New survey measures how law schools support LGBTQ students
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.
Read More about Law schools experiment with hackathons, competitions, and theater performancesWayne Law and University of Michigan Law students win Jaffe Transactional Law Competition
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.
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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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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.
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law students share experiences in unique first-year electives programDenver Law alumni lead North Carolina Central Law and University of South Dakota Law tax clinics
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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