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US law schools help communities during eviction crisis

JURIST

The White House and the Justice Department announced Friday that 99 law schools across 35 states and Puerto Rico answered the attorney general’s call for action to help communities during the housing and eviction crisis. Over 2,100 law students spent more than 81,000 hours assisting over 10,000 households.

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Plagiarism Panic Hits The Courtroom (Again), And It’s Still Nonsense

Above The Law

. “San Juans 241-page complaint is almost a word-for-word carbon copy of the original complaint filed in the Municipalities Case, the judge wrote, referencing another lawsuit filed by other Puerto Rican cities as a putative class action against fossil fuel companies for causing climate change damages felt by the towns.

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Transforming legal borders: International judicial cooperation and technology in private international law – Part I

Conflict of Laws

Abstract: In a globalized world, International Judicial Cooperation (IJC) and advanced technologies are redefining Private International Law (PIL). Keywords: private international law, international judicial cooperation, new technologies, videoconferencing, Iber@, Apostille. This is Part I.

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Rapid-Development Platforms For Lawyers: A Conversation With Brittany Hernandez

Above The Law

In Season 10, Episode 6 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” Brittany Hernandez, head of legal innovation at Gavel, shared her unique journey from military service to law school and, ultimately, to becoming a champion of no-code platforms. You can follow Olga on LinkedIn and Twitter @olgavmack.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

SCOTUSBlog

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. He was demonstrating that the purpose of Louisiana’s law was to separate Black people, not to treat every race equally.

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Renewables are key to a just energy future for Puerto Rico

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Puerto Rico’s already troubled energy system was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and a magnitude 6.4 billion for electric system work in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has submitted a plan to FEMA for the use of these funds that would perpetuate the use of fossil fuels.

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EU dispatch: a German perspective on the upcoming US midterms

JURIST

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the EU and its member states. Here Luisa Gambs, a German law student at the University of Augsburg doing her LL.M. this year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, offers her perspective on the upcoming US midterms.