Southern Illinois Law honors Black History Month with events
DAILY EGYPTIAN — Black History Month kicks off at the beginning of February and is sponsored by the Black Resource Center, the Office of the Associate Chancellor of Diversity and Student Affairs. The kick off event will be at 5 p.m. on Feb. 3 in Shryock Auditorium. The event will feature a presentation on the 15th amendment…
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KENS5 CBC — With more than 20,000 confirmed cases and more than 400 dead, the coronavirus has spread concern worldwide leading to tough decisions to be made.E very summer for the last decade, law professor Robert Hu takes roughly 20 law school students to Beijing, China for a 5-week study program. “We decided out of abundance of…
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THE CAVALIER DAILY — The University’s Law and Medical Schools hosted a two-day conference starting Thursday focusing on the impact of discrimination in public health, entitled “Healing Hate: A Public Health Perspective on Civil Rights in America.” According to Law School Dean Risa Goluboff, the goal was to use a multidisciplinary approach to address the prevalent health and racial…
Read More about University of Virginia Law hosts conference on the impact of discrimination in public healthPodcast: Balancing law school and military service
JD SUPRA — Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have special guest Steven Arango with us — a Marine officer and lawyer — to talk about how he combined his military career with the law, as well as offer some useful tips on getting a clerkship and being published.
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — “They also contribute to a richer, more worldly, law school experience for all our students,” Akron Law dean Christopher J. (C.J.) Peters said. “Right now we have a dozen international students among our J.D. (Juris Doctor) enrollment of about 420,” Peters continued. “Although we anticipate that the program will continue to grow, we take…
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — The University of Arkansas School of Law will host the inaugural class of the Arkansas Public Service Academy on Saturday, Jan. 18. The Arkansas Bar Association and the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service created the program to provide service-minded lawyers with the tools they need for service in…
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BYU LAW — I invite your students to participate again with ours in LawStories on the Mainstage, a national storytelling event hosted by BYU Law. We had excellent participation last year with law students from 29 schools submitting stories and 9 of the 10 finalists representing different law schools.
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UCLA LAW — Three students in UCLA School of Law’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic won a round of applause from movie industry insiders in a packed theater at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, where they attended the premiere of The Cost of Silence, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW — This year’s Citizenship and Equality Colloquium, organized by the University of Colorado Law School’s Immigration and Citizenship Law Program, brings together prominent scholars across immigration law whose research focuses on a range of topics pertaining to citizenship.
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW — The Tax Clinic at the UConn School of Law is seeing an increasing number of clients who earned income as contractors and ended up facing tax penalties because they didn’t understand and follow the rules, according to Professor Lisa Perkins, the clinic’s director. These taxpayers don’t always know that…
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