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“My shoulders feel light now”: NYLS Clinic Celebrates Asylum Grants for 6 Afghans

Posted on: June 6, 2024 July 10, 2024 Written by: Professor Claire Thomas
NYLS Asylum Clinic students worked with six Afghan women who escaped Kabul though the large-scale evacuations.
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Stories From the Asylum Clinic: 2020–21

Posted on: October 8, 2021 August 25, 2022 Written by: Professor Claire Thomas
The 2020–21 academic year was fully remote for the Asylum Clinic. Though many of the eight clinic students have never met in real life, they learned to work as a team and to advocate tirelessly for their clients.
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From the Archives: New York Law School in the Literary Space

The pursuit of law has a tendency to spark innovation and inspire an appreciation for the written word, so it comes as no surprise that, over the course of New York Law School’s 135-year history, many alumni have engaged in creative industries and projects. Here we honor a few who have made their mark in the literary world as well as law.
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NYLS Appoints Catharine Du Bois as Director of the Legal Practice Program

New York Law School is pleased to announce the appointment of Catharine Du Bois as Director of the Legal Practice Program.
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Looking Back at 135 Years of New York Law School

For 135 years, NYLS has been an integral part of the life of its city, training the lawyers whose commitment to the rule of law is essential to a place that, in many ways, contains the entire world within itself. The Law School has done that successfully by never standing still and never deciding that what is cannot be improved. And that will not change.
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Alumni Spotlight: E. Drew Britcher ’84

NYLS connected with E. Drew Britcher ’84, President of the Alumni Association, member of the Board of Trustees, and one of New Jersey’s leading medical malpractice attorneys.
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Professor Ann F. Thomas Answers the NYLS 10

In this NYLS 10 Retrospective, Professor Thomas reflects on 10 questions about her career, her interests, and the past, present, and future of law and New York Law School.
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