Good news for Iranian American students: IABA scholarship to aid you | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Here are some good tidings for all you bright Iranian American students in the U.S. rearing to hone your legal skills. A mentoring association is ready to help you tide the fund crunch and emerge as a winner.Each year, the Iranian American Bar Association (IABA) selects one or more law students in g... |
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How can a writer who writes so horribly be the legal writing director at FAMU law school? | By Surajit Sen Sharma |
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It's not surprising that students, especially law students, would expect their professors to practice what they preach. So, it's not surprising that Victoria Dawson, the legal writing director at Florida A&M University (FAMU) found her students questioning her rights to teach them.&... |
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Law Center at Syracuse University receives the fund to develop new clinics | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli gave $125,000 grant to Syracuse University College of Law's New Technology Law Center (SUNTEC) to assist New York state universities to establish technology commercialization clinics in their respective graduate schools. This outreach program will help the gradu... |
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$1 million endowment for St. Mary's University's Law School | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust has donated $1 million as gift to the St. Mary's University Law School. This endowment fund will be utilized in providing scholarships to law students from Webb County in South Texas. The first lot of scholarships will be distributed in the fall of 2008. The V... |
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Guantanamo judges dismiss trial of Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's chauffeur | By Surajit Sen Sharma |
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Salim Ahmed Hamdan of Yemen is not a happy man. His unhappiness with the state of world affairs had led him at first to join al-Qaeda. His persistent and visible unhappiness had brought him quick promotions within the terrorist organization. He continued to be unhappy until he was chosen as the... |
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"Refugee Roulette" gives insight into asylum adjudication process | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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With the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision-makers varying widely on the rates at which they grant asylum and disparities writ large, these asylum seekers take a potluck at a chance to win refuge in the U.S. "Refugee Roulette," is a ne... |
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Denver law students fight for federal inmates’ free speech | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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A three-member student team from Denver University's Sturm College of Law belonging to Civil Rights and Disability Law Clinic is trying to lift government restrictions imposed on federal inmates. The trio, under their professor Laura Rovner, has been working on an inmate's case for a ye... |
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Fordham Law Center bags major research contract | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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In a global consortium undertaking a study of electronic communications, Fordham Law School's Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) has been roped in as the U.S. partner. The study, "Comparison of Privacy and Trust Policies in Electronic Communications" to be done for the Eu... |
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New York takes lead by passing law to address conflicts of interest in student loan industry | By Surajit Sen Sharma |
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Governor Eliot Spitzer signed the landmark Student Lending Accountability, Transparency and Enforcement (SLATE) Act of 2007, on May 30. With the signing of this law, New York becomes the first state in the country to offer pro-active legislation addressing abuses in the student loan industry.&n... |
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Susan Feathers to head Stanford's Public Interest Law Center | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Susan J. Feathers has been named as executive director of the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School, effective July. Feathers has 14 years of experience leading public service initiatives in law schools including Brooklyn Law School and Ya... |
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