Fordham Law community commemorates AAPI heritage month
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Though the 2021-2022 academic year officially comes to a close in less than two weeks, Fordham Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) ensured that its members, as well as the broader Fordham community, marked one last celebration in May—Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. We spoke with…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — At the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) launched a student leadership initiative—the Peer Clerkship Council (PCC). The development of this vehicle for student leadership was a natural next step in year two for the CJEC’s clerkship-side as Professor Daniel Capra and Assistant Dean…
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MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — For all his hockey skills, Anthony Walsh didn’t always feel like he belonged on the ice. “I would hear things that people would say that were extremely offensive,” he said. “As a Black player you’re always taught to skate away, don’t react, don’t retaliate, don’t take a penalty, don’t put your…
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THE DAILY ORANGE — Erica Glastetter has always known she wants to become a lawyer, even though she didn’t meet one until she went to law school. But as the first member of her family to attend law school, Glastetter, a second-year student at Syracuse University’s College of Law, said she came in feeling underprepared.
Read More about Syracuse Law student Erica Glastetter helps create First Generation Law Student Association to support other studentsA profile on Tulane Law Review editor Antonio Milton
TULANE NEWS — There was one thing that Antonio Milton was certain of as a young child growing up in Carencro, Louisiana, just outside Lafayette — he wanted to be a lawyer.
Read More about A profile on Tulane Law Review editor Antonio MiltonRecent University of Virginia Law graduate Camilo Garcia discusses his experience as a first-generation law student
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Coming into law school as a first-generation American and a first-generation college graduate, Camilo Garcia was nervous enough about his law school prospects to spend the summer before his 1L year researching what law school would be like.
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UVA TODAY — For Elizabeth Harris, there are some things she can’t unlearn, unknow or unsee from having been a part of the foster care system. But after she graduates from the University of Virginia School of Law on Sunday, she hopes to use her degree, skills and passion to undo some of the problems…
Read More about Recent University of Virginia Law graduate Elizabeth Harris discusses public service effortsYale Law professor Scott J. Shapiro teaches hacking skills to train students for cybersecurity law
YALE LAW SCHOOL — To prepare future lawyers to shape cybersecurity policy, Scott J. Shapiro ’90 doesn’t focus on case law. Instead, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law teaches students how to hack.
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THE REGULATORY REVIEW — Law students just got a bit more practice ready. The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued a final rule that allows law students to represent clients before the Copyright Claims Board (CCB).
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Molly Strauss ’22 and Professor Ava Ayers are part of a nationwide effort to follow up on policy changes made by local police departments.
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