Vermont Law scholars release environmental watch list for 2022
VERMONT LAW SCHOOL — Environmental law scholars and editors of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law(VJEL) at Vermont Law School (VLS) today released the Top 10 Environmental Watch List for 2022. The list highlights the most pressing environmental issues bearing on law and policy—from Biden’s environmental justice goals and the electric vehicle revolution, to climate change-fueled…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom named five Yale Law School students as 2022 Skadden Fellows. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation awarded Nicole Cabanez ’22, Paula Garcia-Salazar ’22, Shariful Khan ’22, Jacquelyn Oesterblad ’22, and Delaram Takyar ’22 two-year fellowships to pursue the practice of public interest law full-time. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation seeks…
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UPRISE RI — Today members of Law Students For Climate Accountability (LSCA) launched a nationwide call for law students to boycott the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In a public sign-on letter and a video announcement, students described the boycott as a response to Gibson Dunn’s work shielding corporate polluters from climate accountability, attacking the…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Coordinated multicampus protests this fall have left law schools in an unenviable position, stuck between meeting student demands and providing access to the resources at the center of the controversy—LexisNexis and Westlaw—which are under fire for contracts with law enforcement. The LexisNexis and Westlaw research databases are vital for law schools and the…
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ABC 33 40 NEWS — Each year nearly 35,000 people find themselves on the waiting list for a kidney in America but just 17,000 transplants happen annually. Mamani says that’s why she decided to become a living organ donor. “I imagine just a whole and a complete family who is going through this Christmas celebrating as a…
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Third-year law student Tyler Mlakar has been selected as one of the 25 students from across the country to participate in the Columbus School of Law’s Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference to be held Feb. 24-26, 2022, in D.C. Over the course of the conference, participants will receive opinion writing instruction from some…
Read More about University of Arkansas Law student Tyler Mlakar participates in judicial clerkship opinion writing conferenceUC Berkeley LL.M. student Remelisa Moraleda discusses her career as a law school dean in the Phillipinnes
BERKELEY LAW –As president of the University of Northeastern Philippines and its law school dean, Remelisa Moraleda had bountiful options to advance her own legal education. “I chose Berkeley Law for my LL.M. degree because it’s the only top-ranked law school that offered a program convenient for foreign practicing lawyers,” she says. “I had scoured…
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DAYTON DAILY NEWS — The University of Dayton School of Law had teams claim the top two spots in the Ohio Attorney General’s Public Service Mock Trial Competition. Teams from UD placed first and second in the Nov. 19 competition. “There were many great future lawyers in the court room but the team from Dayton…
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FLYER NEWS — Dayton law firms Thompson Hine and Taft Law are working together with the University of Dayton School of Law to recruit underrepresented and underserved students to go to law school and have a legal profession. The Flyer Legal Promise Program, one of the first of its kind, will select two students this year. These…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Thousands of new attorneys were sworn in to the State Bar of Texas recently including 2021 UH Law Center graduate Samantha Casas, recipient of the Law Student Pro Bono Award. Held on November 15, the Virtual New Lawyers Induction Ceremony welcomed the 2,147 lawyers who passed the July 2021 bar exam,…
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