May 15, 2012
On May 11, the 136 graduates in the College of Law’s 99th graduating class assembled at Kingsbury Hall for Commencement 2012. Michael Hardman, Interim Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at the U, welcomed all in attendance and acknowledged the support that the students had received from family, their professors, and the College of Law staff, ... Keep reading »
Graduation 2012 will be held on May 11 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall. The speaker will be Deborah Dugan, a 1984 graduate of the College of Law and current CEO of (RED), a brand designed to engage business and consumer power to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.
Dugan, who began ... Keep reading »
On April 17, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Peg McEntee covered a speech delivered the day before at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law by Jamie Nabozny. In her column, McEntee recounted how Nabozny was bullied while growing up in rural Wisconsin because he is gay, and how he eventually prevailed ... Keep reading »
The concept of Indigent Defense—and Utah’s failure to provide counties with financial support or other resources for public defense—are two of the topics explored in a recent segment of ABC 4’s County Seat program that includes an interview with Emily Chiang, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Utah College of Law ... Keep reading »
On Monday, April 16, at 12: 15 p.m., Jamie Nabozny will speak at the College of Law in an event sponsored by the Outlaws student group. Nabozny grew up in a small Wisconsin town and was bullied for being gay. He later won a landmark federal lawsuit against his school administrators for failing to ... Keep reading »
Through the Utah Appellate Clinic, Paul Cassell, Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, recently filed a series of briefs in federal courts of appeals, including the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Circuits. The briefs involve the issue of how much restitution child pornography victims should receive. Casell ... Keep reading »
David Kent, a 3L at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and also a student in the U’s College of Pharmacy, was part of a student entrepreneurial team that won first place in the business school’s Opportunity Quest competition with a virtual ID badge that works in conjunction with mobile devices.
Kent ... Keep reading »
Over the evenings of January 17-19, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law students participated in nearly 150 mock interviews with 39 area attorneys. These interviews took place as part of an annual mock interview program sponsored by the S.J. Quinney Young Alumni Association and the College’s Professional Development Office. The comments of ... Keep reading »
On January 12, students from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law mingled with representatives from 43 legal employers at the annual on-campus Career Fair sponsored by the Professional Development Office. The Fair took place in the afternoon in both the Rosenblatt Foyer and Gibson Reading Room. Through the Fair, students met ... Keep reading »
On February 16, the University of Utah will host a “Symposium for Community Engagement”, titled Exuberant Sustainability. As part of that symposium, the S.J. Quinney College of Law will co-sponsor the keynote lecture, “The New Nature Movement,” by Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder ... Keep reading »