Academic

primer for student appellate oral arguments
It's almost time for the annual rite of passage for first-year students--the appellate oral argument. For a fresh take on advice to give your students, take a look at ?Stepping Up to the Podium with Confidence: A Primer for Law...

Professional Reading: Bridging the Disabilities Accomodations Gap Between Classroom and Practice
Alexis Anderson and Norah Wylie (both Boston College Law School) have posted Beyond the ADA: How Clinics Can Assist Law Students with "Non-Visible" Disabilities to Bridge the Accommodations Gap Between Classroom and Practice (forthcoming in Clinical Law Review (Fall 2008))...

The Asylum Primer
The AILA Asylum Primer by Regina Germain, a veteran asylum attorney and former Senior Legal Counselor of the Washington Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is one of the Law Library's latest print acquisitions...

Accommodations for ADD/ADHD and LD Students
Most of us work with multiple students who have been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, or learning disabilities of some type. In fact, with each new 1L class, our Student Disability Services usually sends letters of accommodations for at least 5...

Accommodating Mental Disabilities
Accommodating disabilities is one of the most difficult issues facing human resources practitioners. Within that broader category is the subset of accommodating mental disabilities...

NALSWD's Annual Conference Starts Today
The National Association of Law Students with Disabilities (NALSWD) is a coalition of law students dedicated to disability advocacy and the achievement of equal access, inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination in legal education and in the legal profession...

Disabilities Groups Settle with Caltrans for $1.1 Billion
Disabilities Groups Settle with Caltrans for $1.1 Billion

Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students
Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students

Western Culinary Institute
allegedly mislead and ill-prepared students.

BCTI Reaches Settlement with Students
BCTI Reaches Settlement with Students

The Princeton Reivew
Personal Data Made Public on Tens of Thousands of Florida Students

Student Harassment
Wichita School District pays $45,000 settlement for high school students' harassment lawsuit.