Posted by David
Logan
03/01/2013 at 11:05 AM
Dean Logan is in Alabama all weekend on the 2013 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage sponsored by the Faith & Politics Institute. Follow @RWULaw on Twitter to hear Dean Logan's experience.
Congressman John Lewis and Dean Logan at the beginning of thisweekend's events in Alabama.
To learn more about the Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage watch this video from last year's events:
Posted by David
Logan
02/26/2013 at 12:12 PM
One of the lingering effects of the bursting of the housing bubble has been banks deciding that a building they own is not worth fixing up, a problem especially prevalent in older, poor and working class neighborhoods. The resulting blight, in turn, puts further downward pressure on the value, and quality of life, of the neighborhood.
This troublesome topic was the focus of a segment on “Marketplace,” the National Public Radio that covers the economy last week.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/sometimes-even-banks-want-walk-away-home
It turns out that RWU Law’s own...
Posted by David
Logan
02/19/2013 at 05:40 PM
RWU Law is very proud of the pro bono activities of our students, both during the academic year and over summers. Building on the amazing work of the “Student Hurricane network,” where law students from around the country helped the Gulf Coast rebuild its legal systems post-Hurricane Katrina, RWU Law is now active in “Alternative Spring Break;” instead of kicking back for a week of fun in mid-March, 44 of our students will be fanning out from Massachusetts to Louisiana to help non-profit organizations:
Bronx Defenders
(Bronx, NY)
Brooklyn Defender Services ...
Posted by David
Logan
02/14/2013 at 02:37 PM
I am delighted to announce that a team of RWU Law 3Ls -- Nicholas Nybo, Will Wray, and Juliana McKittrick – placed 4th in the National Moot Court Competition, the largest, and most prestigious appellate competition in the country http://www.actl.com/Content/NavigationMenu/AboutUs/AwardsandCompetitions/NationalMootCourt/default.htm. Over 196 teams from 131 schools compete in regionals, and after sweeping through a New England field that included Northeastern, Suffolk, Boston University, Syracuse, Boston College, Maine, Vermont, and Western New England, http://law.rwu.edu/blog/rwu-...
Posted by David
Logan
02/07/2013 at 01:11 PM
For the fifth consecutive year, RWU Law alums were treated to a special professional honor: being admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. As in years past, alums and their faculty sponsor (this year Professor Emily Sack), plus friends and family toured the stately Court building posing for pictures in front of portraits of professional heroes.
We gathered for breakfast in the West Conference Room; everyone was abuzz over this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and the reality really hit when the Clerk of the Court, General William Suter, dropped by to prepare...
Posted by David
Logan
02/04/2013 at 01:38 PM
For years now, RWU law has placed students in fantastic externships with the top lawyers, judges, and government and nonprofit organizations in Rhode Island. http://law.rwu.edu/academics/institutes-programs/feinstein-institute-legal-service/curricular-programs/externships/publ; http://law.rwu.edu/academics/institutes-programs/feinstein-institute-legal-service/curricular-programs/externships/judi
Now we add to this already rich array the chance to work with the top corporate lawyers in the region, in our recently launched In-House Counsel Externship Program. Through this program,...
Posted by David
Logan
01/30/2013 at 04:17 PM
Here are some pics from gatherings of enthusiastic alums in Rhode Island, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Rhode Island
LAA Holiday Reception
Jenna Wims Hashway ’11, David Oliveira (Adjunct Professor), Professor Jorge Elorza
Laura Frechette ’04, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Officer, Rob Humm ’08 (LAA President), Jillian Jagling '09 (LAA Secretary/Treasurer)
Stephen Maguire '96, Nancy Voccola, Michael Voccola ’97
Adjunct Professor Anthony Leone ’97, Mark Gemma ’97 (RWU Law Board of Directors), Michael Field ’97 (RWU Law Board of Directors)
Kate Kishfy ’12, John Stickney ’12, Stephen...
Posted by David
Logan
01/25/2013 at 09:51 AM
Over the semester break, one of the stars of the RWU Law junior faculty, Susan Heyman, had a rare treat: visiting the chambers of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as part of a delegation of law professors from across the nation. The occasion was the presentation of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education, reflecting Justice Ginsberg’s contribution to the evolution of the law in a career that has included law teaching, litigating on behalf of women’s rights, a decade as a judge on the...
Posted by David
Logan
01/22/2013 at 01:33 PM
RWU Law is lucky to have one of the country’s leading academic experts on Domestic Violence, Emily Sack. She had a distinguished academic career before entering teaching (J.D., New York University; M.A., Columbia University; M. Phil., Columbia University; B.A., Swarthmore College) and worked at the ACLU and the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, before joining the RWU Law faculty in 2001.
Professor Sack's work on the topic has appeared leading journals at Northwestern, Wisconsin and Washington universities, and even cited by the Supreme Court of the United States (Castle...
Posted by David
Logan
01/17/2013 at 09:49 AM
Liz Tobin Tyler recently shared her expertise about Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLPs) at a national conference at Northeastern Law School and in a week-long visit to Australia. On November 2nd, she spoke on a panel entitled, “Health and the Human Rights Framework in Practice” at the Institute on Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health sponsored by Northeastern's program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. The Institute featured health and human rights scholars and practitioners from across the country.
Liz then traveled to Australia where she met with leaders from legal...
