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Nevada dispatch: UNLV campus and law school remain on lockdown after 3 people shot

JURIST

Elizabeth Haigh is JURIST’s Chief of Staff for the US and a 2L at the University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law. She files this dispatch from Las Vegas, Nevada. All of UNLV’s campus, including the law school that I attend, remain under a shelter-in-place order.

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Stanford Law Protest Highlights Rise Of Incivility In Discourse

Law 360

The recent Stanford Law School incident, where students disrupted a speech by U.S. Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, should be a reminder to teach law students how to be effective advocates without endangering physical and mental health, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada.

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Law School is No Picnic: Environmental Law Society Pulls References to a Picnic as Offensive

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After the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school’s Environmental Law Society announced a picnic, it was renamed “Lunch by the Lake” due to “diversity and inclusion” concerns. We have been following the gradual elimination of common terms deemed offensive or microaggressive. The latest is the word “picnic.”

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US dispatch: a politicized judiciary could facilitate an authoritarian turn

JURIST

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Last week, a federal judge agreed with Donald Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review records seized by the FBI during its search of his estate. Judge Aileen M.

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Women of Legal Tech: Flo Nicolas

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I will be hosting the prestigious ContractCon Las Vegas, set to take place at The University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School. This highly anticipated event brings legal professionals worldwide to contract drafting and negotiating training.

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A packed courtroom for the Trump ballot case

SCOTUSBlog

Trump is reportedly starting the day at Mar-A-Lago, then heading to Nevada this evening for its Republican caucuses. Two scholars who are not here are William Baude of the University of Chicago law school and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas in St.

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Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot

JonathanTurley

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center on December 17, 2023 in Reno, Nevada. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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