Sentences with phrase «black law students»

We are committed to supporting and enhancing academic and professional opportunities for black law students in both official languages.

Annamaria Enenajor spoke at the 2016 Black Law Students Association of Canada (BLSAC) Conference on Feb. 13, 2016 on a panel on titled «Innovations in Legal Practice: A Law Degree Opens a Multitude of Paths.»

«Why is number of black law students at a 12 - year low?

Further, the underrepresentation of Blacks in the legal profession may result in Black law students having fewer opportunities to learn about and secure articling positions through formal and informal networks than their non-Black peers.

This progress was achieved through participation in minority recruiting events such as the Cook County Bar Association Minority Job Fair and National Black Law Students Association Midwestern Recruitment Conference, as well as through focused lateral hiring efforts.

What do you think of Sander's argument that that affirmative action is causing black law students to get lower grades and pass the bar less often than their white peers?

Richard Sander, the UCLA law professor who says empirical data demonstrates that affirmative action has failed black law students, has agreed to chat about the subject from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday on ALM's Legal Times.

This evening I returned from the 18th Annual Black Law Students Association National Conference in Halifax, N.S.

Ultimately, BLSA Canada exists to support Black law students towards a successful legal career.

Compare Brief for Law School Admission Council as Amicus Curiae 12 («LSAT scores... are an effective predictor of students» performance in law school») with Brief for Harvard Black Law Students Association et al. as Amici Curiae 27 («Whether [the LSAT] measure [s] objective merit... is certainly questionable»).

I read the news, as I assume a number of black law students did, with a sense of admiration, albeit one mingled with disquiet.

CERTIFICATIONS, AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS Ira J Spoon Endowed Scholarship Winner (2012) │ Advanced Westlaw Certification Affiliations: National Representative — WSU Black Law Student Association (BLSA)--(2009 - 2012) Co-chair — Public Interest Law Association (PILA)--(2011 - 2012)

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She was inducted in the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) Hall of Fame in 2008, with the historical recognition of being the first woman to serve as the national chair of the NBLSA in 1978.

Professor Bernstein applies logic to Bush administration PR tactics Main Why is number of black law students at a 12 - year low?

BLSAC is strongly opposed to maintaining the status quo, as it has created unfair barriers to the profession for Black law students.

Black Law Students Association's Outstanding Service Award.

Regina is a rare individual — a female, black law student in 1946 — but she lives in the shadow of her mother, a prominent civil rights activist.

Alabama George Packer In the summer of 1980, when I was nineteen, I worked as a $ 600 - a-month intern at a government - funded poverty law center in Alabama, renting a matchbox house with two black law students at the crumbling edge of downtown Mobile.

Regina is a black law student working for the Legal Defense Fund in New York City, and the realities of life in the South surprise her.

The Black Law Student Association of Canada (BLSAC) is an association that is committed to supporting and enhancing the academic, professional and networking opportunities for Black law students.

Jolly was historian and Percy R. Luney Spirit of Service Awards chair for the Jesse J. McCrary Chapter of the Black Law Student Association and Interim Clerk and charter member of the Gwendolyn S. Cherry chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International.

Anthony Morgan, the current President of the Black Law Students Association of Canada (BLSAC), and a third - year law student at McGill University, provides some important history behind the Haitian revolution on The Cor,

Michelle Miles, vice president of the school's Black Law Students» Association, says two posters of black Canadians put up at Gowlings Hall were defaced shortly after they were installed on Jan. 31, as part of a larger exhibit featuring 15 to 20 leaders.

Shekida Smith, National Student Director, ABA Law Student Division's National Appellate Advocacy Competition Subcommittee; Black Law Students Association.

The lawsuit also names as defendants Eric S. Buchanan, who is a lawyer for the W. Harold Flowers Law Society in Little Rock, an association of black lawyers in Arkansas; the society itself; and the local chapter of the Black Law Students Association.

The complaint says, among other things, that at the invitation of the Black Law Students Association, Professor Peltz took part in a legitimate academic debate in which he questioned the constitutionality and effectiveness of affirmative action.

Through a blog post the Black Law Students indicate that they «stand in solidarity with those from marginalized communities who are told they are not worthy to access higher education.»

Last week the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Ottawa Chapter took to the internet, local media, and held a press conference, to speak out against the racist graffiti found in the men's washroom at the Faculty of Law.

Although the administration was quick to condemn the act as «cowardly» in a faculty wide email, it was unclear what pragmatic steps can be (or have been) taken as a response (In an interview with CBC, Christien Levien, President of University of Ottawa's Black Law Students Association, said that he hoped the university would follow up on his recommendations, but to date it is unclear whether the administration will be implementing them).

During law school I was a Student Ambassador, a member of the Black Law Students Association, the Criminal Law Association, and also made time to volunteer as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).

There, she served as Treasurer and Community Service Chair of the Black Law Students Association, competed in the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, and was selected as a Marshall - Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Fellow.

Ms. Enenajor was also the vice president of the Black Law Students» Association of McGill and a volunteer math tutor in Montreal's low - income neighbourhoods for the Trevor Williams Kids Foundation.

This weekend we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Black Law Students Association of Canada (BLSAC).

She was the Vice President of the Black Law Students» Association of McGill and was a volunteer math tutor in low - income neighbourhoods in Montreal through the Trevor Williams Kids Foundation.

The Black Law Student Association of Canada administers the Julius Alexander Isaac Moot in collaboration with law firms, law schools and community organizations.

While in law school, she competed on the Black Law Students Association's Mock Trial Team and completed externships with the Honorable John J. Ellington in the Court of Appeals of Georgia and the Honorable Steve C. Jones in the Superior Court of the Western Judicial Circuit (Judge Jones currently serves as a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia).

While attending law school, she served as Parliamentarian for the Black Law Student Association, as a secretary for Women in Law, and as a treasurer for the Gay Alliance for Legal Equality.