Duke Law Immigrant and Refugee Project students provide legal aid to detainees
DUKE LAW — In recent months Duke Law student volunteers, collaborating with fronteraTech, a legal nonprofit based in Durham, have provided legal orientation and consultations to more than 100 detained asylum seekers at the Alamance County (N.C.) Detention Center and are seeing encouraging results from their work. So far about 75 percent of the detainees advised…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — “Cuomo Prime Time” host Chris Cuomo ’95 recently spoke with students in Fordham Law’s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic about the clinic’s projects and how to effectively communicate about legal reform to a general audience. Cuomo drew on his experience as a practicing lawyer and two decades as a television journalist to respond…
Read More about CNN anchor Chris Cuomo visits Fordham Law to discuss legal reformU.S Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland presides over Harvard Law moot court competition
HARVARD LAW TODAY — One of the most anticipated events of the year, the competition—the culmination of a two-year process which begins during the 2L year in qualifying rounds—draws hundreds of spectators to the Ames Courtroom as two teams of six 3Ls argue a hypothetical case before an illustrious panel of distinguished jurists. This year, Merrick Garland…
Read More about U.S Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland presides over Harvard Law moot court competitionHofstra Law student Brian Primm awarded Business Law Honors Fellowship from law firm
HOFSTRA LAW NEWS — Hofstra Law student Brian Primm 1L has been selected as the 2019-2020 recipient of the Moritt Hock & Hamroff Business Law Honors Fellowship. The fellowship, which was established in May 2016, is awarded to an incoming law student who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievements and an interest in pursuing a career in business…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Three Lewis & Clark Law School students attended the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Convention and the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (NAPALSA) Conference, both held in Austin, Texas from November 7-10, 2019. This year’s conference focused on encouraging Asian Pacific American (APA) students to interact with and…
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UNIVERSITY MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Such was the case that brought more than 300 students and 130 judges to the University of Miami School of Law recently for the four days of the 2019 Global Oral Hearings of the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot Competition in cooperation with the Center for International Legal Studies…
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NORTHWESTERN NOW — A team from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Bartlit Center on Trial Advocacy won the Midwest Regional ABA Labor Law Trial Competition held in Chicago over the weekend. They now will compete for the national championship in January in New Orleans.
Read More about Northwestern Law team wins ABA Labor Law Trial CompetitionNotre Dame Law hosts expungement clinic for survivors of domestic violence
THE LAW SCHOOL NOTRE DAME — In an effort to address the issue, Chris Kozelichki, a former deputy prosecutor and now assistant director for career development at Notre Dame Law School, and 45 law students hosted an expungement clinic Oct. 29 (Tuesday) at the YWCA of North Central Indiana in South Bend. From 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.,…
Read More about Notre Dame Law hosts expungement clinic for survivors of domestic violencePenn State Dickinson Law establishes food pantry to help alleviate food insecurity for law students
PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — In a study conducted earlier this year by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, almost half of the college students surveyed (48%) reported food insecurity occurred in the previous 30-day period. Discussion about ways to help students at Dickinson Law with food and financial insecurity began at a Diversity…
Read More about Penn State Dickinson Law establishes food pantry to help alleviate food insecurity for law studentsUniversity of Virginia Law students help organize conference on human rights reform
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Students at the University of Virginia School of Law recently helped organize a three-day conference on human rights reforms that was co-hosted by the school’s International Human Rights Clinic in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together about 20 experts with experience in the European Court of Human Rights, the U.N.…
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