Sentences with phrase «statements by law school»

First, in my role as Director of Admissions at the University of Calgary I have read some 2000 statements by law school applicants answering the very question posed by the OBA: «Why do you want to go to law school?»

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President of Matuson Consulting firm Roberta Chinsky Matuson weighs in on statements made in a recently released white paper titled Uncovering Talent by New York University School of Law Professor Kenji Yoshino and Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion Managing Principal Christie Smith.

In a statement, the school says it has removed the link and that it wouldn't discuss confidential student information covered by federal privacy laws.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

«There is no doubt that Abdulsalam Firdaos Amosa has been victimized, humiliated and traumatised by the Nigerian Law School, the Body of Benchers and the Council for Legal Education on account of her faith,» the statement said.

However, according to the statement provided by her campaign, the girls lived with Davis in Boston during her first year at law school.

Intro 65 - A was vigorously opposed by out LGBT Councilmembers Daniel Dromm of Jackson Heights, a former public school teacher and head of the Education Committee, and Rosie Mendez of the Lower East Side, who said in a joint statement, «Yeshivas, private schools, and parochial schools — unlike public schools — are not subject to Council oversight or much of the NYC Human Rights Law.

Where a parent or person in parental relation or a child who is neither placed in a temporary housing facility by the local department of social services nor housed in a residential program for runaway homeless youth established pursuant to article 19 - H of the Executive Law, designates the school district of current location, the school district shall forward to the department a completed designation form and a statement of the basis for its determination that the child is a homeless child entitled to attend the schools of the district.

Consistent with NSBA's position as outlined in its «friend of the court» (amicus) brief, Justice Samuel Alito delivered the Court's unanimous opinion and found that the school officials in this case should not be viewed as law enforcement agents, and the statements made by the young child to the teachers were not given with the «primary purpose of creating an out - of - court substitute for trial testimony.»

The Hartford Courant, in a story written by Vanessa De La Torre, is reporting that, «In a statement, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said the department retained the law firm of Siegel, O'Connor, O'Donnell and Beck, P.C. to investigate «potential irregularities detected on Betances Elementary School's 2013 Connecticut Mastery Tests.»

The Northeast Charter Schools Network today sent the following statement in response to the release of the 9th Annual Rankings of State Public Charter School Laws by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

In a statement, a spokeswoman for Baker's budget writers said the spending plan would exceed what the state is required to set aside for schools under the funding formula established by law.

The board, which is appointed by the Legislature, and the State Education Department, which the board oversees, «will continue to work to improve implementation of the Common Core in our schools and all the laws and regulations we administer in furtherance of educational excellence,» the board's chancellor, Merryl H. Tisch, and the state education commissioner, John B. King Jr., said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

They instead quote statements made by law school deans or professors about social values, and from that posit the conclusion that law schools have become incubators for social justice.

Nancy Bekavac, another law school classmate who retired as president of Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., is still baffled by Levy's final statement.

Is it generally taught in law schools that if no person other than one who utters a false statement can be deceived by it, then there is no dishonesty?

450 BCE Traditional date for the establishment of the Torah 624 CE Constitution of Medina (described by some as the world's first written constitution) 633 Quran 1087 Irnerius starts the first law school at Bologna 1190 — Enactment by Eleonore d'Aquitaine of the Laws of Oleron in maritime law 1259 The Provisions of Westminster 1274 Second Council of Lyons 1300 The Statute of Forestallers (printed in Statutes of the Realm) 1474 The Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanseatic League Printed in English Historical Documents 1327 - 1485 (by A.R. Myers and David Douglas) 1474 — Venetian patent statute, first recognition of patents 1506 the Statute of Jan Laski, the first Continental European constitutional statement of the rule of law.

I also wonder about this statement: «the most intelligent and ambitious law students, who by sheer numbers will be equity - seeking groups like women, visible minorities, and LGBT students... «Since women are now a majority in Canadian law schools (I believe), I suppose you have the numbers here for them.

In a statement released through the law school, Burns said he encountered several «unscrupulous» leaders during his time as Wheaton CEO, but was encouraged by IU Maurer's commitment to training students to be both good lawyers and good people through programs like the Wintersession and Legal Profession course.

The first, a joint policy statement issued by the U.S. departments of Education and Health and Human Services, focused on reducing suspensions and expulsions in early childhood settings.13 The second, a guidance package released by the departments of Education and Justice, addressed discrimination in school disciplinary practices.14 Unlike laws or regulations, these guidance documents are not legally binding.