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Social Reality: Is Needed Justice Reform in America Possible?

Higher Education Inquirer

Law firms, bar associations, and the established legal profession are unlikely to willingly give up the control they have over legal services, even if it means denying access to justice for those who cannot afford traditional legal representation. How is Legal Reform Possible?

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Adult learners: 4 important ways to better support them

University Business

When I went to law school right out of college, I was the youngest person in my law school class; however, my best friend turned out to be the oldest. Together our unique strengths and weaknesses complemented each other, helping us navigate the demands of law school.

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Honoring Dr. King’s legacy with our actions and our impact

UW Presidential Blog

Indeed, while times of uncertainty and rapid change can create anxiety, they also create the potential for change, and we must continue to seek progress together with action and intention, in the model that Dr. King exemplified throughout his life of service and advocacy.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

Her list of published work is exhaustive with a special interest in using “computational approaches to model cognitive processes that focus on how people divide the world into categories,” according to Bowdoin College’s website. News Ranking’s public law school ranks 18 spots to #6.

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UC Hastings proposed Event Policy smacks down the ‘heckler’s veto’

FIRE

At a law school especially, students must learn that persuasion comes from improving your argument, not by yelling over your adversaries. UC Hastings, a public law school fully bound by the First Amendment, pledged to revise its policies to better protect student free speech rights.

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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. She was never prescriptive, and I think that’s really rare in the law school setting.

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Most universities are charities: so what?

HEPI

It favours collaboration over competition, and its requirement for purpose-based governance challenges the increasingly prevalent corporate model, where effective power and authority is shared, in varying degrees, between Council and Executive, and where academic participation is greatly diminished.