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Lawyering professor wins university teaching award
Law professor wins national teaching award from mineral law foundation
University of Kansas School of Law Professor John Peck was awarded the 2018 Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award by the trustees of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. ...
Kansas Bar Association honors KU Legal Aid Clinic for providing free legal services
The University of Kansas School of Law’s Legal Aid Clinic received a Pro Bono Award from the Kansas Bar Association at the annual Kansas Bar Foundation recognition ceremony and dinner last month in Overland Park. ...
Homeland security simulation prepares military, veteran, civilian students for real-world emergencies
– Local emergency management teams have a new tool at their disposal. Military, veteran and civilian students in the University of Kansas’ new homeland security master’s program created and implemented an emergency plan for a long-term blackout during a simulation-style practicum June 18-19 at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland...
KU law students make honor roll for pro bono service
Twenty-nine University of Kansas School of Law students contributed more than 3,373 hours of free legal services over the past year, earning a spot on KU Law’s Pro Bono Honor Roll. ...
Law school honors 2018 graduates for scholarship, leadership and service
The University of Kansas School of Law honored Class of 2018 graduates at a hooding ceremony May 12. During the ceremony, seven students received awards for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community. ...
KU law student receives competitive national labor law fellowship
University of Kansas law student Elliott Brewer will spend the summer in Washington, D.C., advocating for workers’ rights as the recipient of a prestigious Peggy Browning Fellowship. ...
Alumni receive top award from KU law school
KU ranks 18th among public law schools for employment at nation's largest firms
The University of Kansas School of Law ranks in the top 25 percent of law schools sending graduates to the nation’s largest law firms, according to the National Law Journal’s annual report on “Go-To Law Schools.”...
Conference to explore collaborations between Indian tribes, states
KU students advance to national finals in transactional law competition
A team of University of Kansas School of Law students will compete in the finals of the National Transactional LawMeet next month after winning the regional round in Provo, Utah. ...
Lecturer to address link between domestic violence, animal cruelty
A New Zealand lawyer will discuss the connection between domestic violence and animal cruelty during the 2018 Diplomat’s Forum at the University of Kansas School of Law. ...
KU law students top regional trial competition, advance to nationals
A University of Kansas School of Law mock trial team is heading to nationals after winning the qualifying rounds of the National Trial Competition this month in Fargo, North Dakota. ...
Law school symposium to explore future of public education
Law students, Legal Services for Students assisting with free tax preparation
As tax season gets underway, two University of Kansas groups are offering free tax preparation services for those who qualify. ...
Free KU clinic to help clients expunge criminal record, start with 'clean slate'
People who have been arrested or convicted of crimes often face barriers to employment, housing or other opportunities – even long after they have served their sentences. ...
Professor outlines environmental degradation to Mediterranean
Climate change is posing problems around the world to the way people live and feed themselves. In the Mediterranean Basin, a vital region to dozens of nations, it is exacerbating the existing problems of environmental degradation, agricultural land misuse, pollution, population increases and declining species. A University of Kansas law...
$2 million gift to establish law scholarship, liberal arts research fund at KU
Law professor calls for centrist approach to arbitration, removing it from 'class-action battlefield'
Law students win top honors in 2 national moot court competitions
The nationally ranked University of Kansas School of Law moot court program is off to a stellar start in the 2017-2018 season, snagging a national championship and a second-place finish. ...
Law review symposium will examine inequity and the law
While the law is equated with justice, it is not free from the inequities that exist in society. Legal scholars and thinkers from around the country will gather in Lawrence this week to explore how inequity affects their fields of expertise, including education, immigration and business. ...
KU receives grant to establish intelligence, national security curriculum
The University of Kansas has received a grant to develop an intelligence and national security curriculum to provide students with the capabilities crucial to the national security interest of the United States. ...
KU to host legal education conference
Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference, “Justice, Professionalism, and the Lawyer as Public Citizen: Teaching Across Learning Experiences,” will take place Friday and Saturday at the University of Kansas School of Law. ...
New class takes first-of-its-kind approach to applying literature to international law, improving legal writing
William Shakespeare is no stranger to college campuses. But his works and those of Albert Camus, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and E.M. Forster are usually read and discussed more in theater and English classrooms than in law schools. ...
New law professorship honors memorable KU educator
University of Kansas School of Law alumnus Art Piculell of Scottsdale, Arizona, has made a $500,000 gift to establish a professorship honoring the late Professor William R. Scott, who taught law at KU from 1947 to 1979. ...
Business law professor receives Chancellors Club Teaching Award
KU law school providing free legal assistance for DACA renewal
The University of Kansas School of Law will provide free legal assistance to individuals eligible to renew their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) authorization before the Oct. 5 deadline set by the White House. ...
Environmental justice overlooked in Dakota pipeline saga, legal expert says
Even though there have already been leaks since oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline this spring, American Indian tribes still have a chance to stop it, according to a University of Kansas professor. ...
Double vision: KU Project for Innocence frees wrongfully imprisoned man after finding doppelganger
The outlook for Richard Jones appeared bleak when University of Kansas School of Law Project for Innocence interns Chapman Williams and Chad Neswick took over his case in 2015. ...
KU law professors provide research, development of Kansas' innovative public benefit corporations legislation
Since 2010, numerous states have passed legislation providing for the establishment of public benefit corporations — for-profit businesses that choose to also make promoting the public good part of their corporate purpose. Kansas recently enacted such legislation, with aspects that make it one of the most innovative and unique in...