CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law students win regional moot court competition
CLEVELAND MARSHALL COLLEGE OF LAW — C|M|LAW’s Thurgood Marshall National Moot Court Team defeated Loyola Chicago School of Law in the championship round of the Midwest Regional competition last Friday – a victory marking CMLAW’s third regional championship win in the past four years! Anita Davenport, Vanessa Gomez and Alexis Bovell prepared the brief, which was argued by…
Read More about CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law students win regional moot court competitionDuke Law First Amendment Clinic files brief in support of journalist
DUKE LAW — In early February, Duke Law School’s First Amendment Clinic filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals in Washington. The case, Brian Green v. Pierce County, concerns the interpretation of Washington’s Media Shield Law and Public Records Act. Clinic argues that state’s Media Shield Law demands broad interpretation, includes YouTuber as member…
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11 ALIVE — A group of Georgia State University law students are trading a typical spring break to help immigrants behind bars. It’s part of their alternative spring break program… This year, eight GSU law students will tackle that task with the help of attorneys from the southern poverty law center.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Through a series of career panels and networking opportunities, University of Houston Law Center students and recent alumni interacted with legal professionals and explored job options during the Career Development Office’s Public Interest Career Week. The festivities concluded last Friday with the Government & Public Interest Table Talk in the…
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HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is launching a new summer pre-law program to help students develop the critical skills needed to succeed in law school. Hofstra Law’s Edge Ahead: 1L Advantage Program will expose students to the law school experience and train them in legal research…
Read More about Hofstra law launches summer program for incoming studentsChief prosecutor of Nuremberg Trials Ben Ferencz speaks at University of Miami Law
THE MIAMI HURRICANE.COM — The Cardozo Jewish Legal Society hosted an event at the School of Law Feb. 6. with Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. The diverse audience of about 300 students, professors, community members and Holocaust survivors was captivated by Ferencz’s retelling of his experiences as chief prosecutor of Nazi…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law recently won the 12th annual Hunton Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship, an annual competition organized by the Blakely Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. The competition was from Jan. 30-Feb. 1.
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ESCUELA DE DERECHO — With the motto: “Freedom for convicted innocents”, the UPR School of Law, launched the DNA Post-Conviction Project, as announced today by Dean, Vivian I. Neptune-Rivera, an initiative that will allow prisoners in Puerto Rico, to carry out their claims of wrongful conviction in order to be exonerated. Specifically, the DNA Post-Conviction Project will…
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND NEWSROOM — “This guy” was Chase Whittaker, a fellow 1L student hailing from San Diego. After a 2017 trip to Livingstone, Zambia as an undergraduate student majoring in public policy at San Diego State University, Whittaker returned to the states knowing that his work in Zambia wasn’t done. After researching internal revenue code,…
Read More about University of Richmond Law student Chase Wittaker leads education non-profit in ZambiaSouthwestern Law students Vanessa Barnett and Tamar Chobanian win ABA Negotiation Competition
ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — The finals of the 2020 ABA Negotiation Competition featured a long-anticipated battle for regional supremacy: Northwestern versus Southwestern. In the end, the Southwestern Law School team of Vanessa Barnett and Tamar Chobanian emerged as the champions for 2020, besting the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law duo of Emilie Alexandra McConnachie and Conner Collins…
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