Four Drake University law students offered legal assistance to more than 30 homeless veterans during the Veteran's Administration StandDown last month.
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Recent law graduate places in writing competition
Michael Eganhouse, LW'10, won fourth place in the Mary Moers Weing Writing Competition.
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Justice Alito lectures on televised hearings at Drake
Televising hearings would impact the nature of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and may require changes to the way the Court conducts business.
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Drake to host bipartisan forum on politics, campaign money, Iowa courts
Republican and Democratic student groups at Drake Law School will band together with the bipartisan Iowans for Fair and Impartial Courts on Tuesday, Oct. 5, for a community forum. The event, which is free and open to the public, will focus on Iowa's court system and the influence of campaign money and politics in judicial retention elections.
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French professor to give guest lecture on legal status of Roma
Renaud Colson Renaud Colson, vice dean of international relations at the University of Nantes in France, will deliver a lecture at Drake Law School on "France and the Gypsies" on Wednesday, Sept. 29.
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Drake law dean, faculty speak up on judicial selection process
Drake University Law School Dean Allan Vestal and former Dean David Walker co-published an op-ed in the Des Moines Register on rejecting the efforts to change Iowa's judicial selection process.
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Professor McCord honored for community service
This year's recipient of the community service award was David McCord, professor of law at Drake Law School. McCord is a founding organizer of the Meals from the Heartland program at Drake, which attracts nearly 4,000 volunteers per year to package more than 4 million meals in five days to deliver around the world.
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Public Service Speakers Series continues with U.S. District Judge John Jarvey
Drake Law School's Public Service Speakers Series will continue with a free, public lecture by U.S. District Judge John Jarvey of the Southern District of Iowa on National Public Service Day -- Thursday, Oct. 7.
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Drake law professor to speak at major music industry conference
Peter K. Yu, the Kern family chair in intellectual property law at Drake University, will speak at a high-profile entertainment law conference in Nashville on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
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Farmers, consumers celebrate growing season at Harvest Party
People who grow, sell and eat locally grown foods came together last Sunday to celebrate the 2010 growing season through preparing and consuming dishes with everything from grass-fed beef to wine and fresh produce.