Law schools

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska Anchorage has announced a new partnership with a university in Oregon to expand opportunities for current and future students interested in law degrees.

CHICAGO (AP) — University of Illinois trustees voted to remove the name of the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court chief justice from the University of Illinois-Chicago law school after a task force said John Marshall's history as a slave owner and trader "render him a highly inappropriate namesake for the law school.”

ZEELAND, Mich. (AP) — Years later, the University of Michigan law school is seeking a new trial for a western Michigan woman who was convicted of killing her daughter in a house fire.

The school's Innocence Clinic, which has a long record of digging up new evidence and freeing people who were wrongly convicted, filed a motion last week to reopen the case in Ottawa County...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ryan Owens announced Monday that he will run for attorney general, becoming the second Republican to enter the race against incumbent Democrat Josh Kaul...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Supreme Court won't be making its annual trip to the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown this year as a result of COVID-19, but the special docket of cases will be heard virtually...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The dean of South Carolina's largest law school is apologizing for forwarding an email that contained the names of students who failed the exam to become a lawyer and the confidential bar exam grades of every student...

Cleveland State University law school tops Ohio law schools for passing the bar: See the list

Of 863 lawyers who took the Ohio BAR in October, only about 70 percent passed -- see percentages for Ohio law schools.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The Brett Kavanaugh hearing on Thursday had students glued to televisions and their phones at Yale University, the Ivy League institution where the U...

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It was a historic moment, one not lost on the more than 30 students and professors who gathered in a conference room at Rutgers Law School as an emotional yet steady Christine Blasey Ford described how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh pinned her down on a bed when they were in high school and assaulted her.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University is retiring the official shield of its law school following complaints over its ties to an 18th-century slaveholder.

The university's governing body announced the decision Monday, supporting a campus committee's previous recommendation to remove the shield...