Hofstra Law hosts Legal Innovation Tournament to develop apps that help serve underrepresented populations in dispute resolution
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — The goal of interdisciplinary tournament was to develop apps that help serve the underrepresented and change the face of dispute resolution. Law students were matched with legal experts in the areas of dispute resolution and access to justice, as well as Hofstra computer science students to help develop ideas.
Read More about Hofstra Law hosts Legal Innovation Tournament to develop apps that help serve underrepresented populations in dispute resolutionLewis & Clark Law’s Center for Animal Law Studies helps to expand animal law efforts in Asia
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Professor of Practice Joyce Tischler sat down with two of her former students—Animal Law LLM alumni (’20), Lyudmilla Shegay, our first student from Kazakhstan, and Zihao Yu, one of our first students from China—to discuss how they are expanding animal law in Asia. Lu and Zihao have recently founded a nonprofit.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Trevor Kirby L’23 and Virinchi Sindhwani L’23 have been named as the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s second class of First Generation Professionals (FGP) Fellows. The FGP Fellowship is designed for students who are the first in their families to attend professional school.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Sarah Best L’21 is a Tennessee native who hopes to work in education law one day. “Last Spring, I had the privilege of working with the Education Law Center (ELC). I worked primarily with the litigation team for the Glen Mills Schools class action lawsuit.”
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PENN STATE LAW — Though operating remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Penn State Law in University Park Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (CIRC) continued to produce impactful work on immigration-related matters in fall 2020. This article includes short accounts of the work of CIRC during the fall 2020 semester.
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Devastating wildfires raged across California in recent years. A group, under the umbrella of the Broadband Institute of California (BBIC) at Santa Clara Law, has been on an unpaid, David vs. Goliath quest to protect millions of Californians from mishaps and failures that can cause wildfires.
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — In early December, the Charles Houston Bar Association (CHBA) held its 65th annual Gala. As part of the evening, CHBA honored Wilson X. Hall JD ’21, who received a $2,000 Student Achievement Award, and Deborah Moss-West JD ’94, who received the President’s Award.
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — During the COVID-19 pandemic, students in USC Gould’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic (IPTLC) advised Get Us PPE, a nonprofit startup based in Massachusetts that distributes donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals across the country.
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VERMONT LAW SCHOOL — For the first time in Vermont Law School’s (VLS) nearly 50-year history, this week a cohort of students began their law school careers during the spring semester. The spring start was developed by VLS in response to new juris doctor students whose law school plans were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — At the start of the fall 2020 semester, Jackson reached out to her American Indian Law Professor Ezra Rosser to discuss reforming the AUWCL chapter of the Native American Law Students Association (NALSA), which had fallen inactive in recent years.
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