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I’m enjoying the levity and downright creativity of folks’ reaction to #FadeInTheWater. But don’t let it be lost that Black authority has historically been met with violent white resistance. This is another genre of #LivingWhileBlack #WorkingWhileBlack
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Check out the newest issue of ML - Memphis Law, our award-winning magazine. Read the full issue at memphis.edu/law/about/ml-mag…
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Bass, Berry & Sims is proud to launch the Diversity Scholarship Program in partnership with @memlawschool. The program will help prepare students for success in the legal industry. Learn more about this partnership: bit.ly/BBS-MemphisLaw
#Diversity #Inclusion
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BREAKING: Gov. Ralph Northam signs a bill making Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty. The signing is the culmination of a yearslong battle by Democrats in a state that has had the second-most executions in U.S. history. apne.ws/DtMZ09n
Friday is Black Law Students Day at Memphis Law! Please join us for our Diversity & Prelaw Week closing event on Friday, Feb. 26th at 12:30pm sponsored by our Black Law Students Association.
Register for this and other Diversity & Prelaw Week events here:
memphis.edu/law/events/diver…
Those questioning the value of protest are just as damaging as the black on black crime ppl. #GeorgeFloyd
Now that I’ve got a plan and it’s inevitable—I’m looking forward to remote classes. All giddy rethinking content and brainstorming delivery of material on a new platform. I love my job.
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Check out our immigration event next month organized by a number of our great student organizations!
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If Warren is not polling better after this debate, it says more about us than her.
Encourage highschoolers and undergraduates to apply to our pipeline programs! Both program applications now open!
Save the date for Memphis Law’s 2020 Immigration Symposium on Friday, March 20th.
This event is open and free to the public with 3 approved CLE credits for attorneys.
Attorneys only—register to receive CLE credit here:
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Check out this great summer opportunity for Memphis-Shelby County Highschoolers and please share!
Apply here, deadline is March 20th:
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Two years ago I wrote an article published in the Brooklyn Law Review on why prisoner to public communication should be an unqualified right. Everything happening in MS prisons and prisons all across the country captures why this topic is important. brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/b…
Tennessee lawmakers have known about the problems at Parchman for years and have just done nothing to fix them. propublica.org/article/lawma…
Debtor prison programs are very alive in MS. “Mississippi appears to be the only state where judges lock people up for an indefinite time while they work to earn money to pay off court-ordered debts.” mississippitoday.org/2020/01…