Showing posts with label Law schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law schools. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Law Student Religious Liberty Writing Competition Announced

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The J. Reuben Clark Law Society has published an announcement of its 10th Annual Religious Liberty Writing Competition.  The competition is ...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Trinity Western Drops Community Covenant Requirement For Students

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As previously reported,  in June the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the decision by two provinces to refuse to accredit Trinity Western Univ...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Canada's Supreme Court: Provinces Can Refuse Law School Accreditation Over LGBTQ Rights

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In a pair of decisions today, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the bodies controlling the legal profession in British Columbia and Onta...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Nominations Sought For Law Faculty Law & Religion Scholarship Award

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The Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Religion has issued the following Call for Nominations: Harold Berman Award fo...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Nigerian Lawyer's Group Denies Law School Grad Bar Admission Because of Hijab

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According to a report on Friday from Al Jazeera , the Lagos-based Nigerian Law School has refused to allow a Muslim woman graduate to receiv...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

6th Circuit Rejects Law Prof's Claim That $666 Raise Was Retaliatory As "Mark of the Beast"

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In Lifter v. Cleveland State University , (6th Cir., Sept. 12, 2017), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Ohio federal distric...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Law and Religion Prof Seriously Injured In Attack

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Above the Law reports that law professor Leslie Griffin , an expert and prolific writer in the area of law and religion, was seriously inju...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Nova Scotia Appeals Court Overturns Refusal To Recognize Christian Law School's Graduates

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In Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society v. Trinity Western University , (NS Ct., App., July 26, 2016), the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, without r...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Alumni Complain To ABA That BYU Law School Expels Mormon Students Who Leave The Church

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The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday that the American Bar Association is investigating a complaint filed against Brigham Young Univers...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Texas Bar Committee Backs Off Refusal To Certify Christian Ethics CLE Course

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As reported by Catholic Education Daily , the State Bar of Texas Minimum Continuing Legal Education Committee last week backed off of its co...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Texas Gov. Abbott Accuses State Bar's CLE Committee of Religious Discrimination

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Texas Lawyer reported yesterday that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has now weighed in on a refusal by the State Bar's Minimum Continuing L...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Villanova Creates New Center for Law and Religion

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Villanova University School of Law yesterday announced the creation of its new Center for Law and Religion endowed by a $2 million gift fr...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

$1M Gift To Emory Will Support Expanded Religious Freedom Education

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Emory Law School's Center for the Study of Law and Religion announced last week that it has received an anonymous $1 million gift for a...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Ontario Court Upholds Law Society's Refusal To Accredit Christian Law School

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In Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada ,  (ON Super. Ct., July 2, 2015), a 3-judge panel of the Ontario Superior Court...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Trinity Western Law School

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In  Trinity Western University v. Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society , (NS SC, Jan. 28, 2015), the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, in a 138-page opi...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Home Province British Columbia Reverses Approval of Christian Law School

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In Canada, the controversial Trinity Western University has been dealt a severe setback in its efforts to create a law school based on Chris...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

2015 National Religious Freedom Moot Court Competion Announced

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The George Washington University Law School has announced that again this academic year it is hosting the National Religious Freedom Moot C...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Professor's Law Review Article Used In Robocall By Opponent in Mayoral Race

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In 2010, then-Associate Professor Jorge Elorza at Roger Williams University Law School published an interesting and sophisticated 65-page l...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

New Brunswick Law Society Members Call On Council To Revoke Approval of Christian Law School

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In Canada, controversy over the new Christian-affiliated Trinity Western University Law School continues. The school, scheduled to open in 2...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Lawyers In British Columbia Want Trinity Western Law School Rejected

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In Canada, British Columbia-based Trinity Western, a Christian liberal arts university, has suffered a setback in its efforts to open a law ...