UCLA Law’s Black Law Students Association launches new student scholarship
UCLA LAW — UCLA School of Law’s Black Law Students Association honored legal leaders in the African-American community and raised more than $120,000 towards a new student scholarship at the group’s 50th Anniversary Gala on April 4.
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UCLA NEWSROOM — Delaram Kamalpour created the “Connecting Art and Law for Liberation” festival to initiate dialogue and harness the powerful work of artists.
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CWRU LAW — First-year law students are now taking electives during their first year of law school. The program began in spring 2019 as a way to engage students in specialty areas before they get further into their academic careers.
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DENVER LAW — The University of Denver Low Income Taxpayer Clinic is an all-star when it comes to helping people in dire need of help with the IRS. Putting in over 1,000 service hours and saving clients over $1.5 million a year, the student-staffed clinic does life-changing work for those buried in tax debt.
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MINNESOTA DAILY — The University of Minnesota Law School’s journal recently launched a legal podcast featuring interviews with authors to make legal topics more accessible. The podcast, called “Experto Crede,” was established by Veena Tripathi. Tripathi is a third-year law student and lead online editor for the Minnesota Law Review.
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UNM LAW — It all started in August 2018: thirteen fellows from the University of New Mexico School of Law’s Chapter of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project descended on local public high schools that serve underrepresented youth
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LAW — Students from the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity are taking a creative approach to get out of doing their homework. Throughout the week of April 8, College of Law students are collecting school supplies that will be donated to Knox County Schools.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — UCI Law student Michaela Posner ’21 was elected this April to be the Law Student At-Large on the ABA Board of Governors for the 2019-2020 year. Posner will join the Law Student Division Council and also be a voting member of the ABA Board of Governors and ABA House of Delegates.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — UCI Law’s Black Law Student Association held its second annual awards gala Saturday, April 6. Highlights of the evening included a keynote address by the Honorable Andre Birotte Jr. of the U.S. District Court (Central District) and remarks from Dean L. Song Richardson.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Several UCI Law students participated in a pro bono nonprofit assessment clinic on April 4, 2019, in Costa Mesa. The clinic was a collaboration of Snell & Wilmer LLP, the Association of Corporate Counsel, Public Law Center and UCI Law.
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