I often use this blog to talk about the amazing array of experiential learning opportunities that RWU Law is able to offer as the only law school in Rhode Island.
But as we approach our 20th...
BRISTOL, R.I., May 1, 2013 – As Roger Williams University School of Law prepares to kick off its 20th Anniversary year, Morris Dees – a preeminent civil rights attorney and founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center – will address the Class of 2013 and receive an honorary degree during Commencement exercises on Friday, May 17.
The law school ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 17, on the University’s main athletic field. The School of Law will also present an honorary degree to...
Bristol, R.I., May 3, 2013 – In a year of milestone anniversary celebrations and an ever-expanding focus on serving individuals and communities across the State of Rhode Island, Roger Williams University and the Roger Williams University School of Law have signed on to sponsor a full lighting of WaterFire Providence on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 28.
WaterFire Providence – artist Barnaby Evans’s unique flame-inspired cultural installation, which has attracted more than 10 million visitors...
From Narragansett Bay Journal: "Climate Change Adaptation: Efforts on the Ground. What Will the Future Bring?" by Julia Wyman
Julia Wyman is a staff attorney and adjunct professor at the Marine Affairs Institute at Roger Williams University School of Law/Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program.
Spring 2013: Climate change is impacting the world in tremendous ways: drought, wildfires, increased air and water temperatures, and decreased biodiversity are just a few examples.
Some of the areas that...
BRISTOL, R.I., Sept. 28, 2012: It’s hard to imagine a more topical speaker than Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., to kick off RWU Law’s new Professor Anthony J. Santoro Business Law Lecture Series. The question is: exactly what topic? With Fahrenkopf, you can take your pick.
Want to talk about the paralyzing ideological standoff in Congress? Fahrenkopf is former chair of the Republican National Committee (1983 to 1989), and retains a “let’s find common ground” demeanor reminiscent of those...
PROVIDENCE, June 1, 2012 – The best and brightest of the Rhode Island legal profession gathered Thursday night to support the state’s most vulnerable populations.
Held at the Rotunda at One Citizen’s Plaza in Providence, the 3rd Annual Pro Bono Collaborative Cocktail Reception brought together well over 100 luminaries of the bench and bar, faculty, staff, alumni and students to raise funds to support this unique vehicle for providing legal services to low-income citizens of the Ocean State....
RWU Law Celebrates Commencement 2012!
See photos here! (More to come soon!)
Bristol, R.I. May 18, 2012: Roger Williams University School of Law’s 17th Commencement took place Friday under clear blue skies, as 183 new law school graduates were awarded juris doctor degrees before a crowd of nearly 2,000.
Some highlights of the day:
• Renowned jurist and judicial reformer, the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, delivered the keynote and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of...
From WPRI, Channel 12: Senator Jack Reed at RWU Law
3/12/2012 5:31:38 PM
ANCHOR: U.S. Senator Jack Reed is pushing for a Regional Ocean Planning Policy in the Northeast -- much like the one Rhode Island has already put in place. This morning, Senator Jack Reed was in Bristol, promoting the benefits of that collaborative at Roger Williams University School of Law. He says Rhode island's Ocean Management Plan has been an extroadinarily effective tool, and is now recognized as the national...
Brian Ali '06 and Professor Anthony J. Santo
October 17, 2011 (Updated): When Brian Ali ’06 is at work, he’s not in a courtroom – but on the trading floor in the heart of Wall Street, where he is vice president of Asian Equity at Deutsche Bank.
While most of his colleagues arrived in the Financial District via business schools and MBAs, Brian was almost unique in approaching corporate finance as an attorney – a strategy he says Professor Anthony Santoro helped him...
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "Edward Fitzpatrick: Consider new prism for open-government disputes"
August 14, 2011: Too often, we Rhode Islanders live in a bubble. “It’s a beautiful bubble,” said Tim White, a Channel 12 investigative reporter and New England First Amendment Coalition board member. “But we lose context. We don’t realize what it’s like elsewhere. It’s bad here when it comes to public records.”
Given Rhode Island’s reputation for corruption, access to public records and meetings...
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "R.I. attorney general backs access to records" by Michael P. McKinney, Journal Staff Writer
BRISTOL (August 6, 2011) — It was a meeting focused on such topics as open meetings in Rhode Island — then some protesters tried to open it up some more.
For more than 330 attendees, a mix of state and municipal officials, law enforcers, lawyers and others, Friday’s Open-Government Summit hosted by state Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin [RWU Law '98] at the waterside...
Fernando Bermudez was robbed of half his life, spending 18 years in prison – from age 22 to 40 – for a murder he didn’t commit.
He was finally freed in November 2009, when his conviction – for killing a teenager outside a New York City nightclub – was thrown out by New York State Supreme Court Justice John Cataldo. In a scathing 79-page decision, Cataldo ruled that Bermudez’s rights had been violated due to grievous police and prosecutorial misconduct.
“It’s been a very long, bitter struggle...
Providence Journal: "New AG recognizes value of shield law" by Edward Fitzpatrick
PROVIDENCE, February 10, 2011: Former Democratic Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch refused to support a federal “media-shield” bill, even when 42 other attorneys general backed it, even though the most recent push began with a case involving local television reporter Jim Taricani.
But now the term-limited Lynch has been replaced by Peter F. Kilmartin [RWU Law '98], a former Pawtucket police captain and Democratic...
The Providence Journal's Katie Mulvaney covered Thursday's meeting of the Judicial Nominating Commission at RWU Law, and filed a story titled, "5 finalists picked for seat on R.I. District Court."
BRISTOL, October 29, 2010 — The Judicial Nominating Commission Thursday forwarded to the governor the names of five finalists to take retired Judge Stephen Erickson’s District Court seat. The list included the deputy chief of the attorney general’s criminal division and a longtime member of the...
"Kilmartin touts police career in bid for RI AG" by Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer
PAWTUCKET, R.I., Oct. 17, 2010 -- Peter Kilmartin [RWU Law '98] says he watched a man die of a gunshot wound in his first weeks as a Pawtucket police officer. He's arrested childhood friends, gone after misbehaving colleagues and consoled grieving families over a relative's death.
The Democratic state lawmaker and retired police captain leans heavily on his 24 years in law enforcement as he runs for...
The Providence Journal on July 30, 2010, published a story titled, "Forum at Roger Williams University studies ways to avoid wrongful convictions," by Katie Mulvaney:
BRISTOL, July 29, 2010 — Someone stabbed Katharina Brow 30 times and beat her over the head with a toaster as she recovered from a heart attack in her trailer in Ayer, Mass., in 1980. Blood at the scene indicated Brow had scratched her assailant.
The police questioned Kenneth Waters, an ex-convict who lived nearby, but found he...
