University of Miami Law Immigration Clinic files petition to release detained client
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — A lawsuit filed in April by the Miami Law’s Immigration Clinic seeks release from immigration detention of a 43-year-old father and resident of New Jersey who is exercising his First Amendment right to protest the conditions of his lengthy incarceration with a month-long – and counting – hunger strike.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s International Moot Court team recently competed in the virtual oral rounds of the 2020-2021 International and European Tax Moot Competition, the largest and most prestigious in the legal field of transnational taxation.
Read More about University of Miami Law students win ‘best pleading’ at European Tax Moot Court CompetitionMichigan State University Law student Morgan Pattan receives state bar animal law section award
LEGAL ED NEWS — Morgan Pattan is this year’s recipient of the State Bar of Michigan’s Wanda A. Nash Award, named after the founder of the SBM Animal Law Section. The annual award recognizes a 3L law student at a Michigan law school for substantial contributions to animal law. The award ceremony was held via Zoom…
Read More about Michigan State University Law student Morgan Pattan receives state bar animal law section awardNorthwestern Law celebrates UN World Creativity and Innovation Day
NORTHWESTERN NOW — It’s been a busy few weeks for entrepreneurs across the Northwestern University campus. Tight teams of undergraduate and business school students at various phases of ideation and fundraising came together virtually at a variety of events to highlight creative inventions in time for the United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day.
Read More about Northwestern Law celebrates UN World Creativity and Innovation DayNotre Dame Law students assist with expungement process for ex-offenders
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME STORIES — When St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter hosted an expungement clinic last year for people with criminal records in the county, he expected maybe a dozen people would show up. When he was wrong about that — and boy, was he wrong — he was grateful for the Notre Dame Law…
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THE LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law School’s Global Lawyering Initiative, which is building on Notre Dame’s unparalleled international network, has created a new exchange program with the oldest and most prestigious law school in Israel.
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — Please join us in congratulating Emily Hart ’21 on receiving the Woolverton Family Public Interest Award! The Woolverton Family Public Interest Award is given annually to one graduating student in recognition of demonstrated exceptional dedication to public interest law activities while at Southwestern.
Read More about Southwestern Law student Emily Hart receives Woolverton Family Public Interest AwardCalifornia university systems mandate COVID-19 vaccination for on-campus students and staff this fall
NPR — The California State University and University of California systems announced on Thursday that all 33 campuses will require students and staff returning for in-person instruction this fall to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The new directive will go into effect once the Food and Drug Administration gives “full approval” to a vaccine.
Read More about California university systems mandate COVID-19 vaccination for on-campus students and staff this fallColleges offer incentives for students to get COVID-19 vaccinations
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Colleges are giving out a wide range of freebies – gift cards, T-shirts, free courses or hard cash – for students who can show proof of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Decisions about whether to incentivize the vaccine are fraught with ethical questions for scholars and campus leaders.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — For many students, spending the year with COVID has felt like being on a sinking ship, desperately searching for a lifeboat and perhaps choosing one that falters when lowered. Campus counseling centers and their staffs are continuing to comfort others even as their own lives are at stake.
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