Lewis & Clark Law hosts virtual ceremony honoring environmental law graduates
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Lewis & Clark’s environmental law program honored several alumni on October 13, 2020, in a virtual event. Three alums were honored as Distinguished Environmental Law Graduates in recognition of their significant contributions to the environmental or natural resources law fields.
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PENN STATE LAW — Penn State Law in University Park students recently took on a new challenge: a virtual mock trial. This year, the Buffalo-Niagara Mock Trial Competition, one of the largest national invitationals in the country with 25 teams competing, moved to a remote format via Zoom in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition are pleased to announce the sixth year of the Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program, a competitive program that awards scholarships to JD students pursuing joint degrees in law and technology.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students are volunteering their time and skills to ensure the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. With the COVID-19 crisis still pummeling the country, Americans may face more obstacles to exercising the franchise this year than ever before.
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UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Puerto Rico School of Law and its Pro Bono Program are joining the celebration of the Pro Bono Week instituted by the American Bar Association. The University of Puerto Rico School of Law is dubbed Facing the Challenge: Pro bono response to extreme events.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — If there’s an urgent ring to the name of William & Mary Law School’s new student organization, ASAP, it’s deliberate. With a contentious national election coming up fast, and with endless headlines about problems at the polls during the primaries, students knew that help was needed as soon as possible.
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REUTERS — Harvard Law School, which moved its fall classes to an online only format as the coronavirus pandemic made in-person learning a health risk, has now told students it will stay remote for the rest of the academic year as case numbers rise in its home state of Massachusetts.
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ABA JOURNAL — Approximately 30,000 people took the exam, and it’s believed to have been the first professional licensing exam administered remotely, according to Judith Gundersen, president of the NCBE. In an email to the ABA Journal, she said it appears that more than 98% of applicants had no software issues.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Work or class obligations are among the top barriers to voting faced by students or young people in general, said Campbell Streator, the executive director of EVC National. Student government leaders and national get-out-the-vote organizations want a designated holiday instead and classes replaced with voter engagement efforts.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — The student attorneys in the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and the new Entrepreneurship Law Clinic assist small businesses and nonprofit organizations in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia in the areas of corporate, commercial, and general transactional law.
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