George Washington University Law School is working with the Animal Legal Defense Fund to create the Animal Legal Education initiative. The goal is to develop animal law as a stand-alone discipline that is fully integrated into legal education.
The initiative will allow faculty and students from everywhere to work together on developing a comprehensive body of animal law and incorporating it into legal education at large, as well as increasing the overall capacity for animal law legislation.
“Animal law is an emerging field with vast implications for other areas of law,” said Stephen Wells, Executive Director for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. “GW Law shares our vision for rapid growth and demand for animal law as a discipline, and the importance of structuring ALEI to support advances in animal protection.”
Other aspects of the initiative will include creating a comprehensive curriculum, exploring how animal law intersects with other fields of law, advancing methods of clinical and experiential education, increasing students’ ability to find employment within the animal law field, and more.
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The University of Pittsburgh School of Law is adding two new certificates to its online certificate programs. To achieve this, the school has expanded its existing partnership with Everspring, a provider of information technology and online services for universities.
The new programs are a Sport, Entertainment, and Arts Law Certificate and a Corporate Compliance Certificate.
“Our online certificate programs play an important role in [meeting the needs of students], as they provide vital education for career paths that require a nuanced understanding of specific areas of the law,” said Amy J. Wildermuth, dean of Pitt Law. “Everspring is helping us grow these certificates, as well as our online MSL program, with students who will benefit from them the most.”
The school’s Master of Studies in Law program is designed to give opportunities to non-attorney professionals who need to understand the particulars of certain fields of study without actually practicing law. Each online certificate program is a 15-credit-hour course that can be taken by itself or as part of a specialization within the online MSL degree.
Everspring’s role is both to provide support to students enrolled in such online programs, but also to help the school itself cultivate awareness and deliver enrollment growth of the programs.
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Seton Hall Law School is introducing the Gaming, Hospitality, Entertainment, and Sports Law Program (“GHamES”). The program is a response to the constant shifts in each of these industries as well as the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on travel and recreation.
The gaming, hospitality, entertainment and sports industries are changing rapidly these days due to dramatic advances in technology, COVID regulations and mandates, and Supreme Court decisions. Seton Hall Law’s new program will prepare students to face the challenges brought on by these changes by encouraging the adoption of ethical business practices, promoting scholarship and collaboration, and identifying ways to support positive outcomes.
Assistant Dean Devon Corneal will oversee the GHamES program and aims to unify all course offerings under a single umbrella. She has been quoted in local law journals about the way that the state of New Jersey’s allowance of sports betting is “bringing on a compliance boom for lawyers” and she identifies some of the unresolved scenarios and concerns that the esports betting scene faces in the state.
The school will host the 3rd Annual Gaming Law, Compliance, and Integrity Bootcamp on May 16-18, 2022, a three-day certificate program that will reinforce the principles of the GHamES program.
