UCLA Law student team wins regional trial advocacy competition
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — Two crews of students representing UCLA School of Law’s A. Barry Cappello Trial Team swept the Student Trial Advocacy Competition (STAC) West Coast regional, which was held virtually March 4-7. UCLA Law will be among 12 law schools competing at the national championship tournament in April.
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UC NEWS — University of Cincinnati second-year students Katherine West and Spencer Campbell are headed to a national trial competition after winning the final round of the regional Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) trial competition. West and Campbell were the only team to win in all five competition rounds.
Read More about University of Cincinnati Law students Katherine West and Spencer Campbell win regional Texas Young Lawyers Association trial competitionColumbia Law students win Asylum & Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition hosted by UC Davis Law
UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW — Twelve teams from law schools across the country competed virtually in the 14th annual UC Davis Asylum & Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition. The event, organized by the UC Davis Moot Court Honors Board is the only competition in the nation devoted exclusively to the topic of asylum and refugee law.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — For the second week in a row, the Florida State University College of Law Moot Court Team has won first place in a national moot court competition. On March 6, the team won the 2021 Charleston School of Law National Moot Court Competition, which took place virtually March 4-6.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — College of Law student Jeannine Holmes (J.D. ’22) has made history as the first Black editor-in-chief of the Law Review. “It means a lot to me,” Holmes says. “I think representation really matters. For me, it’s always been important to see Black people, especially Black women, in legal spaces.
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UIC JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL — UIC John Marshall Law School is honored to announce its newest endowed scholarship fund, the Elizabeth Olszewski Memorial Scholarship. The Fund was established in memory of Elizabeth Olszewski, a 2012 graduate of the Law School who recently passed away.
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — Christopher Davis was sentenced to a 262-months in prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. He faced a mandatory-minimum sentence. Mr. Davis walked out of federal prison 7-years early thanks to the efforts of the Federal Criminal Defense Clinic at the University of Iowa College of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — This semester, the law students in Professor Lea VanderVelde’s Employment Law course have researching how the pandemic is impacting work laws, as it re-arranges workplaces, requires business closures, transforms the ways we get goods, decimates the service sector, and sickens millions of workers.
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — A new class in the University of Iowa College of Law teaches students about those dollar figures by introducing them to player salary arbitration and participating in mock arbitration hearings, using baseball as a learning tool. Students form their arguments just as team attorneys do in real-life.
Read More about University of Iowa Law students take honors at Tulane International Baseball Arbitration Competition for writingUniversity of Kentucky Law student Kelly Daniel to serve as first Black editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Law Journal
UK NOW — University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law second-year law student Kelly Daniel will serve as the first Black editor-in-chief of the college’s Kentucky Law Journal (KLJ) for the 2021-2022 academic year. KLJ has continuously published since 1913 and is the 10th oldest continuously published law review in the nation.
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