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Recycle, reuse, create
December 2, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Audiences, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Law, Staff, Sustainability, Top Stories
Angie Hobbs, reference coordinator for the Professional Center Library, challenged the library staff to recycle law books and other materials into decorative and useful items for display in the library during the holiday season.
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Alumnus helping Afghans succeed
November 11, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, International, School of Law, Top Stories
Air Force Capt. Chris Sanders (JD ‘08) has been deployed in Afghanistan since May. Sanders supports and assists local judicial officials who are working to strengthen and legitimize a formal system of justice in a country that has been torn apart by war for centuries.
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Pro Bono Project helping communities
November 4, 2011 | Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Pro Humanitate, School of Law, Top Stories
The School of Law’s Pro Bono Project provides free legal advice and services to community organizations. Recently, it has connected law students with youths in the juvenile-justice system and held Wills Clinics in Pembroke, N.C.
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School of Law teaches ‘virtual course’
October 27, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Law, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories
Professor Steve Nickles recently taught a course for the School of Law. Only Nickles and his students weren’t actually in the school. The course was taught in a virtual environment. Last spring, Wake Forest became the only university in the world with a site-wide license for WebEx from Cisco, making this level of interaction possible.
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Student Storyteller: Innocence & Justice
October 3, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Pro Humanitate, School of Law, Student, Top Stories
Nicole Little, a junior sociology major, used her passion for social justice to protest the execution of a death row inmate in Georgia and inspire fellow students to stand up for improving the criminal justice system. Find out more in Little’s own words.
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School of Law on ‘Best Value’ list
August 24, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Law, Top Stories
The School of Law is once again among the nation’s “Best Value” law schools, according to the National Jurist and preLaw magazines.
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Need for police reforms
August 15, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Top Stories
Jurors recently convicted five police officers accused of civil rights violations and obstruction of justice in New Orleans. Law professor Kami Simmons writes in the Huffington Post that the situation exposed institutional deficiencies that encourage police misconduct and corruption.
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Students named Schweitzer Fellows
May 11, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, Recognition, School of Law, Student, Top Stories
Three School of Law students — Alexandra Ford (’12), Michael Grippaldi (’11), and Craig Principe (’12) — have been selected for the North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows program. They join three School of Medicine students as part of 250 U.S. Fellows selected across the country this year.
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Introduction to law school
May 5, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Law, Top Stories
Want to know more about what it’s actually like to go to law school without having to pay the cost of law school tuition? Then two School of Law professors have the course for you, and it’s open to students from Wake Forest or other universities.
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Join the conversation
April 12, 2011 | Athletics, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Speakers, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
An increasingly vocal group of experts is calling attention to the growing divide between the big business of NCAA sports and the well-being of student athletes who are generating record revenues for their universities.
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