Exchange students studying in Europe caught between closed borders and flight cancellations

March 31, 2020

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Exchange students have been left stranded across Europe by the coronavirus pandemic, as flights are canceled and borders erected amid mixed signals over whether to stay or go, according to student groups.

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Opinion: Colleges must rethink testing, grading, and assessment during the pandemic

March 31, 2020

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Rethinking how we assess, test and grade our students gives not only them but also instructors needed flexibility during an impossible time, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis write.

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UCLA Law co-launches National Online Trial Advocacy Competition

March 31, 2020

UCLA LAW — Amid in-person school closures and global travel restrictions, UCLA School of Law has created online trial competitions for the nearly 10,000 law students and undergraduates whose competitions were cancelled as the world grapples with the COVID-19 crisis.

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University of North Carolina Law professor John V. Orth discusses transition to remote teaching

March 31, 2020

NEW YORK INTELLIGENCER — The sudden switch has even seasoned faculty with decades of experience in an unfamiliar situation, including University of North Carolina Law School professor John V. Orth. Orth has been teaching at UNC since 1978, but he’s never quite been in a situation like this. He spoke with Intelligencer yesterday evening about his

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Pepperdine Law hosts online moot court competition

March 31, 2020

PEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — Caruso Law chose to charge on, and last week, the school held the preliminary rounds of our annual first-year moot court competition via Zoom. Nearly 40 faculty, Moot Court & Law Review members, and alumni supported the competition by judging multiple rounds, admitting it was nearly as much of a

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A look at University of Virginia Law’s transition to online courses and operations

March 31, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — In the span of eight days, the novel coronavirus has changed almost everything about how the University of Virginia School of Law operates. Transitioning to online courses and working remotely was an unprecedented effort involving faculty, staff and students working cooperatively and nonstop since the University first announced

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A look at the University of Akron Law’s Immigration and Human Rights Law Clinic

March 31, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF AKRON SCHOOL OF LAW — With four wins in the five asylum cases that it took on this past fall, along with a 100% grant rate for five bond cases, the Immigration and Human Rights Law Clinic at The University of Akron School of Law continued its high rate of success in representing asylum-seeking

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Fordham Law student Nadav Ben Zur honored with national legal writing award

March 30, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Nadav Ben Zur ’20 first learned about the distinction between legislative and nonlegislative rules in his 1L Legislation and Regulation (“Leg-Reg”) class. This is an important concept in administrative law because agencies are required by law to provide stakeholders with notice and the opportunity to comment on legislative rules, but they need

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Lewis & Clark Law Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Program announces inaugural Diehl Fellowships

March 30, 2020

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Lewis & Clark Law School’s Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Program announced the first four recipients for Diehl Fellowships. Three current students and one recent graduate were selected from a pool of applicants in February.

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Lewis & Clark Law Earthrise Law Center settles case protecting Atlantic Wild Salmon in Puget Sound

March 30, 2020

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — On February 11, 2020, Earthrise Law Center, the environmental legal clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, settled a case protecting wild salmon from a net pen collapse that released hundreds of thousand non-native Atlantic salmon into the Puget Sound.

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