Hofstra law launches summer program for incoming students
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…
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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,…
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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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UNIVERSITY OF TULSA — Over the weekend of January 30 to February 1, two teams from The University of Tulsa College of Law competed in the Region 11 heat of the Regional 2020 National Trial Competition (NTC). One of the TU Law teams – comprised of 3L students Caleb Beacham, Brian Deer and Tim Schaefer – emerged victorious.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — The William & Mary Jefferson Chapter of BLSA (Black Law Students Association) kicked off Black History Month with its annual symposium on Saturday, February 1. The topic of this year’s event was “Social Activism and the Law,” and was moderated by Professor Timothy Zick, the John Marshall Professor of Government…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Third-year students in William & Mary Law School’s Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic love an argument, and have recently logged the miles to prove it.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Eight William & Mary Law School students traveled to Nashville last month to attend the 37th Annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference hosted by the American Law Institute’s Continuing Legal Education (ALI-CLE) program on January 23-25. The students attended the event at the invitation of Robert H. Thomas and…
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