The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, in partnership with the Roger Williams University School of Law and the Rhode Island Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, is proud to announce its comprehensive hands-on deposition skills training program. This program will provide hands-on training in deposition skills and will take place from December 11 to 13, 2019. The…, Please click here to watch a short video explaining the vision and details of the Litigation Academy, .
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DEFAMATION - THE PLAY is back! The highly acclaimed courtroom drama returns to the RWU Campus on Thursday, November 7 at 5 p.m. in the School of Law Room 283. DEFAMATION explores the issues of gender, race, religion, class, and the law, and presents an opportunity for the audience to engage in civil discourse about the most pressing social issues of our day. The play is open to all students,…
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Amityville, NY is famous for having a haunted house and a movie based on it. Fall River, MA is famous for having a haunted house and movies based on it. But did you know that we have our own haunted house with a famous movie here in Rhode Island? Perhaps you have seen the movie, The Conjuring, ? Well that house was built in 1736 and is located in Harrisville, RI. In fact, earlier this year a new owner purchased the house and said doors started opening by themselves on day one. Yikes! Want to go visit the house this Halloween? You are not the only one. Apparently, since the movie came out the property has been plagued not by ghosts but by trespassers . This story was even covered by…
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The , Roger Williams University Law Review, is a student-run organization that publishes three journals of legal scholarship each academic year. The , Law Review, is run by a board of student editors from the Roger Williams University School of Law, who are responsible for content, timely publication, and all other organizational decisions. The , Law Review, publishes three issues throughout the academic year. The Winter issue is devoted to topics with a national focus. The Spring issue revolves around topics germane to the Rhode Island legal landscape, including a survey of new Rhode Island law, and includes student reviews of recent legislative enactments, as well as an analysis of significant Rhode Island Supreme Court opinions. As the only law…, Law Review, is uniquely qualified to publish scholarship in this field. Additionally, each year the , Law Review, publishes an issue featuring articles from academic symposia at the Law School. Ultimately, the , Law Review, is committed to promoting and enabling both honest and full discussion of legally significant topics. Editions incorporate a comprehensive range of Articles and essays from professors, judges, and practitioners. In addition, the , Law Review, displays student work in the form of Comments and Notes. Second-year students also write the survey of Rhode Island law, a section that has become a resource for local practitioners in the state., Mission:, The, Roger Williams University Law Review, is a student-created and student-led law journal that seeks to innovate the law review framework and legal scholarship. We aim to provide an expansive platform that offers opportunities for law students to engage in research and writing, for legal scholars to express their diverse opinions and perspectives, and for the public to have access to legal scholarship. The, Law Review, intends to reimagine and invite a new perspective on the traditional law review format. In our efforts to do so, student members of the, Law Review, will actively work towards creating a law review that is inclusive of all voices by increasing student diversity in law review membership, facilitating authentic and diverse discourse that represents a breadth of legal opinions, and building a community that invites inclusivity and accessibility to legal scholarship.
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This week the Legal Beagle is doing some serious journalism and interviewed Professor Kishbaugh. Below is a transcript of our conversation: 1. What is your number 1 tip for students who are new to legal writing? “You are not your audience.” And by that I mean most students come into law school with the experience of writing papers in an effort to figure out what they, as individual students,…, fill, space or meet a minimum page requirement. Legal writing, on the other hand, is as much a form of professional writing as it is educational writing, and, because of that, the ability to convey concise, accurate, and useful information to an audience is highly prized. As such, those new to legal writing should understand that, writing is a process, , and they should first learn to write so they, themselves, understand their topic and then, second, revise, edit, and rewrite so their audience understands that information as well and does not have to waste its time trying to doing so. Thus,, time management, also plays a large role in being a strong legal writer because each step of the writing process takes time and its own brand of attention; the days of writing an acceptable paper in a single sitting are but an increasingly distant memory. 2. What is the most rewarding part of working with students? The most rewarding part of working with students is not just watching them succeed and achieve…, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, by Ernest Fenollosa and edited by Ezra Pound. More of a pamphlet or a treatise than a book, Fenollosa’s text with Pound’s edits is the foundation for my understanding of written language and how one can use it to make and convey meaning. 4. Who makes the best pizza in Rhode Island? I’m not a Rhode Island native and have only been living here for about three years, so my opinion on this topic is…
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Roger Williams University School of Law is proud to announce that Professor David A. Logan has been appointed as an Adviser on the new American Law Institute (ALI) Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Defamation and Privacy. As part of a small group of experts, Logan – who served as Dean of RWU Law from 2003 to 2014 – will be advising the project Reporters, Professors Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky of…
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Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…" According to the NCAA website , “Title IX applies to all educational institutions,…
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