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LawNext: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson

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There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech?

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US dispatch: ‘independent state legislature’ theory raised by Moore v. Harper threatens US election administration

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Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Harper stems from a challenge to North Carolina’s congressional and legislative redistricting plan as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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Kafka in America: When Judges Don’t Know the Law

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That sets up a situation in hundreds of civil legal cases involving small claims suits, evictions and other minor disputes, where the only individual in the courtroom who is aware of the law is the attorney for the prosecution, say the authors of the paper, Sara Sternberg Greene and Kristen Renberg, both of the Duke University School of Law.

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You Can’t Manipulate Venue!

The IP Law Blog

How many of the lawyers out there liked hypotheticals in law school? So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A.

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On LawNext Podcast: The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law

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Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. .

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Tributes to Walter Dellinger, a scholar, Supreme Court advocate, and “luminary in law and in life”

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Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

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Diversity by diktat: An obscure 1977 OMB memo forms the basis for today’s affirmative-action programs

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University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College.

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