Quinnipiac Law Black Law Students Association to honor legal leaders at awards ceremony
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — BLSA will also honor Johnnie Booker, retired diversity executive and former global director of supplier diversity for Coca-Cola and former vice president of the Resolution Trust Corporation, with its Community Service Award. The virtual ceremony begins at 6 p.m. Click here to attend. In its 33rd year, the Thurgood Marshall Award is given in honor…
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WVTM 13 — Samford University law students are ready to watch the historic Supreme Court of the United States nomination hearing. Some students are excited about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination — but more importantly, what this means for young Black girls.
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — Members of the University of South Carolina School of Law’s Matthew J. Perry Jr. Chapter of the National Black Law Students Association had much to celebrate as they closed out Black History Month this year. The student organization was honored multiple times during the Southern Region of BLSA’s…
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of South Carolina School of Law’s mock trial team took the top two spots in the regional finals of the Texas Young Lawyer’s Association National Trial Competition in February. Both teams will advance to the National Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in April. “We are excited to…
Read More about University of South Carolina Law mock trial team wins regional competitionSouthern University Law students travel to DC for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing
WAF9 — 50 students from the Southern University Law Center will travel to Washington, D.C. to witness the confirmation process of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will become the first Black woman to ever sit on the United States Supreme Court if confirmed. The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin the historic confirmation hearings Monday, March 21. “It says…
Read More about Southern University Law students travel to DC for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearingTSU Thurgood Marshall Law students discuss Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing
KHOU 11 — Students at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University watched as Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday. Judge Jackson is the first black woman ever nominated to the high court. If confirmed, the DC Appellate judge would replace justice Stephen Breyer, who she once…
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THE S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — When Maria Fernandez took an internship at a homeless shelter in Santa Fe, it was mostly because she liked the area and wanted to stick around for a while after her worldwide backpacking trip. She didn’t expect to love the work as much as she did. “I’ve always had a…
Read More about University of Utah Law student Maria Fernandez discusses experiences at school and plans to become a public defenderUniversity of Virginia Law students spend spring break on pro bono service projects
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Students at the University of Virginia School of Law collectively volunteered 1,774 hours over spring break in pro bono projects across the country and online. The student-led Public Interest Law Association, which each year organizes the Alternative Spring Break, recruited 56 students who worked with 26 organizations this month. Though…
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ABA JOURNAL — Katrice Williams attends Cleveland State University’s Marshall College of Law, which is in the same town where police killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was playing at the park with a toy gun, in 2014. After that, in 2015, the city entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, agreeing…
Read More about CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law student Katrice Williams helps research police policies for public databaseUniversity at Buffalo Law Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic celebrates 30th anniversary
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — It was in 1992 that a domestic violence clinic was created at the law school by co-directors Suzanne Tomkins ’92 and Dr. Catherine Cerulli ’92, with critical guidance from the late Professor Isabel Marcus. Thirty years later, students and faculty in what is now known as the Family Violence…
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