Temple Law students win Montgomery County, Pa. mock trial competition
THE REPORTER — Taking part in an annual summer intern program sponsored by Montgomery County’s top law enforcement officer helped some aspiring lawyers cut their teeth in the legal arena.
Read More about Temple Law students win Montgomery County, Pa. mock trial competitionLaw class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemic
NATIONAL JURIST — The Class of 2020 had better first-time bar exam results than the previous, non-pandemic class. It passed at an 82.83% clip, compared to the 79.64% passing rate notched by the Class of 2019, according to American Bar Association statistics.
Read More about Law class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemicDetroit Mercy Law partners with Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office on clinic to research possible wrongful convictions
THE DETROIT NEWS — The Detroit Mercy Law School and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office are partnering to create a clinic that will allow students to assist the prosecutor’s Conviction Integrity Unit.
Read More about Detroit Mercy Law partners with Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office on clinic to research possible wrongful convictionsFordham Law launches Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program
FORDHAM LAW NEWSFordham Law School announced today that its Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program launched this week when program participants were welcomed to campus. The program aims to expand opportunities for first-year law students from historically underrepresented backgrounds including underrepresented racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, LGBTQ, and first-generation college backgrounds.
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Howard University — Howard University College of Arts and Science will host its first annual Social Justice Week, August 2-6, via Zoom. This week is one of the initiatives linked to the Mellon Foundation Grant received for the Just Futures Initiative in January. For one week, the community will have the opportunity to engage in community and academic panels, workshops, and guest speakers on criminal justice reform. Highlighted themes will connect the various instances of injustice in the…
Read More about Howard Law hosts inaugural social justice weekGift establishes new scholarship for underrepresented students at University of Kansas Law
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — A new scholarship fund at the University of Kansas School of Law will provide support to candidates who contribute to the diversity of the student body. Julia Gille Anderson and Jett Anderson, both L’82, established the Anderson Family Law Diversity Scholarship with a $75,000 gift commitment to KU Endowment.
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UNIVERSITY NEWS HQ — Two University of Mississippi law students are spending their summer in state attorney general offices as part of the prestigious Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Program. Second-year law students Natalie Lowry and Madison Reightler are among some 30-40 students nationally selected for the program, which is in its 17th year.
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PENN LAW — Upon graduation, 18 graduates of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Class of 2021 will pursue important and diverse public interest work with the support of prestigious fellowship funding.
Read More about Penn Law graduates pursue public interest fellowshipsPenn Law recent graduate Jessica Rizzo published in three law journals
PENN LAW — In the Spring of 2021, Jessica Rizzo L’21 published “Federal Architecture and First Amendment Limits” in the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts and “The Children’s Hour: Climate Change, Law, and the Family” was published in the Hastings Environmental Law Journal. Rizzo’s third recent publication was “Flesh and Bone: Theater, Copyright, and the…
Read More about Penn Law recent graduate Jessica Rizzo published in three law journalsPenn Law students selected for LLM Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship
PENN LAW — Two 2021 graduates of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s LLM program have secured post-graduate positions advocating for the protection of human rights. The work of Hugh Fitzgibbon LLM’21 and Meri Baghdasaryan LLM’21, supported through the Law School’s LLM Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship, concentrates on the fair administration of global trials as…
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