University of Houston Law Center students win energy law dispute resolution competition
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER –The University of Houston Law Center’s Alternate Dispute Resolution team has secured a win in a national competition. The team, composed of 3L students Samin Agha and Andrew Vaughan, beat the University of Texas School of Law in the final round of the Energy Law Negotiation Competition.
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ABA JOURNAL — First Generation Professionals, a law school group founded in 2017, which focuses on both mentoring and the “sometimes arcane rules of decorum,” according to the news release.
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BAYLOR LAW — In a unanimous final-round decision, the Baylor Law team of Kyle Gardner, Haley Mowdy and Kyle Stone won the 2019 National Championship of the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC), the largest moot court competition in the nation.
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HECHINGER REPORT — Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books. The survival strategy is raising prices and increasing debt for graduate students.
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LAW.COM — Law schools are generally supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students and employees—at least on paper. That’s the takeaway from the National LGBT Bar Association’s inaugural Law School Climate Survey-2019.
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LAW.COM — Nine teams of students from New York City law schools gathered at Brooklyn Law School last Thursday to pitch their ideas for using legal technology to improve access to justice and make legal processes more efficient. It was the first time Brooklyn Law School opened its CUBE Innovators competition to teams from other law schools.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — Teams from Wayne State University Law School, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and University of Michigan Law School competed Friday, March 29, in the Jaffe Transactional Law Competition hosted by Wayne Law.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — AUWCL presented the inaugural Legends & Leaders Dinner, hosted by the John Sherman Myers Society. The event honored the dedication and philanthropy of the AUWCL community, along with this year’s scholarship recipients, including 2018-19 Myers Law Scholarship recipients 2L Lisa Ndembu Lumeya and 3L Stephanie M. Daigle.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — On April 8, 2019, students from three classes at the UB School of Law – International Law, Law and Human Rights, and Immigrant Rights Clinic – traveled to Washington, D.C. for an interactive discussion with staff from the Organization of American States.
Read More about University of Baltimore Law students visit Organization of American States for human rights discussionUniversity at Buffalo Law clinic files amicus brief in Supreme Court freedom of information case
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — U.S. Supreme Court justices considering a major freedom of information case this spring will have before them a friend-of-the-court brief created by students in University at Buffalo Law’s Civil Liberties and Transparency Clinic. It was filed in the case of Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media.
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