Southern 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…
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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…
Read More about University at Buffalo Law Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic celebrates 30th anniversaryCase Western Reserve Law First Amendment Clinic wins case in US Court of Appeals
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Her client, Michael Wood, wore a shirt bearing the words “F*ck the Police” to the county fair. According to Wood, the defendant police officers ordered him to leave and escorted him from the fairgrounds because of his shirt. Wood, who levied numerous profanities at the police and the fairground’s…
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CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Community-based news media organizations like The Cleveland Observer (TCO) provide critical news content to local communities with a focus on grassroots news gathering. The students enrolled in the Community Development Clinic (CDC) at Case Western Reserve University School of Law have worked closely with the leadership of TCO this…
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS — For the second year in a row, the Florida State University College of Law Moot Court Team won first place at the UCLA School of Law Cybersecurity Moot Court Competition, which took place virtually on March 12. Winning team members are third-year law students Jackson “Jack” Boudet, from Winter Park, Fla., and…
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GW LAW — GW Law’s Jacob Burns Moot Court Room opened its doors to two mock trial teams from The Field School, an independent high school 3 miles from GW Law, for two mock trials presided over by GW Law student judges. The two trials were the culmination of a 2-week intensive class on Crime Scene Investigations…
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