UC Hastings Law students Lilia Kazemi and Sharareh Zerang receive business law scholarships
UC HASTINGS LAW — Working with a start-up company, increasing diversity at companies, and advocating for clients are some of the goals of the new recipients of the Center for Business Law Scholarships. UC Hastings law students Lilia Kazemi ‘24 and Sharareh (Sheila) Zerang ‘24 were named this year’s Center for Business Law (CBL) Scholars in March.…
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TODAY AT ELON — If you want to get a head start in a career representing professional athletes, there may be no better model to copy than Elon Law student Hannah Valente L’22. Valente, 23, has set her sights on earning a law degree and advising basketball players ever since a high school back injury redirected her…
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SPECTRUM NEWS — President Joe Biden nominating Kentaji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Jackson is the first black woman to be nominated to serve on the Supreme Court. Second year law student Derrick Gaiter studies constitutional law at Florida A&M University. Presentations for Monday’s 1st Amendment class were delayed to watch Supreme Court nominee…
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY — Florida State University College of Law’s Black Law Students Association (FSU BLSA) won first place in the national Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition. The competition took place virtually March 17-18, and FSU BLSA was undefeated throughout the event. Winning team members are third-year student Judelande Jeune, of Tampa, Fla.; second-year student Kayla…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — This year’s Student Week Against Mass Incarceration (SWAMI), held between Feb. 28 and March 4, brought together social justice-focused groups from across the Fordham Law community in a series of events that examined the relationship between mass incarceration and the housing crisis. The week of events at Fordham Law was co-sponsored by Advocates…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — REAL Scholar Veenay Komaragiri ’24, REAL Scholar Roger Orellana ’24, and Shiva Sachdeva ’24 have been selected to participate in the New York City Bar Diversity Fellowship Program this summer. Komaragiri will spend his summer at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), Orellana at Viacom, and Sachdeva at Paul, Weiss,…
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School’s team has won the national round of the 2021-2022 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition and will advance to the international rounds, to be held from March 24 through April 10. The Harvard Law team, comprised of J.D. students Marta Canneri ’22, Katherine Shen ’22, Stephanie Gullo ’22,…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — As tax season is underway, the University of Kansas School of Law is offering free tax preparation services for those who qualify. KU Law students with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program will prepare returns for taxpayers who are residents of Douglas County, Kansas; make less than $58,000 per household per…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Criminal Justice Reform Clinic (CJRC or Clinic) students and its director, professor Aliza Kaplan worked diligently to encourage the passage of SB 1511, which would have made Ramos v. Louisiana retroactively apply to those who were convicted by a nonunanimous jury verdict. The bill ultimately did not pass during the…
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MICHIGAN NEWS — The University of Michigan Law School is well known for the headline-making, hands-on work that students, with guidance from faculty, do to gain freedom for wrongfully convicted individuals across the country. Although not as well publicized, there also is a group of students each year that provide many hours of free legal assistance to…
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