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SJI Invites Community to Hear Congolese Women’s Activist
The University of New Hampshire School of Law’s Social Justice Institute has partnered with Red River Theatres to bring Congolese women's activist Lisa Shannon to Concord. Founder of “Run for Congo Women” and author of A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman, she is also a subject of the film, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, which will be shown at the Theatre, Thursday, November 4. Lisa Shannon has led a mass … -
UNH School of Law Announces Additional Finalist in Dean Search
The University of New Hampshire School of Law Dean Search Committee has announced that a fourth dean candidate finalist will be coming to campus for meetings with students, faculty, staff, and trustees. Nicolas P. Terry, from Saint Louis University School of Law, will visit Concord on Monday, November 1, and Durham the following day. Currently the Chester A. Myers Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, Professor Terry has been a legal educator in England, the United States, … -
Community Service Day October 30
In memory of long-time Franklin Pierce Law Center Professor and Clinical Director, Bruce E. Friedman, the Public Interest Coalition (PIC) organizes and sponsors Bruce Friedman Community Service Day, a day of service to which all in the UNH School of Law community are invited and encouraged to participate. Bruce is remembered by colleagues as often saying, “Do good as you do well.” He believed strongly that lawyers have a duty to serve our communities by providing legal services to the indigent, … -
UNH Law Announces Finalists in Dean Search
The University of New Hampshire School of Law Dean Search Committee is bringing three dean candidate finalists to campus for meetings with students, faculty, staff, and trustees. John D. Hutson, dean & president of UNH School of Law since 2000, announced last spring that he would be retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. According to Sherry Young JD ’82, Chair of the Search Committee, “The committee was particularly pleased that there was a strong candidate pool of talented … -
UNH Law Earns Final Approval to Build the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property Addition
The University of New Hampshire School of Law has completed the approval process to build an addition to the Law School. Last night, the Concord, NH, Planning Board gave final approval to the project, which is expected to begin construction in the coming weeks and be ready for occupancy for the 2011 fall semester. The addition, to be named "The Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property," will afford the school more versatile teaching spaces, as well as greater opportunity to hold … -
20 Students Sworn In to Groundbreaking Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program
On October 7, the fifth class of the groundbreaking Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program (Webster Scholars) was sworn in at the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Twenty second-year law students from the University of New Hampshire School of Law affirmed they would “work diligently” so they can be “fully prepared to represent clients at the moment of graduation from law school.” The Webster Scholars program is a joint venture of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the New Hampshire Bar Association, the New … -
Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property Addition Closer to Reality
The Concord Zoning Board passed a parking variance Wednesday night that brings the building of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at UNH School of Law one step closer to groundbreaking. At issue had been the 30 parking spaces lost in the proposed addition to the building at Two White Street and the arrangement of 31 on-street replacement parking spots proposed originally at the August Zoning Board meeting. In the nearly two months since the initial meeting, a number of … -
Professor Hennessey’s “Classical” Education Effects Global Impact
On first glance, the fact that Professor William O. Hennessey is giving the keynote address at this weekend's Rhode Island Foreign Language Association's fall conference may seem a non sequitur. Why would a renowned professor of Intellectual Property Law, an expert in trademarks, be giving the central speech at a conference for high school teachers? "I'll be speaking to the people in the trenches." he says. "Critical thinking in a global world requires the perspective of foreign language and culture. Foreign …