01/21/08 Law Librarians Get Grant Two law librarians at the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library have been awarded a national grant. The library's assistant director for faculty and outreach services and its reference/student services librarian have both received the 2007 Wolters/Kluwer Law and Business Grant from the American Association of Law Libraries. The decision to award them the grant was based on various parts of their work for the library and their achievements so far. Law Clinic Receives Award The Emory Law Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the end of January. It will be honored with the 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. The award was created to reward people, programs, schools, and other organizations that are making efforts to lessen "social injustices and inequities" in their communities. Students Push for Green Several law students are asking for higher environmental standards for a new law school building plan. Around 20 students want the University of Michigan to take note of the potential environmental impact of the buildings it is planning to build. The students are part of the Environmental Law Society and are trying to persuade the school to apply LEED standards through methods such as meeting with the building team and getting a petition signed. The university's regents approved the building project and the $102 million that it will take to complete the academic buildings planned. Related Article Law Students Get a Summer Taste of Clerking in University of Minnesota Law School's Judicial Externship The judicial externship course at the University of Minnesota Law School is so popular that 60 students are participating this summer. ''The online registration closes after about five minutes,'' says Professor Carol Chomsky, who teaches the externship course. ''Summer is big,'' she says. ''The demand is very .... LawCrossing Aggressively Posts Legal Jobs Even as Law Firms Get Increasingly Affected by Weak Economy LawCrossing Aggressively Posts Legal Jobs Even as Law Firms Get Increasingly Affected by Weak Economy .... Law students get offers for unpaid summer associates while LawCrossing finds 1,300 positions for them. Law students get offers for unpaid summer associates while LawCrossing finds 1,300 positions for them. ....

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