California Western Law faces lawsuit from transgender student
LAW.COM — A former student at California Western School of Law has sued the school, claiming that faculty and students discriminated against and harassed her because she is transgender.
Read More about California Western Law faces lawsuit from transgender studentBoston University Law students spend winter break providing legal aid to asylum seekers
BU TODAY — On a December weekend when most students were frantically cramming for finals or getting in some last-minute Christmas shopping, Chelsea Tejada (LAW’20) was visiting safe houses in the hills outside Tijuana, Mexico, helping LGBTQ refugees from Central America who are seeking asylum in the United States.
Read More about Boston University Law students spend winter break providing legal aid to asylum seekersGovernment shutdown leaves law student externs scrambling
LAW.COM — Hundreds of law students across the country who expected to extern this semester at federal agencies now find themselves in limbo amid the nearly three-week-old partial government shutdown.
Read More about Government shutdown leaves law student externs scramblingPodcast: Revamping legal education to develop leadership skills
LEGAL TALK NETWORK — Law schools should be a training ground for leaders, but are the concepts of leadership actually being taught? This episode of the State Bar of Texas Podcast is about how law schools need to revamp their programs to include leadership training for students.
Read More about Podcast: Revamping legal education to develop leadership skillsNotre Dame Law students attend professor’s testimony before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
NOTRE DAME LAW — A group of five Notre Dame Law students had the opportunity to attend a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights last month in Washington, D.C.
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TEXAS A&M LAW — Current Texas A&M University School of Law students enrolled in the Immigrant Rights Clinic won an appeal to reopen the case of a client from Somalia who fears being tortured there by Al-Shabaab and the government as a Christianity convert.
Read More about Texas A&M Law students focus on human rights issues in clinical coursesHarvard Law hosts annual symposium on the criminal justice system
HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School’s Harvard Defenders hosted the 7th annual Litman Symposium on Nov. 15. This year’s event, titled “Defining Justice: Building a more equitable criminal legal system,” featured a Q&A with keynote speakers Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Sarah Boyette ’10 and Simmi Kaur ’17, an attorney with the Bronx Defenders.
Read More about Harvard Law hosts annual symposium on the criminal justice systemUCLA Law’s Reentry Legal Clinic helps people return to civilian life after incarceration
UCLA LAW — On the second Saturday of every month, a dozen students in UCLA School of Law’s Reentry Legal Clinic gather early in the morning to travel from Westwood to Watts. They come prepared but leave their books behind. There will be no school credit for them to earn in the important work ahead.
Read More about UCLA Law’s Reentry Legal Clinic helps people return to civilian life after incarcerationA first-year law student’s perspective on final exams
LAW.COM — A first-year law student at University of Michigan Law reflects on her first year and final exams.
Read More about A first-year law student’s perspective on final examsUniversity of Virginia Law Weekly celebrates 70 years
UVA LAW — Articles in the Virginia Law Weekly offer readers the scoop on a microcosmic community: that of a law student. Accumulated over 70 years, they create a powerful narrative of academic and social life.
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