Baylor Law hosts Adoption Day for community
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — It doesn’t take a cape and a mask to be a hero – it takes a big heart and a lot of love. This was the message Baylor Law Professor Bridget Fuselier had for members of the 20 foster families who adopted children into their forever homes during Baylor Law’s Adoption Day in November. The annual…
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YAHOO FINANCE — BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation in the legal field, today announced that it will hold its fifth annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference Feb. 6-7, convening prominent federal and state judges, as well as legal and linguistics scholars committed to furthering the corpus linguistics discipline. The symposium is part of BYU…
Read More about BYU Law hosts Law and Corpus Linguistics ConferenceUCLA Law student Christopher Chiang wins top prizes at Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition
UCLA LAW — UCLA School of Law students Christopher Chiang ’20 and Graham Fenton ’20 won the top two prizes in the Recording Academy’s 22nd Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition on Jan. 24 and were honored at a number of red-carpet events during Grammy Awards week.
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DUKE LAW — Opening a remarkable conference she described as a “love letter” to future women lawyers, Duke Law School Dean Kerry Abrams praised the editors-in-chief of 16 top law journals who had initiated the event and charged them with carrying on work to advance women’s rights that was begun 100 years ago. The daylong event marked a singular…
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS — Florida State University College of Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) placed first in the Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition at the Southern Region of the Black Law Students Association’s regional convention. The competition took place Jan. 30–Feb. 2 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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THE GAINESVILLE SUN — One a recent Tuesday on Gainesville’s college campuses, four accomplished speakers found a common theme in Lewin’s theory of “unfreezing”, “change” and “freezing”. First, UF’s Bob Graham Center, Smathers Library and the Levin College of Law sponsored a talk from Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of current best seller, “The…
Read More about University of Florida Law co-sponsors talk from author Jon Meacham and former Senator Bill Nelson on the history of American politicsLewis & Clark Law Animal Litigation Clinic files lawsuit against USDA for failure to enforce animal and food safety
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Animal Law Litigation Clinic, representing animal protection groups, sued Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and the Department of Agriculture today for failing to protect pigs who are too sick or injured to walk at slaughterhouses, posing serious risks to animals and food safety.
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law Animal Litigation Clinic files lawsuit against USDA for failure to enforce animal and food safetyFormer ACLU president and NYLS Law professor Nadine Strossen speaks at Marquette Law
MARQUETTE WIRE — The Marquette University Law School held an event focusing on free speech and hate speech Monday. It was sponsored by the Marquette Law Federalist Society and the Association of Women Lawyers. The event’s speaker was Nadine Strossen, the first female president of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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YAHOO FINANCE — New York Law School (NYLS) announced new programs and activities in coordination with the start of Legalweek 2020. In 2018, preLaw magazine ranked NYLS No. 8 of 30 “Top Schools for Legal Technology.”
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NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law School sponsors an annual writing competition on the topic of legal ethics. All students with an interest in legal ethics are invited and encouraged to participate.
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