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Cold Case Justice Initiative: Recent Killings Just Continuation of a Trend
As part of a summary released today by the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group and prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) has called upon the…
Scholar Spotlight: Milanoi Koiyiet ’15
Milanoi Koiyiet is a graduate student in the College of Law. However, she is originally from Kenya, where she already has a law degree. Due to her work ensuring justice for women and girls with intellectual disabilities who have undergone…
Media Coverage of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at Dineen Hall
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Law Student Elected to ABA’s Board of Governors
Christopher Jennison, a second year law student at the College of Law, has been elected as the Law Student at-Large for the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors. In this role, Jennison will not only have full voting rights on…
Cold Case Justice Initiative Presents Case on U.S. Human Rights Violations to United Nations
Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald, law professors and co-directors of the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at the College of Law, were at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, during the week of March 16. There they met with staff…
College of Law Helps Launch ‘Seven Days for Syria’
The “Arab Spring,” a wave of unrest that began with the Tunisian revolution in 2010, reached Syria on March 15, 2011, when residents of a small southern city took to the streets to protest the torture of students who had…
Law Professor LaVonda Reed Named Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy today announced that LaVonda N. Reed, professor in the College of Law, will join the Office of the Provost as associate provost for faculty affairs. In her new capacity, Reed will be a…
Raising the Bar: College of Law Revises Standards to Improve Student Success
A rigorous two-day test of legal knowledge, the bar exam is the final hurdle for those studying law to be admitted as practicing attorneys. To ensure that new graduates taking the bar exam had academic assistance, the College of Law initiated a revised set of academic standards several years ago.
College of Law Opens First Comprehensive Veterans Legal Clinic in New York State
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College of Law Community Mourns Loss of Professor Jeremy Blumenthal
Professor Jeremy Blumenthal, who joined the College of Law as an assistant professor in August 2005, died on Dec. 18. He was featured as an outstanding professor in the National Jurist (March 2011), where he is identified as being one…