Stanford Law professor Erik Jensen discusses the future of Legal Education in Afghanistan
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — What is the legacy of the American invasion of Afghanistan, twenty years on? For Erik Jensen, faculty director of Stanford Law School’s Rule of Law Program (ROLP), who helped launch the Afghanistan Legal Education Project(ALEP) in 2007 as a student-driven initiative in ROLP, the answer for him is simple: legal education.
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ABA JOURNAL — A law student in Tennessee is the winner of the 2021 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. The author is Brandon Dragan, who is entering his third year at the Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee. He will receive a $3,000 prize for his short story, “Advokat,” about a lawyer…
Read More about Belmont Law student Brandon Dragan wins ABA Journal writing contestBrooklyn Law welcomes new students
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Brooklyn Law School marked its return to campus Aug. 16, welcoming 439 new students at the annual Convocation ceremony. The event featured remarks from Alphonzo Grant ’98, managing director at Morgan Stanley, Dean Michael T. Cahill, Vice Dean Christina Mulligan, and Professor Neil B. Cohen.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Students who begin their semester in the Appellate Litigation Clinic this fall will have an opportunity few practicing attorneys ever do: they will brief a case to the Supreme Court of Ohio, which last week accepted the clinic’s petition for discretionary review in an important case involving a…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law School opened its doors prior to the start of the fall semester, welcoming its newest class of students to the Lincoln Center campus for in-person orientation.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On September 24, 2021 Fordham Law School will launch its inaugural Leadership Academy for Women in Law: RISE—Resilient, Inspired, Strategic, Empowered. Program speakers are drawn from women lawyers in leadership positions throughout the profession, as well as male allies.
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REUTERS — “It has been a grassroots movement, trying to get the plaintiffs’ bar in front of students and for them to understand that they have options besides going into Big Law or public interest work,” said McCann, noting that Edelson also puts out a podcast for law students and has been doing job talks at…
Read More about Harvard Law students create Harvard Plaintiffs’ Law AssociationUniversity of Houston Law celebrates seven years of Pre-Law Pipeline Program
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The University of Houston Law Center’s Pre-Law Pipeline Program has now completed seven years of its multi-faceted approach to diversifying the legal profession. Because of ongoing concerns related to COVID-19, the Summer 2021 class marked the second online-only instruction in the program’s history.
Read More about University of Houston Law celebrates seven years of Pre-Law Pipeline ProgramUMass Law student Emily Dillan named to ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence
UMASS DARTMOUTH NEWS — Second-year UMass Law student was recently chosen as the Law Student Division Liaison to the national American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence. For more than two decades, the Commission has worked to increase access to justice for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking by connecting them…
Read More about UMass Law student Emily Dillan named to ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual ViolencePenn Law welcomes largest LLM class
PENN LAW — On August 2, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School welcomed the LLM program’s Class of 2022, a diverse and talented group of 156 lawyers, judges, and diplomats from 30 countries. The incoming class includes both students who deferred their admission last year due to COVID and the typical number of LLMs (around…
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