Hofstra Law launches Legal Tech Skills Certificate
HOFSTRA LAW — The six-week Legal Tech Skills Certificate will teach lawyers, paralegals, and legal support personnel the essential skills needed to use the programs law firms already use daily – Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat.
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NORTHWESTERN NOW — It’s been a busy few weeks for entrepreneurs across the Northwestern University campus. Tight teams of undergraduate and business school students at various phases of ideation and fundraising came together virtually at a variety of events to highlight creative inventions in time for the United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Each year, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Bok Visiting International Professors Program brings several internationally recognized experts to the Law School to lead intensive seminars, engage with faculty and students, and bring important global perspectives to the Law School community.
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THE CRIME REPORT — It’s “misleading and counterproductive” to block the use of machine-learning algorithms in the justice system on the grounds that some of them may be subject to racial bias, according to a forthcoming study in the American Criminal Law Review.
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NEBRASKA TODAY — Beginning in the fall semester of 2021, the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center will offer new technology governance curriculum. The classes are taught in the College of Law but are open to all graduate students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, acknowledging the interdisciplinary nature of technology.
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DUKE TODAY — Reporters covering the complicated yet bipartisan reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act can more easily monitor the legislation through a new tracker designed by students at Duke and American universities and Future Tense.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Baltimore School of Law recently embarked on a joint project with the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration to investigate updates to Maryland law to support the safe deployment of connected and automated vehicle technology.
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UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Peter Lee recently presented a piece titled “Autonomy, Copyright, and the Structure of Creative Production” at the Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium. The piece examines the role of copyright in promoting vertical disintegration and creative autonomy in the film, music, and publishing industries.
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NEOTA LOGIC — California law provides job-protected leave from work to qualified employees who have a pregnancy related disability or need time off to bond with a new child from childbirth, adoption, or foster care. Starting in 2021, both forms of leave apply to California employers with just 5 or more employees.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS — For the third weekend in a row, the Florida State University College of Law Moot Court Team has won first place in a national moot court competition—their fourth championship of the 2020-21 season. On March 13, the team won the 2021 UCLA School of Law Cybersecurity Moot Court Competition.
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