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The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is proud to present this year’s cohort of certificate students in Law, Justice & Culture. “It’s a perfect time to be studying legal transformation from the ground up,” commented Distinguished Professor Susan Burgess, who will teach the required core course LJC 2000 in spring […]

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team selected 24 students to participate during the 2018-19 academic year. Tryouts occurred on Sept. 12 and 13. Students were required to prepare and deliver a three-minute speech on a selected topic. At the conclusion of their prepared remarks, students were given a topic and […]

by Kristin Distel More than 40 alumni and guest speakers brought high school students in the Summer Law & Trial Institute face-to-face with legal issues from today’s headlines—and even a mock trial. Twenty high school students from Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia were selected from among a pool of almost […]

The 18 high school students of OHIO’s Summer Law and Trial Institute enjoyed a second week of experiential learning and meetings with faculty and local attorneys, culminating in an exciting mock trial in Athens County Court of Common Pleas Judge George P. McCarthy’s courtroom. While the first week of the […]

Eighteen high school juniors and seniors are attending Ohio University’s Summer Law and Trial Institute, an immersive residential program that seeks to increase understanding of law and its possibilities among high school students. This program, which runs July 10-22, is a new initiative developed by Larry Hayman (B.A. Political Science […]

  The ACLU of Ohio University hosted Speak Your Peace, an event centered around initiating open discourse about various civil liberties topics, on Nov. 16. The selected topics were criminal justice reform, election law issues in 2020, civil liberties and rights, women’s reproductive rights, and surveillance. Each topic had its […]

Ninety-two students were inducted into the Lambda of Ohio chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for the 2019-20 academic year, and five students received a cash prize and the Thomas A. Wolfe Award for highest GPA among the 2020 inductees. Inductees were juniors and seniors from four OHIO colleges: Arts & […]