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Perspectives: Meeting the Standards, Not Lowering Them

Improving law school diversity starts with preparing minority students in high school and college, through mentorship and guidance, for the rigors they will face.

April 12, 2009

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Perspectives: Meeting the Standards, Not Lowering Them

Improving law school diversity starts with preparing minority students in high school and college, through mentorship and guidance, for the rigors they will face.

April 12, 2009

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Haddon Selected as University of Maryland Law School Dean, Marking First for an African-American

University of Maryland officials last week announced the appointment of Phoebe A. Haddon as dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, effective July 1, 2009. Haddon, who will be the ninth dean and the second woman in the position, will be the first African-American to serve as the dean of the University of Maryland system’s only law school.

April 5, 2009

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A 22-year Transformation

Dr. Modesto Maidique reflects on the evolution he has shepherded Florida International University through as he prepares to leave his post as president after 22 years.

January 21, 2009

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Carter Attorney General Griffin B. Bell dies at 90

He joined the Army in 1941, before the United States entered World War II, and served five years in the transportation corps, rising from private to major.

January 5, 2009

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Civil rights leader James Bevel dies

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Rev. James L. Bevel, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction has died, a relative said. He was 72. Bevel died Friday in Virginia after a fight with pancreatic cancer, said a daughter, Chevara Orrin, who lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He […]

December 21, 2008

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Law School Admission Council Launches Diversity Campaign

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) today announced that it is launching a $1.5 million integrated campaign designed to encourage racially and ethnically diverse first- and second-year college students to discover career opportunities in law and to choose a path in undergraduate school that helps them get there.  The campaign – DiscoverLaw.org – is the […]

November 23, 2008

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Need Help Getting a Job in the Obama Administration? Talent Bank May Be the Answer

The Warren Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law is teaming up with a group of liberal philanthropists to help minorities and women win jobs in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration.

November 16, 2008

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Hearing on UT Border-Wall Issue Being Webcast Today

The University of Texas Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall has been granted a general hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, that will be held today (Wednesday, Oct 22). from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the commission’s Washington, D.C., headquarters and webcast to a global audience, UT announced.

October 21, 2008

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ACLU Picks Brooklyn Law Professor as President

The American Civil Liberties Union, an influential civil rights group, elected a new president on Saturday, choosing a constitutional law scholar who said she would reach out to African-Americans and to religious communities where the group has often been viewed more as foe than friend.

October 19, 2008

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Scholarship Lets Sudan Native Get Education

WASHINGTON, D.C. Makwei Mabioor Deng looked out the shuttle-bus window on his way to class at George Washington University and wondered aloud whether there were crocodiles in the Potomac River. Three weeks earlier, he had never been on a plane, never heard of a microwave oven, never seen a library full of books and computers. […]

October 12, 2008

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Puerto Rican Fund Expands Its Title

New York’s Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund is changing its name.

October 7, 2008