Legal Center keeps pace with tragic domestic violence trend

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The Battered Women's Justice Center at New York's Pace University School of Law was established in 1991 as a joint venture between the state and law school. It aims to teach lawyers and prosecutors how to provide better representation to battered women, to lobby for legislation on their behalf, to provide such women with pro bono legal services and to conduct legal research on the problem. In general, six law students are employed at the center each semester. Other efforts such as the 1994 Violence Against Women Act also mark the fight against conjugal violence.

Cases, Law schools, Conjugal violence, New York (State)

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State-owned UT stays near the top rung by awarding chairs

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The University of Texas law school has more privately endowed teaching positions than any law school in the country. While not the only public law school to supplement salaries with private donations, Texas has been remarkably successful in this regard. The school has 62 full-time or tenured professors and 54 of these are endowed positions. Successful alumni of the law school even started an external foundation in 1952 to bolster the school's private endowment. Such foundations are rare in public law schools.

Officials and employees, Finance, Texas, Law teachers, Law school faculty, University of Texas. School of Law

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Family matters: Temple students are learning the art of mediation

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An agreement between the Temple University School of Law and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Family Court Div that the school's mediation clinic will handle all custody cases devoid of child abuse has enjoyed remarkable success and decreased the court's congestion. Temple law students mediated 43 disputes during the fall-winter semester of 1996 and of these 38, or 88%, were settled. Temple's alternative dispute resolution clinic is the only such program handling real custody actions.

Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Study and teaching, Pennsylvania, Custody of children, Child custody, Divorce mediation, Temple University. School of Law, Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County)

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