We're committed to our alumni and friends and proud to offer a variety of programming opportunities throughout the academic year. Our Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs allows Nebraska Law faculty and distinguished guests to share their efforts to address current legal issues through legal research and scholarship.
Some of our programming opportunities are offered in person, remotely via Zoom, and/or both.
Please refer to each program separately for the ways in which you can attend.
February 7, 2025 | 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m. | Room 171
Improving Access to Justice: Data-Driven Innovation using Emerging Technologies Symposium
It is generally recognized that everyone should have equal access to the justice system. Yet, the U.S. faces a serious civil justice crisis known as the civil justice gap—that is, there is a significant amount of unmet need for civil legal assistance. Addressing the justice gap requires a data-driven innovative approach. In this symposium, we bring together experts to consider how technology and data can help. These experts examine how to use data to better understand gaps in our understanding of justice needs. And, they engage technological innovations to remove barriers and promote access. Together, we will look to the future with a people-centered approach contemplating different pathways for improving access to justice for all.
Hosted by: Ashley Votruba, Ryan Sullivan, Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Lisa Pytlik Zillig, & Deepti Joshi
Hosted at: The University of Nebraska College of Law (1875 N 42nd St, Lincoln, NE 68503; room TBD)
Funded by: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Grand Challenges Initiative; registration is free
Approved for 3.75 hours of CLE, including 1 hour of ethics.
In person and Zoom attendance options are available.
Please register by end-of-day Friday, January 31st.
RegisterFebruary 7, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Immigration Considerations for Lawyers
This session will review Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) and other immigration considerations impacting undocumented youth in rural Nebraska, including an overview of the immigration matters attorneys must consider in order to fulfill their professional responsibility to their immigrant clients. Speakers include Prof. Kevin Ruser, Richard and Margaret Larson Professor of Law and M.S. Hevelone Professor of Law at Nebraska Law, and senior certified immigration clinic students, Kalie Saunders & Abigail Quintana.
This event will take place at the Columbus Public Library (2500 14th Street, Columbus, NE 68601) and will be available via Zoom.
This has been approved for two hours (1.5 regular, .5 ethics) of continuing education credits in Nebraska.
February 18, 2025 | 12:00 P.M. | Auditorium
People v. The Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law
Please join us for this Law & Democracy Series Lecture with David Sloss, John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law.
David L. Sloss is writing a book called “People v. The Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law,” will discuss his the upcoming book.
The book presents a normative theory of judicial review that builds on John Hart Ely’s theory. Current constitutional doctrine is at odds with core constitutional values. We divide Con Law into rights issues and structural issues. Structural Con Law focuses on the division of power among government actors. That framing omits a key structural feature of the Constitution: the division of power between We The People and our government. Constitutional rights doctrine focuses on negative, individual rights. Accordingly, constitutional doctrine ignores one crucial right: the affirmative, collective right of We the People to control our government. My theory divides constitutional issues into three baskets: rights, structure, and democratic self-government.
The theory relies on a distinction between strong, weak, and deferential judicial review. In a system of strong review, judicial decisions applying the Constitution are not subject to legislative override. In a system of weak review, judicial decisions are subject to legislative override. With deferential review, courts generally defer to legislative judgments.
This event has been approved for 1.0 continuing education credit in Nebraska.