| Alumni gift funds for clinical program at IU | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Two Indiana University alumni, David Elmore and his son D.G. Elmore, have made a $3 million gift to the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington to create scholarships for Entrepreneurship Law Clinic students. Besides instilling their own entrepreneurial achievements into a two-year-old J.... |
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| John Grisham donates his honorarium to sponsor law student interns | By Surajit Sen Sharma |
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In his latest act of philanthropy, John Grisham, ex-practicing attorney and one of the best-selling authors of the country, declared his intent to donate $20,000 to the Texas Access to Justice Commission. The money is the honorarium for his coming speech at the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting sche... |
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| Knight’s fund Yale to create a Law & Media Scholars Program | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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"Yale is positioned to become the center of media lawthinking in the nation." Eric Newton,vice president of Knight’s journalism program has sufficient reasons to declare this. The Law School is to get the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation award of $2.5 million challen... |
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| $20,000 grant to Texas Law School by Texas Bar Foundation | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Armed with a $20,000 grant from the Texas Bar Foundation, the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law created a new position for a Public Service Leadership Fellow. Slated as a one-year, full-time position, the Fellow will help the dean of the law school and the assistant dean for student affairs i... |
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| Supreme Court grants parents the right to represent disabled children in court | By Surajit Sen Sharma |
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On May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Winkelman v. Parma and held that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, granted parents of disabled children independent and enforceable rights, which included their entitlement to a free appropriate public education for their child. The ... |
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| Hope glimmers for illegal immigrant college students | By Amit Agarwal |
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Illegal immigrant college students in the United States are now seeing a glimmer of hope that their hard-earned degrees would not go for waste.With the passage of the Assembly Bill 540 law in 2001, undocumented students were allowed to pay in-state tuition at California state higher education instit... |
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| ‘Naturalizing Jurisprudence:’ Brian Leiter’s jurisprudential papers published | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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University of Texas Law faculty and Director of UT’s Law & Philosophy Program, Professor Brian Leiter’s book entitled Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism andNaturalism in Legal Philosophy has been published by Oxford University Press.Naturalizing Jurisprudenc... |
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| Data about MySpace’ sex predators: AGs won’t relent | By Roshan Tolani |
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"As our states' chief legal officers, we are gravely concerned that sexual predators are using MySpace to lure children into face-to-face encounters and other dangerous activities,” wrote eight U.S. Attorney Generals to social networking website MySpace.MySpace, the third most popular... |
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| Suffolk’s Juvenile Justice Center carries forward Gault legacy | By Gitanjali Hazarika |
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Four decades have gone by, and Suffolk continues to revere and abide by Gault’s “bedrock principle” that children charged with criminal offenses should have legal representation. The president of the Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University, David J. Sargent welcomed Sen... |
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| Law firm extends minority mentoring aid to University of Memphis | Gitanjali Hazarika |
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When law firms team up with law schools to promote or establish scholarship, it is always welcome news. Not because efforts, as these, purge off the tainted reputation firms gain for their alleged money-minting tactics, but because it means they also care for the society. Law firm Wyatt, Tarrant &am... |
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