Category: General Announcements

YOU’RE INVITED! In wake of recent changes to U.S. immigration policy through recent presidential executive orders, The Immigration and Human Rights Law Clinic, in conjunction with The International Law Society, presents the inaugural “Immigration & Refugee Awareness Festival.” Beginning Wednesday, February 15, 2017, we will be showing a different film every other Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. to increase students’ cultural awareness and knowledge about immigrant and refugee situations. Free Admission. Food and Beverages will also be provided. Please see dates and location on the flyer below.

Half-Day Hangout – Saturday, February 11, 2017

12:00 – 5:00 PM. Homemade food and  a chance to ask any last minute bar exam questions you have!

Central Hower 307

• Starting at 9:30 AM, a group of will write a Partnership essay together – Feel free to come early and join the group essay write! (The current group is a mixture of people preparing for the February and July bar exams – the more, the merrier!)
• Once we’re done writing the essay, around 11:30, I’ll drag out the food:
  • Sloppy Joes
  • Hummus & veggies
  • Homemade bread
• Drop in anytime during the afternoon.  More than once, if you want!
• Feel free to ask me to repeat of any of the Akron Bar Prep workshops, review essays, time you on essays/MBE/MPT – or just ask questions about the bar exam (whether your bar exam is a couple of weeks or a couple of years away)
• The event is primarily intended for folks taking the February exam – but anyone who is around Central Hower is welcome to drop in

Questions?  Contact Nancy Reeves nlr22@uakron.edu / 330-972-6809 / Central Hower 308A

Please see below for the dates of this semester’s mandatory-advising sessions. For questions, contact Dean Fuller.

Book Talk & Signing with Coffee & Chocolate Reception, Thursday, February 9th in Room 160, 12:30-1:30

The Center for Constitutional Law is pleased to announce new research from its Director, Professor Tracy Thomas. Thomas’ new book uncovers the early historical origins of political action and legal reform for gender equality in the family. It provides an intellectual history of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s fifty years as America’s leading feminist and focuses on her legacy to the law. Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on women’s equality in marriage, divorce, and maternity, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles of the 1970s had nineteenth-century roots. Stanton’s radical ideas seem so familiar today only because they have all become law.

 

The Immigration & Human Rights Law Clinic is seeking volunteers to assist with translating asylum applications and original documents into English for asylum seekers detained at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center and the Geauga County Jail. Applicants for asylum must submit their applications in English and there is an extreme need for translation assistance. The greatest need is for volunteers fluent in Spanish and Haitian Creole. Additionally, there is a need for volunteers who are fluent in Punjabi, Bengali, and Somali. If you are interested in helping with this effort, please contact Professor Elizabeth Knowles (eknowles@uakron.edu). Thank you in advance for your compassion and your time!