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Law Student Limelight: Georgetown Law Center’s Fawah Akwo

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Georgetown's Fawah AkwoStudent Name: Fawah Akwo

Law School: Georgetown University Law Center

Status: Rising 3L

Undergraduate: B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Home City/State/Country: Limbe, Cameroon, in west Central Africa

Fawah Akwo worked as a senior software engineer at Oracle, where she developed customer relationship management web applications. A hallmark of her life, however, has been a devotion to helping women and children, especially girls. During her time in Silicon Valley, she founded a platform to enable youth in developing countries to organize and garner support for service projects in their communities. An advocate for women’s education, Akwo also founded and coordinates a “GirlTech” scholarship program in her home town to orient and nurture women students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

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Gonzaga Law Professor Wins Second Fulbright to Teach in China

Posted on: by James Langford

The Murphy family didn’t make a habit of traveling to the same place twice. So when Gonzaga Law Professor Ann Murphy applied for a second Fulbright teaching scholarship in China, she knew it would be a break with tradition.

Her logic was that China’s rank as the world’s fourth-largest country by area and its diverse population of 1.4 billion make each visit unique.

“I told my brothers and sisters I can’t believe I’m applying for China again because that’s not the Murphy way,” she said in a telephone interview about the most recent grant, which will take her to Shanghai for a year. “But it’s such a huge country, it counts as something different.”

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Dean Limelight: Jocelyn Benson, Wayne State University Law School

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Wayne State Law Jocelyn BensonJocelyn Benson’s commitment to civic engagement and an open, honest American electoral process runs long and deep. The dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit entered the fray as an undergraduate at Wellesley College in Massachusetts when she founded the Women in American Political Activism conference and became the first student elected to serve in the Wellesley town governing body. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Boston University Associate Dean Peggy Maisel

Posted on: by James Langford

Prepping law students to be practice-ready when they graduate isn’t necessarily a matter of balancing practical experiences with traditional classroom instruction, in Peggy Maisel’s opinion. Instead, what works best is fusing the two strategies.

Maisel_Margaret-Peggy-554x260“A big piece is, ‘How do you integrate the two so that in every course, students are learning to be lawyers and to be real problem-solvers in whatever career they decide to embrace,’” said Maisel, who was recently appointed the associate dean for experiential education at Boston University School of Law. “Too often, people are thinking, ‘We’ve had this type of curriculum in law schools that has taught our students to think like lawyers and now we’re going to experiential, and that there’s something different.’” Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: Gonzaga University Law’s Tyler A. Rube

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Student Name: Tyler A. Rube

Law School: Gonzaga University Law School

Status: Rising 3L

Undergraduate: U.S. Air Force Academy (Legal Studies)

Other Degrees: Masters, Webster University (International Relations)

Home City/State: Phoenix, Arizona

Tyler Rube, a rising 3L and current Gonzaga Law Student Bar Association vice-president, was born and raised in Phoenix, Ariz., and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at 17. After a few years, Rube was accepted into the U.S. Air Force Academy and subsequently graduated as Class President in 2007. He then worked as a Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where he conducted felony-level criminal and counterintelligence investigations. Continue reading →

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Dean Limelight: Jeremy Paul, Northeastern U School of Law

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Jeremy Paul knew shortly after starting Harvard Law School that he wanted to teach. He began doing so as soon as he graduated in 1981, holding positions that included professor in residence for the U.S. Department of Justice, and he was named dean of Northeastern University School of Law 31 years later. Continue reading →

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Law Student Limelight: UC Hastings’ Christine Doelling

Posted on: by Margot Slade

Student Name: Christine Doelling

UC HAST DoellingLaw School:  University of California,  Hastings College of the Law

Status: Rising 2L

Focus:  Media, Entertainment and Intellectual Property

Undergraduate Degree/Institution: BA American Studies (2008), George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)

Graduate Degree/Institution: Masters – Media, Communications and Critical Practice (2012), University of the Arts, London College of Communications

Home city/state or country: Berkeley, Calif.

Christine Doelling, a rising 2L, is immersed in the music industry, where she aspires to work. She has created and led multi-channel marketing initiatives for world-renowned artists, musicians, museums and media companies. Doelling founded Lunchbox Theory, a music promotion company in Washington, D.C., and has served as a music promotion consultant for National Geographic Live.

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Dean Limelight: Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, Stetson University Law

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Stetson Dean C PietruszkiewiczChristopher Pietruszkiewicz, the dean of Stetson University College of Law, has spent much of his career at the intersection of education, business and law. He came to Stetson from LSU Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he was the J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law and where, as Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs, he was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, financial planning and personnel matters. Before that he was a trial lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s Tax Division and an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Education Department.

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