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It has been another successful year here at Drake Law School! We introduced new programs, formed partnerships, and made an impact on the community. As we get ready to ring in the new year, here is a look back at Drake Law School's most notable stories from 2017.
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| Students help secure commutation for inmate
Students in Drake Law School’s Federal Criminal Law course helped one man secure a commutation by President Barrack Obama, reducing the inmate's sentence from life without parole to 30 years.
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Drake updates Sustainable Community Development Code
Drake Law School is part a joint project to update the Sustainable Community Development Code, which provides local governments nationwide with up-to-date land use standards to promote sustainable development. The effort is co-led by Professor Jonathan Rosenbloom.
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| Drake announces new Law Opportunity Leadership Program
Drake Law School partnered with Des Moines-area employers to establish the Law Opportunity Leadership Program, which provides internships, mentorship, and leadership training for five qualified law students from underrepresented groups.
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IP Law Center lecture features Wade Leak of Sony Music
Wade Leak, senior vice president, deputy general counsel, and chief compliance, ethics, and privacy officer at Sony Music Entertainment, discussed how the legal landscape is affecting the music industry as part of the Intellectual Property Law Center’s Big IDEA Speaker Series on April 6.
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| Drake Law launches Entrepreneurial Clinic
Drake received a $500,000 grant from the Iowa Supreme Court for a new Entrepreneurial/Transactional Clinic, which provides free legal services to current and aspiring entrepreneurs in low-income neighborhoods. Student advocates for Iowa revenge porn law
Drake Law student Erin Romar worked with faculty to draft a bill that criminalizes revenge porn, which is the act of posting sexually explicit content of an individual without that person's consent and with intent to harm. The bill was signed into law in May.
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Erin Lain receives 2017 Gertrude Rush Award
Erin Lain, associate provost for campus equity and inclusion at Drake and former assistant dean for academic services at the Law School, received the 2017 Gertrude Rush Award from the Iowa Organization of Women Attorneys and the Iowa Chapter of the National Bar Association.
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| Drake 3L interns for international criminal tribunal
This summer, Drake Law student Hannah Weeg interned for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a United Nations court of law prosecuting war crimes that took place in the Balkans in the 1990s.
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Drake Law alumnus serves as associate counsel for President Trump
Peter Coniglio, LW’78, completed a detail as an associate counsel to President Donald J. Trump, during which time he helped review candidates for federal government posts and prepared them for nomination hearings before they were considered for U.S. Senate approval.
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| Drake hosts Chinese law students
For the second consecutive year, Drake Law School welcomed 29 law students from the Southwest University of Political Science & Law (SWUPL) in Chongqing, China, for a month-long Introduction to American Law program.
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1Ls compete before Iowa Court of Appeals
The Iowa Court of Appeals judged the final round of the C. Edwin Moore Competition, a voluntary oral advocacy competition organized by the Moot Court Board for first-year Drake Law students. Of the four finalists, the judges chose Lucas Asbury as the winner.
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Drake Law forms partnership with 100 Black Men of America, Inc.
Drake Law School announced a partnership with 100 Black Men of America, Inc., in which students in the organization's Collegiate 100 program who meet the established admission criteria will be guaranteed admission and scholarship assistance to the Law School’s JD program.
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