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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. Please keep working for equal justice for all and stay hopeful.”

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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

1] ** Lawyer and notary, Law School, National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Law School, Master in International Business Law, Complutense University of Madrid. Assistant professor in Private International Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Córdoba.

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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.

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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. controlled Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii, he always believed that treating one group of people differently from others was a recurrence of the old cancer. I corresponded with Canellos about his book. The back story. RONALD COLLINS: Welcome, Peter.

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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

The US two-party system seems logical in theory, but having heard people at law school talking about gerrymandering, I feel less confident about it. The US election system in general is very different from what I am used to, coming from a country with six parties in its national parliament. But it got even stranger for me.