Albany Law students help American Bumblebee receive protections under Endangered Species Act
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — A humble bumblebee is getting help it desperately needs from Albany Law School students and faculty. A group of 14 students – with the unofficial moniker the “Bombus Pollinator Association of Law Students” or “BPALS,” for short – and Professor Keith Hirokawa teamed up with the Center for Biological Diversity to file a…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA NEWS — “They just always thought that I was a really logical thinker, and that when I have a belief, I’m going to fight for it,” said Urias, a Marana, Arizona, native and a senior in the Bachelor of Arts in Law program, offered by the James E. Rogers College of Law…
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Third-year law student Donta Dismuke, managing editor with the Journal of Food Law and Policy, has won the Arent Fox/Dale Bumpers Excellence in Writing Award. The Arent Fox law firm selects one article from those prepared by the journal’s staff editors. The winning article is published in the subsequent issue of the…
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UIC LAW — The Illinois State Bar Association has awarded UIC Law’s Fair Housing Legal Clinic its 2021 Illinois State Bar Association’s Excellence in Legal Education Award, which honors a law school program that emphasizes real world skills for students. UIC Law’s Fair Housing Legal Clinic was nominated for the award by Charles Perkins (‘15), a compliance…
Read More about UIC Law Fair Housing Clinic honored by Illinois State Bar Association for excellence in legal educationUMass Law student awarded scholarship by New Bedford, Mass. police organization
WBSM — A New Bedford police organization has given a student at UMass Law a five-year scholarship. According to a department press release, the Hispanic Police Officers of New Bedford awarded Judith Patricia Cruz Caballero, Class of 2022 JD candidate and Bolivian native, a five-year law school scholarship. Caballero is the second recipient to have ever received the scholarship. The award is presented…
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UNM NEWSROOM — Law students with The University of New Mexico’s Expungement Law Clinic are hosting a hotline, inspired by National Expungement Works’ Week of Action and Awareness, aimed to help individuals across the state gain employment, receive promotions, qualify for loans and much more by cleaning up their records. From Monday, Sept. 27 through Friday, Oct.…
Read More about University of New Mexico Law Expungement Clinic students partner with law firm to create hotlinePenn Carey Law professor Paul H. Robinson and student Lindsay Holcomb publish article in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal on moral credibility
PENN LAW — In an article forthcoming in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law Paul H. Robinson and Lindsay Holcomb L’21 explain why criminal law must maximize its moral credibility while also addressing and answering objections to the concept.
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SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON — Eric Kwartler, Public Interest Attorney in South Texas College of Law Houston’s Randall O. Sorrells Legal Clinics, and several of his law students will be providing guidance to area residents to help them avoid being evicted during a Keep Harris Housed outreach event Thursday, Sept. 30, in Alief. Any tenant…
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DAILY TROJAN — When Marshall Amaya and Jonathan Laifman took the course “Fundamentals of the U.S. Legal System” together last year, the classmates’ interest in the law field amid a lack of available resources inspired them to create their own undergraduate law review journal. Designed to allow for critical analysis of legal topics, Trojan Review will…
Read More about University of Southern California students create undergraduate law journalPost-pandemic college experience may be a hybrid of in-person and online learning
THE WASHINGTON POST — Wearing a mask and Birkenstocks as he roved the classroom one afternoon, associate professor John Delacruz sought to rev up his students for an assignment in advertising design. They were each to create a poster defining an artist’s brand through color, font and other elements of text.“Do it,” Delacruz urged them.…
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