House Passes Resolution Rebuking the President on Iraq |
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After three full days of intense debate, the House passed a resolution today that opposes Bush’s Iraq policy. Speaker
of the House Nancy Pelosi said of the 246-to-182 vote, “The passage of
this legislation signals a change in direction that will end the
fighting and bring our tr...
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/16/us.iraq.ap/index.html
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Battling Today’s Crime Problems, Discussed at AAAS This Morning by UCB Law Professor |
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Franklin Zimring, law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), is speaking out about his new book, The Great American Crime Decline, which provides enlightening observations on how to keep crime rates to a minimum. Zimring
notes that, contrary to forecasts by policy experts...
URL: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/02/16_AAAS.shtml
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Kaine Calls for Racial Reconciliation, Urges Students to Pursue Public Service |
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Man, I wish I was there for Virginia Governor Tim Kaine’s speech at Virginia Law this Saturday! The highlights of Kaine’s speech, which are viewable at Virginia Law’s website, sound really insightful and inspiring. For
instance, “Kaine encouraged students to cons...
URL: http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2007_spr/kaine.htm?type=feed
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Workplace Self-Governance - Is It Obsolete? |
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Cynthia A. Estlund, a leading scholar in labor and employment law at NYU, will present “Putting Law to Work: The
Resurrection of Workplace Self-Governance,” a lecture that explores the
relationship between the workplace and democracy, on Feb. 28 at the
Case Western Reserve Unive...
URL: http://lawwww.cwru.edu/curriculum/news_detail.asp?id=302&content_id=5
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Stetson’s Moot Court Wins National Competition Second Year in a Row |
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Congratulations to Stetson University College of Law for winning the 2007 National Tax Moot Court Competition on February 10! Katie
Cole and Tino Lisella made a formidable team as they beat out 16 other
teams during the three-day competition in St. Petersburg, FL. Pr...
URL: http://www.law.stetson.edu/communications/news.asp?id=298
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Top Realty Scholar Joins UCLA Faculty After 17 Years at USC |
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After
spending 17 years teaching business law at the USC Lusk Center for Real
Estate, Stuart Gabriel has decided to join the UCLA Anderson School of
Management.I think it’s safe to say that USC and UCLA are arch-nemeses. I
often observe rabid football fans yelling obscenities about t...
URL: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/News/Detail.aspx?page=20&recordid=1029
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Not Just Hot Air: UH Law Conference Considers Biofuels, Wind Energy as Alternative Fuels |
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Death of Commercial Law Has Not Been Greatly Exaggerated |
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Larry
T. Garvin, law professor at Michael E. Moritz College of Law at Ohio
State University, encourages the resuscitation of commercial law in his
forthcoming article, “The Strange Death of Academic Commercial Law,”
which will appear in the Ohio State Law Journal. Garvin...
URL: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/digest.php?ID=63
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Growing Program Helps UC Davis Law Grads Serve Public |
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UC Davis School of Law is
expected to triple the size of its Loan Repayment Assistance Program,
which aids graduates with repaying their educational debts. For
UC Davis law students who want to dedicate their energies to public
service, this would surely alleviate the average debt of $57,6...
URL: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8046
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Stacey Olson ‘06 Sweeps Top Prizes in ABA National Student Tax Competition |
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Stacey Olson, winner of both first prizes in the LL.M. division of the ABA’s
2007 Law Student Tax Challenge, beat out 41 teams representing 28 law
schools in the competition, which was held in Hollywood, FL, last month. Professor Jack Bogdanski, the director of Lewis & Clark’...
URL: http://law.lclark.edu/dept/lawac/abataxcomp06.html
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