JURIST

MAY 22, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday calling on the Indonesian government to implement stronger protections for student journalists in the country. HRW called on the government to create a task force “to devise and put in place an agreement to protect student journalists and their publications.”

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JURIST

JULY 1, 2023

The US Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan on Friday in a set of opinions. Nebraska bring to an end a nearly year-long saga in which Biden attempted to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for current and former US college students. Brown and Biden v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2024

The young law student hopes to spread her advocacy for education worldwide. The post Law Student Crowned As Miss World 2024 appeared first on Above the Law. Congratulations!

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2023

College students in Idaho Friday sued the Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane in his official capacity to overturn House Bill 124 , which removes student ID cards as a valid form of voter identification at polling locations from the Idaho Code. The case is in the US District Court for the District of Idaho.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2024

British Columbia announced Monday that it is halting approval for colleges to apply for approval to enroll international students until February 2026 in an effort to rid the province of exploitative educational practices. This announcement comes at a time when the government announced a nationwide cap on international students.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Six US states Thursday sued President Joe Biden over his recently proposed federal student loan forgiveness plan. The thrust of the lawsuit echoes a September 27 suit from an Indiana resident, which claimed tax liabilities created as a result of the federal student loan forgiveness plan make residents of six states worse off.

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Above The Law

APRIL 26, 2024

The dean said that while safety wasn't an issue, law students need a quiet place to take exams. The post Law School Moves Final Exam Location For Students Due To Campus Protests appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 26, 2024

“Hunter Heck ’24 on the ‘Appeal’ of Law School; Lile Moot Court Finalist First Advocated for Peers as Texas Tech Student Body President”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Hundreds of Indonesian students and activists held protests Monday over current President Joko Widodo’s actions in the run up to elections on Wednesday. The post Indonesian students protest alleged abuse of power by President Widodo in election appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Above The Law

APRIL 25, 2024

The post 5 Reasons Why Law Students Chose Their Law School appeared first on Above the Law. Although everyone has a unique answer, commonalities are present as well.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Emanuel Xhindi is a special correspondent for JURIST and a law student in the University of Tirana Faculty of Law in Tirana, Albania. The initiative has sparked public backlash from Albanian medical students, as well as other professionals and people who support their protests calling the legislation “communist” or “populist”.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 18, 2022

Busting myths about bankruptcy and private student loans. What is behind the perception that student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy? Importantly, some loans that borrowers may think of as “private student loans” are not subject to that standard and extra step. Loans to a student attending school less than half-time.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Mexican authorities arrested the former head of Mexico’s anti-kidnapping unit, Gualberto Ramírez Gutiérrez, on Sunday in connection to the 2014 Ayotzinapa case in which 43 students went missing. On Tuesday, a court in Toluca also charged eight soldiers with the crime of enforced disappearance of the students.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Brown , two cases that will determine the future of the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness program. The issue of standing, while more of a theoretical dispute than the legal merits of Biden’s student-loan forgiveness program, could be the focus of the court’s decision.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A Hong Kong court found on Tuesday a Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) student guilty of attempting to commit sedition by obtaining a banner of The Pillar of Shame, according to local news reports. Upon conviction, the court sentenced the student to prison for 6 months, as reported by local news media, the Witness.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A group of Wisconsin taxpayers Wednesday filed an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court to temporarily block the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program. At issue is the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program, which is set to go into effect this weekend.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2024

Four of the largest school boards in Ontario sued the social media companies behind Instagram, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok for disrupting their students’ daily education, according to a news release by the districts on Thursday. ” This lawsuit comes at a time of controversy for TikTok, Snapchat and other apps.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 11, 2024

“New UVA Law Program Prepares Students for Appellate and Supreme Court Practice”: Melissa Castro Wyatt of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report. The post “New UVA Law Program Prepares Students for Appellate and Supreme Court Practice” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday ruled that two South Carolina school disturbance laws cannot be used to prosecute students for disruptive behavior. The disturbing schools law was later amended in 2018 to exclude students from its scope.

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JURIST

AUGUST 15, 2023

On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed a challenge to a Maryland public school support plan for transgender and gender-nonconforming students that does not require the consent of the student’s parents. The case is an appeal from the US District Court for the District of Maryland at Greenbelt.

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JURIST

JUNE 19, 2022

A group of 20 students Friday announced that they had filed a federal lawsuit against Oxford High School in Oakland County, Michigan. The students are seeking for school policy to be changed after a shooting there in 2021. We need answers to be able to fix what went wrong.”

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JURIST

MAY 24, 2023

The plaintiffs in the case asserted that the policy disparately impacted Asian American students. The court ruled that the “facially race-neutral” policy does not disparately impact Asian American students and that the plaintiffs did not establish that the Board adopted the policy with discriminatory intent.

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Above The Law

APRIL 5, 2024

‘We’re literally dying,’ a law student writes in an important new essay. The post With Depression Running Rampant, It’s Time For Law Schools To Step Up When It Comes To Student Mental Health appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2024

Blaming students is cheap and also usually wrong. The post Blaming Law Students For A ‘Free Speech Crisis’ Is Dangerous appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2023

The UK Home Office announced new reforms on Tuesday regarding international students and their ability to bring their families with them into the country. In 2022, alone, the UK reportedly issued half a million student visas to international students.

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Above The Law

MARCH 6, 2024

The post UC Law Program Places Students With Nearby Judges appeared first on Above the Law. If only every externship had this easy of a commute!

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Can this law student outwit, outlast, and outplay the competition? The post Top Law School Student To Compete On Survivor’s 46th Season appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2023

This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, human rights and the rule of law, in their own countries and around the world. First, students must obtain a bachelor’s degree in law before they can apply to law school.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2023

President of the University of Tehran Dr. Seyed Mohammad Moghimi Thursday announced procedures for disciplining students who do not wear proper hijab. ” Under the new disciplinary procedures, students will be notified of an infraction in three progressive steps. A student is granted clemency when they admit wrongdoing.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2022

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Here, one of our correspondents reports on a junta court’s conviction of a Magway University law student to 20 years imprisonment.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

First-generation law students with parents who never obtained a bachelor’s degree differ in some significant respects from classmates with at least one parent who completed…

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LawSites

APRIL 12, 2024

Two teams of law students, as part of their education at Brigham Young University Law School, have developed applications targeting issues of access to justice, and today, on the last day of classes, they will showcase what they have built at a special event expected to be attended by members of the local legal and […]

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday held that a San Jose, California school district had to officially recognize a Christian student group. In response to the derecognition, two FCA student leaders and FCA National filed suit against the school district.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2024

The post Times Outs Student Loan Startup Before Jamie Dimon Can Buy It appeared first on Above the Law. Mos and founder Amira Yahyaoui (allegedly) aren’t all they say they are.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Supreme Court of the United States Wednesday voted 5-4 to uphold a ruling that Yeshiva University must recognize an LBGTQ student group. The student group involved in this case is known as the Yeshiva University Pride Alliance. The loss of First Amendment rights for even a short period constitutes irreparable harm.”.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2022

Two Florida student athletes filed a lawsuit challenging compensation restrictions on Monday. Moreover, the FHSAA does not allow for private Florida high schools to offer athletic scholarships to prospective student athletes. The lawsuit comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in NCAA v.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The post Harvard Law School To Offer Free Tuition To Some Incoming Law Students appeared first on Above the Law. Soon, those with the highest financial need will be able to go to Harvard Law, free of charge. Congratulations!

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