University of Kansas Law School Blog
Alumna Selected for Prestigious Health Policy Fellowship
A 2009 KU Law alumna has been selected for the 2017-2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Fellows Program, one of the nation’s most prestigious learning experiences at the nexus of health, science, and policy. Lt. Cmdr. Brutrinia Cain, senior policy adviser in the…
Bhala Shares International Trade, Islamic Law Expertise in New Zealand
KU Law students aren’t the only ones who escape Green Hall to gain practical career experience and explore broader horizons during the summer. Our faculty members also take advantage of their breaks to engage in enriching scholarship, faculty development and teaching opportunities in Lawrence…
Exploring Immigration Policy at UNHCR
Interning at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, seemed like a hopeless goal a year ago, but it became a reality this summer. Thanks to KU Law’s Career Services Office, I attended the Equal Justice Works Conference in Washington D.C. this past October. During this trip, I met KU Law alumni working…
Building Cultural Bridges and Living in Coexistence
I earned my undergraduate degree in Medinah, the second most sacred city for Muslims after Makkah. Some of the classes I took in my undergraduate studies included Islamic jurisprudence in several schools in Islam, principles of jurisprudence, Islamic law of inheritance, Islamic…
Law and Wanderlust
Curiosity, sense of adventure draw student to 7 continents in 10 monthsCachet Hancock’s legal education spanned three years and seven continents. The 2017 graduate combined her love of travel with her educational pursuits, visiting all seven continents within a span of 10 months during law…
El Paso Native Finds Her Niche at KU Law
Challenging coursework, enriching leadership experiences, practical learning opportunities recipe for graduate's successSylvia Hernandez is the first to note that her transition to law school wasn’t an easy one. Moving from El Paso, Texas, to Lawrence required a big adjustment and new…
Business Owner, Student, Mom
Graduate's student experience enriched by expanding rolesSome babies are rocked to sleep with lullabies. Taylor Ray’s daughter Emma was lulled into slumber with voice recordings of Professor Webb Hecker’s Mergers and Acquisitions lectures. In the midst of an enriching 2L year serving as…
Blazing Trails in Barber County
Service, community draw 3L to rural practiceWith commencement just around the corner and a promising career on the horizon, 3L Hannah Brass is already living up to the promise of her last name. After graduation, the former ranch hand and rural Kansas native will head back to western Kansas to start…
Building Community
Arizona transplant leads through service in adopted homeThree years ago, Matt Scarber packed up his life in Arizona into a backpack and two suitcases and headed to Lawrence for the first time. Leaving his friends and family for a state he’d never been to wasn’t easy, but Scarber set out…
3L Advocates for Change with Congressional Bid
For the class of 2017, the final year of law school was a time of transition. The Republican party took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, promising sweeping policy changes and a shift in priorities.For 3L James Houston Bales, the political transition resonated on a personal…