NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 1 -- Vanderbilt Law School posted the following news: * * * Building a Legal Career with a Vanderbilt LL.M. Degree * Vanderbilt's 2026 LL.M. Distinguished Speaker Series featured Roberto Cantu-Dessommes LLM'10, Leopoldo Sarria LLM'09, and Max Weber LLM'16. The speakers offered personal and candid reflections on building a legal career after earning their LL.M. degree at Vanderbilt. The discussion ranged from their experiences in international practice to distingui  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1 [Category: Law/Legal] (TNSrpt) -- The International Service for Human Rights posted the following news: * * * Seeds of hope, roots of resistance In this piece opening ISHR's new Annual Report, Executive Director Phil Lynch and Board Chair Taaka Awori explore the metaphor of fire as both a destroying and regenerative element - and how it applies to the human rights movement and institutions. * In large parts of the Australian bushland and African savannah, fire i  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. James McGovern, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * McGovern and 27 House Members to Trump Administration: Family Members Deserve to Know Whether Their Relatives Are Being Held in Salvadoran Torture Prison Today, Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, along with 27 other Members of the House of Representatives, have written a letter to Secreta  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1 [Category: Law/Legal] (TNSbrep) -- The International Service for Human Rights posted the following news: * * * Nicaragua: States urged to tackle surge in transnational repression The Human Rights Council was confronted with stark new evidence of the scale, sophistication, and transnational reach of repression by Nicaraguan authorities. The latest report of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua and public calls by States and civil society at the Council an  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * Shaheen and Colleagues Push Regulators to Address Illegal Insider Trading in Prediction Markets * (Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), alongside over 40 lawmakers, sent a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) urging the agencies to address illegal insider trading in prediction markets by federal employees. Sin  more

DENTON, Texas, April 2 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: * * * UNT researcher finds new links between sleep and cardiometabolic health While Isamar Almeida wanted to be a mental health researcher from a young age, she wasn't always sure where that path would lead. That changed when she moved from Venezuela to the U.S. in 2019 and began working at a law firm specializing in immigration. Her work there included interviewing clients who had endured tra  more