Notre 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.
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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.
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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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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Morgan Schweighoefer, a December 2020 graduate from The University of Akron’s School of Law saw her article, “Employment Protection for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,” co-authored with former Akron Law Visiting Professor Rick Bales, published in the latest issue of the Ohio State Bar Association newsletter.
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law is proud to announce that Erik Jimenez Rodriguez received a UCI 2021 Latino Excellence and Achievement Award, which recognizes key leaders who support and champion student success and research excellence in the Latinx community at UCI.
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UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law’s A. Barry Cappello Trial Team took first place in the National Trial Competition on April 10. The victory was UCLA Law’s most prestigious win ever and made the law school the 46th champion of the nation’s oldest trial advocacy competition.
Read More about UCLA Law students win National Trial CompetitionCase Western Reserve Law professor Avidan Y. Cover and students submit brief to United Nations on excessive force by law enforcement in the US
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, together with Physicians for Human Rights, submitted a letter to United Nations experts concerning attacks by federal and local police on medics during the racial justice and anti-police brutality protests over the summer of 2020.
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