Assoc. Dean for Equity & Justice and Chief Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Officer, shares information about this year’s Juneteenth celebrations.

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