New William & Mary Law course builds professional skills

April 21, 2022

WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — To ensure that its students enter the profession equipped with a wide array of core competencies, the Law School will require first-year students to successfully complete a one-credit course in leadership and professional development.

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Immunocompromised students fight for hybrid learning as some colleges aim to end it

April 21, 2022

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Johnny Ellsworth would like nothing more than to return to a classroom in a world without a pandemic, where the sophomore at Pomona College could “connect with people in a more intimate way than you might be able to over Zoom.”

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Notre Dame Law students Madison Kemker and Annika Nielsen-Kim to address issues in local community

April 20, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Madison Kemker and Annika Nielsen-Kim, both third-year law students, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowships. The fellowship, named in honor of former dean and professor Thomas L. Shaffer and funded by donor support, covers the salary and benefits for two Notre Dame Law School graduates to work

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University of Texas Law wins national transactional law competition

April 20, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas Law students took top honors at the 2022 Interscholastic Transactional Law Competition hosted by Duke University School of Law on March 26. The team of Gwendelyn Butler (1L), Gaurav Mankotia (LLM) and Sri Vaisakhi Muddana (LLM) placed first in the “sellers” category of the

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University of Utah Law class uses simulated scenarios to teach counterterrorism

April 20, 2022

KSL.COM — The annual event — designed and led by students at the S.J. Quinney College of Law — challenges law and graduate students at the U. to address legal, moral and operational dilemmas in real time as they respond to simulated terrorism scenarios around the globe. The daylong simulation is the culmination of a

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University of Utah Law students attend human rights seminar in England

April 20, 2022

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — Third-year law students Bernadine Ott, Kim Koeven, and Scott McMurtrey recently spent a week in England learning about human rights, armed conflict, foreign policy, peacemaking, and more. The Oxford Consortium for Human Rights hosted a week-long workshop titled “Human Rights, Armed Conflict and the Struggle for Peace,” an especially

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Wayne Law Journal of Law in Society announces new editorial board

April 19, 2022

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — Nine law students have been elected to the 2022-23 editorial board of The Journal of Law in Society at Wayne State University Law School.

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Immunocompromised students fight for hybrid learning as some colleges aim to end it

April 19, 2022

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Johnny Ellsworth would like nothing more than to return to a classroom in a world without a pandemic, where the sophomore at Pomona College could “connect with people in a more intimate way than you might be able to over Zoom.” Instead, as a person who is immunocompromised, he wakes

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Southern California law school coalition honored with Diversity Champion Award from state group

April 14, 2022

USC GOULD — The Southern California Law School Coalition – a collaboration between Brenda Cortez-Martin, associate director of admissions at the USC Gould School of Law, and two peers from UC Irvine School of Law and Loyola Law School – was awarded the California Leadership-Access-Workforce (LAW) Diversity Champion Award for 2022.

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Supreme Court of Ohio offers free research assistance to law students and attorneys

April 14, 2022

COURT NEWS OHIO — Legal professionals and aspiring attorneys in need of research assistance can turn to the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Law Library.

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