University of Hawai’i Law Innocence Project receives grant from the Department of Justice
HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT — The Hawaii Innocence Project at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law has been awarded a substantial grant from the Department of Justice to fund DNA testing. On Tuesday, Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project, announced the program was the recipient of a $573,355 grant from a program…
Read More about University of Hawai’i Law Innocence Project receives grant from the Department of JusticeHofstra Law students John Margolies and Alyssa Glasshagel compete in Fordham Law trial competition
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Hofstra Law students John Margolies 3L and Alyssa Glasshagel 3L competed in Fordham’s Judge Paul Joseph Kelly, Jr. Invitational Trial Competition on November 11-14, 2021. The team advanced to the quarterfinal round with John winning the Best Summation for the competition. “It’s something I’ll cherish for a long time. When I first…
Read More about Hofstra Law students John Margolies and Alyssa Glasshagel compete in Fordham Law trial competitionUniversity of Minnesota Law Corporate Institute helps launch local businesses and non-profit organizations
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — When third-year law students Molly McKinsey and Edmund Pine signed up to spend last summer as practice scholars through Minnesota Law’s Corporate Institute, they knew they’d be busy helping local small business owners. What they didn’t know was that one of the things keeping them busy would be bees—or that they’d cap…
Read More about University of Minnesota Law Corporate Institute helps launch local businesses and non-profit organizationsA look at the new University of Minnesota Law Clemency Project
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Seven years ago, professor JaneAnne Murray was tapped for the steering committee of Clemency Project 2014 (CP2014), a national effort by lawyers and advocates to provide legal assistance for people given excessively harsh prison sentences seeking clemency from President Barack Obama. She thought that to make this work meaningful, she should take…
Read More about A look at the new University of Minnesota Law Clemency ProjectPenn Law student Keith Matier discusses experience in the school’s first-generation professionals fellowship
PENN LAW — “Deliberate practice” are the words First Generation Professionals (FGP) Fellow Keith Matier L’24 uses to describe his approach to success. To him, though law school is a new context, he has employed this mindset over the course of his life. “Whenever I talk to people about trying my best, I liken it to excellent…
Read More about Penn Law student Keith Matier discusses experience in the school’s first-generation professionals fellowshipGift to St. Mary’s University Law to support student scholarships
ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY — A $1.8 million gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous will benefit scholarships for students of the St. Mary’s University School of Law. For more than 90 years, the School of Law has educated legal leaders with a commitment to service, justice and peace. As the only law school in San Antonio…
Read More about Gift to St. Mary’s University Law to support student scholarshipsVermont 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…
Read More about Yale Law students receive Skadden public interest fellowshipsLaw students launch boycott of law firm over work in corporate pollution cases
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…
Read More about Law students launch boycott of law firm over work in corporate pollution casesLaw students protest legal research companies over their contracts with ICE
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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