Category: Student Organization Announcements

EVERYONE is invited! Come join us at Uncorked to learn more about the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Association (IPTLA) and get to know some of our current members. Uncorked is located at 22 N High St, Akron, OH 44308 (right near the corner of E. Market St. and High).

Please take a moment to congratulate the following Trial Team students on their success!!

Jacob Nicholas – Won ‘Best Advocate’ at the 16th Annual National Trial Advocacy Competition in Lansing, Michigan this weekend. Mr. Nicholas beat our students from 16 competing schools ranging from Georgetown University, Michigan State University, and The University of Alabama!

Ian Chaves – Won 1st place in the Landskroner Closing Argument Competition! The Cleveland Competition hosted students from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and Case Western Reserve College of Law.

Brandi Roberts – Won 3rd place in the Landskroner Closing Argument Competition!

Congratulations!!!

Join the Asian Latino Law Students Association (ALLSA) as we welcome Akron Law alumni Elaine Tso of the Asian American Bar Association of Ohio! She will be here to talk about AABA, the amazing benefits of joining AABA, and her role within this organization. FOOD will be provided!!!
Wednesday, October 7 at 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Room: W-214

Asian and Latino Law Student’s, Black Law Student’s, and Jewish Law Student’s Associations will be co-hosting the October 8, 2015 “Have Your Say” in the law school atrium starting at 12:15 p.m.

Our topic will be “Implicit Biases in Law Enforcement: Use of Force and Disparate Treatment”.

Students will have the opportunity to take the Harvard Implicit Bias Test (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html) and interpret the results to learn how implicit biases impact policing.

Guest Speakers Professor Brant Lee and Professor J. Dean Carro will speak about implicit biases and race relations as well as how law enforcement officers may harbor unknown, implicit biases that effect when and how force is used.

Please bring your laptop if you have one in order to take the Implicit Bias Test.

Event will take place in the law school atrium, October 8 at 12:15 p.m.

“Join us on Tuesday, October 6, at both 12:15 and 5:15 p.m. in room W-206 for our second general body meeting of the school year! We will be discussing the remaining events for this fall, and how YOU can get involved.